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Nationally renowned speakers

Politicians, journalists, and government officials frequently participate in Miller Center panel discussions

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Miller Center speakers address the nation's most pressing problems—sometimes eliciting protests

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February 23, 2009 12:30 PM

Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare

  • William Lee Miller

February 16, 2009 06:00 AM

The Eight Stages of Genocide

  • Gregory H. Stanton

February 13, 2009 08:30 AM

China's Rise in Historical Context: Challenges of Strategy and Security

  • Evelyn Rawski

  • Michael Swaine

February 13, 2009 06:00 AM

What's Wrong with Rendition? Lessons Learned from Maher Arar and His Year in Syria

  • Lorne Waldman

Business of Intelligence Gathering & Analysis

February 09, 2009 06:00 AM

Suicide Terrorism

  • Assaf Moghadam

February 06, 2009 07:30 AM

Rethinking J. Edgar Hoover: Conservative Power in a Liberal Age

  • Beverly Gage

February 06, 2009 06:00 AM

The Reckoning: Obama's Inheritance from the Bush-Cheney Years

  • Barton Gellman

January 30, 2009 08:30 AM

China's Rise in Historical Context: China and the World Order: Dilemmas of Status

  • Joseph Esherick

  • Lowell Dittmer

January 30, 2009 06:00 AM

Defending 9-11 Terrorists Zacarias Moussaoui and Walid Muhammad Salih Bin'Attash

  • Edward B. MacMahon

January 26, 2009 12:30 PM

War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism

  • Douglas J. Feith

January 23, 2009 07:30 AM

Proof, Evidence, and History in Indigenous Land Claims & Carcieri v Kempthorne

  • Christian McMillen

January 22, 2009 12:30 PM

A Conversation with Pat Oliphant

  • Pat Oliphant

January 16, 2009 06:00 AM

Dealing with the Arab World: What the New Administration Will Face

  • Ambassador Francis J. Ricciardone

January 12, 2009 06:00 AM

Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

  • Thomas J. Sugrue

December 12, 2008 06:15 AM

Session Five: Reconnecting the United States with the World

  • Daniel Plafcan

  • Stacy VanDeveer

  • Henrik Selin

  • Kathryn Harrison

  • Alastair Totty

December 12, 2008 04:00 AM

Session Four: Are Federal Institutions Up to the Challenges of Climate Change?

  • Susan Gander

  • Walter Rosenbaum

  • Kirsten Engel

  • Jonathan Cannon

  • Barry G Rabe

December 11, 2008 10:30 AM

Session Three: Market Approaches to Climate Governance

  • Christopher James

  • Timothy Conlan

  • Leigh Raymond

  • Vivian Thomson

  • Barry G Rabe

December 11, 2008 08:30 AM

Session Two: Regulatory Approaches to Climate Governance

  • Ian Rowlands

  • Pietro S Nivola

  • Judith Layzer

  • Daniel Fiorino

  • Professor Brian Balogh

  • Marc Landy

December 11, 2008 07:00 AM

A Luncheon Colloquy with United States Senator John Warner

  • Sen. John Warner

  • Gerald L Baliles

  • Barry G Rabe

December 11, 2008 04:45 AM

Session One: Framing the Issue of Climate Governance

  • Prof. Martha Derthick

  • Paul Posner

  • Anne Khademian

  • Suellen Keiner

  • Christopher Borick

  • Sidney M. Milkis

December 08, 2008 06:00 AM

Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  • Michael Joseph Smith

December 05, 2008 07:30 AM

Promiscuous Citizenship

  • Professor Jason Frank

December 03, 2008 06:00 AM

A Virginia Dynasty? James Monroe and the Presidential Elections of 1816 and 1820

  • Daniel F. Preston

November 21, 2008 07:30 AM

The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race and Deindustrialization

  • Guian McKee

November 21, 2008 06:00 AM

Chávez's Venezuela After a Decade of Bolivarian Revolution

  • Jennifer McCoy

Business of Intelligence Gathering & Analysis

November 19, 2008 06:00 AM

The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

  • James Bamford

Business of Intelligence Gathering & Analysis

November 17, 2008 06:00 AM

Interagency Relationships in the Intelligence Community

  • Philip Mudd

November 14, 2008 07:30 AM

Second Nature: The Popularization of the Telephone in Late Nineteenth Century Chicago

  • Professor Richard John

November 14, 2008 06:00 AM

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

  • Michael Dobbs

November 13, 2008 07:30 AM

Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy

  • Professor Keith Whittington

November 10, 2008 06:00 AM

The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence

  • Robert J Samuelson

November 07, 2008 07:30 AM

Same as it ever was: Nuclear proliferation and lessons from the Cold War

  • Professor Francis Gavin