Georgetown Institute for Global History

Propose a new GIGH or Dept. of History event (GU faculty, students, and staff only).

Mission

The Georgetown Institute for Global History (GIGH) brings historians of diverse interests and at all career stages together to explore the interconnections among their fields of study. In addition, GIGH aspires to promote a deeper understanding among the general public, educators, and policy professionals of how the past has shaped our world by examining the deep historical roots of contemporary interactions among this planet’s diverse societies and cultures.

Through a series of seminars, lectures, workshops, and other events, GIGH invites historians across all fields to consider how the particular regions, themes and issues they study have contributed to, and been shaped by, global processes of historical change.

All faculty, graduate students, and other members of the academic and scholarly community in metropolitan Washington and beyond are welcome at GIGH events. To have your name added to an e-mail notification list for any given seminar, or to request a copy of a paper in advance of a session, please contact the seminar chair(s), as indicated on the individual series’ pages. If you would like to be added to an email list for GIGH events, or if you have any questions, please contact the Department of History at guhistory@georgetown.edu.