Lectures
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How Parents and Their Young Children Learn to Talk to Each Other
Watch videos from Commencement 2010 Week’s Faculty Seminars. Read MoreMay 19, 2010
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Rocking Gender: Stereotype and Subversion Among Female Pop Musicians
Watch videos from Commencement 2010 Week’s Faculty Seminars. Read MoreMay 19, 2010
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Robotics: New Possibilities in Prosthetic Limbs
Watch videos from Commencement 2010 Week’s Faculty Seminars. Read MoreMay 19, 2010
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Watch: Baudelaire and the Theory of the Lyric
Watch video of a talk by Jonathan Culler of Cornell University. Read MoreApr 30, 2010
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Watch: Barack Obama and the Remaking of Black America
Watch video of Ira Berlin, an American historian and author of The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations, speaking at Vanderbilt April 16. Read MoreApr 19, 2010
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Watch: Spring Faculty Assembly
Watch video of the 2010 Spring Faculty Assembly. Read MoreApr 9, 2010
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Watch: “Gesture, Archive, Repertoire: The Circulation of South Asian Embodied Histories”
Watch video of Ananya Jahanara Kabir, University of Leeds, speaking on history, art, film and modernity in post-colonial South Asia. Read MoreApr 8, 2010
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Watch: “Civilizing” Haiti: Representation, and its Discontents
Watch video of a Thinking Out of the Lunchbox discussion with Colin Dayan, professor of English, Robert Penn Warren Professor in Humanities; Jemima Pierre, visiting fellow, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities; and Jane Landers, associate professor of history. Read MoreApr 8, 2010
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Watch: The Battle for America 2008
Watch video of Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson, two of the nation’s most experienced political reporters, engaging in an evening of political discussion. Read MoreApr 8, 2010
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Watch: Impact Symposium: “American Capitalism in the World”
Watch video of a talk by Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Read MoreApr 1, 2010
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Watch: Impact Symposium: “Business or the Consumer First?”
Watch video of journalist John Stossel and political activist Ralph Nader speaking at the annual Impact Symposium. Read MoreMar 31, 2010
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Watch: “Primordial Ice Reservoirs of the Solar System”
Watch video of the Seyfert Lecture given by Dr. David C. Jewitt. Read MoreMar 30, 2010
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Watch: A discussion of “The Color Purple”
Watch video of an InsideOut of the Lunch Box discussion of the musical based on the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and the moving film by Steven Spielberg. Read MoreMar 29, 2010
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Watch: “Whatever Happened to Hope: Why Barack Obama Cannot Become a Transformational President”
Watch video of a talk by Rick Perlstein, an author and political journalist who has written extensively about the history of conservatism in modern America. Read MoreMar 25, 2010
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Watch: “Sibling Rivalry: Can the religious offspring of Abraham get along?”
Watch Robert Wright's March 17 talk "Sibling Rivalry: Can the religious offspring of Abraham get along?” Read MoreMar 18, 2010
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Watch: Beyond Inclusion: Rethinking Normalcy, Identity, and Disability in Theological Terms
Tom Reynolds suggests a reframing of what we consider "normal"and outlines how that reframing might alter how we think about the act of inclusion. Read MoreMar 8, 2010
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Watch: “American Pie: Fact or Fiction? A Closer Look at Virginity Loss in the Movies”
Watch video of a March 3 talk by Assistant Professor of Sociology Laura Carpenter, part of the Thinking Out of the Lunchbox series. Read MoreMar 4, 2010
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Watch: Ken Feinberg, Obama’s ‘executive pay czar’
Watch video of Ken Feinberg, better known as President Obama's executive pay czar, delivering the keynote speech for a daylong executive pay conference at the Vanderbilt Law School. Read MoreFeb 26, 2010
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Watch: Engineering, Innovation, and the Challenges of the 21st Century
Watch video beginning of a talk by Charles M. Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering and President Emeritus, MIT. Read MoreFeb 24, 2010