April, 2021
23AprAll Day24Foundations of Civil SocietyOnline Event
Event Details
Explore the history and promise of civil society in the United States with a focus on the role of philanthropy in civil society. Participants will be graduate students
Event Details
Explore the history and promise of civil society in the United States with a focus on the role of philanthropy in civil society. Participants will be graduate students in the humanities and social sciences. Classic works by Adam Smith and Alexis de Tocqueville, as well as contemporary scholarship, will be discussed. Emily Skarbek, Assistant Research Professor in the Political Theory Project at Brown University, will lead this program’s four online sessions.
We will convene online using the video conferencing platform Zoom.
If your application is accepted, IHS will provide a $500 honorarium for your full participation in this program.
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This program was conceptualized by Lenore Ealy of the Charles Koch Institute and Professor Daniel J. Smith of Middle Tennessee State University; it was developed in partnership with Professor Smith and MTSU’s Political Economy Research Institute.
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Time
April 23 (Friday) - 24 (Saturday)
Location
Online Event
Participants and Staff
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Emily Skarbek
Emily Skarbek
Assistant Research Professor in the Political Theory Project, Brown University
I’m an Associate Professor of Political Theory (Research) in the Political Theory Project and the Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics research seminar at Brown University. Before joining Brown in 2017, I was a tenured lecturer in the newly-formed interdisciplinary Department of Political Economy at King's College London. It was here that I worked with colleagues to develop new undergraduate degree programs in both political economy and philosophy, politics, and economics. I also served as program director of the masters in political economy. My two streams of research sit within the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics framework. The first examines how civil associations function to produce governance institutions under challenging circumstances such as natural disasters or the absence of state capacity. My second stream of work examines the history of economic thought with an eye to how economic theory influences public policy. My work in this area has benefited from my time as a Fellow at the Center for History of Political Economy at Duke University in 2011-2012.
Assistant Research Professor in the Political Theory Project, Brown University
Organizer
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