Georgetown Government Department

10/21/2021

Friday, Oct 29: Join our Georgetown Conflict Resolution Program and the Center for War and Society at San Diego State University for a discussion with artists & historians Gregory Daddis, Kara Dixon Vuic, Stacy Pearsall, and Fred Smith on the way societies understand and remember the wars in which they participated. The panel will be moderated by Conflict Resolution alum Daniel Weggeland (G'07). See link for more.

Join us for a virtual panel discussion on the way societies understand and remember the wars in which they participated

03/29/2019

11/14/2018

Our Democracy & Governance and American Government MA programs are cohosting a talk tonight with Jennifer Kavanagh, PhD. titled- Truth Decay: The Diminishing Role of Facts & Analysis in American Public Life tonight at 6 PM. Come join us!

Do facts matter in American politics today? With the decline of trust in conventional sources of information, a blurring of the line between fact and opinion, disagreement over basic facts, and an elevation of opinion over facts, the United States is experiencing a phenomenon we might call Truth Dec...

11/05/2018

11/02/2018

Considering a career in foreign service? Read our latest blog post, an update on Kala Deterville's Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program experience thus far. Kala is a 2018 graduate of Georgetown University who majored in Georgetown Government Department and Japanese Program Georgetown University. Currently, she is a first-year Master's student at Columbia | SIPA studying International Security Policy. https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/gofar-blog/2018/11/01/updates-on-kala-detervilles-rangel-experience/

09/26/2018

Happy , Hoyas! Are you registered to vote yet? If not, you can visit bit.ly/guvotes to get started.

Students can also find stamped envelopes at Residence Hall Offices across campus to mail out their absentee ballot requests and voter registration forms. So, what are you waiting for? Let's get out the !

09/24/2018

Beginning in the Fall of 2018 and running through the 2018-2019 school year, Georgetown University’s Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Democracy and Governance Program, and the Baker Center for Leadership & Governance are partnering with Patrick Henry College Professors Cory Grewell and Mark Mitchell on a process that brings 5 students each from Georgetown and Patrick Henry together in a creative process of mutual dialogue, interview-based script-writing and theatrical performance to explore commonalities and differences of perspective within and among the 2 communities.

Share Beginning in the Fall of 2018 and running through the 2018-2019 school year, Georgetown University’s Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Democracy and Governance Program, and the Baker Center for Leadership & Governance are partnering with Patrick Henry College Professors Cory Gr...

09/20/2018

Georgetown students and faculty! You’re Invited to our Oct. 1 screening of : Syria, Please Don't Forget Us, in partnership with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The Center for Social Justice - Georgetown University and Georgetown Conflict Resolution Program are co-sponsoring the screening. Don’t miss out and RSVP here -https://82namesfilmatgu.eventbrite.com .

Join us for , a film screening co-sponsored by Georgetown University's Center for Social Justice and MA Program in Conflict Resolution Program in partnership with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. is an inspiring documentary that traces the journey of Mansour Omari, a survivor of....

08/23/2018

Check out Prof. Michele Swers on the latest episode of -Gender Gap in Congress. Also discussed: women in elections.

NICIE PANETTA: This is The MidPod: The Midterms Podcast. I'm Nicie Panetta with Heather Atwood. We are two moms traveling America to chronicle what may be the most important set of elections in our lifetimes. The midterms in November 2018. In these elections we the people have the chance to elect a

07/06/2018

See Prof. Michelle Swers' post on Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski's position on Trump's Supreme Court nominee

Samuel Alito's nomination offers 3 key lessons.

07/06/2018

See Prof. Michael Bailey's post on whether or not the Supreme Court will shift to the right with Trump's next appointment

Justices often operate differently than elected officials.