The AMC is pleased to announce its 2026-27 Faculty Workshop Series, "Intimations of a New World Order." The series will explore shifting global political dynamics, in such areas as trade, migration, sovereignty, technology, democratization, democratic backsliding, and the foreign policy ambitions of major states, to examine how the middle of the 21st century may differ markedly from its opening decades. While predictions about the future are inherently speculative, the series aims to bring together scholars whose work can illuminate these transformations from a range of disciplinary perspectives and in ways relevant both to academic inquiry and broader public debate.

Mark your calendars for the following fall events. Full titles, descriptions, and RSVP details to follow.

Tuesday, September 17, 12:00 PM A conversation with Amitav Acharya, Distinguished Professor of International Relations at American University, on the future of global order and the decline of Western dominance. Zoom.

Tuesday, September 22, 5:15 to 6:45 PM (reception to follow) A conversation examining the University of Pennsylvania's case against the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the handover of names of Jewish employees. Presented in partnership with the Katz Center. The Forum at PCPSE.

Tuesday, September 29, 5:30 PM Jamelle Bouie, New York Times columnist, presents "Reconstruction at America250: History and the Future of US Democracy." Presented in partnership with the Department of History. Iron Gate Theater.

Wednesday, September 30, 5:30 PM (reception to follow) Benjamin Nathans (Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania; 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner for To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause) and Guobin Yang (Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania) discuss dissident movements in Russia and China. Presented in partnership with the Department of History and the Center for East Asian Studies. Perry World House.

Thursday, October 15, 12:00 PM Hanna E. Morris, Assistant Professor at the School of the Environment, University of Toronto, and author of Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power. Zoom.

Wednesday, October 28, 12:00 PM Declan Walsh (Chief Africa Correspondent, The New York Times), Murithi Mutiga (Africa Program Director, International Crisis Group), and Daniel Schneiderman (Director of Global Policy Programs, Penn Washington) on Africa, humanitarian policy, and the age of Trump. Zoom.

Thursday, November 12, 4:30 PM Rahul Sagar, Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science at NYU Abu Dhabi and author of To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics. The Forum at PCPSE.

Tuesday, November 17, 4:30 PM Laura K. Field, political theorist and author of Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right. The Forum at PCPSE.

Thursday, December 3, 4:30 PM Aziz Z. Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, on the philosophy of the so-called dual state, a political system in which a rule-bound legal system coexists with an arbitrary zone of unchecked executive power, moderated by Eric W. Orts, Guardsmark Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. The Forum at PCPSE.

More details, including full event titles and RSVP links, will follow as each date approaches.