It's hard to keep up with everything happening at U.Va. Here you will find lectures, speeches and other events of interest to the University community. Listen to them now, download them for later or subscribe to our podcast and take them with you.
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Miller Center Forum: Why Women Should Rule the World 5/5/08 - Dee Dee Myers was the first woman and youngest person ever to serve as White House Press Secretary. After leaving the Clinton White House, Myers became a consultant to the NBC series The West Wing. Before joining the Clinton campaign in 1991, she worked on local, state, and national campaigns, including Senator Dianne Feinstein, Governor Michael Dukakis, Vice President Walter Mondale, and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. She is currently a Vanity Fair Contributing Editor, and is a frequent political commentator on NBC and MSNBC. Myers spent two years as the liberal co-host of the CNBC talk show Equal Time, discussing daily political developments with conservative co-hosts Mary Matalin and Bay Buchanan. |
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Miller Center Forum: Outsourcing Sovereignty: Why Privatization of Government Functions Threatens Democracy 5/2/08 - Paul Verkuil Professor of Law and former Dean (1997–2001) at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, has practiced at two leading New York law firms and served on the law faculty at the University of North Carolina, as Dean of Tulane Law School, and as President of the College of William and Mary. Verkuil was President and CEO of the American Automobile Association, visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Special Master in the case of New Jersey v. New York, involving the sovereignty of Ellis Island. A leading scholar of law and regulation, he is a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the American Law Institute, and co-author of Administrative Law and Process and Regulation and Deregulation (2004). |
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Tips for Being an Informed Patient 4/24/08 - Jeanette Lancaster, the outgoing Dean of the U.Va School of Nursing, tells a crowd at in Williamsburg about how they can become active patients while in the hospital to prevent medical errors. Dean Lancaster suggests that medical error prevention is a joint effort through education and advocacy. This lecture is part of the Engaging the Mind series. |
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2008 Catherine Strader McGehee Memorial Lecture 4/23/08 - Endowed by the McGehee family and the BSN Class of 1975, this lecture is in memory of Catherine Strader McGehee, BSN `75, MSN `80, who passed away while pursuing her Ph.D. in Nursing at UVa. Lecture speakers reflect qualities of Catherine McGehee: “a commitment to excellence in nursing education and practice through scholarship, research, and leadership; a desire to benefit and enhance nursing specifically and to contribute to the community at large.” This year`s speaker was Aryana Khalid, who serves as an Assistant Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia. She filled in for Marilyn Tavenner, Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources. |
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Miller Center Forum: A Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict 4/21/08 - Sandra Mackey is an award-winning expert on Middle Eastern culture and politics. She has taught political science at George Washington University and has served as a visiting scholar at U.Va. Mackey's writings have appeared in periodicals including the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Christian Science Monitor. She has appeared on NPR, ABC, and BBC, and was a commentator on the first Gulf War for CNN. Mackey's book, Lebanon: Death of a Nation (Doubleday, 1989), was included on the New York Times list of Notable Books for 1989. |
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Miller Center Forum: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court 4/18/08 - Jeffrey Toobin, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993 and CNN's senior legal analyst, is one of the most recognized and admired legal journalists in the country. He joined CNN in 2002 after six years with ABC News, where he received an Emmy for his coverage of the Elian Gonzalez case. Toobin is a former as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn and associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh. His books include The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Doubleday, 2007), Too Close to Call: The 36-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election (Random House, 2001), and A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President (Touchstone, 2000). |
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The Presidency Reconsidered4/17/08 - Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics moderated a lively discussion on the recent presidential primaries, the upcoming conventions and Election Day 2008 as they relate to the Constitution. In addition to Sabato, participant were John H. Sununu, former governor and chief of staff to President George H.W. Bush; Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., former governor and senator; and L. Douglas Wilder, Mayor of Richmond, Virginia and former governor.
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Lessons in Leadership: From Competence to Charisma 4/17/08 - People want charisma in their leaders, but they also want competence and results. This means leaders must achieve goals, solve problems, and create positive change. Thomas S. Bateman, Bank of America Professor and Management Area Coordinator in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia discussed leadership with a crowd at Danville's Institute for Advance Learning and Research. The event was part of the Engaging the Mind lecture series.
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Miller Center Forum: A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America 4/14/08 - James Horn is Vice President of Research at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, where he has also served as Abby and George O'Neill Director. He was a Visiting Professor in U.Va's Corcoran Department of History (1999-2002), while Saunders Director of the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. His books include The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic (University of Virginia Press, 2002), The Writings of Captain John Smith (The Library of America, 2007), and the forthcoming The Pearl and the Gold: The Lost Colony of Roanoke. His Forum was the second annual Mary Beth and Gordon Smyth Lecture on American History. |
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The Brundtland Report: How Far We've Come/What More We Need to Do 4/11/08 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, special envoy on climate change at the United Nations, former prime minister of Norway and a former director-general of the World Health Organization, addressed issues of sustainable development during her lecture when she received the 2008 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture at the University of Virginia in April. |
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Biological Threats to Food and Forests 4/10/08 - Professor Manuel Lerdau discussed the biological threats to the world's food supply and forests with an audience at Winchester's Old Town Center. Lerdau is the director of the Blandy Experimental Farm, the State Arboretum of Virginia, and he spoke about the extent of invasive species in Virginia and beyond. |
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Author Alan Pell Crawford Speaks to the UVaEngagement Community 4/10/08 - Author Alan Pell Crawford spoke to the UVaEngagement Community, a group of engagement and fundraising professionals at the University, about Mr. Jefferson in his retirement years when he established U.Va. Mr. Crawford, a former residential fellow at Monticello’s International Center for Jefferson Studies, just published his third book entitled Twilight at Monticello – The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson. |
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Former U.Va. & NBA Player Gus Gerard Tells His Story 4/7/08 - Gus Gerard, who played his last U.Va. basketball game in 1974, told his story of alchohol and drug addiction in his talk "The Long Way Home: Former U.Va. and NBA Player Gus Gerard's Path to Recovery." The event was sponsored by Hoos in Recovery and hosted in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom on April 7. |
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Miller Center Forum: Why America's War on Drugs Isn't Working 4/4/08 - Jerry Cameron spent a considerable part of his seventeen-year law enforcement career in the "war on drugs." Not only was he chief of two small-town police departments, he participated as a front-line warrior in street enforcement and consequently was recognized nationally for developing a technique known as "Operation Pressure Point." |
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50th Anniversary of William Faulkner's Residency at U.Va. 4/4/08 - This spring marks 50 years since the great American author William Faulkner served his second and last term as writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. To mark the occasion, the U.Va. Library and the English department organized an exhibit and a symposium to explore what “Faulkner in the University” meant in the late 1950s and what it means now. Symposium participants included Noel Polk, Thadious Davis, Judith Sensibar and Grace Hale. |
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James Banks on Diversity In America 4/3/08 - Professor James A. Banks, from the University of Washington, Seattle, presents his lecture entitled "Diversity in America: Challenges and Opportunities for Educating Citizens in Global Times" as part of the Walter Ridley Speaker Series. |
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Last Lecture: Dr. Valentina Brashers, M.D. 4/2/08 - The Last Lecture Series is an annual tradition at the University and provides a forum for distinguished professors to lecture to students as if it were their last time to do so. Here Dr. Valentina Brashers, Professor of Nursing and an Attending Physician in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia Health System, presents her last lecture at the Rotunda on Wednesday April 2. |
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