Schedule of 2012-2013 Speakers
Opening Event:
The 2012-2013 DCC Program Opening Event will be held in the Kimmel Theater at the National Constitution Center at 6 pm. The NCC is located on Indepdence Mall, 525 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA.
Sept. 20: "Is the World Rejecting American Constitutionalism?"
Akhil Reed Amar, Yale Law School - " 'Why 'We the People' Loses Appeal' Misses the Point", "The Audacity of Democracy"
David Armitage, History, Harvard University - "Foundations of Modern International Thought: Declarations of Independence, 1776-2012"
David Law, Washington University Law School - "The Declining Influence of the United States Constitution"
Moderator: Rick Beeman, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Pennsylvania
Event Description:
Most Americans revere their Constitution—but what does the rest of the world think? Is the world rejecting American constitutionalism as a model for other countries? Many say yes. Australian Justice Michael Kirby maintains America is in danger of becoming “a legal backwater.” Israeli Supreme Court President Aharon Barak believes the American Supreme Court “is losing the central role it once had among courts in modern democracies.” Even U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told Egyptians that she “would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.”
As the Opening Event of its 2012-2013 series on “Constitution Making,” the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism is delighted to bring to the National Constitution Center three leading scholars to discuss the global influence of the U.S. Constitution. David Law, Professor of Law and Political Science at Washington University, has argued this influence is indeed in decline. Akhil Amar, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University, contends instead that there is much in American constitutionalism that new countries are emulating, making them “more American.” David Armitage, Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, focuses on the Declaration of Independence as part of America’s constitutional traditions and sees its impact as perhaps most far-reaching. The panel will explore what’s at stake in these different perceptions on the importance of American constitutionalism for constitution making in the world today.
Faculty Workshops:
All Faculty Workshops will be held from 4:30-6:30 pm on the Penn campus in the Silverstein Forum, 1st Floor, Stiteler Hall, 208 S. 37th St., Philadelphia.
Oct. 18: Do Constitutions Matter?
Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago Law School
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Nov. 15: Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights
Emily Zackin, Hunter College, City University of New York
Discussant: Walter Licht, History, University of Pennsylvania
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Note: We regret that Nicholas Haysom, Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General to Afghanistan, has been called to Kabul and will not be able to discuss 'Constitution Making in Africa' with us on November 15th as originally planned. Instead, we are fortunate to welcome Emily Zackin, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hunter College, who will present the attached paper derived from her forthcoming book, 'Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights.' Zackin's work explores how the making and re-making of American state constitutions from the late 19th century to the present saw the creation of educational, labor, and environmental rights often found elsewhere in modern national constitutions.
Nov. 27: Condorcet and the French Constitution
Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University
Steven Lukes, New York University
Discussant: Kok-Chor Tan, Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
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Note: The DCC Faculty Workshop 'Condorcet and the French Constitution' is scheduled for Tuesday, November 27th.
Jan. 17: Transnational Interactions and the Making of Constitutional Rights
Christopher McCrudden, Queens University, Belfast
Discussant: William Burke-White, Law, University of Pennsylvania
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Feb. 21: The New Hungarian Constitution
Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University, Woodrow WIlson School
March 21: How Democratic is the Constitution? And Should We Care if the Answer is 'Not Very'?
Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School
Discussant: Rick Beeman, History, University of Pennsylvania
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April 18: Communist Federations
Valerie Bunce, Cornell University
Discussant: Peter Holquist, History, University of Pennsylvania
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May 3: Annual Conference, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m
Panel 1: Fall of the Arab Spring? Constitution Making in Egypt
9:00 am -10:30 am
Chair: William Burke-White, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Speakers: Asli Bali, UCLA School of Law
Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer
Panel 2: Comparative Perspectives: Constitution Making in Modern Africa
10:45-12:15 am
Chair: Susanna Wing, Political Science, Haverford College
Speakers: Heinz Klug, University of Wisconsin Law School Download Paper
Yash Ghai, University of Hong Kong Law School
Panel 3: The Iraq Constitution: Processes, Problems, and Prospects
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm.
Chair: Ann E. Mayer, Legal Studies and Businesss Ethics, Wharton School
Speakers: Peter W. Galbraith, Vermont State Senate
Feisal A. R. Istrabadi, Center for the Study of the Middle East, Indiana University
Panel 4: Challenges of Integration: Constitution Making in Europe
3:15 pm – 5:00 pm.
Chair: Brendan O’Leary, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Speakers: Jaime Lluch, Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism Download Paper
Brigid Laffan, Politics and International Relations, University College, Dublin.
Previous Events:
2011-2012 Annual Theme: Corporations & Citizenship
Opening Event:
The 2011-2012 DCC Program Opening Event will be held in the Kirby Auditorium at the National Constitution Center at 6 pm. The NCC is located on Indepdence Mall, 525 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA.
Sept. 15: "Can the For-Profit Corporation Be a Good Citizen?"
John Abele, Director Emeritus, Boston Scientific
Gordon Bajnai, Former Prime Minister of Hungary
Fedele Bauccio, CEO, Bon Appetit
Bill Cobb, CEO, JM Smith
Moderator: Nien-he Hsieh, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Event Description: In his first annual message to Congress in 1901, President Roosevelt proclaimed: "Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is theorefore our right and our duty to see that they work in harmony with those institutions." In the aftermath of Enron, the BP oil spill, and revelations about the role of Wall Street in the recent financial collapse, what steps can be taken to insure that for-profit business corporations act in harmony with democratic ideals of modern nations? How can we best insure that successful corporations are also good citizens?
2011-2012 Workshops:
Workshops will be held from 4:30-6:30 pm on the Penn campus in the Silverstein Forum, 1st Floor, Stiteler Hall, 208 S. 37th St., Philadelphia.
Oct. 27: The Rise and Embedding of the Corporation
Walter Licht, History, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Randall Collins, Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
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Nov. 10: Responsibilities, Rights, and Group Agents
Philip Pettit, Politics, Princeton University
Discussant: Eric Orts, Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School of Business
*Co-sponsored by the Penn Philosophy Department and the Moral and Political Philosophy Colloquia Series*
Note: There will be no new paper for this talk. For background and context, please read Prof. Pettit's previously published article,
"Responsibility Incorporated" from Ethics Vol. 117, available here.
Dec. 8: Corporations and Children
Joel Bakan, Law, University of British Columbia
*Co-sponsored by the Penn Law School*
Jan. 19: Roundtable on For-Profit Educational Corporations
Jonathan Harber, CEO, SchoolNet Inc
Michael Moe, Founder, GSV Asset Management
Peter Smith, Senior VP, Kaplan Higher Education
**Note: This event will be held in Jon Huntsman Hall (3730 Walnut St), Amphitheater F95**
Feb. 16: Corporate Citizenship and Worker Voice
Cynthia Estlund, Law, New York University
*Co-sponsored by the Penn Law School*
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March 29: Ethno-Being: On the Affective Economy of Belonging
Jean Comaroff, Anthropology, University of Chicago
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April 26: Corporations in East Asia
Hirokazu Miyazaki, Anthropology, Cornell University
May 4: Annual Conference, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m
Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce
Panel 1: Corporate Purpose and Social Responsibility, 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m
Louis Galambos, History, Johns Hopkins University
Jeffery Smith, Business, University of the Redlands
Panel 2: The Power of Corporations for Good and Evil, 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Lynn Paine, Business, Harvard University
Rosalie Genova, DCC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Panel 3: State Governance of Corporations, 1:30 p.m.- 3 p.m.
Peter Gourevitch, Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Jonathan Macey, Law, Yale University
Panel 4: Multinational Corporations, 3:15-5:00 p.m.
Karen Ho, Anthropology, University of Minnesota
Katharina Pistor, Law, Columbia University
Previous 2010-2011 Events:
Opening Event:
The 2010-2011 DCC Program Opening Event was be held in Houston Hall Class of '49 Auditorium, 3417 Spruce Street, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm.
Sept. 23: "The Everyday Workings of Ethnicity"
Rogers Brubaker, Sociology, University of California Los Angeles
Discussant: Adolph Reed, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
2010-2011 Workshops:
Oct. 21: "Towards a Critical Appreciation of Political Globalization: Gender in the
Service of the Internationalized Security State"
Mervat Hatem, Political Science, Howard University
Discussant: Heather J Sharkey
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Nov. 18 "Quotidian Violences, Silences, and the Burden of Citizenship in Queer
Lives of All Colors"
Carlos Decena, Women's and Gender Studies and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University
Discussant: Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, History, UPenn
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Dec. 9 "Racial Hoaxes and the Penumbra of Citizenship"
Katheryn Russell-Brown, University of Florida College of Law
Discussant: Michael Katz, History, UPenn
Jan. 20 "Unsettling Indigenous Citizenship"
Jessica Cattelino, Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles
Discussant: Rogers M. Smith, Political Science, UPenn
Feb. 17 "Memories of Slavery in Contemporary Law and Politics"
Ariela Gross, Law and History, University of Southern California
March 17: "Race, War, and Citizenship"
Christopher Parker, Political Science, University of Washington
Discussant:Serena Mayeri, Law School, UPenn
April 14: "Asian Amerians and the Complexities of Citizenship"
Frank Wu, Hastings Law School
April 29, 2011: Fourth Annual Penn DCC Conference
Location: Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium (3401 Spruce St.)
Registration and Reception: 8:30 - 9:00
Welcome: 9:00 - 9:15
Rogers M. Smith
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Chair, Executive Committee, Penn DCC Program
Panel One - "Identity, Solidarity and Conflict": 9:15 - 10:30
Chair: Camille Charles, Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Tommie Shelby, Philosophy and African American Studies, Harvard Univeristy
Erin Chung, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Discussant: Jane Gordon, Temple University
Panel Two - "Indigenous Rights and Reparations": 10:45 - 12:15
Chair: Nancy Hornberger, Education, University of Pennsylvania
Natalie Joy, History, DCC Postdoctoral Fellow
Sheryl Lightfoot, Political Science, University of British Columbia
Discussant: Greg Urban, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Lunch Break: 12:15 - 1:30
Panel Three - "Citizenship, Ethnicity and Race": 1:30 - 3:00
Chair: Rogers M. Smith, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Traci Burch, Political Science, Northwestern University
Lucius Outlaw, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Discussant: Jennifer Lee, Sociology, UC Irvine
Panel Four - "Gender, Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity": 3:15-5:00
Chair: Adolph Reed, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Rogaia Abusharaf, Anthropology, Georgetown University-Qatar
Faith Smith, English and African and Afro-American Studies, Brandeis
Discussant: Deborah Thomas, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Co-Sponsored Events:
March 31 - LALS Faculty/Graduate Student Seminar on Latino Communities in Philadelphia
This event will be held at 12:00 p.m. in 209 College Hall. The event is being organized by Philippe Bourgois, Johnny Irrizarry, Ann Farnsworth-Alvear and Emilio Parrado, have all confirmed our attendance.
March 31 - April 1, 2011: "Civil Disabilities: Theory, Citizenship, and the Body"
This event will take place at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stiteler Hall, in the Silverstein Forum (located at 208 S. 37th St.). Activities will run from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 31st, and from 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 on Friday, April 1st. For a complete schedule, please visit the event website: http://www.pachs.net/conferences/view/civil_disabilities_theory_citizenship_and_the_body/
Speakers will include: Douglas Baynton, University of Chicago; Susan Burch, Middlebury; Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory; Faye Ginsberg, NYU; Robert McRuer, George Washington University; Karen Nakamura, Yale; Rayna Rapp, NYU; Susan Schweik, UC Berkeley; Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan; Lorella Terzi, Roehampton; and Keith Wailoo, Princeton. The conference is being organized by Penn and NYU faculty: Nancy J. Hirschmann, Beth Linker, Sigal R. Ben-Porath, and Mara Mills.
Feb. 24-26: "Comparing Elections and Electoral Systems in North America and India"
This event will take place in the Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, at teh McNeil Center for Early American Studies (MCEAS), 3355 Woodland Walk (at 34th & Walnust Sts.) For a complete schedule of events, please click here.
Speakers will include: Elisabeth Gidengil, McGill; Pradeep Chhibber and Jas Sekhon, UC Berkeley; Sunchine Hillygus, Duke; Richard Johnston, UBC; Eswaran Stidharan, UPIASA New Delhi; Adnan Farooqui, Jamaia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi; John Aldrich, Duke; Marc Mayrand, Chief Electoral Officer of Canada; S.Y. Quraishi, Chief Election Commissioner of India; Gracia M. Hillman, Former Commissioner, US Election Assistance Commission; Michael X. Delli Carpini, UPenn; Ken Carty, UBC; Lisa Young, University of Calgary; Devesh Kapur, UPenn; Milan Vaishnav, Columbia; Lynn Vavreck, UCLA; Simon Jackman, Stanford; Andre Blais, Universite de Montreal; Louis Massicotte, Laval; Alistair McMillan, University of Sheffield; Andrew Reynolds, UNC Chapel Hill.
Previous 2009-2010 Events:
Last Season's (2009-2010) Annual Theme:
"Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Plural Citizenship
DCC Annual Conference on April 30th:
Location: Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania
Welcome: 9:00-9:15 am
Rogers M. Smith
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Chair, Executive Committee, Penn DCC Program
Panel One: 9:15-10:45 am: “Cosmopolitan Government? "
Chair: Kok-chor Tan, Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
David Miller, Politics, Oxford University
Robert E. Goodin, Philosophy, Australia National University
Discussant: Peter Schuck, Law, Yale University
Panel Two: 11:00 am-12:45 pm: “Alternative Cosmopolitanisms ”
Chair: Sarah Paoletti, Law, University of Pennsylvania
Ayelet Shachar, Law, University of Toronto
Pheng Cheah, Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Julie Mostov, History and Political Science, Drexel University
Lunch Break: 1:00-1:45 pm
Panel Three: 1:45-3:30: “Imperial Cosmopolitanisms ”
Chair: Robert Vitalis, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Nasser Hussain, Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College
Elizabeth Povinelli, Anthropology, Columbia University
Discussant: Greg Urban, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Panel Four: 3:45-5:30 pm: “Resisting Cosmopolitanisms"
Chair: Rogers Smith, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania & Chair, Penn DCC Program
Jeremy Rabkin, Law, George Mason University
Anna Stilz, Political Science, Princeton University
Discussant: Hans Oberdiek, Philosophy, Swarthmore College
2009-2010 DCC Workshops:
Sept. 29: Who's Afraid of International Law?
Sovereignty, the Constitution, and the International Order.
Noah Feldman, Harvard University
Oct 15: Economic Justice, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
Michael Blake, University of Washington Jamin
Nov. 19: Subcontracting Sovereignties
Anna Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dec. 10: War, Territorial States and Contention: Lasswell v. Tilly
Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University
Jan. 21: Sovereignty out of Joint
Arjun Chowdhury, University of Pennsylvania
Feb. 9 (Tuesday): Spatial Organization and Political Occupation
Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths, University of London
Mar. 25: Desiring Walls
Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley
Apr. 15: Event *CANCELLED*
Sovereignty, Colonialism, and Identity
Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University
Previous 2008-2009 DCC Events:
Last Season's (2008-2009) Annual Theme:
"Civic Representation, Elections, and Public Opinion "
May 1st, 2009: DCC Annual International End of Year Conference:
Location: Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania
8:30: Registration, Refreshments, and Welcome
Panel One: 9:00-10:45: “What Should Elections Do?"
Chair: Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania
Jacob Hacker, Political Science, Yale University
Ian Budge, Department of Government, Essex:
"What Should Elections Do? Nineteen Propositions, a Spatial Representation, and a Country Graph"
Discussant: Jeffrey Green, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Panel Two: 11:00-12:45: “Parties and Party Systems in Comparative Perspective”
Chair: Devesh Kapur, University of Pennsylvania
Georgia Kernell , Penn DCC Postdoctoral Fellow and Northwestern University
"Intraparty Competition and Responsiveness"
Pradeep Chhibber, University of California, Berkeley
"A Democratic Balance: Bureaucracy, Political Parties and Political Representation"
Discussant: Richard Valelly, Swarthmore College
Lunch Break
Panel Three: 2:00-3:45: “Evaluating Electoral Systems in Comparative Contexts”
Chair: Michael X. Delli Carpini, University of Pennsylvania
Anthony McGann, Department of Government, Essex:
"Electoral Systems in Comparative Perspective"
Andre Blais, Political Science, Universite de Montreal:
"Evaluating US Electoral Insitutions in Comparative Perspective"
Discussant: Christopher Wlezien, Temple University
Panel Four: 4:00-5:45: “The New Media and Elections"
Chair: Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Cornfield, George Washington University
"Good Question: New Media and The Reformation of Candidate Q. and A."
David Karpf, Fellow, Miller Center, University of Virginia:
"The MoveOn Effect: Disruptive Innovation within the Interest Group Ecology of American Politics"
Discussant: Michael Hagen, Temple University
6:00-7:00: Reception, Courtyard, Penn University Museum
2008-2009 DCC Workshops:
The 2009-2010 DCC Program Opening Event will be held in Houston Hall Class of '49 Auditorium, 3417 Spruce Street, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. Subsequent workshops will be held from 4-6 pm on the Penn campus in the Silverstein Forum, 1st Floor, Stiteler Hall, 208 S. 37th St., Philadelphia. The 2009-2010 Workshop Series:
Sept. 25: Are American Elections Sufficiently Democratic? A Discussion
Pamela S. Karlan, Law, Stanford University
Dennis F. Thompson, Government, Harvard University
Moderator: Jack Nagel, Chair, 2008-2009 DCC Planning Committee
Oct 16: Neither the Red States nor the Blue States but the United States :
The National Popular Vote and American Political Democracy
Jamin Raskin, Washington College of Law, American University, and
Member, Maryland State Senate
Discussant: Richard Beeman, Penn History Department
Nov. 13: The Right to Vote Yesterday and Today
Alex Keyssar, History, Harvard University
Discussant: Richard Valelly, Political Science, Swarthmore College
Dec. 4: Citizen Representatives:
Deliberative Democratic Decisionmaking in Citizens' Assemblies
Mark E. Warren, Political Science, University of British Columbia
Discussant: Carol Gould, Philosophy and Government, Temple University
Jan. 22: The Principle of Affected Interests and Democratic Inclusion
Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Discussant: Sigal Ben-Porath, Penn Graduate School of Education
Feb. 19: Competition and Truth in the Market for News
Matthew Gentzkow, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Discussant: Rogers Smith, Penn Political Science Department
Mar. 26: The Closing of the Frontier: Political Blogs, the 2008 Election, and the Online Public Sphere
Matthew Hindman, Political Science, Arizona State University
Discussant: Joseph Turow, Penn Annenberg School for Communication
April 16: Unequal Democracy: Turnout, Minority Interests, and Local Government Spending
Additional Reading (optional): Who Loses in American Democracy?
Zoltan L.Hajnal, Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Discussant: Adolph Reed, Penn Political Science Department
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