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.
Friday, February 12, 2010
11:00 AM
Bruce Scott
BRUCE R. SCOTT, the Paul W. Cherington Professor of Business Administration at Harvard, focuses on the impact of public policy on the business environment. He argues that the underlying of much of the economic instability of recent years stems from not understanding capitalism as a three-level system of governance. In 1991, Scott was appointed by the U.S. Senate as one of its four representatives on the U.S. Competitiveness Policy Council. His newest book is The Concept of Capitalism (Springer, 2009). A book signing will follow his Forum.
Monday, February 15, 2010
11:00 AM
Michael Burlingame
MICHAEL BURLINGAME, the May Buckley Sadowski Professor of History Emeritus at Connecticut College, is the author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life (2 vols.; Johns Hopkins, 2008) and The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (University of Illinois Press, 1994). He has also edited several volumes of Lincoln primary source materials. Burlingame has received the Abraham Lincoln Association Book Prize, and was inducted into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois in 2009.
Friday, February 19, 2010
11:00 AM
Robert McChesney, John Nichols
JOHN NICHOLS and ROBERT W. MCCHESNEY are the founders of Free Press and the authors of Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy (New Press, 2006). Nichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation, has written “The Beat” blog since 1999. The author of 16 books, McChesney is Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois.
Monday, February 22, 2010
11:00 AM
David Breneman
Do we have enough college graduates to remain a world class economic power? Is the college business model broken? DAVID W. BRENEMAN, a University Professor and the Newton & Rita Meyers Professor in the Economics of Education, served as Dean of the Curry School of Education from 1995 to 2007, and as Director of the Public Policy Program at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He analyses questions that will be the subject of two Miller Center National Discussion and Debate Series events during the spring of 2010.
Monday, March 1, 2010
11:00 AM
William Miller
WILLIAM LEE MILLER is Scholar in Ethics and Institutions at the Miller Center. From 1992 until his 1999 retirement, he was Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of Political and Social Thought and Director of the Program in Political and Social Thought at U.Va. A speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign and a contributing editor and writer for The Reporter magazine, he was the founding director of the Poynter Center on American Institutions at Indiana University. He is the author of eight books, including Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography (Knopf, 2002).
Friday, March 5, 2010
11:00 AM
David Cole
DAVID COLE, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law School, served as a law clerk to Judge Arlin M. Adams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Cole was a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights where he litigated a number of major First Amendment cases, including Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), United States v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 928 (1990), which established that the First Amendment protects flag burning, and National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, which challenged the constitutionality of content restrictions on federal art funding. He continues to litigate First Amendment and other constitutional issues as a volunteer staff attorney at the Center.
Friday, March 12, 2010
11:00 AM
Matthew Spalding
MATTHEW SPALDING connects the principles of America's founding with today's thorniest issues as Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Spalding, a constitutional scholar and authority on American political thought and religious liberty, also serves as project leader of Heritage's First Principles initiative. In his latest book, We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future (ISI Books, 2009), he details America's core principles, shows how they have come under assault by modern progressive-liberalism and lays out a strategy to recover them. A book signing will follow his Forum.
Monday, March 15, 2010
11:00 AM
Brigadier General Herbert McMaster
BRIGADIER GENERAL HERBERT R. MCMASTER is Chief of Concept Development and Experimentation at the U. S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command at Ft. Monroe. He has spoken and written on the reliance of the war effort on technology, including a piece in War Affairs Journal, “The Human Element: When Gadgetry Becomes Strategy.” This Forum is part of a series on the state of the military
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
11:00 AM
Virginia Festival of the Book Event Before MICHAEL DAVIS wrote the New York Times bestseller Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street (Penguin, 2009), he was a senior editor at TV Guide, and worked at both the Baltimore Sun and the Chicago Sun-Times. Prior to this Forum, David Mullins, President and General Manager of WVPT-PBS and George H. Gilliam, Chair of the Miller Center Forum, will judge a contest of Sesame Street character drawings and costumes submitted by students in the Central Virginia area. Following the Forum, meet the local artists and have Davis sign your copy of his book, which will be on sale at the Miller Center.
Friday, March 19, 2010
11:00 AM
John Yoo
JOHN YOO served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after joining the Berkeley Law School faculty in 1993. A visiting scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, Yoo’s books include The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 (University of Chicago Press, 2005), and War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror (Grove/Atlantic, 2006).
