Miller Center Presents

New public events series

Continuing the Miller Center’s 40-year tradition of hosting prominent voices on national and global issues

Featured events

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1968: The year that changed America

Seminar on the pivotal year 1968 led by Guian McKee and Marc Selverstone, associate professors at the Miller Center.
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Sen. Tim Kaine on Presidential War Powers

Sen. Tim Kaine visited the historic Rotunda at the University of Virginia to talk about his legislative efforts to define the limits of both presidents and Congress to declare and prosecute wars.
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A conversation on the new localism: Power in the age of populism

Bruce Katz was formerly the Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution. While there he focused on the challenges and opportunities of global urbanization.
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What happens when a president shatters norms?

The unprecedented nature of the Trump presidency has focused attention on the importance of traditions and norms in presidential leadership. Discussion with E. J. Dionne, Peter Wehner.
Topic
Microphone and a crowd
Politics
The Death of Politics
William Antholis
Peter Wehner
White House with blue tint
The Presidency
The lost soul of the American presidency
Russell Riley
Stephen F. Knott
Corruption and Institutional Decay
Governance
Corruption and Institutional Decay: Session One, How Corruption Erodes the Rule of Law
David Gergen
William F. Browder
1870s political cartoon showing fat corrupt politician among ruins
Governance
Corruption and Institutional Decay: Session Two, Fighting Corruption in Theory and Practice
Stephen D. Mull
Philip Keefer and Kara Brockmeyer
1870s political cartoon showing fat corrupt politician among ruins
Governance
Corruption and Institutional Decay: Session Three, Corruption and Anti-Corruption 101
Jessica Levy
Shan Aman-Rana, Michael Gilbert, Daniel Gingerich, Deborah Hellman, David Singerman, Sandip Sukhtankar and Sylvia Tidey
american creed
Social Issues
“American Creed”: Screening and discussion
Melody Barnes
David M. Kennedy, John Bridgeland
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Foreign Affairs
Critical decisions: Insights from the George W. Bush Presidential Oral History Project Panel 2: Foreign Affairs
Margaret Warner
John Bellinger III, Eric Edelman, Frances Townsend, Michael Nelson
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Domestic Affairs
Critical decisions: Insights from the George W. Bush Presidential Oral History Project Panel 1: Domestic Affairs
Russell Riley
Josh Bolten, John Bridgeland, Barbara Perry
impeachment ticket to senate trial of Clinton
Impeachment
Impeachment pop-up roundtable
Barbara Perry
Melody Barnes, Chris Lu, Saikrishna Prakash, Philip Zelikow
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Economic Issues
The problem with the next recession
David Leblang
David Wilcox