Schedule of 2009-2010 Speakers
Annual Theme: "Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Plural Citizenship "
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. 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: Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Transnational Activism
Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University
Jan. 21: Expectations of Order: State Failure in Historical Context
Arjun Chowdhury, University of Pennsylvania
Feb. 18: Spatial Organization and Political Occupation
Eyal Weizman, Goldsmiths, University of London
Mar. 25: Political Boundaries, Walls, and Sovereignty
Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley
Apr. 15: 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 Events:
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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