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The Medical Center Hour: A Conversation About History and the Healing Arts: One Scholar's Journey3/12/08 - This Medical Center Hour is a conversation with distinguished historian and literary scholar Brian Stock, expert on (among other subjects) the history of reading and its connections with meditation and self-knowledge who actually began his studies as a student of medicine. How has his work evolved across his career, and what connections does he see now between his scholarship and a continuing interest in science, therapeutics, and the dynamics of healing? |
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Miller Center Debate: Religion in the Public Square3/6/08 - On Thursday, Mar. 6, 2008, in Richmond, Va., the National Discussion and Debate Series examined the role of religion in the public square. Four participants debated the resolution: "Religion should have no place in politics or government."
Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and Jacques Berlinerblau, associate professor and director of the Program for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, spoke in favor of the resolution. Chuck Colson, founder and chairman of Prison Fellowship Ministries, and Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor of Hope Christian Church, argued against it. Evan Thomas, editor at large of Newsweek, moderated. |
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Miller Center Forum: The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History 3/3/08 - Donald T. Critchlow, Professor of History at St. Louis University, is the author and editor of fifteen books, including Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism (Princeton, 2005); Intended Consequences: Birth Control, Abortion, and the Federal Government (Oxford, 1999); and Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation (Indiana, 1997). The founding editor of the Journal of Public Policy, Critchlow has taught at Hong Kong University and Warsaw University, among others. A book signing will follow his Forum. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness2/27/08 - Nancy Berlinger, author of "After Harm: Medical Error and the Ethics of Forgiveness," draws on insights from scholarship in religion and culture to suggest how forgiveness, long recognized as having a restorative role between individuals and within communities, might inform health professionals' response to medical error. |
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Miller Center Forum: Religion in the Public Arena: Contours of the Debate 2/25/08 - Isabelle Kinnard has served as Education Director of the Council for America's First Freedom since May 2004. She is responsible for planning, developing and executing programs to increase the understanding of and appreciation for religious freedom. Kinnard has volunteered extensively for various cultural, community service, legal aid and educational foundations in both Chicago and Williamsburg. This Forum was a prelude to the Miller Center's National Discussion and Debate Series' debate on religion in the public square on March 6, 2008, in Richmond, Va.
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U.S. Markets Still the Gold Standard 2/21/08 - Regina Mysliwiec, a 1972 graduate of the U.Va. School of Law and former senior vice president of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), addressed a business law symposium sponsored by the Virginia Law & Business Review and the Virginia Law and Business Society. |
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The Medical Center Hour: Beyond, Not By, the Numbers: Qualitative Research in Medical Education2/20/08 - Janet Hafler of Tufts University discusses the School of Medicine's new emphasis on medical education research and examines the particular role and value of qualitative research in helping us to understand and appraise how doctors are made. |
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Miller Center Forum: Condoleezza Rice: An American Life 2/18/08 - Elisabeth Bumiller, a Washington reporter for the New York Times, is the author of "The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family" (Vintage, 1996) and "May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India" (Ballantine Books, 1991). She was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and a transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. |
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