National Undergraduate PPE Colloquium 2025
February 7 - February 8
Hosted by UNC in collaboration with Duke.
The National Undergraduate PPE Colloquium is an annual two-day event in which PPE or PPE-adjacent students from twenty universities congregate and hold intensive discussion-based sessions sparked by a collection of important pre-assigned readings. The Colloquium is held jointly with Duke University, which hosts the event in alternating years. This gathering gives students a chance to meet and discuss some core ideas and applications of PPE with other highly motivated students as well as program faculty. Recent conferences have focused on ‘constitutions,’ ‘equality’, ‘crime and punishment’, and ‘markets on the margin’.
Over the last decade more than 250 students from 20 different programs have attended, including students from Yale, Penn, Brown, Tulane, Virginia, Michigan and Notre Dame. During the two-day event, faculty from UNC and Duke lead discussions of classic works, and meet with students informally for meals and social hours to allow the conversation to continue.
Program details and readings HERE (*password protected).
Learn more about past colloquia HERE.
