Join Oregon Humanities for a conversation with Hélène Landemore, author of Politics Without Politicians, on what democracy must become to meet the complexity, speed, and scale of today’s world. Landemore will be joined in conversation by Adam Davis, executive director of Oregon Humanities.
Hélène Landemore is the author of Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule and Open Democracy. She is currently a Full Professor in the Political Science department at Yale University and a Faculty Fellow with Yale’s Institute for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), where she founded a research program on Citizens’ Assemblies and the “Governing x” conference series. She is also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, England. In 2023, she served as an advisor to the Democratic Inputs to AI program at OpenAI. She is currently undertaking work supported by Schmidt Futures through the AI2050 program. Her research and teaching interests include democratic theory, constitutional theory, political epistemology, and the ethics and politics of AI.
This event is part of Oregon Humanities’ 2025–26 Consider This series, Beyond 250.
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