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Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
PPE Events
Public Lectures and Seminar Series
The PPE Center offers three different venues for advancing important interdisciplinary scholarship and civil discourse: Janus Forum Lectures, Odyssey Lectures, and a specialized PPE Research Workshop. Our Janus Lectures feature two speakers with different viewpoints. These events are our largest, campus-wide events that are open to all Brown undergraduate students and the broader community. The Odyssey lectures are single speaker lectures focusing on an important new idea or book and often attract undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty alike. The PPE Workshop is a curated research seminar with invited scholars presenting cutting-edge research for feedback from our faculty, postgraduate fellows, and graduate students.
The Janus Forum Lecture Series, which brings together two prominent speakers with different viewpoints, is the PPE Center's signature public event.
Odyssey Lectures feature a single speaker who will take students on an extended adventure over some new and unexpected intellectual terrain.
The PPE Research Workshop is a seminar designed for researchers from across disciplines to present their work-in-progress for feedback and discussion.
Upcoming PPE Events
Recent PPE Events
Gallery of Events
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Janus Lecture – Regulation and Big Tech: Does Innovation Imperil? Tim Wu (Columbia) and Richard Langlois (University of Connecticut)
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Student asking guest speaker questions during PPE Center event
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PPE Society Student members introducing guest speaker Lawrence Lessig at Fall 2023 Agora Lecture
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Students and guest speaker mingle after lecture
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Noam Chompsky (MIT) speaking at the Janus Lecture, "Thinking Strategically: Should the US support Isreal?" with diplomat Dennis Ross (not pictured)
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Guest speaker Melissa Harris-Perry
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PPE Center family weekend open house 2023
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Guest lecturers John Yoo (Berkeley) and Larry Cox (Amnesty International) speak at the Janus Lecture, "One World, Many People: Are There Universal Human Rights?"
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Students speak with Glenn Greenwald (American journalist) after the Janus Lecture, "What if the US Legalized All Drugs?" (speaker John P. Walters, former Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in the George W. Bush administration, not pictured)
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Audience at the Janus LectureJennifer Burns - Odyssey Lecture – “Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative”
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Joseph Carens (University of Toronto) speaks with an attendee after a Janus event
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Janus Student Committee member introducing guest lecturers at a Janus event