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In addition to our annual speaker series, the Browne Center periodically sponsors other events. Check this site for updated schedules and the titles of presentations.

Special Topical Series

The Symposium Series is committed to improving the state of knowledge about how societies create new forms of social, political and economic governance. This mission is underpinned by the aim of fostering fruitful, disciplined debates about two fundamental questions. First, how do societies at both the national and sub-national levels build governance institutions, especially the rule of law? Second, how are nations attempting to build new forms of supra-national governance, such as in the areas of human rights, environment, and the cross-border flows of goods, capital, and people? The First Exploration of Fundamentals: Corporate Governance is designed to reflect on the larger debates regarding globalization and institutional change. It also will address issues of corporate governance that go to the heart of debates on economic development, firm strategy and organization, as well as the essential features of sustainable capitalism. The conference will feature the work of three renowned scholars, John Padgett of the University of Chicago, Florencio Lopez de Silanes of Yale Univeristy, and Mark Roe of Harvard University.

Brown(e) Bag Lunches

This event features presentations of works-in-progress by Penn faculty to an audience of faculty peers and graduate students. This program is designed not only to improve the quality of scholarship though constructive critique, but also to produce a collegial environment in which faculty and graduate students support each other at all stages of the research and writing process. Next Brown(e) Bag Lunch: (date and presenter TBA)

Author-to-Author Workshop

Inaugurated in 2002, this program brings together two junior International Relations schoalrs at similar stages for a two-day workshop of collaboration and critique. During the workshop, each author presents and critiques the book manuscript of the other. In spring 2002, along with advice and suggestions offered by an audience of Penn graduate students and faculty, Anne E. Sartori (Princeton University) and Fiona McGillivray (Yale University) engaged each others' work and their audience over the course of two days. Both Sartori's Deterrence by Diplomacy and McGillivray's Fighting for the Marginals: Political Institutions and Industry Handouts are currently in print.

Rena & Angelius Anspach Lecture

The Anspach lecture is an annual event designed to bring to Penn the most distinguished policy makers shaping international affairs.

In 2003 the Browne Center brought a series of speakers to Penn to offer informed commentary on the emerging conflict with Iraq. On the schedule were Kenneth Pollack (Brookings Institution) and Stephen Walt (Harvard University).

In the spring of 2004, John Negroponte, (former) U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (US Ambassador to Iraq) gave a talk at Jon M. Huntsman Hall to several hundred members of the Penn community. He discussed the conflict in Iraq, US foreign policy and the future of the UN.

Other speakers have included:

Bobby Muller, Founder and President of Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and co-founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Mr. Muller spoke to a large crowd of Penn students and faculty about US foreign policy in the Bush Administration.

Cherie Booth Blair, Queen's Counsel and First Lady of the UK. At the meeting, chaired by President Amy Gutman, Ms. Booth Blair, spoke about US and European approaches to human rights.