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
Acquitted
Impeachment
The Trump impeachment episode: Party wars and the Constitution
Sidney Milkis
Claire Finkelstein, Jonathan Turley
Ambassadors Unplugged
Foreign Affairs
Ambassadors unplugged: A hard look at the state of the world
John M. Owen IV
Nancy Soderberg, Eric Edelman
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
Human Rights and Civil Rights
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Bill Antholis
David Blight, Larycia Hawkins
The Great Society
Domestic Affairs
How great was the Great Society? A view from 2020
Melody Barnes
Kevin Gaines, Guian McKee, Julian Zelizer
iran and us as balls on a chain
Middle East
The U.S. and Iran: 'It's a very important moment'
Todd Sechser
Eric Edelman, Stephen Mull
Death of Politics
Politics
The Death of Politics
William Antholis
Peter Wehner
Lost Soul
The Presidency
The lost soul of the American presidency
Russell Riley
Stephen F. Knott
Session One
Governance
Corruption and Institutional Decay: Session One, How Corruption Erodes the Rule of Law
David Gergen
William F. Browder