Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to another Miller Center webinar. Im going to moderate todays conversation and it is a real pleasure to be with you all and have these terrific guests. Actpresident ial transition was adopted by congress in 1963 to provide statutory framework for the peaceful transfer of power. It has been updated several times since. We are going to discuss rising issues coming out of that in the current transition and transfer. It has been almost a week since most Major Networks designated joe biden as president elect. The biden team has been moving forward on a transition and selected a new white house chief of staff, have launched a Pandemic Task force, and soon will be announcing other white house and cabinet level positions. Theyve started conversations with foreign heads of state and a number of american political leaders. A small but growing number of senior Republican Leaders have acknowledged the outcome of the election, including former president bush, his c
Biden administration can prepare to take office in january. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to another Miller Center webinar. Bill im going to moderate todays conversation. It is a real pleasure to be with you all and have these terrific guests. Guests. Actpresident ial transition was adopted by congress in 1963 to provide statutory framework for the peaceful transfer of power. It has been updated several times since. We are going to discuss rising issues coming out of that in the current transition and transfer. It has been almost a week since most Major Networks designated joe biden as president elect. The biden team has been moving forward on a transition and selected a new white house chief of staff, have launched a Pandemic Task force, and soon will be announcing other white house and cabinet level positions. Theyve started conversations with foreign heads of state and a number of american political leaders. A small but growing number of senior Republican Leaders have acknowledg
The scope of what we are talking about when we are talking about changes in policing. Instead of focusing primarily on reform, there are conversations about defunding or shrieking or abolishing the police, fundamentally changing the institution of the police and what they do. Data is really being proffered in many ways as this sort of panacea or Silver Bullet with many of these issues. In the defunding debate, lets say we are going to defund the cut costs. People say data can be used to allocate resources more efficiently. Or lets reduce racial bias and officer decisionmaking. Lets automate it. Or you want to reduce the categorical suspicion of young black males and more accurately predict crime, try predictive algorithms. I think we need to be cautious , when we using data are trying to solve social problems with technological solutions. The first thing i would suggest in moving forward is that we pause,moment to stop, to and really invert the order of operations of what has been goin
Enslaved. Including those born free in the north. The senator for a civil war study said Virginia Tech hosted this online talking provided the video. On todays event speaker is doctor Caroline Wood newhall, she graduated with a ph. D. Earlier this year, from the university of north carolina. She joined us just a few weeks ago, at Virginia Tech, as a post doctoral fellow at the Virginia Center for several more studies. I am certainly really glad she is here, and i think you all will be as, well once you hear her talk. Its clear that shes going to bring an awful lot to Virginia Tech, in terms of teaching, research, and outreach programs, as well. She specializes in 19th century u. S. History, including of course, civil war era. But also north american slavery more generally, warfare more generally, as well. Her writing has appeared and several war monitors and Civil War History journals, among other publications. And her big projects at the moment are converting her ph. D. Dissertations
State, tax politics, and the limits of american liberalism. Professor michael more looks at tax policy and American Attitudes towards taxes from the end of the new deal, to the 1986 tax reform act. This top is warning the series with scholars who used records in the National Archives center for legislative archives for the research. The center senate hosted this amendment right of the video. Thank you for attending todays researcher top historian at the center for a legislative archive sponsor of the series. Weve had a very full program this year, showcasing some of the Significant Research that is still being, done in the house records. Todays top is the eighth of this calendar, near and we have one more november, then we will hear from Charles Stewart Political Science professor at mit, longtime friend and supporter. Of the center. Who is talk about his coauthor book electing the senate, in direct democracy before the 17th amendment. By the prince in your city press, it will be a pre