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

                  Download Paper, Part I

                  Download Paper, Part II

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

                  Download Paper, Part I

                  Download Paper, Part II

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