The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy

A discussion with BENJAMIN SOVACOOL (Boston University), moderated by SANYA CARLEY (Penn Kleinman Center for Energy Policy).Hybrid Event: In-person and online. Zoom link sent to registered attendees.CLEAN AND RENEWABLE ENERGY, like that from dirty sources, requires significant technological infrastructure, with potentially deep impacts on the wellbeing of surrounding communities and ecosystems. In this conversation, leading energy justice thinker BENJAMIN SOVACOOL (Boston University) grapples with the economics, politics, and environmental tradeoffs of energy production. He considers how and why any energy transition must account for social and multispecies justice. How can we conceptualize energy justice? What does it look like on

A panel discussion with MAX BERGMANN (Center for Strategic and International Studies), moderated by MITCHELL ORENSTEIN (Penn).Hybrid Event: In-person and online. Zoom link sent to registered attendees.THE PRODUCTION OF FOSSIL FUELS is deeply intertwined not only with the economic interests of large global corporations, but also with the political regimes of powerful autocrats. In this conversation, security expert MAX BERGMANN (Center for Strategic and International Studies) focuses on the case of Vladimir Putin and his attempts to wield fossil fuels as a strategic weapon to undermine opposition to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. As Europe actively seeks to

Engage with a leading expert on climate change communications and its role in cultivating public and political will for climate solutions.On January 18, we invite you to an event featuring distinguished University Professor Edward Maibach, Director of the Center for ClimateChange Communication at George Mason University—a university-based “think-and-do tank.” Professor Maibach will illuminate some key insights into public understanding of climate communication that have emerged from the Yale/George Mason “Climate Change in the American Mind” surveys conducted twice yearly since 2008. He will also discuss his center’s initiatives to activate and support trusted climatecommunicators in communities across America including TV

Gunn-Wright and Schaible will discuss American and German variants of green new deal policies and politics.Join us for this event featuring Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Director of Climate Policy at the Roosevelt Institute, and Jonas Schaible, Reporter and Editor at Der Spiegel. Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley, will moderate. Gunn-Wright and Schaible will discuss American and German variants of green new deal policies and politics, paying close attention to success stories as well as political and technological roadblocks. Together, their analysis brings the broad transnational public support for green spending into focus, and they will

The consequences of climate change extend far beyond the ecological realm, profoundly impacting politics.Note: This will be a hybrid event. Those who register will also receive the Zoom link.Join us on March 21st as we host Professor Geoff Mann from Simon Fraser University as part of our Climate Change & Democracy Series. Professor Mann will explore his timely research on the political economy and broader politics surrounding climate change. Drawing from his co-authored work Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (Verso, 2018), Mann will delve into the challenges posed by global climate change to our contemporary order.

Necromancy and the Democratic Storytelling of W.E.B. Du Bois and Toni MorrisonShatema Threadcraft is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Philosophy and Political Science at Vanderbilt University and a 2023-24 Laurance S. Rockefeller Faculty Fellow at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. She is the author of Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic (Oxford University Press, 2016), winner of the National Women’s Studies Association’s 2017 Sara A. Whaley Award for the best book on women and labor, the 2017 W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political

Join the Andrea Mitchell Center for its first Graduate Student Workshop of the 2024-2025 academic year.Join the Andrea Mitchell Center for its first Graduate Student Workshop of the 2024-2025 academic year, featuring Celia Eckert (Harvard School of Government) and Kalahan Brown (Penn Annenberg).Celia Eckert: "Shifting Grounds: Protest Occupations as Worldmaking"Kalahan Brown: "Watermelon Fights: Narrative Wars in the US over the Palestine Conflict"Papers will be sent directly to those who register. Hybrid event, Zoom link will be sent out after registration.Celia Eckert is a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard’s Department of Government studying political theory and contemporary American politics. Her research examines

Andrea Mitchell Center graduate student workshop, featuring Ezekiel Vergara and Maryam Nahhal.The Andrea Mitchell Center invites you to its second graduate student workshop of 2024-25, featuring Maryam Nahhal of Johns Hopkins University and Ezekiel Vergara from the University of Pennsylvania.This is a hybrid event -- the Zoom links will be sent to all participants.Papers will also be sent to all registered guests.Maryam Nahhal is a fourth year PhD candidate in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She completed my BA in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London, and my MLitt in International Security Studies at the University of

This grad workshop brings together scholars examining the complex relationship between media, digital platforms, and political expression.Join us for another graduate student workshop, Paradoxical Media: Freedom of Speech and Electoral Politics. This workshop brings together scholars examining the complex relationship between media, digital platforms, and political expression. It delves into how modern media technologies affect freedom of expression, public discourse, and electoral processes. The presentations provide critical insights into the paradoxes of media-driven democratization, particularly through social media and artificial intelligence, which both expand and limit the public's engagement with democratic ideals.**Papers will be sent immediately after registration.Presenter Bios:B. Tyler

Join us for another Andrea Mitchell Center graduate student workshop, featuring Abram J. Lyons and Stuti Shah.Presenter Bios:Abram J. Lyons is a PhD Social Welfare candidate in the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the impact of community-based anti-poverty interventions on child maltreatment and child welfare permanency outcomes for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) families. He is particularly interested in how these interventions can mitigate the long-lasting effects of colonization and systemic racism on Indigenous families. Mr. Lyons holds a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of Idaho.