Events / Upcoming Events

Collage of prominent guests to Miller Center events: President Clinton, Karl Rove, Madeleine Albright

Nationally renowned speakers

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

Hero crowd 7

Probing questions

UVA students are enthusiastic participants in Miller Center events throughout the year

Protest for change, woman holding a sign

Robust debate, without fear or favor

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

Featured Video

Public Programming

At the Miller Center, we believe that opposing positions can both have merit; that we can investigate questions of fact and discuss questions of opinion; that we can be open to changing our minds; and that our political system benefits from compromise. That’s why every year we bring together Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives. We convene dozens of events fostering civil and intellectual dialogue among scholars, politicians, journalists, and citizens.

Upcoming or Past

More events will be scheduled soon. Please check back.

December 03, 2004 07:00 AM

Counterfactualizing American Political Development: What We Can Learn from the Federal Elections Bil

  • Rick Valelly

December 02, 2004 07:00 PM

Can Today's CIA Conduct Tomorrow's Espionage?

  • Howard Hart

November 19, 2004 07:00 AM

Anti-Intellectualism and the Plebiscitary Presidency

  • Coleen Shogan

November 16, 2004 07:00 PM

The Deceptive Allure of Intelligence Reform

  • Frederick P. Hitz

November 12, 2004 07:00 AM

Systems Thinking and Swimmable Waters: How Unlikely Environmentalists Shaped Edmund Muskie's 1972 Cl

  • Paul Charles Milazzo

November 10, 2004 07:00 PM

Lincoln as War President

  • William Lee Miller

November 05, 2004 07:00 AM

The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History

  • Meg Jacobs

  • Julian E. Zelizer

November 04, 2004 07:00 PM

Rethinking U.S.-Taiwan Relations

  • David Lee

November 03, 2004 07:00 PM

The George H.W. Bush Administration's Response

  • Lamar Gordon Alexander

  • Richard Riley

  • Rod Paige

  • Anne L Bryant

  • Paul Houston

  • Gerry House

  • Mary Hatwood Futrell

  • Mark Warner

November 03, 2004 07:00 PM

The 1989 Education Summit

  • Gerald L Baliles

October 27, 2004 08:00 PM

Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent

  • Paul M. Gaston

  • Gene Nichol

  • Leslie W. Dunbar

October 24, 2004 08:00 PM

The Campaign Trail: Observations

  • David Maraniss

October 22, 2004 08:00 PM

The United Nations: Can the U.S. Lead but not Dominate?

  • Donald F McHenry

October 21, 2004 08:00 PM

Americans with Disabilities and their Civil Rights: Past, Present, Future

  • Peter D Blanck

October 15, 2004 08:00 AM

Vanishing Acts: Power and Society in American Social Thought in the 1980s

  • Daniel T. Rodgers

October 13, 2004 08:00 PM

The Road from 9/11

  • Philip Zelikow

October 11, 2004 08:00 PM

Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero

  • Kate Clifford Larsen

October 06, 2004 08:00 PM

Smart Communities: How Citizens and Local Leaders Can Use Strategic Thinking to Build a Brighter Fut

  • Suzanne W Morse

October 03, 2004 08:00 PM

Will America Hold 'Fair' Elections?

  • Philip Zeilkow

  • John Fortier

  • Doug Lewis

  • Laughlin McDonald

September 29, 2004 08:00 PM

Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of our Alphabet from A to Z

  • David Sacks

September 27, 2004 08:00 PM

The Roots of September 11: America and Afghanistan

  • Steve Coll

September 23, 2004 08:00 PM

Campaign 2004: Can the Democrats Retake the South? Do They Need To?

  • Jason Zengerie

September 22, 2004 08:00 PM

Beyond Kyoto

  • Barry G Rabe

September 20, 2004 08:00 PM

The Real West Wing

September 15, 2004 08:00 PM

Not Your Father's War Stories

  • Emily Yellin

September 12, 2004 08:00 PM

The Flawed Architect

  • Jussi M Hanhimaki

September 09, 2004 08:00 PM

The Road to 9/11

  • Philip Zelikow

September 07, 2004 08:00 PM

Politics: Observations and Arguments

  • Hendrik Hertzberg

September 02, 2004 08:00 PM

The Treatment/Interrogation of Prisoners of War and Security Detainees

  • David E Graham

August 23, 2004 08:00 PM

Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy

  • Carlos MN Eire

August 15, 2004 08:00 PM

Hard Lessons from Iraq and Libya: How to Chart a New Course

  • Michael Ussery

August 10, 2004 08:00 PM

Drug Trafficking: Corruption and Intimidation in Central America

  • Julie Bunck and Michael Fowler