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
miller center in blue
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
Washington monument
Leadership
The buck stops here: Leadership at the highest level
Denis McDonough, Mack McLarty, Andy Card, Ann Compton and Barbara Perry (moderators)
President Obama shaking hands with China's President Xi Jinping
Asia
China as a presidential challenge
Slade Gorton, Harry Harding, Syaru Shirley Lin, Brantly Womack, Will Dobson (moderator)
people dolls on stacks of coin
Social Issues
Climbing the ladder: Social mobility in the United States
Kathleen Sebelius, John Bridgeland, Chris Lu, Larry Terry (moderator)
whitehouse
The Presidency
Executive power and the U.S. Constitution
Jennifer Lawless, Barbara Perry, Saikrishna Prakash, Russell Riley, and Mike Nelson (moderator)
liberty with new york city in the background
Domestic Affairs
21st century challenges: climate, immigration, and terror
Rosa Brooks, Deborah Lawrence, Todd Sechser, David Leblang (moderator)
obama, bush, clinton
Social Issues
Dialogue and difference: Nurturing a modern civility in American politics
Jean Becker, Stephanie Streett, Thomas Walls (moderator)
a mic against a red brick wall
Media and the Press
Politics is easy. Comedy is hard: Stories told (and lessons learned) from inside the White House comedy war room
Mark Katz, Tim Cunningham
The Chief
Supreme Court
'The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice Roberts'
Barbara Perry
Joan Biskupic
Social Issues
Saving America from our culture of contempt
Melody Barnes
Arthur C. Brooks, Allan C. Stam
If We Can Keep It
Governance
How the Republic collapsed (and how it might be saved)
Bill Antholis
Michael Tomasky