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SUMMARY:Place and Well-Being: Issues of Policy & Practice
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the geography of well-being.\n\n\nWhere we live matters. \nJoin us for the next session in the Politics of Well-Being series\, exploring the geography of well-being: how neighborhood infrastructure\, environmental justice\, urban design\, and housing access shape physical and mental health. This conversation will examine how place-based policies can foster or undermine equitable outcomes — and how communities reclaim agency over space. \nFeatured Speakers:🔹 Millan AbiNader\, MSW\, PhD – Assistant Professor\, SP2🔹 Alice Xu\, PhD – Assistant Professor\, SP2🔹 Moderator: Rebecca Del Rossi\, MSW \n \n—Speaker Biographies: \nDr. Millan AbiNader is a mixed-methods researcher who seeks to understand the social ecology of gender-based violence\, with particular attention to intimate partner violence-related fatalities. Dr. AbiNader also seeks to understand how one’s social and geographic position\, like race or rurality\, affects one’s experience of gender-based violence and investigates how organizational environment\, like vicarious traumatization prevention policies\, affects survivor-client experiences. Before entering academia\, Dr. AbiNader worked as a community victim services advocate in the fields of sexual violence\, intimate partner violence\, family violence\, and commercial sexual exploitation/trafficking. She delivered primary prevention interventions kindergarten through college\, facilitated support groups in the community and in carceral settings\, and delivered advocacy services to incarcerated women. Dr. AbiNader earned her MSSW from the University of Texas at Austin and her PhD in Social Work from Boston University where she completed an award-winning dissertation examining rural intimate partner homicide. Dr. AbiNader was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Arizona State University’s School of Social Work’s Office of Gender Based Violence under the mentorship of Dr. Jill Messing where she studied intimate partner homicide and risk assessment. \nDr. AbiNader’s current research projects investigate intimate partner violence-related fatalities\, vicarious trauma\, gender-based violence across contexts\, and intimate partner violence among multi-racial/multi-ethnic individuals among other topics. She is the primary investigator of an NSF grant to study COVID-19 policies’ effects on homicide rates. Dr. AbiNader integrates her practice experience as a victim advocate and macro social worker with her research\, aiming to lead studies that support survivor healing and perpetrator change. \nAlice Xu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice and the Department of Political Science (secondary appointment). She studies the comparative political economy of development with a focus on the politics of inequality and social policy\, urban and distributive politics\, and environmental politics in the Global South. Her book project explores how patterns of class- and race-based segregation shapes urban and distributive politics across cities in Brazil and Mexico. She also has research interests in quantitative and spatial methods for studying inequality. Her research received the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Best Paper on Social and Economic Inequality award (Class and Inequality Section) in 2021 and APSA’s Paul A. Sabatier Best Conference Paper award (Science\, Technology\, and Environmental Politics Section) in 2022. She is also the 2023 recipient of the Susan Clarke Young Scholar Award from the APSA Urban Politics Section. Xu received a PhD in Government (Political Science) with distinction from Harvard University in 2023 and a BA in Economics-Political Science and Sustainable Development from Columbia University. She was previously a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy. \nRebecca Del Rossi graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a concentration in Peace & Justice Studies from Villanova University in 2018 and pursued her passion for social change by earning a Master of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice in 2023. She started her professional experience in the field of ending gender-based violence as a Prevention Coordinator for a local domestic and sexual violence service agency in Boise\, Idaho. Rebecca has since used her passion for the field to grow in various roles such as facilitating federally funded training and technical assistance initiatives for victim service providers and conducting research as a Summer Research Fellow for the SP2 Community Engagement Core Workgroup. She most recently comes to SP2 as a Counselor at the Victim Services Center of Montgomery County\, where she provided clinically based trauma and grief counseling to individuals impacted by sexual violence and other crimes.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/place-and-well-being-issues-of-policy-practice/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Democracy without Borders: Adam Mockler & Rise of Independent Social Media
DESCRIPTION:Join Mockler for a conversation about the state of democracy today and the role of the rising social media space in shaping our politics.\n\n\nIn these uncertain times of Trump’s second presidency\, Gen-Z political commentator Adam Mockler has built a growing platform on social media from his direct and straightforward commentary\, viral moments\, and debates with everyone from political pundits to ordinary American citizens. His YouTube channel has over 1.5 million subscribers. Join him for a conversation about the state of American democracy today\, and the role of the rising social media space in shaping our political future. \nEvent begins at 6:30pm. There will be a reception immediately before at 6:00pm. \n*Please note that this event will be recorded by Mockler’s team and the recording is likely to include audience participation and questions. Mockler’s team may disseminate the recording on other platforms. By attending\, you consent to being recorded.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/democracy-without-borders-adam-mockler-rise-of-independent-social-media/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Identity and Well-Being: Issues of Policy & Practice
DESCRIPTION:Exploring how identity-based disparities are embedded in social policy\, housing\, education\, and healthcare.\n\n\nHow do race\, gender\, sexuality\, and other aspects of identity influence well-being? This conversation centers on how identity-based disparities are embedded in social policy\, housing\, education\, and healthcare systems. Our speakers will explore how intersectional approaches to well-being can illuminate paths toward greater justice and inclusion. \nSpeakers: DeMarcus Jenkins & Amy Hillier. Moderated by Ayana Colvin. \nSpeaker Biographies: \nAmy Hillier\, PhD\, MSW\, is a social worker and an Associate Professor in the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2). Her most recent research focuses on transgender youth and their families. With colleagues\, she is working to develop a short screener for parents to complete in health care settings to identify young children who are gender non-conforming\, to normalize a wide range of gender expressions and identify families who might need support. \nHer other research has focused on historical housing and public health disparities\, including mortgage redlining\, affordable housing\, healthy foods\, park use and access\, and outdoor advertising. She has taught courses in city planning\, urban studies\, public health\, and social policy on GIS\, racism\, public health and the built environment\, and research methods. \nShe is the founding director of the cross-school graduate LGBTQ certificate. With Dr. Stephanie Boddie\, Dr. Hillier co-directs “The Ward\,” a research\, teaching\, and public history project dedicated to sharing the timeless lessons about racism and the role of research in affecting social change based on W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1899 book\, The Philadelphia Negro. \nDeMarcus A. Jenkins is an assistant professor in the School of Social Policy and Practice with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Broadly\, his program of research centers on important policy- and practice-relevant issues concerning Black and other vulnerable populations in relation to education\, housing\, and criminal/juvenile justice. Specifically\, his work focuses on (1) the interconnectedness of education and criminal justice\, including the strategies\, technologies\, and logics of carceral systems that appear in schools; (2) the relationship between education reform and urban development with a focus on housing policies; and (3) the politics of policy change or how marginalized populations interact with the policy process. He investigates the intersection of race\, urban space\, and policy and its implications for educational equity and justice. Dr. Jenkins’ interdisciplinary scholarship draws on critical theories of race\, critical spatial theory\, Black geographies\, critical policy studies\, and urban sociology. His research has been funded by the Spencer Foundation and the William T. Grant Foundation. \nBefore joining SP2\, Dr. Jenkins held faculty appointments at Penn State University and the University of Arizona\, where he was founding faculty in the Education Policy Center. He is currently a faculty affiliate at the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis and the inaugural visiting faculty fellow at the Campus Abolition Research Lab (CARL) at the University of Michigan. Previously\, he worked as a policy analyst at the state and local levels and as a high school English teacher. Dr. Jenkins earned his PhD in Urban Schooling from the University of California\, Los Angeles. He received his EdM from Georgia State University and MA from American University. He holds a BA in English and Afro-American and African Studies from the University of Michigan. \nAyana Colvin is a PhD student at the School of Social Policy and Practice. Before joining SP2\, she worked as a high school English and a New Language (ENL) and English Language Arts (ELA) teacher in the New York City public schools system for eight years\, gaining valuable insights that propelled her toward a career in social work. \nShe holds a BA in Humanities with minors in French and film studies from Ohio Wesleyan University\, a Master’s in TESOL Education from City College of New York\, and a Master’s in Social Work from Columbia University.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/identity-and-well-being-issues-of-policy-practice/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Legal Responses to Minority Rights in Post-Conflict Societies
DESCRIPTION:This month’s graduate student workshop  examines how political upheavals reshape the rights and recognition of minorities.\n\n\nThis session examines how political upheavals reshape the rights and recognition of minorities. By tracing how states\, international organizations\, and revolutionary leaders redefine who counts as a protected subject\, the two papers show how marginalized groups invoke and contest legal categories to secure mobility\, political voice\, and substantive equality. \nPaper Abstracts: \nJewish Refugees in the Age of the Jewish Nation: Soviet Jews as “Cold War Refugees” or “Israeli Repatriates” 1971-1991Alexandra (Sasha) Zborovsky \nIn 1951 members of the United Nations gathered to draft the modern definition of “refugee.” There they distinguished Jewish survivors of the Holocaust as the ultimate archetype. But as the Cold War intensified\, the term “refugee” expanded to include millions of new victims of displacement\, ranging from Hungarian to Indochinese migrants. By the 1970s\, as hundreds of thousands of the Soviet Union’s Jewish citizens—targets of de facto antisemitism—began emigrating from the world’s first socialist state\, the world was once again forced to contend with Jews as refugees. In the decades to follow\, European states and Jewish philanthropic agencies administrated the departure of over one million Jews from the USSR\, many of whom were denaturalized by the Soviet state. This time\, however\, Western humanitarian organizations found themselves at odds with Israeli diplomats and Jewish nationalists. An agreement could not be reached: with the existence of a Jewish nation\, could a Jew be a refugee? Few dared argue that Soviet Jews met the criteria of demonstrating a “well-founded fear of persecution.” It was the issue of statelessness that sowed discord. While the Israeli government argued that all stateless Soviet Jews were automatically Israeli citizens and did not qualify as refugees\, Western states and NGOs campaigned for a freedom of movement that rejected this model of national repatriation. My work reveals not only how states and world leaders manipulated concepts of citizenship\, refugeehood\, and repatriation in order to direct and control the mobility of Soviet Jews\, but how Soviet Jews also engaged these terms to retain agency over their transit and resettlement processes. Their experiences unveil the inherent contradictions of refugeehood. Designed to augment individual human rights\, the political category remained tethered to the nation-state. \nBetween Elite Strategy and Mass Mobilization: Women’s Political Empowerment in Anti-Colonial Social RevolutionsJohanna Reyes Ortega \nWhy do some social revolutions advance women’s rights while others do not? Although scholars agree that conflict can open windows of opportunity for gender equality\, existing explanations overlook how the type of revolution shapes these outcomes. I argue that anticolonial social revolutions are more likely to expand women’s rights than revolutions aimed solely at domestic redistribution or regime change. Because anticolonial struggles require broad-based mobilization against a foreign power\, revolutionary leaders must articulate inclusive visions of liberation that transcend class and gender divisions. These ideological appeals become institutionalized through mass organizations that link women to the new state\, embedding equality within the regime’s legitimacy and state-building project. By contrast\, revolutions confronting domestic elites can rely on narrower\, class-based coalitions and pragmatic appeals\, resulting in symbolic rather than substantive gender reforms. Consistent with this theory\, cross-national evidence since 1900 shows that women’s political empowerment increases most sharply following social anticolonial revolutions. A complementary case study of the 1959 Cuban Revolution demonstrates how the regime expanded women’s citizenship to consolidate revolutionary authority—equating women’s liberation with the revolution’s success and suppressing resistance to egalitarian reform. The findings underscore how bottom-up mobilization can generate new channels of accountability and democratic bargaining\, even under authoritarian regimes. \nSpeaker bios: \nAlexandra (Sasha) Zborovsky is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Instructor at Bryn Mawr College. She is a historian of the former Soviet Union with a focus on Jewish experience and twentieth century mobility regimes. Her work has been supported by the Association for Slavic East European and Euriasian Studies\, the Center for Jewish History\, and Penn’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity\, Race\, and Immigration. Her research investigates the departure of more than one million Jews from the former Soviet Union throughout the mid-to-late twentieth century and the diplomatic\, ideological\, and social circumstances at the foundation of this great emigration. \nJohanna Reyes Ortega is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of California\, Berkeley\, with a focus on comparative politics\, gender\, and the political economy of development. Her research examines the long-term effects of conflict and social movements on gender dynamics in Latin America\, with a focus on Mexico\, Cuba\, and Central America. In her dissertation\, she examines the determinants of gender inequality in post-WWII revolutionary contexts. Her work applies mixed causal inference and machine learning methods that employ large-scale administrative\, survey\, and archival data.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/legal-responses-to-minority-rights-in-post-conflict-societies/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Outgoing NPR Editor-in-Chief on Journalism and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with Edith Chapin\,  the former Editor-in-Chief and Chief Content Officer of NPR.\n\n\nJoin PPR and the Andrea Mitchell Center for a Fireside Chat and Q&A with Edith Chapin\, Former Editor-in-Chief of NPR. The event will feature a half-hour moderated conversation between Chapin and Dr. Jeffrey Green\, Professor and Andrea Mitchell Endowed Director of the Andrea Mitchell Center\, followed by an extensive audience Q&A. Discussion topics will include Chapin’s firsthand perspective on America’s evolving media landscape\, the role of public and nonpartisan journalism\, reflections on her career path\, and advice for the next generation of changemakers. Food will be provided. \nBio: \nEdith Chapin is the former Editor-in-Chief and Chief Content Officer of NPR\, where she oversaw the network’s global news coverage and guided its award-winning journalism. Over her decades-long career at CNN and NPR\, she has reported and led teams covering groundbreaking stories\, including 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. She is widely recognized as a leading voice on the future of media and the importance of independent\, nonpartisan journalism.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/outgoing-npr-editor-in-chief-on-journalism-and-democracy/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Revisiting Language Politics
DESCRIPTION:Historical Perspectives and Current Trends in India\n\n\nOver the last few years\, India has witnessed a resurgence of linguistic tensions nationally. Regional parties more frequently refer to linguistic identities to resist the centralization of political power and respond to India’s delimitation plans. Language politics is now re-emerging on the national stage in ways that are both familiar and unfamiliar. This workshop examines language politics in contemporary India and our understanding of its postcolonial history. \n \nSpeakers: Akhil P. Veetil\, Deepika Padmanabhan\, Gregory Goulding\, Ketaki Jaywant\, Lisa Mitchell\, Maya Tudor\, Pritipuspa Mishra\, Rama Mantena\, Sumathi Ramaswamy \n \nSeptember 19\, 2025: 1:00pm to 4:00pm \nSeptember 20\, 2025: 10:00am to 1:00pm \n \nLunch served at noon.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/revisiting-language-politics/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T163000
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SUMMARY:Civil Society and Well-Being: Issues of Policy and Practice
DESCRIPTION:Exploring nonprofit institutions\, faith-based organizations\, and philanthropic foundations and their connection to  public welfare.\n\n\nWhat role do civil society organizations play in shaping well-being? Join us as we explore how nonprofit institutions\, faith-based organizations\, and philanthropic foundations contribute to — and sometimes complicate — efforts to improve public welfare. Drawing from real-world examples\, our panel will consider how resource distribution\, civic engagement\, and policy implementation intersect in pursuit of collective well-being. \nSpeakers: Femida Handy\, Ram Cnaan\, Katherina Rosqueta. Moderated by Carleigh Douglas
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/civil-society-and-well-being-issues-of-policy-and-practice/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250910T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250910T133000
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SUMMARY:Grad Workshop: Institutional Choices & Societal Consequences
DESCRIPTION:From greenwashing to referendums\, this workshop explores how institutions shape societal change and minority rights.\n\n\nInstitutional Choices & Societal Consequences \nThis workshop brings together two emerging scholars whose work critically examines how institutions shape — and often constrain — social and political life.This will be a hybrid event. Register to receive Zoom link\, or attend in-person. \n \n\nJulia Cope (Annenberg School of Communications\, University of Pennsylvania) explores how the American advertising industry confronts climate change. Her study of AdAge and Adweek reveals the fragile compromises advertising professionals craft between profit-driven market logics and civic or environmental responsibility. By unpacking these discourses\, Cope shows how concerns for sustainability are reframed through brand authenticity and reputation\, exposing deeper tensions in neoliberal democratic life.Presenting: Grappling with Green: How the trade press justifies and critiques climate concern in advertising\nKevin Yüh (Rice University / Zhejiang University) analyzes the use of referendums in advancing LGBTQ+ rights\, with a focus on Taiwan’s same-sex marriage referendum. Drawing on comparative perspectives across Asia\, Yu argues that while direct democracy may appear to empower minority rights\, in practice it often undermines them\, revealing the complex and sometimes contradictory role of referendums in shaping institutional legitimacy and social change.Presenting: Are Referendums a Bad Idea for the LGBTQ+ Community: Comparative Perspectives From Taiwan to Asia\n\nTogether\, these presentations highlight how institutional choices — from corporate self-regulation to democratic mechanisms — carry profound societal consequences\, shaping the possibilities and limitations of accountability\, equity\, and justice in the contemporary world. Full bios and paper abstracts are available on amc.sas.upenn.edu. Register to receive full papers.Lunch provided!
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/grad-workshop-institutional-choices-societal-consequences/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Common Sense Democrats and Common Sense Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with journalist and blogger Matthew Yglesias\, a longtime commentator on American politics and economics.\n\n\nJoin us for a conversation with journalist and blogger Matthew Yglesias\, a longtime commentator on American politics and economics. Previously at The Atlantic and Vox\, which he co-founded\, Matthew Yglesias writes the Slow Boring newsletter and is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He has been recognized as a major voice on the center-left pushing for housing reform and issues-focused politics. Drawing from his extensive experience\, Yglesias will provide insights into the challenges facing contemporary governance\, policy debates\, and the future of political discourse in the United States. This event will be an opportunity to engage with an influential voice in political journalism and explore how political institutions\, media narratives\, and public opinion are evolving in unpredictable ways.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/common-sense-democrats-and-common-sense-democracy/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250207T170000
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SUMMARY:What's Left? An Event on the Climate Crisis with Malcolm Harris
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URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/whats-left-an-event-on-the-climate-crisis-with-malcolm-harris/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Barriers to Protection: Child Welfare and the Carceral State
DESCRIPTION:Join us for another Andrea Mitchell Center graduate student workshop\, featuring Abram J. Lyons and Stuti Shah.\n\n\nPresenter Bios: \nAbram 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. After graduation\, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine\, which deepened his understanding of community-based social work. He later earned a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Memphis. Soon after completing his MSW\, he worked as an Indian Child Welfare case manager\, where he witnessed firsthand the resilience of AI/AN families and their determination to preserve kinship structures and cultural traditions\, despite the challenges imposed by systems of oppression. Before pursuing his PhD\, Mr. Lyons spent three years as a research coordinator at Washington State University\, working on a multi-site alcohol intervention project in AI/AN communities funded by the National Institutes of Health. Currently\, he is focused on his dissertation\, which examines the ongoing effects of settler colonialism and racism within the child welfare system\, particularly its impact on Indigenous and Black children. His dissertation also explores how the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) plays a role in preserving Indigenous communities\, using administrative data to assess the law’s effectiveness. A descendant of the Spokane Tribe\, Mr. Lyons is committed to advancing the study of child safety and family preservation within AI/AN communities\, with the goal of re-envisioning child welfare practices that better honor Indigenous cultural values and promote long-term well-being. \nStuti Shah is currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia Law School\, and a Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellow for the year 2024-25. \nPaper Abstracts: \nProtecting Indigenous Children: A Critical Analysis of the Child Welfare SystemBy Abram J. Lyons \nIndigenous children have disproportionately experienced family separation through the child welfare system since the early 20th century. State-sanctioned child removals occur within a history of Indigenous-US policy developed to erase Indigenous people (e.g.\, Indian Wars\, Indian Removal Act\, and Boarding Schools)\, physically and culturally\, and acquire raw resources from Indigenous-occupied land to expand the nation-state’s political power. Although the child welfare system was not explicitly designed for this purpose\, its outcomes reflect racial hierarchies within settler society that sustain erasure by reproducing Euro-American norms through foster care and adoption. This study engages with child welfare abolition projects that underscore the need for an Indigenous-centered intellectual historical analysis of the child welfare system and builds on conceptual work within the legal academic literature. It concludes that racist settler colonial policies persist within child welfare outcomes\, and emphasizes the importance of Tribal Sovereignty in policy development. \nChildren Behind Bars: Deconstructing the Prison Nursery Model in India’s Carceral SystemBy Stuti Shah \nThis article examines the impact of carcerality on children who stay with their mothers in prison from a historical and socio-legal standpoint. Though this may appear to be a compassionate policy that empowers maternal choice\, it ignores the fact that prisons are inherently harmful environments\, and that this arrangement compromises children’s constitutional rights and well-being. Furthermore\, the “choice” given to mothers to bring their children with them to prison is illusory\, as it is deeply shaped by socio-economic disparities.The article also critically analyzes the prison nursery model in India\, questioning whether it truly addresses the needs of incarcerated mothers and their children\, or whether it perpetuates deeper systemic harms. It argues that reformist solutions\, such as the prison nursery model\, have been adapted by low-resource countries such as India without adequately considering their unique socio-economic contexts. It also highlights the current system’s reliance on NGOs for the implementation and operation of prison nurseries\, which makes the model unsustainable and geographically inequitable.The article concludes by advocating for a shift away from reformation models toward abolitionist frameworks that prioritize the dignity and rights of both mothers and children. The existing prison nursery model fails to address the broader harms of incarceration and exacerbates deep-rooted structural inequalities. A radical rethinking of carceral systems is necessary to ensure that both mothers and children are freed from the cycles of harm and injustice perpetuated by the state.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/barriers-to-protection-child-welfare-and-the-carceral-state/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Paradoxical Media: Freedom of Speech and Electoral Politics
DESCRIPTION:This grad workshop brings together scholars examining the complex relationship between media\, digital platforms\, and political expression.\n\n\nJoin 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. \n**Papers will be sent immediately after registration. \nPresenter Bios: \nB. Tyler Leigh: B. Tyler Leigh is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame. Leigh’s research focuses on how media lead the American public to behave in (anti-) democratic ways. He is currently completing a joint PhD in Political Science and Communication from the University of Pennsylvania. \nBizaa Zeynab Ali: Bizaa Zeynab Ali is a doctoral fellow at New York University and The New School for Social Research in New York. Her research focuses on the sociology of digital cultures and platforms\, media industries\, global media ethics and creator cultures on social media. \nPaper Abstracts: \nThe Broken Promise of Free Expression: How Social Media Undermines Public Support for Freedom of ExpressionBy B. Tyler Leigh \nSocial media has democratized expression by giving anyone with an account the ability toexpress nearly any idea into the public sphere. One might expect that Americans would become more supportive of democratic expression as they gain experience and familiarity with it through social media. Using an observational study and two experiments\, I show the opposite is occurring. Social media democratized expression but does not deliver on the promised outcomes that free expression is supposed to provide. As a result\, conspiracy theories\, misinformation\, and hate speech seem more influential than ever before. I show that\, as a result\, people are less willing to allow the exact same expressive acts on social media than in-person. Further\, people are less supportive of free expression overall when primed to think about the democratization of expression social media represents. These findings indicate that social media is undermining public support for freedom of expression. \nComputational Creativity\, Political AI and Artistic Activism in Pakistan: Reflections on the Limits and Possibilities of Generative AI for Contemporary Electoral PoliticsBy Bizaa Zeynab Ali \nThis research will highlight the ways in which Generative AI tools facilitated political mobilization during the 2024 elections in Pakistan. I analyze the paradoxical ways in which generative AI was used to propagate disinformation\, while presenting digital citizens with an opportunity to counter and subvert state led narratives in innovative ways\, by visibilizing violence against women\, fact-checking fake news and deliberate disinformation campaigns\, invoking civic dissent through political satire and developing an extensive electoral campaign with AI tools. The research showcases examples of computational creativity and artistic activism during recent political unrest in Pakistan\, broadly organized in three categories to underline public engagement with AI technology regarding concerns about disinformation\, electoral manipulation and state violence. I highlight the creative use of AI tools like chatbots\, generative art and voice generators for digital dissent and large-scale political marketing in short periods of time\, under the threat of state censorship\, internet shutdowns and social media crackdowns.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/paradoxical-media-freedom-of-speech-and-electoral-politics/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Constructing Representation: Approaches to Migration and Race
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Mitchell Center graduate student workshop\, featuring Ezekiel Vergara and Maryam Nahhal.\n\n\nThe 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. \nThis is a hybrid event  —  the Zoom links will be sent to all participants. \nPapers will also be sent to all registered guests. \nMaryam 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 St. Andrews. Her research interests include the political development of racial classifications and racialised precarity. Her current work focuses on the U.S. census and the racial classification of Arab Americans. \nEzekiel Vergara is a third-year Ph.D. student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Philosophy. He completed his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College\, where he studied Philosophy and Government. Prior to starting his Ph.D.\, Vergara worked at the Yale Program on Financial Stability\, where he studied governments’ responses to financial crises. Vergara’s research interests primarily lie in political philosophy\, ethics\, and metaethics. In political philosophy\, he is interested in global justice\, liberal political thought\, and debates about ideal/non-ideal theory. In ethics\, he is interested in the ethics of self-defense\, the ethics of economic foreign policy\, and our duties to future people. He also likes to think about relational accounts of morality and consequentialism. In metaethics\, he is interested in non-naturalism and moral disagreement. \nDoes Political Equality Demand That You Move?By Ezekiel Vergara \nSome representative schemes are population-sensitive. How much representation a group gets depends on the size of the represented population. Other representative schemes are population-insensitive. In these schemes\, how much representation a group gets does not turn on the size of the represented population.In this paper\, I am interested in population-insensitive schemes. I maintain that population-insensitive schemes lead to an unjustifiable inequality in political influence. Those who live in less populous areas are afforded more political influence than those in more populous areas. Like other causes of unequal political influence\, I think that we have an obligation to mitigate it. \nWhile there are different ways to mitigate this inequality\, I focus on Rearrangement. Such a policy encourages the redistribution of population\, such that each representative subunit has roughly the same population. To argue for Rearrangement\, I proceed as follows. In Section I\, I clarify my focus on political influence. In Section II\, I discuss cases in which we think that we ought to intervene to address unequal political influence. In Section III\, I suggest that we have the same reasons to address the unequal political influence that results from population-insensitive schemes. In Section IV\, I provide a sketch of what Rearrangement would require. Such a policy encourages the redistribution of population\, such that each representative subunit has roughly the same population. I maintain that such a program is not only practically plausible\, but also that it holds philosophical merits. In Sections V and VI\, I argue that it is not too demanding\, and it respects the value that liberals accord to culture. It also promotes the independent value of diversity. \nHomeland (In)Security and the racialisation of the Arab in AmericaBy Maryam Nahhal \nThe study of racial formation in the United States has generally ignored the role of Islam and Islamophobia in the construction of racial categories. This became exponentially more apparent after 9/11 with the substantial increase in surveillance\, unlawful detentions\, hate crimes\, and media rhetoric targeting Muslims and those perceived to be so\, as well as military interventions in sovereign countries in the Middle East. This paper seeks to understand the racialisation of a category of people that had hitherto been mostly absent from racial politics literature. I argue that predominantly Christian Arab immigrants enjoyed a relatively benign position within the US racial system in the first half of the twentieth century. While this position was not uncontested\, both by the courts and by the nativist backlash of the early 20th century\, the Christian Arab was granted legal status as white on the basis of a shared Christian heritage. It was not until the 1960s that the Arab\, while still officially white in legal instruments such as the Census\, lost the invisibility and protections that such whiteness had granted them. This shift is linked to the increased immigration of Muslim Arabs following the 1965 Immigration Act\, as well as the US’s increased interests and involvement in the Middle East during the Cold War\, which shaped its relationship with its own Arab population. I will show how the coincidence of a series of international conjunctures\, from the establishment of the state of Israel\, Johnson’s 1965’s Immigration Act\, the 1967 Arab-Israeli War\, the Iranian Revolution\, the 1970 oil embargo and other international crises drastically changed American perceptions about Arabs\, highlighting the impact of American foreign policy on Arab diasporas in the U.S. While significant\, 9/11 intensified and systematised existing patterns but it by no means instigated them.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/constructing-representation-approaches-to-migration-and-race/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Labors of Resurrection: Lecture and Discussion with Shatema Threadcraft
DESCRIPTION:Necromancy and the Democratic Storytelling of W.E.B. Du Bois and Toni Morrison\n\n\nShatema 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 Scientists and the 2017 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association’s Race\, Ethnicity and Politics Organized Section (Best Book in Race and Political Theory). Her article “Intimate Justice\, Political Obligation and the Dark Ghetto” (Signs\, 2014) was awarded the American Political Science Association’s 2015 Okin- Young Award\, which recognizes the best paper on feminist political theory published in an English language academic journal in 2014. She was the 2017-2018 Ralph E. and Doris M. Hansmann Member at the Institute for Advanced Study and a Visiting Research Associate in the Department of Political Studies at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg from 2009- 2012. Her research has been supported by Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History\, the Ford Foundation\, the American Association of University Women and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery\, Resistance and Abolition. Her new book\, The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women\, Necromancy and Morrisonian Democracy\, examines the phenomenon of Black Femicide as well as how Ida B. Wells\, Mamie Till Bradley\, Clementine Barfield\, Barbara Smith and Margaret Prescod have confronted disproportionate premature Black death and made transformative democratic interventions regarding those deaths. \nLecture and discussion\, moderated by Dr. Katerina Traut
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/the-labors-of-resurrection-lecture-and-discussion-with-shatema-threadcraft/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Climate Change Governance in Focus: Insights from Geoff Mann
DESCRIPTION:The consequences of climate change extend far beyond the ecological realm\, profoundly impacting politics.\n\n\nNote: This will be a hybrid event. Those who register will also receive the Zoom link. \nJoin 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. This seminal work introduces the concept of the “Climate Leviathan” — an emergent form of liberal-capitalist planetary order inherent in the hegemonic model of global climate governance. \nDuring his presentation\, Professor Mann will navigate the complexities of this concept\, emphasizing the critical understanding that the consequences of climate change extend far beyond the ecological realm\, profoundly impacting politics.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/climate-change-governance-in-focus-insights-from-geoff-mann/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Voices for Change: Empowering Climate Change Communicators
DESCRIPTION:Engage with a leading expert on climate change communications and its role in cultivating public and political will for climate solutions.\n\n\nOn 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 weathercasters\, health professionals\, and conservatives who are concerned about climate change. This event is a unique opportunity to engage with a leading expert on climate communication and its role in cultivating public and political will for climate solutions. \nEdward Maibach\, MPH\, PhD is a Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. His research illuminates public understanding of climate change and strategies for enhancing it. Ed is a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science\, a Member of the National Academy of Medicine\, and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Climate and Health Alliance. He has previously served as the Worldwide Director of Social Marketing at Porter Novelli and Associate Director of the National Cancer Institute.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/voices-for-change-empowering-climate-change-communicators/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T163000
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SUMMARY:Fossil Fuels and Autocrats\, in Russia and Beyond (Climate & Democracy)
DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion with MAX BERGMANN (Center for Strategic and International Studies)\, moderated by MITCHELL ORENSTEIN (Penn).\n\n\nHybrid Event: In-person and online. Zoom link sent to registered attendees. \nTHE 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 transition to renewable energy\, but at the same time remains economically dependent on fossil fuels\, has Putin’s strategy succeeded or backfired? More generally\, do threats to global energy and food security provide leverage for autocrats\, or do they instead energize transformative policies in the world’s democracies? Moderated by MITCHELL ORENSTEIN (Penn Russian and East European Studies). \nMAX BERGMANN is the director of the Europe\, Russia\, and Eurasia Program and the Stuart Center in Euro-Atlantic and Northern European Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Prior to joining CSIS he was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress\, where he focused on Europe\, Russia\, and U.S. security cooperation. From 2011 to 2017\, he served in the U.S. Department of State in a number of different positions\, including as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff\, where he focused on political-military affairs and nonproliferation; special assistant to the undersecretary for arms control and international security; speechwriter to then secretary of state John Kerry; and senior adviser to the assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs. \nClimate and Democracy is hosted by the Andrea Mitchell Center and Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and sponsored by the Environmental Innovations Initiative.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/fossil-fuels-and-autocrats-in-russia-and-beyond-climate-democracy/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T163000
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SUMMARY:Energy Justice in a Climate-Changing World (Climate & Democracy)
DESCRIPTION:A discussion with BENJAMIN SOVACOOL (Boston University)\, moderated by SANYA CARLEY (Penn Kleinman Center for Energy Policy).\n\n\nHybrid Event: In-person and online. Zoom link sent to registered attendees. \nCLEAN 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 the ground? And what cross-sector alliances can achieve clean energy transitions without perpetuating dirty energy injustices? Moderated by SANYA CARLEY (Kleinman Center for Energy Policy). \nBENJAMIN SOVACOOL is the Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and a Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment. He works as a researcher and consultant on issues pertaining to global energy policy and politics\, energy security\, energy justice\, climate change mitigation\, and climate change adaptation. More specifically\, his research focuses on renewable energy and energy efficiency\, the politics of large-scale energy infrastructure\, designing public policy to improve energy security and access to electricity\, the ethics and justice of energy\, and building adaptive capacity to the consequences of climate change. \nClimate and Democracy is hosted by the Andrea Mitchell Center and Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and sponsored by the Environmental Innovations Initiative.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/energy-justice-in-a-climate-changing-world-climate-democracy/
LOCATION:Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics\, 133 South 36th Street\, Suite 010\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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