Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, a PPE affiliate and a faculty member in Economics at Virginia Tech, will give a talk with the title “How Sanctions Work.”

The talk will take place on November 13, 2024, from 12:15-1:30pm, in the conference room of the Kellogg Center (820 University City Blvd).

The PPE Working Paper series offers a friendly and constructive intellectual environment for sharing and advancing preliminary research in PPE. Please see here for more information.

All faculty and students are welcome to attend. Lunch will be served! Please RSVP (strongly recommended).

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact ppe@nullvt.edu at least ten business days before the event.

The PPE Reading Group will meet every other Wednesday from 12-1:30pm, starting on September 11, 2024, during the semester for a Lunch & Learn to jointly read and discuss a book that deals with a current topic from a PPE perspective.

The Kellogg Center will provide free copies of the book. Participation is open to all VT students and faculty.

To receive your free book please sign up with Gil Hersch (hersch@nullvt.edu) by September 9, 2024. Please join us for a good discussion.

The PPE Cinema, organized by the Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, welcomes faculty and students from across campus who are interested in watching and discussing great films.

Together we watch movies on the big screen and discuss the questions in philosophy, politics, and economics that they raise. Food and beverages are provided.

Film title: Dead Man. A psychedelic Western by Jim Jarmusch (1995) starring Johnny Depp as an accountant on the run who meets a strange Native American man named Nobody. The soundtrack was improvised by Neil Young.

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact ppe@nullvt.edu at least ten business days before the event.

The PPE Reading Group will meet every other Wednesday from 12-1:30pm, starting on September 11, 2024, during the semester for a Lunch & Learn to jointly read and discuss a book that deals with a current topic from a PPE perspective.

The Kellogg Center will provide free copies of the book. Participation is open to all VT students and faculty.

To receive your free book please sign up with Gil Hersch (hersch@nullvt.edu) by September 9, 2024. Please join us for a good discussion.

Professor Edward Weisband, PPE affiliate and Edward S. Diggs Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences in Political Science, will give a talk with the title “Ethical Virtuosity: Is Virtue Ever Virtuous?”

The talk will take place on December 4, 2024, from 12:15-1:30pm, in the conference room of the Kellogg Center (820 University City Blvd).

The PPE Working Paper series offers a friendly and constructive intellectual environment for sharing and advancing preliminary research in PPE. Please see here for more information.

All faculty and students are welcome to attend. Lunch will be served! Please RSVP (strongly recommended).

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact ppe@nullvt.edu at least ten business days before the event.

The PPE Cinema, organized by the Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, welcomes faculty and students from across campus who are interested in watching and discussing great films.

Together we watch movies on the big screen and discuss the questions in philosophy, politics, and economics that they raise. Food and beverages are provided.

Film title: Aguirre, the Wrath of God. An epic historical drama starring Klaus Kinski as a ruthless and obsessed Spanish conquistador in search of El Dorado, the city of gold. Directed by legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog (1972).

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact ppe@nullvt.edu at least ten business days before the event.

Wayne Moore, a PPE affiliate and a faculty member in Political Science, will give a talk with the title “The Unofficial Constitution.”

The talk will take place on February 5, 2025, from 12:15-1:30pm, in the conference room of the Kellogg Center (820 University City Blvd).

The PPE Working Paper series offers a friendly and constructive intellectual environment for sharing and advancing preliminary research in PPE. Please see here for more information.

All faculty and students are welcome to attend. Lunch will be served! Please RSVP (strongly recommended).

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact ppe@nullvt.edu at least ten business days before the event.

Alex Motchoulski, Assistant Professor in the Corcoran Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, will give a talk with the title “Reparations, Recognition, and the Restoration of Relational Equality.”

The talk will take place on February 12, 2025, from 4-5:30pm in the Multipurpose Room of the Graduate Life Center.

The talk is tailored to appeal to both faculty and students, with plenty of time for discussion and interaction with the guest speaker. The talk will be followed by a public reception.

All faculty and students are welcome to attend. Please see here for more information.

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact ppe@nullvt.edu at least ten business days before the event.

The PPE Cinema, organized by the Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, welcomes faculty and students from across campus who are interested in watching and discussing great films.

Together we watch movies on the big screen and discuss the questions in philosophy, politics, and economics that they raise. Food and beverages are provided.

Film title: About Elly. On a vacation by the Caspian Sea in Northern Iran, a young woman goes missing. Widely acclaimed Iranian director Asghar Farhadi won the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Director (2009) for this multi-layered, suspenseful film.

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact ppe@nullvt.edu at least ten business days before the event.

Brianna Felegi, a faculty member in Economics, will give a talk with the title “Evaluating the Impact of the Indiana Choice Scholarship on Students in Participating Private Schools: A Mixed Methodology Approach.”

The talk will take place on March 4, 2025, from 12:15-1:30pm, in the conference room of the Kellogg Center (820 University City Blvd).

The PPE Working Paper series offers a friendly and constructive intellectual environment for sharing and advancing preliminary research in PPE. Please see here for more information.

All faculty and students are welcome to attend. Lunch will be served! Please RSVP (strongly recommended).

If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, please contact ppe@nullvt.edu at least ten business days before the event.