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
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Supreme Court
SCOTUS forecasting: A new justice and the dynamics of the Supreme Court
Barbara Perry, Saikrishna Prakash, Micah Schwartzman
Kerner Commission
Human Rights and Civil Rights
Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the unraveling of American liberalism
Douglas Blackmon
Steven M. Gillon
Alt Right Counter-Protest
Race and Racism
When Charlottesville became #Charlottesville: The history and legacy of August 11 & 12
Nicole Hemmer
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Social Issues
1968: The year that changed America
Guian McKee, Marc Selverstone
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Governance
Sen. Tim Kaine on Presidential War Powers
Bill Antholis
Sen. Tim Kaine
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The Presidency
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What happens when a president shatters norms?
Brian Balogh
E. J. Dionne, Peter Wehner
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Social Issues
A conversation on the new localism: Power in the age of populism
Guian McKee
Bruce Katz, Richard C. Schragger