Upcoming Forums
Linking the Center's local community and the University of Virginia to the people who are writing about and shaping the future of our nation, Miller Center Forums draw nationally and internationally recognized experts in public affairs, American politics, and foreign policy. Questions regarding the scheduling of events, or forum changes and cancellations should be directed to George Gilliam.
The Forums are webcast live from this website.
Highlights of more recent forums and past archived forums are also available.
Monday, May 12, 2008
11:00 AM
Frederick Hitz
Frederick P. Hitz is a Senior Fellow at the Center for National Security Law at the U.Va. School of Law. He has been lecturing at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University and at the U.Va. School of Law since 1998. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Hitz entered the Career Training Program at the CIA and served in the clandestine service in Africa. In 1974, he returned to law practice but re-entered government service in congressional liaison capacities with the State, Defense, and Energy departments before resuming his CIA career as Legislative Counsel to the Director of Central Intelligence. In 1980, he became Deputy Director for Europe in the Directorate of Operations. Hitz was appointed the first statutory Inspector General of the CIA by President George H.W. Bush. Among the many investigations he led at the CIA was the Aldrich Ames betrayal. He has written extensively about espionage and intelligence issues. A book signing will follow his Forum.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
11:00 AM
Evan Thomas
Evan Thomas, Newsweek's Editor at Large since 2006, is the magazine's lead writer on major news stories and the author of more than 100 cover stories and many longer features including special behind-the-scenes issues on presidential elections. He has been a regular panelist on the syndicated public affairs talk show Inside Washington since 1992, and has appeared on numerous television shows including Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Thomas is the author of six books, including Sea of Thunder (Simon & Schuster, 2006), Robert Kennedy: His Life (Simon & Schuster, 2000), and The Very Best Men: The Early Years of the CIA (Simon & Schuster, 1995). A fellow of the Society of American Historians and a former trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, he began a five-year term at Princeton as Ferris Professor of Journalism in the fall of 2007.
Monday, May 19, 2008
11:00 AM
Helena Cobban
Helena Cobban is a veteran writer, researcher, and program organizer on global affairs. She is a contributing editor of Boston Review, where her recent articles have included essays on Lebanese and Palestinian issues as well as Rwanda. She has also written for the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, The Economist, and Salon.com, and she maintains the blog "Just World News." Cobban has published six books, including Amnesty after Atrocity? Healing Nations after Genocide and War Crimes (Paradigm Press, 2006) and The Moral Architecture of World Peace: Nobel Laureates Discuss Our Global Future (University of Virginia Press, 2000). She has worked as a journalist in the Middle East for the Christian Science Monitor and the Sunday Times of London and has led various non-governmental bodies. In addition to holding research fellowships at Harvard, Georgetown, and the Brookings Institution, she has taught at the Institut des Etudes Politiques and Eastern Mennonite University. A book signing will follow her Forum.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
5:00 PM
Susan Dentzer
Please join us for a very special Forum that begins with a screening of the Debate on Health Care, the fourth presentation of the Miller Center's National Discussion and Debate Series that occurred on April 9 at historic Fanueil Hall in Boston. Following the screening, Susan Dentzer the debate's moderator, will speak and lead a discussion with the audience.
Susan Dentzer is editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, a leading journal of health policy and research. Prior to starting that position in May 2008,she was an on-air correspondent with PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, where she led a unit devoted to in-depth coverage of health care, health policy, and Social Security. She has also served as chief economics correspondent and economics columnist for U.S. News & World Report, and was a senior writer covering business news at Newsweek. She has appeared on ABC's Nightline, CNN, and PBS's The McLaughlin Group. Dentzer and her NewsHour unit received multiple awards, including the 2005 Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism from the Association of Health Care Journalists and the first-place Gracie Allen Award for Public Television News from American Women in Radio and Television.
Friday, June 13, 2008
11:00 AM
Michael Scheuer
Bestselling author Michael Scheuer is the former head of the CIA's Bin Laden Unit and has two decades of experience in national security issues related to Afghanistan and South Asia. After resigning from the agency in 2004, he revealed his authorship of Imperial Hubris (Brassey's, Inc., 2004) and Through Our Enemies' Eyes (Brassey's, Inc., 2002), both originally published under the byline "Anonymous." Scheuer is currently a news analyst for CBS News and a terrorism analyst for the Jamestown Foundation's online publication Global Terrorism Analysis. He also makes radio and television appearances, and teaches a graduate-level course on al Qaeda at Georgetown University. Scheuer's most recent book is Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq (Free Press, 2008). A book signing will follow his Forum.
