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Lectures, radio shows and more available on-demand
These are speeches and presentations put on by people in the Charlottesville area. Some of them may be mere excerpts, some of them may be complete.
On Friday, August 31, Senator John Warner announced he would not seek a sixth term in the U.S. Senate. He made his comments from the steps of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia.
Special thanks to the University of Virginia for providing the audio for this event. Read more at the Hook’s website as well as on The New Dominion.
On August 14, 2007, a time machine temporarily turned the east end of the Downtown Mall back to the year 1807, allowing for Orange County resident James Madison to appear. He spoke about foreign affairs and whether he should run for president. Mr. Madison (as played by JohnG,V Douglas Hall) also took questions from the audience.
The time machine was arranged by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.
On August 13, 2007 at 4pm the Albemarle County, City of Charlottesville, and University of Virginia Police Departments convened a press conference to announce the arrest of an Albemarle man in connection with two sexual assaultsGuv,!vDjkjone in 2002 and another in 2004. The man is also considered a prime suspect in a series of other attacks on women in Central Virginia committed since February 1997, known locally as the “serial rapist case.” Police did not give out much information beyond the basic details. Read those details and more on the Hook’s blog and on cvillenews.com. Washington’s arraignment will be on Thursday.
The main details in the case are about five minutes in. Thanks to radio producer Lydia Wilson for obtaining this audio. You can also hear Courtney Stuart of the Hook explore the details on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot.
Sister Helen Prejean began her prison ministry in 1981, dedicating her life to the poor of New Orleans. In 1993, she wrote Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and later became an Oscar nominated film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. On April 26, Sister Helen spoke at St Thomas Aquinas church in Charlottesville. She is introduced by Father Brian Mulcahey.
Gregory B. Saathoff, M.D., a University of Virginia psychiatrist and director of the Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIAG), is a principal author of the 1999 study for the FBI, “The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective,” which can be downloaded from the FBI web site. Richard J. Bonnie, director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, is the chair of the Commission on Mental Health Law Reform, which is addressing how the mental health and criminal justice systems intersect. Alison Malmon is executive director of Active Minds, Inc., the nation’s only nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging young adults in mental health awareness, and is working to combat the stigma of mental illness. They spoke at a Miller Center of Public Affairs forum on June 25, 2007. This lecture concludes this season’s Miller Center forums. |
(full story on Charlottesville Tomorrow)
The five Democratic candidates for three open seats on the Charlottesville City Council participated in their first candidate forum on Thursday, May 10th, in the cafeteria at Walker Upper Elementary School.
These forums are important opportunities for the public as the three candidates who are nominated at a Democratic caucus on June 2nd will likely end up as the next city councilors. Charlottesville Tomorrow spoke with city Republican Chair Buddy Weber this week who confirmed that the Republicans would not run a candidate this year. Independent candidates have until June 12th to file the paperwork to get on the ballot for the November general election.
Visit our Election Watch 2007 website for detailed information on the candidates, campaign finance reports, upcoming candidate forums, and related events. View all postings related to City elections.
On April 23rd, 2007, the Miller Center for Public Affairs held a forum to ask the question: “Are Western Leadership Concepts Appropriate in Islamic Cultures?” We bring you this now here on the Charlottesville Podcasting Network.
Steffen Schubert, a banker who serves as managing director of Tejoori Limited, previously was chief executive officer of the Dubai International Finance Exchange.
Moustapha Ismail Sarhank, a scholar in the interdisciplinary field of leadership, psychology, and religion, is honorary chairman of Sarhank Group for Investments, a holding company with headquarters in Egypt and Geneva.
David E. Martin is the founding chief executive officer of M-CAM, Inc., the international leader in intellectual property-based financial risk management. Dr. Martin is also a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
This event is co-hosted with the International Business Society at Darden.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg is a White House correspondent for the New York Times. From 2002 to 2006 she was a congressional correspondent for the Times. She has been a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she was part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
Kathie Olsen is deputy director and chief operating officer of the National Science Foundation and former deputy director for science of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Previously she was chief scientist at NASA. She spoke at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia about the need to create a national science policy to guide the country through the next hundred years.
“Today the global economy is tightly linked to science, mathematics and engineering,” Olsen says. “Wise federal spending on science and technology is good economic policy.”
Jordan Lorence of the Alliance Defense Fund and UVA law professor Robert Neil discussed the “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” case recently heard by the Supreme Court, during an event sponsored by the Federalist Society April 3. Lorence is senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund and has litigated First Amendment cases since 1984 in courts across the United States. Robert O’Neil, an authority on the First Amendment, is the director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and a law professor and former president of the University of Virginia.
Originalism is a highly effective political strategy, rather than simply a jurisprudential philosophy of adhering to the exact text
of the Constitution and the original intent of the framers, said Robert Post at the biennial McCorkle Lecture March 29.
Post, the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School, explained to an audience in Caplin Pavilion that originalism is effective because it mobilizes conservative organizations to pressure the president to appoint judges who claim originalism as a philosophy for judicial interpretation, or who say they will be faithful to the original meaning of the Constitution.
“Originalism becomes a means of arousing voters on the right who then come out and vote for a president who appoint the right sort of justices who will create the right sort of law,”kj Post said.
For more on this podcast, visit the U.Va School of Law.
In November 1997, the Reverend Jerry Falwell and publisher Larry Flynt appeared together at the University of Virginia School of Law as part of a conference organized by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. The conference examined the legal and cultural impact of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in which the minister sued the publisher for the unauthorized use of FalwellGuv,!v,,us name and picture in a parody of an advertisement for an alcoholic beverage. Although once bitter legal adversaries, Reverend Falwell and Mr. Flynt sat side by side as they discussed a variety of issues, including the friendship that had developed between them in the years since the CourtGuv,!v,,us decision. The discussion was moderated by noted US Supreme Court reporter Tony Mauro.
