Recent Forums
For a list of upcoming forums, please see our forum schedule. For a complete list of past Miller Center forums, please see our forum archive.
Friday, November 20, 2009
11:00 AM
Karim Sadjadpour
KARIM SADJADPOUR, an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has served as the chief Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group based in Tehran and Washington, D.C. Sadjadpour has conducted interviews with Iranians from all walks of life, and frequently appears on television, radio, and in print. He has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has received numerous academic awards, including a Fulbright scholarship. He participated in a 2009 debate on Iran hosted by the Miller Center.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
11:00 AM
Sidney Milkis
Led by Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party made the 1912 presidential campaign a passionate contest for the soul of the American people. In his new book, Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy (University Press of Kansas, 2009), SIDNEY M. MILKIS, White Burkett Miller Professor of Politics at U.Va. and the Miller Center’s Assistant Director for Academic Programs, revisits this emotionally charged contest. This is the Gordon and Mary Beth Smyth History Forum. A book signing will follow his Forum.
Monday, November 16, 2009
11:00 AM
Richard Dreyfuss
Actor and activist RICHARD DREYFUSS frequently speaks and writes in favor of privacy, freedom of speech, democracy, and individual accountability. Since 2006, Dreyfuss has organized and promoted campaigns about what he considers to be the potential erosion of individual rights. This Oscar© winner for Best Actor has discussed teaching civics in schools on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, and serves on the National Constitution Center’s Board of Trustees in Philadelphia.
Friday, November 13, 2009
5:30 PM
John Cooper
JOHN MILTON COOPER Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin will discuss his current book, Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. He is also the author of Pivotal Decades: The United States 1900-1920; and The Vanity of Power. He co-edited The Wilson Era: Essays in Honor of Arthur S. Link. He edited and wrote the introduction to Theodore Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West: From the Alleghenies to the Mississippi 1769-1776. A book signing will follow his Forum.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
5:30 PM
Howard Hart, Lawrence Eagleburger
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER was Deputy Secretary of State (1989–92) under President George H.W. Bush before being appointed Secretary of State (1992–93). He also served as Assistant to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger during the Nixon administration, U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia under President Carter, and Undersecretary of State under President Reagan. HOWARD HART served in the CIA's clandestine service for more than 25 years. He served in Tehran before and during the attempted rescue of American embassy hostages, and was chief of station in Islamabad. He has received the CIA's highest award, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal.
Friday, November 6, 2009
11:00 AM
Pete Hegseth, Raffi Khatchadourian
RAFFI KHATCHADOURIAN, a staff writer for the New Yorker, interviews PETE HEGSETH, a Princeton graduate and former platoon leader under Colonel Michael Dane Steele, about “The Kill Company: Did a colonel’s fiery rhetoric set the conditions for a massacre?” published in the July 6, 2009 issue of his magazine. This Forum is part of an ongoing series on the state of the U.S. military.
Monday, November 2, 2009
5:30 PM
Jennifer Burns
JENNIFER BURNS, Assistant Professor at U.Va.’s Corcoran Department of History, spent eight years working on Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (Oxford, 2009). During that time, she received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Califorinia, Berkeley.
Friday, October 30, 2009
11:00 AM
Stephen Flanagan
STEPHEN FLANAGAN is Senior vice President and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). NATO celebrated its 60th anniversary in April. In a dynamic and unpredictable global security environment, NATO is busier than ever with six current operations. Flanagan assessed NATO's enduring purpose, the progress made over the past two decades to adapt it to post-Cold War realities, and the steps member governments must still take to ensure its vitality and effectiveness in its seventh decade and beyond.
Friday, October 23, 2009
11:00 AM
Jennifer Windsor
JENNIFER L. WINDSOR, Executive Director of Freedom House, discussed the state of freedom around the world. Previously, she served as the Deputy Assistant Administrator and Director of the Center for Democracy and Governance at USAID. She has written numerous articles on democracy and has regularly appears on NPR, BBC, Voice of America, and other news outlets.
Monday, October 19, 2009
11:00 AM
Nicholas Thompson
NICHOLAS THOMPSON, a senior editor at Wired magazine, discussed his current book on American foreign policy, The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War (Henry Holt and Co., 2009). He is a fellow at the New America Foundation and a regular contributor to CNN and NBC.
