http://millercenter.org millercenter.org: Miller Center of Public affairs, a collection of recent Forums, Colloquia, and Conferences en-us millercenter.org: Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0500 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification mcpa-webmaster@virginia.edu mcpa-webmaster@virginia.edu 60 http://millercenter.org/scripps/digitalarchive/conferenceDetail/96 On June 20 & 21, 2008, the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs will host a White House Speechwriters Symposium, bringing together speechwriters from the Nixon through Clinton administrations to discuss White House communications and crafting a presidential message. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:00:00 -0500 http://millercenter.org/public/forum/detail/3981 Strobe Talbott became president of the Brookings Institution in 2002 after his tenure as founding director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He served in the State Department from 1993 to 2001, first as Ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the Secretary of State for the new independent states of the Soviet Union, then as Deputy Secretary of State. Talbott entered government after twenty-one years with TIME magazine, where as a reporter, he covered Eastern Europe, the State Department, and the White House. He also served as Washington bureau chief, editor-at-large, and foreign affairs columnist while there. Talbott's books include The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation (Simon & Schuster, 2008) and The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy (Random House, 2002). He has written for Foreign Affairs, The New Yorker, The Economist, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Slate. A book signing will follow his Forum. Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:30:00 -0500 http://millercenter.org/public/forum/detail/3979 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. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:00:00 -0500 http://millercenter.org/public/forum/detail/3978 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. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:00:00 -0500 http://millercenter.org/scripps/digitalarchive/conferenceDetail/95 On June 9, 2008, the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (http://www.agb.org/) will convene a group of governors, legislators, trustees, and college executives to discuss this important question. The conference, Examining the National Purposes of American Higher Education: A Leadership Approach to Policy Reform, will focus on key governance and policy issues that confront higher education. Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:30:00 -0500 http://millercenter.org/scripps/digitalarchive/conferenceDetail/92 On Thursday, June 5 and Friday, June 6, 2008, the Presidential Recordings program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs will host The Politics of Troop Withdrawal, a conference to analyze the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam and assess its relevance to the current war in Iraq. The conference will conclude with a roundtable discussion on the war in Iraq. The conference will take place at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. It is free and open to the public. Alumni participating in U.Va.'s Reunions Weekend are encouraged to attend any or all conference sessions. The program will be webcast live and archived at http://www.millercenter.org. Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:00:00 -0500 http://millercenter.org/public/forum/detail/3952 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. Mon, 19 May 2008 15:00:00 -0500 http://millercenter.org/public/forum/detail/3951 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. Thu, 15 May 2008 15:00:00 -0500 http://millercenter.org/public/forum/detail/3949 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. Mon, 12 May 2008 15:00:00 -0500 http://millercenter.org/scripps/digitalarchive/conferenceDetail/94 The GAGE Program will be hosting our annual Fellowship Conference in American Politics, Foreign Policy and World Politics at the Miller Center of Public Affairs on Thursday and Friday, May 8-9. The Fellowship Conference will showcase the best work in politics understood from an historical perspective. Eight Miller Center Fellows along with their "dream" mentors will participate in four plenary sessions: Foreign Policy History, Business and Social Policy, The Power of States in a Federal System, and Race, Ideology and Justice. The conference will also feature a manuscript review of Harvard Professor of History Daniel Carpenter's forthcoming book on the pharmaceutical regulation at the FDA. Three additional panelists will provide critique of the work: Paul Quirk, a distinguished Political Scientist at the University of British Columbia, Harry Marks a leading expert in the History of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Robert Temple, the Director of Drug Policy at the FDA. This conference is open to the entire public. Download full biographies (PDF) of the participants and a full schedule (PDF) of events. Fri, 09 May 2008 17:15:00 -0500