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
Session Two
Governance
Corruption and Institutional Decay: Session Two, Fighting Corruption in Theory and Practice
Stephen D. Mull
Philip Keefer and Kara Brockmeyer
Session Three
Governance
Corruption and Institutional Decay: Session Three, Corruption and Anti-Corruption 101
Jessica Levy
Shan Aman-Rana, Michael Gilbert, Daniel Gingerich, Deborah Hellman, David Singerman, Sandip Sukhtankar and Sylvia Tidey
Social Issues
“American Creed”: Screening and discussion
Melody Barnes
David M. Kennedy, John Bridgeland
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Domestic Affairs
Critical decisions: Insights from the George W. Bush Presidential Oral History Project Panel 1: Domestic Affairs
Russell Riley
Josh Bolten, John Bridgeland, Barbara Perry
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Foreign Affairs
Critical decisions: Insights from the George W. Bush Presidential Oral History Project Panel 2: Foreign Affairs
Margaret Warner
John Bellinger III, Eric Edelman, Frances Townsend, Michael Nelson
impeachment ticket to senate trial of Clinton
Impeachment
Impeachment pop-up roundtable
Barbara Perry
Melody Barnes, Chris Lu, Saikrishna Prakash, Philip Zelikow
The Next Recession
Economic Issues
The problem with the next recession
David Leblang
David Wilcox
The Presidency
All the Powers of Earth
William Antholis
Sidney Blumenthal
Oliphant cartoon of President Reagan
Media and the Press
Cartooning the White House: Celebrating comic artist Patrick Oliphant
Michael Nelson
Mary Kate Cary, Kent Germany, Ken Hughes, Chris Lu, Chester Pach, Robert Strong, Philip Zelikow
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Foreign Affairs
To build a better world
Ann Compton
Condoleezza Rice, Philip Zelikow