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.
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Elections
Election 2020: The state of the race and crisis elections
William Antholis
Yamiche Alcindor, Larry Sabato, Jennifer Lawless, David M. Kennedy, Margaret O'Mara, Sidney Milkis
Kids boarding bus during covid - wearing masks
Education
School reopenings: Technology and the widening gap
Robert C. Pianta
Bart Epstein, Kimberly Jenkins Robinson
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The Presidency
'Statecraft': Experts discuss the PBS documentary
Bill Antholis
Ann Compton, Susan Glasser, Barbara Perry, Jayme Swain, Philip Zelikow, Robert Zoellick
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Foreign Affairs
Containing COVID-19: Greece’s successes and challenges ahead
William Antholis
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, James Ryan, John R. Allen, Amanda Sloat
Governor Andrew Cuomo
Governance
Responding to COVID-19: Federal, state, local
William Antholis
Sheila Foster, Charles Hartgrove, Richard Schragger
California's primary booklet election 2020
Elections
Primaries and primary reform
Jennifer Lawless
Kyle Kondik, Chris Lu, Craig Volden
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Education
The pandemic's lasting effect on education
William Antholis
Melody Barnes, Robert Pianta, Kimberly J. Robinson
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping shaking hands
Foreign Affairs
U.S.-China relations in a turbulent time: Can rivals cooperate?
William Antholis, Harry Harding, Syaru Shirley Lin
Matthew Pottinger, James Steinberg, Evan Feigenbaum, Aynne Kokas, Yen Pottinger, Melur Ramasubramanian, Robert Carl Cohen
Handwritten note from Cuban Missile Crisis saying "we are demanding withdrawal of the missiles"
Leadership
Pressure cooker: Leadership lessons from the Secret White House Tapes
William Antholis
Marc Selverstone
nurses testing for covid in a car
Social Issues
'Ask not': National service in times of crisis
William Antholis
John Bridgeland, Timothy Shriver