The Responsible Governance and Sustainable Citizenship Project is proud to support several events around campus that pertain to its mission, including public lectures, presentations, symposia, and performances. Click on “Sponsored Events” and “Symposium" to the left for past events sponsored by RGSCP.
In additional to such occasional events, RGSCP also supports the UNH Changemaker Speaker Series, the JV Socratic Society, and several faculty-driven projects.
Please reach out to Rebecca Norris (Rebecca.Norris@unh.edu) for accommodations on the basis of disability.
Coming Events
Citizenship Summit: What Matters to YOU?
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Join RGSCP as we host a day of discussions in the MUB with UNH faculty and outside experts on big topics like voting rights, climate change, disinformation and social media, political issues, international concerns, polling, and more.
Discussion sessions will be run using tenets of the Civil Discourse Lab to foster meaningful and respectful information sharing. Sessions will take place in individual breakout rooms in the MUB throughout the day. You can also stop by the Strafford Room all day long for posters, handouts, and information tables on many subjects not covered in the discussion sessions. Snacks will be provided and replenished throughout the day!
Finally, meet us back in the Strafford Room at 7:00 p.m. for an exciting keynote address by Katie Fahey, founder, executive director, and campaign manager of Voters Not Politicians, a grassroots, nonpartisan campaign that ran a successful effort to end gerrymandering in Michigan by amending the State Constitution in 2018 with 61 percent of the vote. Now, she is executive director of The People, a nonprofit organization committed to sharing the lessons learned in Michigan with voters across the ideological spectrum in all 50 states, bridging political divides and supporting nonpartisan good governance reforms nationwide. The People focuses on nonpartisan, citizen-led civic engagement, deliberative democracy, and consensus-building processes.
How Democracies Die
Wednesday, October 30 - Sunday, November 3, 2024
A theatrical exploration of the New York Times best-selling book by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. The play, devised by UNH students, will delve into the book’s examination of how we have arrived at this moment in our democracy. As stated in the Wall Street Journal’s review; “The authors argue, with good evidence, that democracies aren’t destroyed because of the impulses of a single man; they are, instead, degraded in the course of a partisan tit for tat dynamic that degrades norms over time until one side sees an opening to deliver the death blow.” The result of more than twenty years of studying the breakdown of democracies from the 1930s to the present, the book’s authors have provided an artistic springboard to understand how democracies die, and how ours can not only be saved, but thrive.
The creation of this play was supported in part by a generous grant from the Responsible Governance and Sustainable Citizenship Project (RGSCP). The play will be part of a larger program, How Democracies Die/Thrive, that will feature speakers and panels leading up to the production.
How Democracies Die is a work of nonfiction by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (Crown, 2018).
