Please join the Batten School and UVA Center for Politics for the a Democracies in Crisis lecture featuring special guests Batten's Peter Johannessen, Michael Abramowitz, Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, and Christopher Sabatini.

Please join the Batten School and UVA Center for Politics for the 21st Annual American Democracy Conference. This is the first in a series of events celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage.

Her Excellency Emily Haber, Ambassador of Germany to the United States, will speak from 4:00-5:15 p.m. on November 12 in the University of Virginia Rotunda Dome Room. Significant time will be dedicated to questions from the audience. This event is a part of the UVA Center for Politics Ambassador Series in partnership with the UVA Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs, Center for German Studies, European Studies Program, and the UVA College of Arts and Sciences Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures. 

Join us for an event sponsored by the Center for Politics and hosted by Larry Sabato. Panelists for the event will include Former Senator Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Former Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D- ND), and Former Senator Claire McCaskill (D - MO).

Join the UVA Center for Politics Ambassador Series with His Excellency Carlos dos Santos, Ambassador of Mozambique to the United States. The event will open with a welcome by Professor Larry Sabato and proceed with a speech by Ambassador dos Santos that will focus on the relationship between our countries and issues impacting Mozambique and Southern Africa.

How do we restore faith in the American political system and in democracy as an institution? Hear from Batten Dean Ian H. Solomon and fellow panelists Melody Barnes, Micah Schwartzman, Larry Terry, Larry Sabato, and moderator Mary Kate Cary. 

Last week, the Batten School and the Center for Politics hosted an event in Garrett Hall titled “The Economic Factors that Divide America” as part of the National Symposium Series on Democracy.

The University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the UVA Center for Politics today announced a new Batten School undergraduate course that will be taught by Center for Politics Director Larry J. Sabato and Center for Politics Chief of Staff Ken Stroupe this spring. 

On Saturday afternoon, Nov. 3, the Virginia Film Festival screened the documentary film Charlottesville during a premier event hosted by the Batten School and UVA Center for Politics. The film, created by the Center for Politics and Community Idea Stations, focuses on the violent white supremacist demonstrations that occurred at UVA and Charlottesville in August 2017. As part of the festival’s focus on racial conflict in America, the premier came at an apt time.