Events / Past Events

White House in front of Eisenhower Executive Office Building

November 21, 2024 10:00 AM

Transitions: Planning and staffing a presidency
  • Christina M. Kinane

  • Katherine B. McGuire

  • Molly E. Reynolds

  • Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

  • Louisa Terrell

  • Peter Wehner

  • William J. Antholis (moderator)

  • Sarah A. Binder (moderator)

Location: The Brookings Institution
Falk Auditorium
1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20036
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ONLINE

governors cox and murphy

Democracy Dialogues

November 19, 2024 10:00 AM

How Americans can disagree better
  • Spencer Cox

  • Phil Murphy

  • Mary Kate Cary (co-moderator)

  • Jennifer Lawless (co-moderator)

  • James E. Ryan (introduction)

Location: UVA's Rotunda
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ONLINE

2024 painted on road with arrow pointing ahead

November 14, 2024 11:00 AM

Election 2024: Moving toward the transition
  • Melody Barnes

  • Eric Edelman

  • John Harris

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

map of United States in flag pattern

November 07, 2024 09:30 AM

Election 2024: Post-election analysis
  • William Antholis

  • Melody Barnes

  • Mary Kate Cary

  • Ashley Jardina

  • Ian Solomon (moderator)

Location: Garrett Hall, University of Virginia
235 McCormick Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

election voting booths and American flags

October 29, 2024 04:00 PM

Election 2024: State of the race
  • William Antholis

  • Ron Christie

  • Heather Evans

  • Paul Freedman

  • William Galston

  • Guian McKee

  • Mike Emanuel (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Executive order rubber stamp

October 21, 2024 02:00 PM

Is the American presidency built on empty promises?
  • Kenneth Lowande

  • Sarada Peri

  • Rachel Augustine Potter (moderator)

Location: Small Special Collections Library Auditorium
170 McCormick Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Justice Breyer informal photo 2023

Henry J. Abraham Distinguished Lecture

October 17, 2024 11:00 AM

Justice Stephen Breyer: 'Reading the Constitution'
  • Justice Stephen Breyer

  • Risa Goluboff (co-moderator)

  • Barbara Perry (co-moderator)

Location: Caplin Auditorium
University of Virginia School of Law
580 Massie Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

image with medical worker and tablet

October 10, 2024 01:00 PM

Election 2024: The future of health care
  • Adam Boehler

  • Bob Kocher

  • Vivian Riefberg (moderator)

Location: ONLINE ONLY

American flag waving

September 30, 2024 11:30 AM

Safeguarding the homeland
  • Kenneth Wainstein

  • Ashley Deeks (moderator)

Location: Garrett Hall, University of Virginia
235 McCormick Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Padlock with American flag on keyboard

September 24, 2024 11:00 AM

Election 2024: The threat of foreign interference
  • Danielle Citron

  • David Salvo

  • Michael Vatis

  • Mara Rudman (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

international flags painted on wooden blocks

September 20, 2024 11:00 AM

Election 2024: Foreign policy choices
  • Brian Katulis

  • Michael E. O'Hanlon

  • Eric Edelman (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

president-ford-chats-with-chief-of-staff-donald-rumsfeld-and-rumsfelds-assistant-richard-cheney.april-28-1975

Miller Center 50th Anniversary

September 12, 2024 11:00 AM

Revisiting the Ford presidency
  • Ken Hughes

  • Guian McKee

  • Barbara Perry

  • Russell Riley

  • Marc Selverstone (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Aerial view of Pentagon

August 29, 2024 11:00 AM

'Watchdogs': Holding the government accountable
  • Glenn A. Fine

  • Craig Whitlock

  • Kathryn Dunn Tenpas (moderator)

  • Guian McKee (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

small replica of White House and coins on American flag

Project on Democracy and Capitalism

May 10, 2024 01:00 PM

The 2024 election and the struggle for America's economic future
  • Paul Glastris

  • Suzanne Mettler

  • Scott C. Miller

  • Sidney Milkis (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with congressional leadership to discuss the bipartisan supplement agreement for foreign aid and legislation to avoid a government shutdown, Tuesday, February 27, 2024, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schutlz)

James C. Lehrer Lecture

May 02, 2024 11:00 AM

Where does Congress go from here?
  • Lisa Desjardins

  • William Antholis (moderator)

  • Stephen M. Burns (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Donkey and elephant with red white and blue overlay

April 19, 2024 11:00 AM

Bipartisan solutions in Congress
  • William Antholis

  • Barbara Comstock

  • L. F. Payne

Location: CODE Building
240 West Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902

Scales with red and blue ropes pulling in opposite directions

April 15, 2024 02:00 PM

Holding our presidents accountable
  • Tim Heaphy

  • Barbara Perry

  • Saikrishna Prakash

  • Micah Schwartzman (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

American flag superimposed with image of soldiers

April 11, 2024 02:00 PM

National defense strategy: Asking what you can do for your country
  • Eric Edelman

  • Jane Harman

  • General Jack Keane

  • Thomas Mahnken

  • Mara Rudman

  • Alissa Starzak

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Blue map showing Gaza

March 25, 2024 02:30 PM

The Israel–Hamas conflict: Ways forward
  • Suzanne Maloney

  • Nimrod Novik

  • Ghaith al-Omari

  • Mara Rudman (moderator)

  • Ian Baucom (introduction)

Location: University of Virginia's Rotunda
1826 University Avenue
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

"Leaders of the Continental Congress," an engraving with Adams, Morris, Hamilton, and Jefferson

Project on Democracy and Capitalism

March 18, 2024 05:30 PM

Hamilton vs. Jefferson
  • Frank Cogliano

  • Joanne B. Freeman

  • Scott C. Miller (moderator)

  • Laurent Dubois (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

two helicopters flying over yellow-orange sky

March 13, 2024 11:00 AM

'Diplomats at War'
  • Charles Trueheart

  • Marc Selverstone (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Members of the 115th Congress mingle on the House floor on January 3, 2017, the opening day of the new session.

March 01, 2024 11:00 AM

Imagining a better future for Congress
  • William Galston

  • Molly Reynolds

  • Philip Wallach

  • Sidney Milkis (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Front facade of the Nationa Archives building

February 21, 2024 11:00 AM

Preserving presidential records
  • Colleen Shogan

  • Russell Riley

  • Marc Selverstone

  • Barbara Perry (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

U.S., Russian, and Chinese flags on desktop swinging balls

Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium on American Diplomacy

February 16, 2024 08:30 AM

Reimagining nuclear deterrence
  • Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty

  • Rebeccah Heinrichs

  • John Hyten

  • Frank Miller

  • Keith Payne

  • Mara Rudman

  • Melanie Sisson

  • Becca Wasser

  • Philip B. K. Potter (moderator)

  • Charles Richard (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Firing a 122 mm howitzer D-30 in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 2023

February 06, 2024 03:30 PM

Two years into the Ukraine War
  • William Antholis

  • Alexander Bick

  • Dale Copeland

  • Eric Edelman

  • Thomas Graham

  • Harry Harding

  • Syaru Shirley Lin

  • Scott C. Miller

  • Stephen D. Mull

  • John M. Owen IV

  • Philip B. K. Potter

  • Mara Rudman

  • Marc Selverstone

  • Allan C. Stam

  • James B. Steinberg

  • Yuri Urbanovich

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

aerial photograph of Shenzhen port

February 01, 2024 02:00 PM

'China's Law of the Sea'
  • Isaac Kardon

  • Delicia Gonzales Zimmerman

  • Aynne Kokas (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

White House at night

January 23, 2024 01:00 PM

'Year Zero: The Five-Year Presidency'
  • Martha Joynt Kumar

  • Chris Liddell

  • David Marchick

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

close-up photo of various flags of world nations

December 15, 2023 11:00 AM

'The Ecology of Nations'
  • Kristen Eichensehr

  • Aynne Kokas

  • John M. Owen IV

  • Eric Edelman (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

President William Howard Taft, signs New Mexico into statehood at the White House. The signing was witnessed by dignitaries on Jan. 6, 1912.

December 08, 2023 11:00 AM

'The Presidency and the American State'
  • Lindsay M. Chervinsky

  • Stephen Rockwell

  • Steven Gillon (moderator)

Location: ONLINE ONLY

US and China flags

November 28, 2023 10:30 AM

Future-oriented China-U.S. relations and cooperation
  • Stephen D. Mull

  • Xu Xueyuan

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

UVA student protest at Garrett Hall

Democracy Dialogues

November 09, 2023 01:00 PM

Free speech at universities
  • Jennifer Ruth

  • Jonathan Zimmerman

  • Jered Cooper (student speaker)

  • Leslie Kendrick (moderator)

  • Ian Baucom (introduction)

Location: UVA's Rotunda
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ONLINE

Fist on top of nuclear button with Russian flag superimposed

November 02, 2023 01:00 PM

Nuclear deterrence and the new geopolitics
  • Charles Richard

  • Philip B. K. Potter (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE