Events

“Defending the Democratic Backstage: Jeremy Bentham's Sotimion as a Critique of Surveillance”  Kristen Collins, Senior Fellow with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University While twenty-first century digital technologies have expanded our political possibilities today, they also subject us to unprecedented mass surveillance: from each other, from private companies, and from state governments around the world. Consequently, our d...

In this Public Philosophy Discussion, we will be considering an essay that outlines four theses drawn from Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism and how the stateless status of undocumented migrants creates a tendency towards totalitarian policies. We will explore how we may be seeing this statelessness and attendant curbing of rights spread and infect the State's conception of the population as a whole, and try to think through what we as citizens can do to stop this erosion of rights.

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The Levitt Center invites you to a Community Conversation on Measuring Success After College.   RSVP here for Rio Grande The idea of “success” may be quite straightforward in the college years – getting good grades, performing well in extracurricular activities, and maintaining solid friendships are on many people’s lists. But, as the end of the semester approaches and seniors (at least) are about to face “real life,” a narrow definition of success tied to academic validation or the judgment of others may need to be redefined.  So we want to kn...

   “Political Economic Lessons from the US Civil War” Andreas Ferrara is an economic historian working on topics related to labor economics and political economy including migration, discrimination, and culture. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Warwick, UK, and has been assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh since the fall of 2019. His work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Labor Econo...

Final exhibition for Spring '26 Justice Lab- Resilience through Creativity: Imagining New Futures