Upcoming Events
Recent Miller Center Events
Friday, March 26, 2010
12:30 PM
Eddie Glaude, Jr.
EDDIE GLAUDE, Jr. is the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Princeton University. His first book, Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America (University of Chicago Press, 2000), won the Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Book Prize. He is also the editor of Is it Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism (University of Chicago Press, 2002) and, with Cornel West, of African American Religious Studies: An Anthology (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2003).
Monday, March 29, 2010
11:00 AM
Javier Corrales
JAVIER CORRALES, Associate Professor of Political Science at Amherst College and a visiting scholar at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, argues that the notion of a united leftist coalition of Latin nations opposing the United States and free-market reforms is an illusion. The author of several books on democratization, constitutional change, and economic reforms in Latin America, Corrales will explore the many faces of the leftist trend in Latin America.
Friday, April 2, 2010
11:00 AM
Robert Fatton
Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, ROBERT FATTON will discuss the future of Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital on Jan. 12. Fatton is the Julia A. Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs in Politics at U.Va. and is the author of several books and numerous scholarly articles on democratization.
Monday, April 5, 2010
11:00 AM
Raymond Scheppach
National Governors Association Executive Director RAYMOND C. SCHEPPACH is deeply involved in the seemingly insolvable problems confronting our nation's governors in a time of economic crisis. How can they pay for education and repair crumbling infrastructure in a political climate that treats any discussion of tax increases as an existential threat? Sheppach was an economist with Standard Oil Company (Ohio) and served as Deputy Director of the Congressional Budget Office before assuming his present position in 1983.
Friday, April 16, 2010
11:00 AM
Peter Hannaford
PETER D. HANNAFORD, President of Hannaford Enterprises, Inc., has served as an APCO senior counselor since 2001. Before forming his own company, he was Assistant to the Governor and Director of Public Affairs for then-Governor Ronald Reagan in California. Hannaford served as Director of Issues and Research in Reagan’s 1976 presidential nomination campaign, and as Senior Communications Adviser in the 1980 presidential campaign.
Monday, April 19, 2010
11:00 AM
Mark Mazzetti
In 2009, New York Times National Security Correspondent MARK MAZZETTI shared a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the intensifying violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan and the U.S. response. The previous year, he was a Pulitzer finalist for his work on the C.I.A.'s detention and interrogation program. Mazzetti has reported on a wide range of pressing issues, including the U.S. military, post-9/11 D.C. politics, and political conditions in the Middle East. This Forum is part of the Miller Center’s military preparedness series. More information is available at: www.millercenter.org/public/forum/series/military.
Friday, April 23, 2010
11:00 AM
Thomas Ricks
A senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, TOM RICKS presents his most recent book, The Gamble. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews and extensive on-the-ground reporting, this book examines the inside story of the Iraq War. Having covered the military for the Washington Post, Ricks is also a contributing editor for Foreign Policy and author of its online blog, “The Best Defense." This Forum is also part of the Miller Center military preparedness series. A book signing will follow his Forum.
Friday, April 23, 2010
12:30 PM
Melissa Nobles
MELISSA NOBLES is Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. Her teaching and research interests are in the comparative study of racial and ethnic politics, and issues of retrospective justice. Her book, Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics (Stanford University Press, 2000), received the Outstanding Book Award for 2001 from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, as well as an Honorable Mention for the Ralph Bunche Book Award from the American Political Science Association. Nobles received her PhD in political science from Yale University, and has been a Fellow at Boston University’s Institute on Race and Social Division (2000-01) and Harvard University's Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study (2003-04).
Monday, April 26, 2010
11:00 AM
Susan Eisenhower
Are the challenges of creating an interstate energy grid any less than they were for creating an interstate transportation network? SUSAN EISENHOWER, granddaughter of the president who fathered the interstate highway system in the 1950s, works on energy issues as President of the Eisenhower Group, Inc. A contributor to the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, her books include Islam and Central Asia: An Enduring Legacy or an Evolving Threat? and Mrs. Ike: Portrait of a Marriage. Eisenhower also chairs the Eisenhower Institute's Leadership and Public Policy Programs.
Monday, May 3, 2010
11:00 AM
Greg Jaffe
GREG JAFFE is the Pentagon correspondent at the Washington Post and previously held the same position at the Wall Street Journal. In 1999, he was part of a team of reporters that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Jaffe will be discussing his new book (co-authored with David Cloud) The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army (Random House, 2009). This Forum is part of the military preparedness series. A book signing will follow his Forum.
