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Danielle Allen on MSNBC

Danielle Allen was on MSNBC April 23rd, for a segment titled "Is the House “the body of the people”?" Allen has written extensively on the need for House reform and specifically, that the House should be expanded. Watch the entire segment here.

Announcing the 2023-24 Fellows-in-Residence and Graduate Fellows
It is our pleasure to announce the incoming class of fellows for our Fellows-in-Residence and Graduate Fellows programs. As you will see in their bios below, they are a fantastic group and we look forward to welcoming them in the fall. Fellows-in...

Avlana Eisenberg joins Boston College Law School
Former Lab Fellow Avlana Eisenberg will join as an associate professor and a dean’s distinguished scholar. She will teach a criminal law course for first-year students and a seminar on prison law and policy and criminal justice reform. Her research...

New GETTING-Plurality Research Network Brief

New GETTING-Plurality Research Network Brief "Putting Flourishing First: Applying Democratic Values to Technology" by Kinney Zalesne and Nick Pyati. In this short research brief, the authors unpack and comment on the four-step logic at the core of GETTING...

New York Times Podcast Featuring Danielle Allen
ELSCE Director Danielle Allen sat down for an episode of “The Ezra Klein Podcast” published by the New York Times. In the episode Allen makes the case for 'power-sharing liveralism." You can listen to the full episode here.

On Point Radio Broadcast Featuring Danielle Allen
Center Director Danielle Allen sat down with WBUR On Point Radio to talk about The power of populism: Flipping the script on the urban-rural divide. You can listen to the recording here.

Susanna Siegel named 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Philosophy
Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, was named one of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's 2023 Fellows. The fellowship is awarded to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional...

Yael Assor to Deliver BU Anthropology Department Talk

Exchange Fellows-in-Residence Dr. Yael Assor will deliver the BU Anthropology Department Talk on Experiencing Truth: How a Mood of Suspicion Creates "Good Data." On Thursday, April 13th at 12:30pm in PLS 505. Learn more about Dr. Assor's talk here.

Kamm Lecture with Agnes Callard in the Harvard Gazette
The Harvard Gazette published an article detailing the 2023 Mala and Solomon Kamm Lecture in Ethics with philosopher Agnes Callard. The article discusses Callard's lecture that attempted to answer whether political discourse could survive culture wars...

Kamm Lecture with Agnes Callard in the Crimson
You can read a write-up of our recent Mala and Solomon Kamm Lecture in Ethics featuring Agnes Callard, in the Harvard Crimson. The article details Callard Condemning ‘Politicization’ of Speech.