Dartmouth Dialogues
At Dartmouth, we’re strengthening a culture in which community members engage in respectful discussion across differences and feel comfortable having their views challenged. Dartmouth Dialogues is our shared commitment to expanding programming across the institution dedicated to facilitating conversations and skills that bridge political and personal divides. Listening to—and including—a diversity of ideological perspectives fosters learning, community, and innovation. Solving the world’s most pressing challenges hinges on our ability to understand and discuss viewpoints different from our own. Read the story.
10,800
People attended Dialogue events this academic year
1,200
First-year students trained in dialogue skills
200
Staff and faculty trained in dialogue
Dialogue Project
We’re providing intentional training in the development of essential collaborative dialogue skills and fostering a community that cultivates the respectful and open exchange of ideas for students, faculty, and staff.
As President Donald Trump makes rapid-fire changes to nearly every corner of the U.S. government at the start of his second term, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Dartmouth Dialogues will bring prominent speakers from across the political spectrum to campus to discuss the new administration’s first 100 days.
Through a wide range of events, webinars, training, and practice at our schools, centers, departments, and divisions, Dartmouth will generate powerful and lasting outcomes.
The series will feature a Jan. 13 panel on U.S. immigration policy and a cinematic fiction conference, and the Dialogue Project will also host a public conversation with Braver Angels senior fellow Mónica Guzmán on Feb. 25, among other events.
StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.
The Middle East Dialogues were the Dialogue Project’s first special topic series, encompassing courses and events related to timely issues. Dartmouth’s interdisciplinary programs in Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies have a longstanding commitment to fostering dialogue, community, and joint academic inquiry.
For over 40 years, the Dickey Center for International Understanding has carried on the legacy of President John Sloan Dickey, facilitating intercultural conversations and bridging divides with a global perspective. The Dickey team is continuing the public-facing work of Middle East Dialogues, in particular, through its emerging Middle East Initiative.
The Dartmouth Political Union is a nonpartisan, student-led organization that promotes open discourse by hosting speakers from across the political spectrum, holding student and expert debates, and organizing campus-wide discussions on political issues. Encouraging dialogue across differences, the DPU engages students on issues of societal importance.
The lab is a research group and resource hub dedicated to applying science to the study of polarization and democracy. Founded by researchers at Dartmouth, Stanford, and the University of Pennsylvania, the lab advances the study of partisan animosity by collecting data, testing new ideas through rigorous science, and sharing the data and findings.
The project combines interdisciplinary perspectives on the relationship between economics, politics, and ethics. It addresses some of the knottiest dilemmas facing human societies: between freedom and fairness, equality and prosperity, markets and governments.
Since 2020, Tuck has been teaching first-year MBA students six principles for how to navigate difficult conversations in the classroom and with colleagues.
Dartmouth Dialogues puts a renewed focus on our ability to think critically, to question, to probe, and reflect, rather than follow a predetermined ideology. The initiative will expands our capacity to cultivate these talents for our campus community, which as never been more important than it is today.
See Dartmouth News coverage of past Dartmouth Dialogue events and programs.
Dartmouth prizes and defends the right of free speech and the freedom of the individual to make their own disclosures, while at the same time recognizing that such freedom exists in the context of the law and in responsibility for one’s own actions.
The Conferences and Events office is an event-planning and facilitation resource for event organizers. We are a one-stop-shop, providing services for room booking, event work order requests, furniture and space rental contracts, video arrangements, and coordination with Hanover town offices and with vendors.