Events / Past Events

Barbara Bush

September 06, 2019 11:00 AM

Donald Trump/Bill Clinton

Presidential Ideas Festival 2019

May 23, 2019 02:00 PM

Woman looking at camera/Acropolis at night

Presidential Ideas Festival 2019

May 23, 2019 09:30 AM

Above the glass ceiling: Women in leadership • Why democracy?

Location: Old Cabell Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Children reading/close of multiple people holding hands

Presidential Ideas Festival 2019

May 22, 2019 02:30 PM

Vote button/presidential lectern in front of White House

Presidential Ideas Festival 2019

May 22, 2019 09:30 AM

Washington Monument/toy figures standing on stack of coins

Presidential Ideas Festival 2019

May 21, 2019 02:30 PM

U.S. flag/globe make of money

Presidential Ideas Festival 2019

May 21, 2019 09:30 AM

John Roberts with the Supreme Court

April 25, 2019 11:00 AM

1960s hippie offering a flower to an MP

April 15, 2019 05:30 PM

Saving America from our culture of contempt

  • Arthur C. Brooks

  • Melody Barnes (moderator)

  • Allan C. Stam (moderator)

Location: Nau Hall
1540 Jefferson Park Ave.
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Declaration of Independence with "If we can keep it" written on top in red letters

Road to PrezFest 2019

April 11, 2019 04:00 PM

Map of Europe highlighting Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary

March 29, 2019 03:00 PM

Perspectives on the U.S. and Europe: Ambassadors of the Visegrad Group

  • Ivan Korčok

  • Hynek Kmoníček

  • László Szabó

  • Piotr Wilczek

  • Stephen Mull

Location: Garrett Hall
235 McCormick Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903

George Thomas with JFK

March 27, 2019 11:00 AM

Inside Camelot: The untold story of JFK's valet

  • Nick Drake

  • Alfred Reaves

  • Barbara Perry (moderator)

  • David Throup

Corey Booker whispers to Elizabeth Warren; Senator Blumenthal in the foreground

March 26, 2019 04:00 PM

Future of the Democratic Party

  • Dan Balz

  • Jennifer Lawless

  • Chris Lu

  • Nicole Hemmer (moderator)

Buddhist peace flags on barbed wire

March 20, 2019 11:30 AM

To end the Korean War? Peace on the Peninsula

  • Byoung-Kon Jun

  • Jae-Jung Suh

  • Philip Zelikow

Marc Short in front of White House, blue tint

March 07, 2019 11:00 AM

Flag of Iran

February 25, 2019 11:00 AM

Revolution and Aftermath: Forging a New Strategy toward Iran

  • Dale Copeland

  • Eric Edelman

  • Ray Takeyh

President Trump in the Oval Office

February 22, 2019 11:00 AM

Presidents' Day: Trump and the American presidency

  • Sidney Milkis

  • Michael Nelson

  • Barbara Perry

Doctors in operating room

Road to PrezFest 2019

February 08, 2019 11:00 AM

FDR

February 01, 2019 11:00 AM

The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace

  • Barbara Perry

  • David Woolner

President Obama with a group of children, his arms outstretched

January 22, 2019 04:00 PM

Race in the decade since Obama

  • Melody Barnes

  • Kevin Gaines

  • Lauretta Charlton

Location: Newcomb Hall Theatre
180 McCormick Rd.
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama

January 16, 2019 11:00 AM

Edward M. Kennedy: An Oral History

  • Barbara Perry

  • Melody Barnes

Man in business suit standing on precipice

Road to PrezFest 2019

January 10, 2019 09:00 AM

Ten years later: Lessons from the 2008–09 financial crisis

  • William Antholis

  • Robert Bruner

  • Peter Conti-Brown

  • Jeffry Frieden

  • Graciela Kaminsky

  • John Lawrence

  • David Leblang

  • Frances Lee

  • Jonathan R. Macey

  • Julia Mahoney

  • Paul Mahoney

  • Daniel Meyer

  • Peter Orszag

  • Carmen Reinhart

  • Lawrence H. Summers

  • Linda Tesar

  • David Wessel

Location: Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036

Anwar Sadat, President Carter, and Menachem Begin sign Camp David Accords

December 14, 2018 11:00 AM

President Carter: The White House years

  • Stuart Eizenstat

  • Russell Riley

Nixon on the campaign trail

December 13, 2018 01:00 PM

History of 1968, part II

  • Marc Selverstone

  • Guian McKee

MLK and President Johnson

December 07, 2018 03:30 PM

Rivalry and Reform

  • Sidney Milkis

  • Daniel J. Tichenor

Trump rally with "Make America Great Again" sign

Historical Presidency

December 04, 2018 12:00 PM

Trump and Xi

November 30, 2018 11:00 AM

Trump's U.S. national security policy

  • Michael E. O'Hanlon

  • John Owen

Congress

November 15, 2018 01:00 PM

Navigating gridlock: Congress, the presidency, and partisanship

  • David Brady

  • Tom Davis

  • Juliet Eilperin

  • Maggie Haberman

  • Jennifer Lawless

  • Chris Lu

  • John McLaughlin

  • Doug Rivers

  • Marc Short

  • Dina Titus

  • Michael Franc

  • Sid Milkis

Location: The Hoover Institution's Johnson Center
1399 New York Ave NW #500
Washington, DC 20005

voting booth

November 06, 2018 07:00 PM

Pints & Presidents: Midterm watch party

  • Mary Kate Cary

  • Nicole Hemmer

Location: Kardinal Hall
722 Preston Ave
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Acceptable loss image collage

November 03, 2018 05:30 PM

Virginia Film Festival: 'An Acceptable Loss'

  • Joe Chappelle

  • Barbara Perry

  • Todd Sechser

Location: St. Anne’s-Belfield School
Grisham Hall
2132 Ivy Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Images of 1968

November 01, 2018 05:00 PM

Virginia Film Festival: '1968: The Year That Changed America'

  • Mark Herzog

  • Ron Christie

  • Nicole Hemmer

Location: Culbreth Theatre
109 Culbreth Road
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Wind farm

October 17, 2018 03:00 PM

States and the future of renewable energy

  • Martin O'Malley

  • Jonathan Cannon