About the series
Madison Vision Series is a lecture series honoring James Madison's conviction that cultivating an informed and educated citizenry is essential to the health of our republican democracy. The series brings scholars, thinkers and leaders of all kinds to campus for lively explorations of issues facing our society.
Supported by the Madison Vision Fund.
Past Speakers
- Raj Vinnakota – Constitution Day Fireside Chat (September 2024)
- Carly Fiorina – To Form a More Perfect Union (September 2023)
- Dr. Anthony Fauci and Jim Acosta ('93) - Town Hall (April 2023)
- Awadagin Pratt - Black In America (February 2023)
- Farah Pandith - How We Win: Fighting the Rise of Hate (April 2022)
- Karen Freeman-Wilson, Sharon Weston Broome, Tishaura Jones and Deanna Reed — Future of Leadership Challenges: 21st Century Mayors (February 2022)
- A.E Dick Howard and Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan - Looking Back, Looking Forward: The 50th Anniversary of the 1971 Rewriting of the Virginia Constitution (April 2021)
- Charles May (’83), Darian Parker (’01, ’03M), Melvin Petty (’84), Angela Reddix (’90) and Faye Tate (’78) — Sharing Stories of Success and Triumph (February 2021)
- Kirk Cox (’79) and Scott Surovell (’93) – The Future of Bipartisanship (November 2020)
- Emerson Sykes - The First Amendment on college campuses, focusing on the differences between public and private campuses (September 2020)
- The Future of Business Innovation - featuring alums who are part of Fortune 500 (February 2020)
- Rosemarie Zagarri - discusses the road to women’s suffrage (November 2019)
- Dr. Barbara Schaal - The Value of Science (April 2019)
- Justice John Charles Thomas - Hope that Inspires Us (February 2019)
- Nick Rahall and Jim Coyne - Congress to Campus (November 2018)
- David Rubenstein - Making the Case for the Constitution (September 2018)
- Jim Acosta - Real News: The Fight for the Truth in the 21st Century (April 2018)
- Bill Bolling - Democracy in Peril: Since When Did Compromise Become a Bad Thing? (March 2018)
- Lynn Pasquerella - Education for Democracy (February 2018)
- Secretary William Hazel, Michael Dudley, Eric Major, and Jim Krauss - The Impact of the Affordable Care Act (Nov 2017)
- Linda Monk - We the Whole People: Creating a More Perfect Union from Imperfect People (September 2017)
- Mary Ellen Callahan - Cybersecurity: Worldwide Problem, Individual Responsibility (March 2017)
- Theodore M. Shaw - Martin Luther King Jr. Formal Program Guest Speaker (January 2017)
- John Bridgeland - Citizenship, Big Ideas, and You (September 2016)
- Margaret Hu - The Rise of the Cyber surveillance State (February 2016)
- Dr. Danielle S. Allen - Participatory Readiness: On the Liberal Arts and the Ethics of Citizenship (2015)
- Russ Reeder - Why is Apathy Acceptable? (October 2015)
- Dr. George Kuh - An Education for Our Times (October 2015)
- Stewart Harris - Madisonian Ethics (September 2015)
- iDebate Rwanda - Thinking and Speaking a Better World (November 2014)
- Dr. A.E. Dick Howard - James Madison's Long Shadow: What Have Other Nations Gleaned from the American Constitutional Experience? (Sept 2013)
- Kat Imoff - James Madison and the Art of the Gray (March 2014)
- Michael Signer - Statesmanship for Troubled Times: Leadership Lessons from James Madison (February 2015)
- Riane Eisler - Re-Examining Human Nature and Re-Creating Society: Four Cornerstones for Transformation (March 2015)
- Lawrence Lessig - Madison's Forgotten Egalitarianism (April 2015)
- Carly Fiorina - Why Study Liberal Arts? (April 2014)
- Christopher Phillips - Rethinking our Democracy (April 2014)
- Justice William C. Mims - Be It Ever So Humble: Justice as a Virtue (September 2014)
- CEO Jeffrey Rosen - The Bill of Rights in the 21st Century (October 2014)
- Dr. Carol Geary Schneider - Liberal Education and Student Success: Making the Connections, Mapping the Pathways (October 2013)
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