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The Paterno Fellows Program will host “The Future of Democracy and the Humanities in an Age of Catastrophes” from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 1 in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.

The Paterno Fellows Program will host “The Future of Democracy and the Humanities in an Age of Catastrophes” from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 1 in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library.

A ‘spirit of amity’ and ‘mutual deference’ were essential to producing the Constitution. Such a spirit remains vital to maintaining constitutional order.

Ralph Cintron of the University of Illinois at Chicago will address the question "Is democracy under attack?" when he presents the Center for Democratic Deliberation's 2022 Kenneth Burke Memorial Lecture. The lecture, which is open to the public, will be held at 4 p.m. April 14 at the Hintz Family Alumni Center on Penn State's University Park campus and online.

IMAGE: Photo Provided This year’s Burke Prize winner is Kelly Williams Nagel, a doctoral candidate in communication arts and sciences for her essay, "Unraveling Lost Cause Historiography: Places for Encounter at the Robert E. Lee Statue in Richmond, Virginia.” “The reviewers praised this paper for its sophisticated application of contemporary rhetorical theory to a timely case study and its incisive engagement with both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research on contested spaces of pu...

University Park and nine other Commonwealth Campuses across the state will host events, according to Penn State. At University Park, events like the Selma March incentive will run the entirety of February. The annual event is sponsored by Campus Recreation and encourages people to get out and run, bike, or walk 54 miles over the course of the month to represent the length of the marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in March 1965. Other events over the course of the month will include keyn...

Feb. 22, at 4:30 p.m., via Zoom (register) — "Being Black in Bridgerton: An Examination of Race, Colorism, and Stereotyping," hosted by the Gender Equity Center. The hit Netflix series "Bridgerton" has been praised for its casting of Black characters in the roles of English royals, nobles, aristocrats and tradespeople. However, when we examine the characters and their storylines, is such casting as progressive as it seems on the surface? Join us for clips of the series and a discussion of ra...

The legacy of English journalist and “self‐​taught economist” [1]Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) naturally lends itself to scholarly debate: a principled defender of labor and an opponent of capitalism, [2] he was at the same time a radical champion of free‐​market competition and the rights of the individual, consistently opposing state power and intervention in all areas of social and economic life. In Alberto Mingardi’s latest book, Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Work...