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

Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography
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E pluribus unum? Race, religion, and American identity

Experts including Ibram X. Kendi, Larycia Hawkins, and Jason Johnson probe America's original sin of racism on this PrezFest 2019 panel
Steve Gillon
The Kerner Commission and the unraveling of American liberalism

Historian Steve Gillon talks about his book on the Kerner Commission, whose report on urban unrest reshaped debates about race and inequality in America
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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.
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Domestic Affairs
'Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy'
Melody Barnes, Corey D. B. Walker, Thad Williamson, Barbara Brown Wilson
Joe Biden in a mask
Health
The Biden administration inherits the Covid-19 crisis
Guian McKee
J. Stephen Morrison, Margaret Foster Riley
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Law and Justice
Race relations and criminal justice in the new year
Paul Butler, Kevin K. Gaines
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The Presidency
Can the president pardon himself?
John Harrison, Brian Kalt, Bernadette Meyler, Micah Schwartzman
Trump supporters marching in support of far-right fascism
Domestic Affairs
Using the F-word: Fascist drift in America
Emily Gorcenski, Nicole Hemmer, Christopher Mathias, Jalane Schmidt
xi-and-biden toasting
Asia
Time for a reset? U.S.-China relations during the Biden Administration
Evan A. Feigenbaum, Harry Harding, Syaru Shirley Lin, Chris Lu, Stephen D. Mull, Larry J. Sabato, Song Guoyou, Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, Wu Xinbo, Xin Qiang
Nixon waving goodbye after Watergate
Governance
'Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy'
Robert C. Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, Sidney Milkis (moderator)
President Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon in 1968
The Presidency
Running the White House
William Antholis, Mary Kate Cary
Peter Baker, Susan Glasser, Eric Edelman, Chris Lu, David Marchick, Kathryn Dunn, Tenpas
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Foreign Affairs
'The World: A Brief Introduction'
Richard Haass, Todd Sechser (moderator)
Virginia State Flag
Federalism
The past and future of home rule in Virginia
William Antholis
Audrey McFarlane, Richard C. Schragger, Daniel Farbman, David Toscano, Larry Roberts, Leslie Hager-Smith, Levar Stoney, Justin Wilson