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
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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
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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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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
Abraham Lincoln
The Presidency
All the Powers of Earth
William Antholis
Sidney Blumenthal
Oliphant cartoon of President Reagan
Media and the Press
Cartooning the White House: Celebrating comic artist Patrick Oliphant
Michael Nelson
Mary Kate Cary, Kent Germany, Ken Hughes, Chris Lu, Chester Pach, Robert Strong, Philip Zelikow
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Foreign Affairs
To build a better world
Ann Compton
Condoleezza Rice, Philip Zelikow
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The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty
Barbara Perry
Susan Page
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The Presidency
Rethinking the American Presidency
John Dickerson, Max Stier, Mona Sutphen, Robert Bruner (moderator)
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Trade
Commerce, security, and the new global (dis)order
Yiorgos Allayannis, Dale Copeland, Amanda Sloat, John Owen (moderator)