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

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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

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MLK and President Johnson

December 07, 2018 03:30 PM

Rivalry and Reform
  • Sidney Milkis

  • Daniel J. Tichenor

Trump rally with "Make America Great Again" sign

Historical Presidency

December 04, 2018 12:00 PM

Trump and Xi

November 30, 2018 11:00 AM

Trump's U.S. national security policy
  • Michael E. O'Hanlon

  • John Owen

Congress

November 15, 2018 01:00 PM

Navigating gridlock: Congress, the presidency, and partisanship
  • David Brady

  • Tom Davis

  • Juliet Eilperin

  • Maggie Haberman

  • Jennifer Lawless

  • Chris Lu

  • John McLaughlin

  • Doug Rivers

  • Marc Short

  • Dina Titus

  • Michael Franc

  • Sid Milkis

Location: The Hoover Institution's Johnson Center
1399 New York Ave NW #500
Washington, DC 20005

voting booth

November 06, 2018 07:00 PM

Pints & Presidents: Midterm watch party
  • Mary Kate Cary

  • Nicole Hemmer

Location: Kardinal Hall
722 Preston Ave
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Acceptable loss image collage

November 03, 2018 05:30 PM

Virginia Film Festival: 'An Acceptable Loss'
  • Joe Chappelle

  • Barbara Perry

  • Todd Sechser

Location: St. Anne’s-Belfield School
Grisham Hall
2132 Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Images of 1968

November 01, 2018 05:00 PM

Virginia Film Festival: '1968: The Year That Changed America'
  • Mark Herzog

  • Ron Christie

  • Nicole Hemmer

Location: Culbreth Theatre
109 Culbreth Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Wind farm

October 17, 2018 03:00 PM

States and the future of renewable energy
  • Martin O'Malley

  • Jonathan Cannon

DNA test visualization: colored rectangles

October 16, 2018 07:00 PM

Are we selling ourselves out? The impact of genetic data collection
  • Katie Hasson

  • Nicholas Mortensen

  • Anna Von Spakovsky

  • Emily Lockwood

  • Andy Carluccio

Illustration of chains and computer code

October 10, 2018 06:15 PM

How cryptocurrency and blockchain technology impact democracy
  • Yiorgos Allayannis

  • Cara LaPointe

  • Jakub Duda

  • Chris Lu (moderator)

Tiananmen gate entrance to Forbidden city

October 02, 2018 11:00 AM

The China challenge
  • Harry Harding

  • Brantly Womack

  • William J. Antholis

international currencies

September 28, 2018 03:30 PM

Nixon: The post-Bretton Woods world
  • Thomas W. Zeiler

  • David Leblang

American flag; steeple in the background

Road to PrezFest 2019

September 14, 2018 04:00 PM

Faith, spirituality, and public life
  • Tim Kaine

Location: Old Cabell Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Supreme Court building

September 11, 2018 05:00 PM

SCOTUS forecasting: A new justice and the dynamics of the Supreme Court
  • Barbara Perry

  • Saikrishna Prakash

  • Micah Schwartzman

Kerner Commission

September 06, 2018 11:00 AM

Ed Ayers with President Obama

June 23, 2018 04:00 PM

facebook imagery

June 06, 2018 11:00 AM

Is social media destroying democracy?
  • Siva Vaidhyanathan

  • Nicole Hemmer

Kennedy Family drinking tea for a TV camera

May 15, 2018 03:30 PM

Tea with the Kennedys
  • Evan Thomas

  • Barbara Perry

Trump at CPAC

May 10, 2018 10:30 AM

Conservatism reimagined
  • Mary Kate Cary

  • Ron Christie

  • Mollie Hemingway

  • Nicole Hemmer

Chris Matthews on TV

May 07, 2018 11:00 AM

Declaration of Independence painting

May 03, 2018 11:00 AM

America First Button

April 26, 2018 08:15 AM

America First: The past and future of an idea
  • Jefferson Cowie

  • Darren Dochuk

  • David Farber

  • Michael Froman

  • Beverly Gage

  • Maria Cristina Garcia

  • Nicole Hemmer

  • William Hitchcock

  • Geoffrey Kabaservice

  • Robert Kagan

  • Melvyn Leffler

  • David Milne

  • Christopher Nichols

  • Andrew Preston

hands raised to illustrate democracy

April 13, 2018 02:00 PM

Make your impact on American democracy
  • Levar Stoney

  • William Antholis

The White House in storm clouds

April 11, 2018 06:00 PM

Tom Tom Founders Festival: The Presidency at a Crossroads
  • John Negroponte

  • William Kristol

  • Neera Tanden

  • William Antholis

  • Nicole Hemmer

  • Douglas Blackmon

Location: Paramount Theater
215 E. Main St.
Charlottesville, VA 22902

Truman and Eisenhower

April 10, 2018 03:30 PM

Anti-American sign in Iran

March 28, 2018 10:00 AM

Political Islam and U.S. foreign policy
  • Peter Mandaville

  • John M. Owen

show your taxes

March 27, 2018 03:30 PM

Is the United States governed by laws or norms?
  • E.J. Dionne

  • Peter Wehner

  • Brian Balogh

Elephant and donkey facing off

March 24, 2018 12:00 PM

American politics: Left, right, and center
  • Nicole Hemmer

Location: Charlottesville City Council Chambers
605 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902

"Let's clean house with Ike and Dick" campaign poster

March 23, 2018 02:00 PM

American Studies: Dick, Ike & DARPA
  • Will Hitchcock

  • John Farrell

  • Sharon Weinberger

Location: City Council Chambers
605 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902

US-China flags represented as puzzle pieces

March 23, 2018 12:00 PM

China's rise: International relations
  • Brantly Womack

Location: UVA Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections
UVA Central Grounds, 160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Khizr Khan

March 22, 2018 08:00 PM

Hope & Sacrifice: A conversation with Khizr Khan
  • Khizr Khan

  • Douglas A. Blackmon

Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center
1400 Melbourne Road
Charlottesville, VA 22901