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.
Mon., Feb 6, 2012
11:00 AM
Kenneth M. Pollack
Forum: Shifting Sands: The Middle East in Upheaval
KENNETH M. POLLACK, director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings is an expert on national security, military affairs and the Persian Gulf. He was director for Persian Gulf affairs at the National Security Council. He also spent seven years in the CIA as a Persian Gulf military analyst. He is the author of “A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East."
Fri., Feb 3, 2012
11:00 AM
Alan Murray
Forum: Election 2012 and Retooling the American Economy
ALAN MURRAY is deputy managing editor and executive editor, online, for The Wall Street Journal. He has editorial responsibility for the Journal's web sites, including WSJ.com and MarketWatch, and the Journal’s books, conferences and television operations.
Mon., Jan 30, 2012
5:30 PM
Jodi Kantor
Forum: The Obamas
JODI KANTOR has covered the world of Barack and Michelle Obama since the beginning of 2007, also writing about Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Richard Holbrooke, Eric Holder and many others along the way. Ms. Kantor graduated from Columbia and attended Harvard Law School. But soon after she arrived, she caught the journalism bug, took time off to work at Slate.com, and never looked back. She joined The New York Times in 2003 as Arts & Leisure editor, revamping the section and helping lead a makeover of the culture report. A book signing will follow her Forum.
Fri., Jan 27, 2012
11:00 AM
Theda Skocpol
Forum: The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
THEDA SKOCPOL is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, where she served as director of the Center for American Political Studies (1999 to 2006) and as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2005 to 2007). Her focus is on U.S. public policy and citizen participation. A book signing will follow her Forum.
Mon., Jan 23, 2012
11:00 AM
David O. Stewart
Forum: American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America
DAVID O. STEWART has practiced law in Washington, D.C., for more than a quarter of a century, defending accused criminals and challenging government actions as unconstitutional. He has argued appeals all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and was law clerk to Justice Lewis Powell of that Court. Having defended an impeachment trial before the United States Senate, Stewart is currently writing a book on the Andrew Johnson impeachment trial of 1868. In “American Emperor,” David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decades. A book signing will follow his Forum.
Fri., Jan 20, 2012
5:30 PM
Senator Bob Graham
Forum: Keys to the Kingdom
Senator BOB GRAHAM is a former two-term Governor of Florida who served 18 years in the U.S. Senate. He was appointed by President Obama to co-chair the bipartisan National Commission the the BP oil spill and to chair the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. "Keys to the Kingdom" is Senator Graham's explosive political thriller but it is infused with the kind of startling, dramatic, and concrete covert information for anyone interested in the future of America within our dangerous, volatile world. A book signing will follow his Forum
Mon., Jan 16, 2012
11:00 AM
Douglas Blackmon
Forum: MLK Day Event: New Forum Chair Doug Blackmon
The Miller Center is delighted to announce DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON as the new chair of the Forum Program. Blackmon is The Wall Street Journal's senior national correspondent and the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of "Slavery by Another Name." Governor Gerald Baliles will introduce him at a special Forum on Martin Luther King Day, January 16th. He will join the Miller Center faculty full time in February.
Fri., Dec 16, 2011
11:00 AM
Peter L. Rodriguez
Forum: The State of the U.S. Economy
PETER L. RODRIGUEZ is an associate professor of business administration, associate dean for international affairs and director of the Center for Global Initiatives at the Darden School. He is an economist and specializes in the study of international business, trade and economic development, with an emphasis on corruption. His research publications include theoretical explorations of international trade policies and firm behavior and empirical and practice-based studies of issues in international business and management.
Mon., Dec 12, 2011
11:00 AM
Alejandro Mayorkas
Forum: A Conversation About U.S. Immigration Policy
Nominated by President Obama on April 24, 2009 and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 7, 2009, USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas oversees the administration of the world’s largest immigration service. Mayorkas has served as the United States Attorney for the Central District of California and previously was a partner in the law firm of O’Melveny and Myers LLP. In 2008, he was named one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America by the National Law Journal. Mayorkas previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California from 1989 to 1998.
Fri., Dec 9, 2011
11:00 AM
Richard Brookhiser
Forum: James Madison
RICHARD BROOKHISER, senior editor for The National Review and author of "James Madison." A book signing will follow his Forum.