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Miller Center 50th Anniversary

September 12, 2024 11:00 AM

Revisiting the Ford presidency

  • Ken Hughes

  • Guian McKee

  • Barbara Perry

  • Russell Riley

  • Marc Selverstone (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Aerial view of Pentagon

August 29, 2024 11:00 AM

'Watchdogs': Holding the government accountable

  • Glenn A. Fine

  • Craig Whitlock

  • Kathryn Dunn Tenpas (moderator)

  • Guian McKee (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

small replica of White House and coins on American flag

Project on Democracy and Capitalism

May 10, 2024 01:00 PM

The 2024 election and the struggle for America's economic future

  • Paul Glastris

  • Suzanne Mettler

  • Scott C. Miller

  • Sidney Milkis (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with congressional leadership to discuss the bipartisan supplement agreement for foreign aid and legislation to avoid a government shutdown, Tuesday, February 27, 2024, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schutlz)

James C. Lehrer Lecture

May 02, 2024 11:00 AM

Where does Congress go from here?

  • Lisa Desjardins

  • William Antholis (moderator)

  • Stephen M. Burns (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Donkey and elephant with red white and blue overlay

April 19, 2024 11:00 AM

Bipartisan solutions in Congress

  • William Antholis

  • Barbara Comstock

  • L. F. Payne

Location: CODE Building
240 West Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902

Scales with red and blue ropes pulling in opposite directions

April 15, 2024 02:00 PM

Holding our presidents accountable

  • Tim Heaphy

  • Barbara Perry

  • Saikrishna Prakash

  • Micah Schwartzman (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

American flag superimposed with image of soldiers

April 11, 2024 02:00 PM

National defense strategy: Asking what you can do for your country

  • Eric Edelman

  • Jane Harman

  • General Jack Keane

  • Thomas Mahnken

  • Mara Rudman

  • Alissa Starzak

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Blue map showing Gaza

March 25, 2024 02:30 PM

The Israel–Hamas conflict: Ways forward

  • Suzanne Maloney

  • Nimrod Novik

  • Ghaith al-Omari

  • Mara Rudman (moderator)

  • Ian Baucom (introduction)

Location: University of Virginia's Rotunda
1826 University Avenue
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

"Leaders of the Continental Congress," an engraving with Adams, Morris, Hamilton, and Jefferson

Project on Democracy and Capitalism

March 18, 2024 05:30 PM

Hamilton vs. Jefferson

  • Frank Cogliano

  • Joanne B. Freeman

  • Scott C. Miller (moderator)

  • Laurent Dubois (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

two helicopters flying over yellow-orange sky

March 13, 2024 11:00 AM

'Diplomats at War'

  • Charles Trueheart

  • Marc Selverstone (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Members of the 115th Congress mingle on the House floor on January 3, 2017, the opening day of the new session.

March 01, 2024 11:00 AM

Imagining a better future for Congress

  • William Galston

  • Molly Reynolds

  • Philip Wallach

  • Sidney Milkis (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Front facade of the Nationa Archives building

February 21, 2024 11:00 AM

Preserving presidential records

  • Colleen Shogan

  • Russell Riley

  • Marc Selverstone

  • Barbara Perry (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

U.S., Russian, and Chinese flags on desktop swinging balls

Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium on American Diplomacy

February 16, 2024 08:30 AM

Reimagining nuclear deterrence

  • Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty

  • Rebeccah Heinrichs

  • John Hyten

  • Frank Miller

  • Keith Payne

  • Mara Rudman

  • Melanie Sisson

  • Becca Wasser

  • Philip B. K. Potter (moderator)

  • Charles Richard (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Firing a 122 mm howitzer D-30 in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 2023

February 06, 2024 03:30 PM

Two years into the Ukraine War

  • William Antholis

  • Alexander Bick

  • Dale Copeland

  • Eric Edelman

  • Thomas Graham

  • Harry Harding

  • Syaru Shirley Lin

  • Scott C. Miller

  • Stephen D. Mull

  • John M. Owen IV

  • Philip B. K. Potter

  • Mara Rudman

  • Marc Selverstone

  • Allan C. Stam

  • James B. Steinberg

  • Yuri Urbanovich

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

aerial photograph of Shenzhen port

February 01, 2024 02:00 PM

'China's Law of the Sea'

  • Isaac Kardon

  • Delicia Gonzales Zimmerman

  • Aynne Kokas (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

White House at night

January 23, 2024 01:00 PM

'Year Zero: The Five-Year Presidency'

  • Martha Joynt Kumar

  • Chris Liddell

  • David Marchick

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

close-up photo of various flags of world nations

December 15, 2023 11:00 AM

'The Ecology of Nations'

  • Kristen Eichensehr

  • Aynne Kokas

  • John M. Owen IV

  • Eric Edelman (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

President William Howard Taft, signs New Mexico into statehood at the White House. The signing was witnessed by dignitaries on Jan. 6, 1912.

December 08, 2023 11:00 AM

'The Presidency and the American State'

  • Lindsay M. Chervinsky

  • Stephen Rockwell

  • Steven Gillon (moderator)

Location: ONLINE ONLY

US and China flags

November 28, 2023 10:30 AM

Future-oriented China-U.S. relations and cooperation

  • Stephen D. Mull

  • Xu Xueyuan

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

UVA student protest at Garrett Hall

Democracy Dialogues

November 09, 2023 01:00 PM

Free speech at universities

  • Jennifer Ruth

  • Jonathan Zimmerman

  • Jered Cooper (student speaker)

  • Leslie Kendrick (moderator)

  • Ian Baucom (introduction)

Location: UVA's Rotunda
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ONLINE

Fist on top of nuclear button with Russian flag superimposed

November 02, 2023 01:00 PM

Nuclear deterrence and the new geopolitics

  • Charles Richard

  • Philip B. K. Potter (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

image of barbed wire in front of Israel and Palestine flags

November 02, 2023 09:00 AM

Colliding crises: The Israel–Hamas conflict, the war in Ukraine, and geopolitics

  • Spencer D. Bakich

  • Eric Edelman

  • James Gilmore III

  • Harry Harding

  • Aynne Kokas

  • Syaru Shirley Lin

  • Stephen D. Mull

  • John M. Owen IV

  • Philip B. K. Potter

  • Mara Rudman

  • Yuri Urbanovich

  • William Antholis (moderator)

Location: ONLINE ONLY

Sarah Huckabee Sanders giving press briefing in 2017

October 20, 2023 05:00 PM

Covering the White House

  • Laura Barrón-López

  • Elaina Plott Calabro

  • Mike Emanuel

  • Judy Woodruff (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Paramount Theater
215 East Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902

conf

October 19, 2023 09:00 AM

Toward a more responsible and effective presidency

Location: ONLINE EVENT

Refuge camp in Syria's Idlib region

October 11, 2023 06:15 PM

How to stay optimistic in an age of crisis

  • David Miliband

  • David Leblang (moderator)

  • Harriet Kuhr (introduction)

Location: The Haven
112 West Market Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902

Uyghur protestors in Hong Kong, 2019

October 06, 2023 10:00 AM

Repression and political violence in China

  • Sheena Chestnut Greitens

  • Naima Green-Riley

  • Paul Heer

  • Chen Wang

  • Philip B. K. Potter (moderator)

Location: ONLINE ONLY

image of robot hand pointing to economic chart

Project on Democracy and Capitalism

October 04, 2023 01:00 PM

Will artificial intelligence change democratic capitalism?

  • Philip Bourne

  • Michael Lenox

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

Exterior of Supreme Court

September 15, 2023 11:00 AM

The evolution of affirmative action—and its uncertain future

  • Christa Davis Acampora

  • Kevin K. Gaines

  • Eugene Hickok

  • Kimberly Jenkins Robinson

  • Barbara Perry (moderator)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

Truck with a sign for Trump-Desantis in 2024 presidential election

September 07, 2023 11:00 AM

Election 2024 and the future of the GOP

  • Mary Kate Cary

  • Barbara Comstock

  • Ron Christie (moderator)

  • William Antholis (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
&
ONLINE

Michael Luttig testifying to Jan. 6 committee

Henry J. Abraham Distinguished Lecture

May 16, 2023 11:00 AM

Judge J. Michael Luttig: Democracy in peril

  • J. Michael Luttig

  • Barbara Perry

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

David Brooks in 2022

James C. Lehrer Lecture

May 04, 2023 01:00 PM

David Brooks: The moral ecology of American democracy

  • David Brooks

  • William Antholis (moderator)

  • Stephen M. Burns (introduction)

Location: The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA
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ONLINE

image of COVID and masked face

April 28, 2023 11:00 AM

'Lessons from the Covid War': The report from the Covid Crisis Group

  • Danielle Allen

  • Carter Mecher

  • Philip Zelikow

  • Guian McKee (moderator)

Location: ONLINE