Humanities

When former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso delivers a public lecture at Vanderbilt University on Oct. 8, he will continue an extraordinary relationship between Brazil and Vanderbilt that began shortly after World War II. Read More

The first conference of an organization of black women philosophers will meet next month at Vanderbilt University and the keynote speech will address racial violence in Jena, La. Read More

The Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) has unveiled - for the first time in Latin America - the comprehensive results of surveys that assess the political culture of 21 countries in the Western hemisphere. Read More

A professor from Vanderbilt University told Congress on Tuesday that she found American culture "deeply gratifying and simultaneously disturbing" during a Washington hearing about stereotypes and degrading images in popular culture. Read More

A Vanderbilt University German professor was awarded Monday the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the only order awarded by the president of that nation. Read More

Michael Bess, the first Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, will deliver his inaugural lecture Oct. 4 on the impact of rapid advances in science, medicine and technology on human identity. Read More

Acclaimed producer, writer and director Julie Dash, maker of the film Daughters of the Dust and CBS television movie The Rosa Parks Story, will give a talk, "Smuggling Dreams into Reality: Black Women in Filmmaking," Friday, Oct. 5, 3 to 5 p.m. at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The longest running Holocaust Lecture Series at an American university marks its 30th year with lectures and films this October and November spanning subjects from the life of children in Nazi Germany to genocide in Iraq and ethnic cleansing in the United States. Read More

Emma Amos will speak at Vanderbilt University, helping to launch a new lecture series that will bring major artists to campus. Read More

Six members of Vanderbilt University's Department of English faculty will give a joint public reading on Friday, Oct. 12. Read More

Conversational lectures from thought-provoking professors and entertaining performance-related presentations - all accompanied with delicious boxed lunches - continue for the 2007-08 school year, thanks to Vanderbilt University's thriving community partnerships. Read More

The changing brain, architectural "winners and losers" and the rise of Irish literature are among the topics offered this fall at Vanderbilt University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Read More

Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, Shalimar the Clown and winner of numerous literary prizes, will speak at Vanderbilt University to open the Chancellor's Lecture Series for the fall 2007 semester. Read More

The fourth Bluebird on the Mountain concert is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, and promises to be on of the highlights of this year's series. Singer-songwriters Don Schlitz, Thom Schuyler and Fred Knobloch, whose work dominated the country charts in the 1980s and '90s, will perform at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. Harmonica player Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson will also perform at the concert. Read More

The United States premiere of Australia's BalletLab and a performance by the Kronos Quartet highlight the 33rd season of Great Performances at Vanderbilt, Nashville's longest running and only international performing series. The season will also bring a residency at Vanderbilt by the JosÈ LimÛn Dance Company. Read More

Anthropologists working on the slopes of the Andes in northern Peru have discovered the earliest-known evidence of peanut, cotton and squash farming dating back 5,000 to 9,000 years. Their findings provide long-sought-after evidence that some of the early development of agriculture in the New World took place at farming settlements in the Andes. Read More

Memos in 2002 and 2003 written by White House lawyers to President Bush effectively promoting the use of torture are shocking, but not because of faulty legal arguments, says a Vanderbilt University professor. Read More

The Colombian government enjoys high levels of citizen support and Colombians trust the democratic system, according to a new survey. Read More

Award-winning singer-songwriters Mike Reid and Michael Johnson will headline the second Bluebird on the Mountain show of the 2007 season at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 23, at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. Read More

A comparative study shows that Guatemalan women tend not to vote. This is especially true of those who lack education and live in rural areas. Read More