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
diamonds on a table
Finance and Banking
How the rich stay rich: A glimpse behind the velvet curtain
Ruth Mason, Joseph J. Thorndike
nuclear bomb going off
American Defense and Security
Misunderstanding the bomb: How we've learned the wrong lessons about nuclear deterrence and arms control
Todd Sechser
Brendan Green
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Impeachment
The Trump impeachment episode: Party wars and the Constitution
Sidney Milkis
Claire Finkelstein, Jonathan Turley
people rioting in the street
Foreign Affairs
Ambassadors unplugged: A hard look at the state of the world
John M. Owen IV
Nancy Soderberg, Eric Edelman
border fense in texas
Immigration
Border Wars
David A. Martin
Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Michael D. Shear,
hong kong portesters
Asia
Autonomy limited: Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and the U.S.
Harry Harding
Evan Feigenbaum, Syaru Shirley Lin
frederick douglass portrait
Human Rights and Civil Rights
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Bill Antholis
David Blight, Larycia Hawkins
lady bird reading to children
Domestic Affairs
How great was the Great Society? A view from 2020
Melody Barnes
Kevin Gaines, Guian McKee, Julian Zelizer
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