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Regulatory Approaches to Climate Governance 12/11/08 - Many policy options could achieve reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, including those that impose firm governmental regulations on various sectors of the economy. In some instances, these policies already exist either nationally or sub-nationally but may well be expanded in the coming years. Brian Balogh chairs this session of the Miller Center's National Conference on Climate Governance. Other speakers are Pietro Nivola, Ian Rowlands, Marc Landy, Judith Layzer
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Market Approaches to Climate Governance 12/11/08 - Abundant literature in the economics field documents the merits of market-based systems of environmental protection, with perhaps the most celebrated innovation involving the so-called "cap-and-trade" program established for sulfur dioxide emissions in the 1990s. This session will examine the governance challenges of two oft-discussed alternatives that take a market approach, namely cap-and-trade and taxation schemes for carbon emissions meant to deter the use of fossil fuels. Vivian Thomson, Department of Environmental Sciences, Department of Politics, University of Virginia chairs. Other speakers are Leigh Raymond, Barry Rabe,
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Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 12/8/08 - MICHAEL JOSEPH SMITH has written extensively on the ethical dilemmas raised by contemporary international politics, most recently contributing to the United Nations International Commission on Sovereignty and Intervention. He is the Thomas C. Sorenson Professor of Political and Social Thought and Associate Professor of Politics at U.Va. He has taught as an Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard, and came to U.Va. in 1986, where he currently directs the interdisciplinary, undergraduate program in Political and Social Thought. Smith teaches courses on human rights, political thought, and ethics and international relations, and won the All-University Teaching Award in 2002. Here he speaks at the Miller Center on December 8, 2008. |
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A Virginia Dynasty? James Monroe and the Presidential Elections of 1816 and 1820 12/3/08 - DANIEL F. PRESTON is Editor of The Papers of James Monroe at the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library. His articles include "James Monroe: Occasional Lawyer" in America's Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to the Oval Office (Northwestern University Press, 2004) and "James Monroe" in The American Presidents (Readers Digest, 2001). Preston has delivered numerous presentations and conference papers on James Monroe and other historical figures, and his awards include a fellowship at the David Bruce Centre for American Studies at Keele University (United Kingdom) and a Mellon Fellowship Grant from the Virginia Historical Society. This is the annual Gordon and Mary Beth Smyth Forum on American History that took place at the Miller Center on December 3, 2008. |
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Napolitano  12/1/08 - Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, a 1983 graduate of the Law School, has been nominated as the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a cabinet-level post. President-elect Barack Obama announced his decision today. Napolitano also spoke at the Law School |
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Interagency Relationships in the Intelligence Community 11/17/08 - PHILIP MUDD joined the CIA in 1985 as a leadership analyst responsible for South Asian issues, and in 1992 began focusing on Middle East terrorism - particularly Iranian state-sponsored terrorism - in the Counter Terrorism Center (CTC) in 1992. Mudd later became the Deputy Director of the Office of Terrorism Analysis. In 2003, he was appointed the CTC's Deputy Director, and in 2005 became Associate Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch. The Director of Central Intelligence gave Mudd the Director's Award in 2004, for his leadership, extraordinary fidelity, and essential service. |
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War 11/14/08 - MICHAEL DOBBS joined the Washington Post as its Warsaw correspondent in 1980. He was the first Western journalist to visit the Gdansk shipyard in August 1980, and spent much of the '80s covering the collapse of Communism from Eastern Europe, Russia, and China. Dobbs has also covered the State Department and been a foreign investigative reporter for the Post, and has held fellowships at Harvard and Princeton universities. He is the author of Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire (Vintage, 1998) and Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey (Henry Holt and Co., 1999). |
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Second Nature: The Popularization of the Telephone in Late Nineteenth Century Chicago 11/14/08 - Richard R. John the author of Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995) and many articles on the history of American public policy, business, and communications. In addition, he is the editor of a volume of original essay on topics in nineteenth-century U. S. political history, Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America (2006). He is currently completing a history of early American telecommunications. |
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