Join Penn Environmental Group and dozens of sustainable campus and city organizations for an afternoon of free music, games, and food. Come to College Green for fun activities and the opportunity to learn more about sustainability in Philadelphia.
Location: University of Pennsylvania Bookstore, 3601 Walnut Street
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Light refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. If you require reasonable accommodations, please provide at least 5 days notice. Register here.
Firearms policy in the United States must balance the Constitutional right to bear arms and public interest in gun ownership with concerns about public health and safety. However, the information that policymakers need to understand the likely effects of different policies is scarce. Empirical studies of gun laws are often contested or contradicted by other studies, leaving policymakers uncertain how to effectively protect legitimate gun uses while also promoting community wellbeing. RAND is engaged in an initiative to develop policy analysis tools and research syntheses, grounded in science, aimed at clarifying the effects of current and proposed firearms policies. In this talk, Andrew Morral, the leader of RAND’s work in this area will summarize some of the initiative’s key findings, then describe preliminary results from RAND’s efforts to estimate the effects on firearms fatalities of three common state gun laws: child access prevention laws, shall-issue concealed carry laws, and stand-your-ground laws. RSVP: ciararob@sas.upenn.edu
Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, will consider three key questions for our "post-truth" moment: How, historically, have democracy and truth been connected to one another? Why is that relationship seemingly in peril now in the U.S. and in much of the world? And what, if anything, can be done?
Location: Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 133 South 36th Street
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With the the resurgence of fascism and xenophobia in the world, scholars and pundits have declared that democracy is in crisis. However, history reveals that democracies have always existed amidst systems that thrive on inequality. This workshop will focus on two questions: Are certain forms of exclusion intrinsic to the practice of democracy? How distinct is contemporary democracy’s relationship to inequality from earlier periods in history?
