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.
Topic
Joe Biden against red graph of covid cases
Presidential transition in times of crisis
William Antholis
Michael Chertoff, David Marchick, Janet Napolitano
U.S. Supreme Court building
Elections
Litigating the election
Dan Ortiz, Myrna Pérez, Bertrall Ross, Micah Schwartzman
Trump and Biden in silhouette
Elections
Election 2020: The aftermath (Friday discussion)
William Antholis
Melody Barnes, Michael Gilbert, Sidney Milkis, Janet Napolitano
Trump Biden silhouettes
Elections
Election 2020 Aftermath: Turbulence, transition, or tranquility?
William Antholis
Melody Barnes, Paul Freedman, Kevin K. Gaines, Caroline Janney
Silhouettes of Trump and Biden
Elections
Election 2020: What just happened?
William Antholis
Mary Kate Cary, Jennifer Lawless, Saikrishna Prakash
Print showing Booker T. Washington and Theodore Roosevelt
The Presidency
Presidential leadership and race
Risa Goluboff
Kevin Gaines, Russell Riley
Photo illustration of Capitol Building and American flag
Elections
The home stretch: Election 2020 one week out
Paul Freedman
William Antholis, Mary Kate Cary, Ann Compton
Yellow immigration sign
Immigration
Immigration, asylum, and national security: A comparative perspective
William Antholis
Jeff Crisp, David Scott FitzGerald, Regina Jefferies, Brian Kelly, David Leblang, Erika Lee, Dara Lind, Doris Meissner, Kathleen Newland, Anne C. Richard
Painting of Benjamin Franklin in France
Foreign Affairs
‘America in the World’: The story of U.S. diplomacy
William Antholis
Robert Zoellick, David Leblang
Bill Clinton at a rally at NC State University in Raleigh on October 4, 1992
Elections
'Clinton's Elections: 1992, 1996, and the Birth of a New Era of Governance'
Russell Riley
Michael Nelson