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Peter Onuf gives the Engagement Community's Thomas Jefferson Lecture 4/10/09 - This is a recording of the 2009 Thomas Jefferson Lecture of the Engagement Community at the University of Virginia. The speaker is Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor in U.Va.’s Corcoran Department of History. Professor Onuf is a specialist in the history of the early American republic and a noted scholar of Mr. Jefferson. |
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A Generation Looks Back at Brown in New Book 2/27/09 - A new book edited by a pair of Law School professors explores the profound impact the Brown v. Board of Education decision had on the generation that grew up during the struggle against segregation. |
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No One Factor Can Cause, Cure Economic Crisis, Experts Explain 2/26/09 - The current economic crisis is not without precedent, but the notion that deregulation was the sole cause doesn |
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Education Expert Gives U.Va. Ridley Lecture on Today's Education Challenges and Opportunities 2/23/09 - Margaret Beale Spencer, the Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education at the University of Chicago, gave the fourth annual Walter N. Ridley Distinguished Lecture at the University of Virginia on Feb. 23rd. Spencer is a developmental psychologist and professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. She leads the Penn-Chicago W.E.B. DuBois Collective Research Institute, which engages in partnerships with racially, economically and ethnically diverse communities that have been traditionally underrepresented and under-resourced. Her talk was entitled "The 1954 Brown Decision and Contemporary Education Challenges and Opportunities," and was presented in the Rotunda Dome Room. |
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Abraham Lincoln and William Shakespeare 2/23/09 - WILLIAM LEE MILLER is Scholar in Ethics and Institutions at the Miller Center. From 1992 until his 1999 retirement, he was Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of Political and Social Thought and Director of the Program in Political and Social Thought at U.Va. A speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign and a contributing editor and writer for The Reporter magazine, he was the founding director of the Poynter Center on American Institutions at Indiana University. He is the author of eight books, including Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography (Knopf, 2002). |
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Infrastructure 2/21/09 - America's infrastructure is in grave disrepair. Analysts have determined that one-third of the nation's roads are in poor or mediocre condition, and the Federal Highway Administration recently estimated that one out of every four bridges is either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Every infrastructure sector, from rail, air and seaways, to water supply, sewage and irrigation, to energy pipelines and the electric grid, are in need of significant capital. The Miller Center of Public Affairs hosted a panel to discuss infrastructure on February 21, 2009. |
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What's Wrong with Rendition? Lessons Learned from Maher Arar and His Year in Syria 2/13/09 - LORNE WALDMAN successfully acted as co-counsel for Maher Arar at the public inquiry into the circumstances behind Arar's deportation from the United States to Syria, where Arar was subjected to brutal torture. Practicing immigration and refugee law exclusively since 1979, Waldman co-organized a conference in 2006 that produced the Ottawa Principles on Anti Terrorism and Human and Civil Rights, and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall and the University of Ottawa. He has appeared as a witness before the House of Commons and Senate and is a frequent media commentator on immigration and refugee issues. Waldman was awarded the Louis St. Laurent Award by the Canadian Bar Association for his contribution to the legal profession in 2007. This Forum was co-hosted with the John Bassett Moore Society of International Law at the U.Va. School of Law. |
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Ted Crackel discusses George Washington2/11/09 - Ted Crackel, editor-in-chief of the George Washington Papers at the University of Virginia, joined Charlottesville Right Now with Coy Barefoot to discuss George Washington. |
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