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

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Battle Conference

Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium on American Diplomacy

November 09, 2017 08:30 AM

U.S. Presidents Confront the Russians: A Century of Challenge, 1917-2017 (Day 2)
  • William Hitchcock

  • Odd Arne Westad

  • Erez Manela

  • Frank Costigliola

  • Serhii Plokhii

  • Melvyn Leffler

  • Marc Selverstone

  • Tim Naftali

  • Vlad Zubok

  • Jeremi Suri

  • Philip Zelikow

  • James Graham Wilson

  • William Taubman

  • Robert Zoellick

  • Strobe Talbott

  • Svetlana Savranskaya

Battle Conference

Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium on American Diplomacy

November 08, 2017 03:30 PM

U.S. Presidents Confront the Russians: A Century of Challenge, 1917-2017 (Day 1)
  • William J. Antholis

  • Strobe Talbott

  • Odd Arne Westad

  • Vladislav Zubok

Drawing: Freed slaves marching

American Forum

November 06, 2017 11:00 AM

Donald Trump

American Forum

October 24, 2017 11:00 AM

Drawing of umbrella and rain made out of word "hate"

October 23, 2017 06:00 PM

Sanctuary and belonging: Reflections after August 11 & 12
  • Nicholas Kristof

Location: Nau Hall Auditorium
1540 Jefferson Park Ave
Charlottesville, VA 22903

North Korean soldier

American Forum

October 18, 2017 11:00 AM

People atop Berlin Wall in 1989

American Forum

October 13, 2017 11:00 AM

Ending the Cold War
  • Jeffrey A. Engel

flowers in the street

October 11, 2017 05:00 PM

Who are the alt-right and why did they come to Charlottesville in August?
  • Jamelle Bouie

  • Dahlia Lithwick

  • Nicole Hemmer

Location: Nau Hall 101 - South Lawn
1540 Jefferson Park Avenue
Charlottesville, VA 22904

jefferson

October 11, 2017 02:00 PM

Thomas Jefferson's legacy and religious freedom: Part 2
  • Barbara Perry

  • John Dilulio

  • John Bridgeland

  • Joshua Dubois

  • Mary Kate Cary

Jefferson

October 11, 2017 09:00 AM

Thomas Jefferson's legacy and religious freedom: Part 1
  • Andrew O'Shaughnessy

  • Peter Onuf

  • Rabbi David Saperstein

  • Mustafa Akyol

  • Charles Mathewes

  • Kathleen Flake

  • John Ragosta

Location: Montalto
931 Thomas Jefferson Parkway
Charlottesville, VA 22902

The Constitution against the US flag

Historical Presidency

October 10, 2017 03:30 PM

USS Nevada burning at Pearl Harbor

American Forum

September 27, 2017 11:00 AM

Melody Barnes

Historical Presidency

September 26, 2017 03:30 PM

William Antholis

September 23, 2017 12:00 PM

What's right about conservatism today?
  • William Antholis

Location: Alderman Library
Room 421
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Statue of Thucydides

American Forum

September 20, 2017 11:00 AM

Scales of justice

American Forum

September 19, 2017 11:00 AM

Donald Trump with media

American Forum

September 14, 2017 11:00 AM

Speakers

September 12, 2017 11:00 AM

Watergate redux: The new age of White House investigative reporting
  • Vera Bergengruen

  • Stephen Engelberg

  • Matthew Rosenberg

  • Michael S. Schmidt

  • Howard Witt (Moderator)

Pints and Presidents

Pints and Presidents

September 11, 2017 05:00 PM

Pints and Presidents
  • Douglas Blackmon

  • Vera Bergengruen

  • Stephen Engelberg

  • Matthew Rosenberg

  • Michael S. Schmidt

Location: Random Row Brewing Co.
608 Preston Ave.
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Hillary Clinton speaking

American Forum

September 06, 2017 11:00 AM

US soldier in Vietnam

American Forum

August 23, 2017 11:00 AM

Pints and Presidents

Pints and Presidents

July 19, 2017 05:00 PM

Pints and Presidents
  • Douglas A. Blackmon

  • William Hitchcock

Location: Kardinal Hall
722 Preston Ave.
Charlottesville, VA 22903

JFK inspects Mercury capsule

June 01, 2017 03:00 PM

JFK at 100: The road to Camelot
  • Thomas Oliphant

  • Barbara Perry

  • Marc Selverstone

Trump

Caplin Conference, First Year Project

May 10, 2017 01:00 PM

100 down, 265 to go: Trump's first year
  • William Antholis

  • David Leblang

  • Robert Schub

  • Sidney Milkis

  • Chris Lu

  • Frances Sellers

  • Desmond King

Location: University of Oxford
Oxford
United Kingdom

Antholis

First Year Project

May 01, 2017 06:00 PM

Trump's first 100 days...and the next 265
  • William Antholis

Location: 840 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA

Trump banner

Caplin Conference, First Year Project

April 26, 2017 10:00 AM

Trump's first 100 days
  • Eric Edelman

  • Mike Nelson

  • Lee Edwards

  • Guian McKee

  • Barbara Perry

  • Dan Meyer

Location: The Heritage Foundation
214 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington DC 20002-4999

American Forum

April 20, 2017 04:00 PM

What is real news?
  • Rich Lowry

American Forum

April 19, 2017 10:00 AM

American Forum

April 18, 2017 11:00 AM

Richard Nixon: The life
  • John A. Farrell

Donald Trump

First Year Project

April 13, 2017 08:00 PM

The first 100 days of Trump
  • Senator Mark Warner

  • William Antholis

  • Peter Baker

  • Nicole Hemmer

  • Russell Riley

  • Douglas Blackmon

  • Brian Balogh

  • Ed Ayers

  • Christa Dierksheide

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

Returning WWI soldiers

Historical Presidency

April 11, 2017 03:30 PM