Upcoming Forums
Linking the Center's local community and the University of Virginia to the people who are writing about and shaping the future of our nation, Miller Center Forums draw nationally and internationally recognized experts in public affairs, American politics, and foreign policy. Questions regarding the scheduling of events, or forum changes and cancellations should be directed to George Gilliam.
The Forums are webcast live from this website.
Highlights of more recent forums and past archived forums are also available.
Friday, September 12, 2008
11:00 AM
Peter Bergen
Peter Bergenis a print and television journalist, and produced the first television interview with Osama bin Laden for CNN, where he has been a terrorism and national security analyst. He has traveled to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia to report on al Qaeda. He is a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., and Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a research fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security. Bergen has written for a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He has also worked as a correspondent for National Geographic Television and Discovery Television, and is on the editorial board of the scholarly journal Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. Bergen's books include Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World on Bin Laden (Free Press, 2001) and The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader(Free Press, 2006), both of which were made into documentaries for National Geographic Television and CNN. A book signing will follow his Forum.
Monday, September 15, 2008
11:00 AM
Jeffrey Legro, Melvyn Leffler
U.S. national security policy is at a critically important crossroads. The Bush Doctrine of unilateralism, pre-emptive war, and the imposition of democracy by force has proven disastrous. The United States now finds itself vilified abroad, weakened at home, and bogged down in a seemingly endless and unwinnable war. In To Lead the World, Melvyn P. Leffler, Faculty Associate in the Governing America in a Global Era Program at the Miller Center, is Edward R. Stettinius professor in the Department of History at U.Va. and Jeffrey W. Legro, is Compton Professor of World Politics and Chair of the Department of Politics at U.Va. and Faculty Associate in the Governing America in a Global Era Program at the Miller Center bring together eleven of America's most esteemed writers and thinkers to offer concrete, historically grounded suggestions for how America can regain its standing in the world and use its power more wisely than it has during the Bush years. This volume emanated from the June 7-8, 2007 Miller Center conference, "After the Bush Doctrine: National Security Strategy for a New Administration." A book signing will follow.
Friday, September 19, 2008
11:00 AM
Adam Clymer
Adam Clymer has contributed Op-Ed articles, obituaries, and an Outdoors column to the New York Times, having retired as Washington Correspondent in 2003. Throughout his tenure at the New York Times, he served as National Political Correspondent, Polling Editor, Political Editor, Weekend Senior Editor, Chief Congressional Correspondent, and Washington Editor. Clymer has also worked for the Virginian-Pilot, the New York Daily News, and the Baltimore Sun. He is the author of Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and The Rise of the Right (University Press of Kansas, 2008) and Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography (William Morrow, 1999). In addition, Clymer co-authored The Swing Voter in American Politics (Brookings Institution Press, 2008) and Reagan: The Man, The President (Macmillan, 1981). He was President of the Washington Press Club Foundation and Chair of the Harvard Crimson Graduate Council. In 2005, the University of Vermont awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. A book signing will follow.
Monday, September 22, 2008
11:00 AM
Jane Mayer
Jane Mayer writes about politics for The New Yorker, where she has been covering the war on terror, George W. Bush, the bin Laden family, Karl Rove, and the television show "24." Before joining The New Yorker, she was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where she became the first female White House correspondent in 1984. In addition, while serving as a war correspondent and foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Mayer covered the bombing of the American barracks in Beirut, the Persian Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the final days of Communism in the Soviet Union. She has also written for a number of other publications, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Review of Books. Mayer authored The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned in to a War on America (Doubleday, 2008), and co-authored Strange Justice (Houghton Mifflin, 1994) and Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988 (Houghton Mifflin, 1988). A book signing will follow her Forum.
Friday, September 26, 2008
11:00 AM
Douglas Blackmon
As The Wall Street Journal's Atlanta bureau chief since 2004, Douglas A. Blackmon directs the coverage of the Southeastern U.S., the airlines and other major transportation industries, the Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, and more than 1,200 companies. His stories and his bureau's work have been nominated by the Journal for the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Florida hurricanes in 2001, and the use of slave labor by U.S. corporations in 2001. Prior to joining the Journal, Blackmon reported on race and politics for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and worked for the Arkansas Democrat and the Daily Record. He is the author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Doubleday, 2008). A book signing will follow his Forum.
Monday, September 29, 2008
11:00 AM
Kimberly Dozier
Since 2003, CBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier has worked primarily in Baghdad, and has covered Iraq and the Middle East extensively for "The CBS Evening News," "The Early Show," and "CBS Radio News." On Memorial Day 2006, while reporting a story in Baghdad, she was seriously wounded in a car bombing but recovered completely after multiple surgeries and months of physiotherapy. Prior to her CBS News appointment, Dozier had served as Chief Correspondent for WCBS-TV New York's Middle East bureau, London Bureau Chief and Chief European Correspondent for CBS Radio News, and a CBS News reporter. She has also written for the Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle. Dozier received a 2008 Peabody Award as well as three American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Awards in 2000, 2001, and 2002. She earned a master's degree in Foreign Affairs from U.Va. in 1993. A book signing will follow her Forum.
Friday, October 3, 2008
11:00 AM
Fred Hitz
This Forum is part of the "Business of Intelligence" series.
Monday, October 6, 2008
11:00 AM
Benjamin Wittes
Benjamin Wittes is a fellow and Research Director in Public Law at the Brookings Institution as well as the author of Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror (Penguin Press, 2008). His previous books include Starr: A Reassessment (Yale University Press, 2002) and Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times (Rowman & Littlefield/Hoover Institution, 2006). In addition to being a columnist for The New Republic Online and a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly, he served as an editorial writer for the Washington Post and as a reporter and news editor at Legal Times. His writing has also appeared in a wide range of journals and magazines, including Slate, The New Republic, The Wilson Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and First Things. A book signing will follow his Forum.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
11:00 AM
Mark Schapiro
Mark Schapiro, Editorial Director for the Center for Investigative Reporting, has been an investigative journalist for more than two decades and has built an award-winning track record with a focus on environmental and international affairs. His work has appeared in Harper's, The Nation, Mother Jones, and The Atlantic Monthly. Schapiro has also been a correspondent on NOW with Bill Moyers, FRONTLINE/World, and Marketplace. He is the author of Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Chelsea Green, 2007). A book signing will follow his Forum.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
11:00 AM
Michael Klare
Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies (a joint appointment at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst), and Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), a position he has held since 1985. Before assuming his present post, he served as Director of the Program on Militarism and Disarmament at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. (1977-84)
Professor Klare has written widely on U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, and world security affairs. He will discuss his current book, Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (Metropolitan Books, 2004). A book signing will follow.
