Oregon Humanities

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Consider This: What Democracy Needs with Hélène Landemore

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Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta Street, Portland, OR

Join Oregon Humanities on April 7 at 7pm 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. As democratic institutions in the U.S. and around the world come under increasing strain, Landemore invites us to consider what it would take […]

Consider This: Labor, Farmworker Organizing, and Histories of Indigenous Communities in Oregon

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Mt. Angel Theatre Studio, 220 E Charles Street, Mt. Angel, OR, United States

Join Oregon Humanities April 30 in Mt. Angel for a conversation with Joaquín Lara Midkiff, Reyna López, and Ramón Ramírez. This program will explore how the mid-Willamette has been home to powerful farmworker and solidarity movements that transformed the lives of migrant laborers and reshaped Oregon's political and economic landscape. This conversation is part of […]

Consider This with Naomi Shihab Nye

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Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta Street, Portland, OR

Join Oregon Humanities for a conversation with the extraordinary poet and novelist Naomi Shihab Nye about nations and communities. What makes this nation, the United States, what it is? How do nations change over time, and what moves those changes? How do communities become what we hope them to be? How should we strive to […]