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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Bicentennial Academic Symposium at Lafayette Co
 llege\n\n*THURSDAY\, SEPTEMBER 10*\n\n *12-1 p.m. – Registration/kickoff l
 unch reception *\n\n(Farinon Student Center\, Marlo Room)\n\n \n\n*1-2:30 
 p.m. – Faculty Panel I: Lafayette College and Democracy: From the \nArchiv
 es*\n\n(Farinon Student Center\, Marlo Room)\n\n * *Rachel Goshgarian* (hi
 story) – “Lafayette in Persia and the Archive\n   as Democratic Classroom”
 \n * *Chris Phillips* (English and environmental studies) – “What Are We\n
    Doing Here?: Reflections on a 200-Year-Old Answer”\n * *Mathieu Smith-P
 errot* (language and literary studies) – “Seen From\n   Both Shores: Lafay
 ette College in the American and French Press”\n * *Elaine Stomber* (Speci
 al Collections and College Archives) – “Civic\n   Movements and Institutio
 nal Reform: A History of Student Activism From the\n   Lafayette College A
 rchives”\n\nRelated items from the archives can be found in the Simon Room
  in Skillman \nLibrary.\n\n* *\n\n*2:45-4:15 p.m. – Faculty Panel II: Demo
 cracy and Higher Ed*\n\n(Farinon Student Center\, Marlo Room)\n\n * *Sarah
  Appelhans* (engineering studies) – “‘No Innovation Without\n   Representa
 tion’: How to Save the Soul of Engineering Education”\n * *Gabrielle Kelen
 yi* (English) – “‘Strong People Don’t Need Strong\n   Leaders’: Illuminati
 ng the Relationship Between Leadership\, Expertise\,\n   and Writing”\n * 
 *Abu Rizvi* (economics) – “Colleges\, Democracy\, and Responsibility”\n * 
 *Jenn Rossmann* (mechanical engineering) – “Technological\n   Citizenship”
  \n\n* *\n\n*4:30-6:45 p.m. – Related exhibits and Student Panel*\n\n(Will
 iams Center for the Arts and Skillman Library) \n\n * Student Panel (4:40-
 5:10pm): On Practice-Based Research: Encountering\n   Humanities through 3
 D Modeling and Experiential Learning (Williams Center\n   for the Arts\, R
 oom 108)\n * /The Spy Who Brought Surrender /(Williams Center for the Arts
 \, Williams\n   Center Gallery)\n * /Engineering Artifacts: Past\, Present
 \, & Future /(Williams Center for the\n   Arts\, Kirby Art Study Center)\n
  * /Adaptations of College Hill: A Bicentennial Exploration Through\n   Re
 photograpy (Skillman Library\, Lobby)/\n * /Lafayette 200: A Bicentennial 
 History of Lafayette College(Skillman\n   Library\, Simon Room)/\n * /We’l
 l Gather By the Twilight’s Glow: 200 Years of Community at\n   Lafayette C
 ollege (Skillman Library\, Reference Area)/\n * /This Incomparable Site: F
 rom College Edifice to College Hill (Skillman\n   Library\, Lass Gallery)/
 \n * And more! \n\n \n*7-8:30 p.m. –  Hélène Landemore plenary address fol
 lowed by reception \nand book signing *(Colton Chapel)\n\n*“Politics Witho
 ut Politicians: Democratic Renewal in an Age of \nPolarization and AI”*\n
 \n Representative democracy is buckling under pressures its architects nev
 er \nanticipated: entrenched polarization\, eroding institutional trust\, 
 and now \nthe arrival of AI systems poised to reshape governance itself. T
 his talk \nargues that the fragilities of our representative democracies a
 re systemic \nand structural\, not contingent\, and make them unfit to han
 dle the new \nchallenges ahead. Drawing on the case for citizen rule devel
 oped in \n“Politics Without Politicians” (2026)\, Landemore will show how 
 \nsortition-based assemblies that deliberate and legislate\, paired with 
 \nlarge-scale referenda on periodic programs and select controversial \nqu
 estions\, offer a principled\, scalable alternative to rule by professiona
 l \npoliticians. Landemore then turns to a more urgent frontier: AI govern
 ance\, \nwhere decisions with worldwide consequence are currently being ma
 de by a \nhandful of corporate actors with no democratic mandate. Building
  on recent \nwork proposing a global deliberative architecture for AI over
 sight\, Landemore \nargues that the same logic that justifies citizen asse
 mblies domestically \ndemands a democratic answer at the global level\, be
 fore that architecture is \nbuilt by default\, by those with the least inc
 entive to include the rest of \nus.\n\nFree copies of Professor Landemore'
 s book will be available at the talk while \nsupplies last and her keynote
  address will be followed by a reception and \nbook signing.\n\n \n\n 
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LOCATION:Various Lafayette campus locations
SUMMARY:The Bicentennial Symposium - Democracy: Past\, Present\, and Future
URL;TYPE=URI:https://calendar.lafayette.edu/node/71856
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