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Friday, February 1: 12:30 p.m Miller Center Colloquium Desmond King, Oxford professor and author of Separate and Unequal: African Americans and the U.S. Federal Government, will present his working paper, "Mimicking War: How the Modern American State Grew at Home". One of his arguments is that studying the American State is essential to understanding racial outcomes in the U.S. This paper is available on www.millercenter.org/academic/gage.For additional information or to RSVP please contact Stephanie Hassell snh4h@virginia.edu (434) 982-3719 Lunch will be served. Tuesday, February 5: 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Fundraiser for the Road Back PAC at Gravity Lounge, Charlottesville with Governor Mark Warner and political commentator Paul Martin. "Join us for elegant hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar as we watch the results from 20 primaries come in on a big screen. Admission $30. Please rsvp by Jan. 29 -- Replies & contributions can be sent to:
Saturday, February 9: 6:00 p.m. in Richmond. Annual Virginia Democratic Dinner. Tuesday, February 12: 6:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Republican and Democratic Presidential Primary elections in Virginia. Tuesday, February 12: 11:00 a.m. Miller Center Forum: President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman 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). A book signing will follow his Forum. 2201 Old Ivy Road, Charlotttesville; for info: 434-924-0921 or www.millercenter.org Thursday, February 14: 7:30 p.m. Regular monthly meeting of the Monticello Bird Club. “Good Bluebird Stewardship:” Find out how to persuade these brilliant blue beauties to settle down near your home. Anne Little, president of the Virginia Bluebird Society, will show you how--with slides, planting tips, nests, eggs, and samples of nesting boxes and predator guards. “Everything you need to know to build a successful bluebird trail.” Education Building, Ivy Creek Natural Area. Information: Ellen Dudley: 244-2688, Patricia Wilczek: 985-4444, Jenny Gaden: 293-6275. www.monticellobirdclub.org Friday, February 15: 11:00 a.m. Miller Center Forum: Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and Modern American Conservatism William Link, Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida, was a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for twenty-three years. He is the author of Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (UNC Press, 2003); William Friday: Power and Purpose in American Higher Education (UNC Press, 1995); The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1920 (UNC Press, 1992); and A Hard Country and a Lonely Place: Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870-1920 (UNC Press, 1986). A book signing will follow his Forum. 2201 Old Ivy Road, Charlotttesville; for info: 434-924-0921 or www.millercenter.org Saturday, February 16: 9:30 a.m. Monthly Albemarle / Charlottesville Democratic Breakfast. The hot topic of Immigration will be reviewed by a panel, moderated by Peter Loach. Participants are Tim Freilich, Walter Tejada and Sindy M. Benavides. View bios and further details. At JABA, 674 Hillsdale Drive, behind Fashion Square and adjacent to the Marriott Courtyard. The event is free, a light breakfast is offered and the public is warmly invited. Saturday, February 16: 10:00 a.m. The Charlottesville Community and the Vietnam War, a free public forum in the McIntire Room of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library, 201 East Market Street, Charlottesville.The forum will provide a retrospective of the 1960’s by those local community members who lived through the turbulent time, including military veterans, citizens, historians and others. Jim Heilman and Paul Gaston will be among the speakers. Community dialogue will be encouraged. From 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. tour the exhibit, "Marking Time: Voyage to Vietnam, Vietnam Graffiti by Soldiers on their Way to War." The exhibit is at theAlbemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, 200 Second St. NE and will run through the month of February. Further information 434-296-1288. Sunday, February 17: 3:00 p.m. The Albemarle-Charlottesville Branch of The NAACP is celebrating its Founders’ Day at the Jackson P. Burley Middle School, 901 Rose Hill Drive, Charlottesville, Virginia. Rev. J. Rayfield Vines, Jr., newly-elected State Conference President, will be the guest speaker. Further info Robert “Bob” Gest III, rxgest@comcast.net or 434-974-7167 Sunday, February 17: 3:00 p.m. Monthly Meeting of the Blue Ridge Virginia Chapter of the United Nations Association of the USA Tom Perriello will speak on “Restoring America’s Commitment to the Common Good” Unitarian Universalist Church, 717 Rugby Road, Charlottesville. The public is invited and the program is free of charge. Monday, February 18: 11:00 a.m. Miller Center Forum: Condoleezza Rice: An American Life 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. A book signing will follow her Forum. 2201 Old Ivy Road, Charlotttesville; for info: 434-924-0921 or www.millercenter.org Thursday, February 21: 7:00 p.m. CCPJ screens a new film about the verifiability of U.S. elections. The writer, director, and producer of "Uncounted," David Earnhardt, will show his film and then speak about it and lead a discussion. There will be no charge for admission. Sojourner's Church, 1017 Elliott Avenue, Charlottesville. "Uncounted" is a nonpartisan look at election fraud and error, with a focus on the elections of 2004 and 2006 and the problems created by the expanded use of DRE (directly recording electronic) voting machines. Both Charlottesville and Albemarle residents vote on DREs. The film trailer can be viewed at http://www.uncountedthemovie.com More information about the event in Charlottesville, including a flyer and poster, is at http://charlottesvillepeace.org/uncounted Thursday, February 21: 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population sponsors a panel discussion on the topic: "Waterproofing A Growing Community: Designs for our future water supply" in the library of Westminster Presbyterian Church, 190 Rugby Rd. Parking is available in the lot behind the church. Leaders representing divergent positions will discuss matters at issue. Free. Questions? Contact Elizabeth at 974-4582. Friday, February 22: 11:00 a.m. Miller Center Forum: Outsourcing Sovereignty: Why Privatization of Government Functions Threatens Democracy and What We Can Do About It Paul Verkuil, Professor of Law and former Dean (1997–2001) at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, has practiced at two leading New York law firms and served on the law faculty at UNC, 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). A book signing will follow his Forum. 2201 Old Ivy Road, Charlotttesville; for info: 434-924-0921 or www.millercenter.org Friday, February 22: 3:00 p.m. Tera Hunter will speak on her forthcoming book, "'Until Death or Distance Do You Part': Marriage and Slavery in the Nineteenth Century" At Minor Hall Auditorium, University of Virginia. To be followed by the Woodson Fourth Friday mixer, with wine and light refreshments in Minor Hall Lobby at 5pm. The talk, from a forthcoming book on the history of African-American marriages in the nineteenth century, explores the conundrum between the denial of their legal right to marry and the actual relationships that slaves, free blacks, and emancipated slaves constructed for themselves throughout this period and across the nation. What did it mean for a nation to hold dear the institution of marriage while simultaneously granting it no legal standing for the enslaved? What external practices imposed by slave masters and the state functioned to threaten black intimacy and personal autonomy? While marriage embodied heightened meaning to those African Americans who were denied its rights and privileges, did not embrace or respond uniformly to legal, monogamous forms of marriage, either before or after slavery? Tera Hunter, a former Carter G. Woodson Fellow, is the author of "'To
Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labor after the Civil War,"
Sunday, February 24: 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Chief Billy "Red Wing" Tayac of the Piscataway Nation will speak about issues facing native people in the United States. At CHM 402 (Chemistry Auditorium) at the University of Virginia. There will be no charge for admission. Further information Rian Chandler 434-295-3381. Sponsored by Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, the American Indian Student Union, the National Native American Law Student Association, and the Office of the Dean of Students of UVa. Monday, February 25: 11:00 a.m. Miller Center Forum: Religion in the Public Arena: Contours of the Debate 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. Before joining the Council, Kinnard taught in the
Department of Religious Studies at the College of William and Mary. Kinnard
has 2201 Old Ivy Road, Charlotttesville; for info: 434-924-0921 or www.millercenter.org Wednesday, February 27: 5:30
p.m. the Center for Politics and University Career Services will present
a panel discussion on the field of political journalism. "Careers
in Political Journalism" seeks to educate students about this exciting
profession, and the general public and members of the press are also invited
to attend. This free event will take place in the Bryant Hall/Scott Stadium
recruiting room on the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
No advance registration is required and free parking is available outside
of Bryant Hall.
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