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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Foreign Affairs
Trump, America First, and the future of America in the world
John Negroponte, Stephen Mull
Trump and Xi
American Defense and Security
Trump's U.S. national security policy
John Owen
Michael E. O'Hanlon
House of Representatives
Congress
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
Wind farm
Energy and the Environment
States and the future of renewable energy
Martin O'Malley, Jonathan Cannon
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Finance and Banking
How cryptocurrency and blockchain technology impact democracy
Chris Lu
Yiorgos Allayannis, Cara LaPointe, Jakub Duda
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Asia
The China challenge
Harry Harding, Brantly Womack, William J. Antholis
internal currencies
Finance and Banking
Nixon: The post-Bretton Woods world
Thomas W. Zeiler, David Leblang
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Religion
Faith, spirituality, and public life
Tim Kaine