Humanities

Researchers at Vanderbilt University will begin this week contacting Davidson County residents regarding their attitudes about their individual engagement in the community — from the arts and the economy to politics, religion and schools. Read More

Melanie Lowe, assistant professor of Musicology, lectured on the role of classical music in in our culture today. Lowe also teaches courses in American popular music, gender and sexuality in music, and music and American politics. Read More

Melanie Lowe, assistant professor of Musicology, lectured on the role of classical music in in our culture today. Lowe also teaches courses in American popular music, gender and sexuality in music, and music and American politics. Read More

Improving Salvadorians' attitudes toward civic participation, their fellow citizens and their democratic institutions is crucial to developing democratic stability in El Salvador, a country in which crime and a sense of insecurity prevail. Read More

Vanderbilt anthropologist Tom D. Dillehay has been named to a distinguished class of scientists, politicians, authors, artists and others, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) announced April 30. Read More

Curbing corruption and violence and opening up government meetings and financial information to public scrutiny are keys to promoting democracy in Honduras, where support for a democratic government has increased. Read More

Art lovers and fans of the legendary jazz artist John Coltrane will have their last chance to see "God Breathes," a series of paintings depicting the works and life of Coltrane, this week before the exhibit leaves Vanderbilt University and Nashville on Friday, May 11. Read More

Watch streaming video of performance of "Mu Lan & Poetry" from Ingram Hall on the Vanderbilt Campus May 5. Read More

The last of a series of Vanderbilt University lectures dealing with the nature of consciousness and how it affects our views of religion, science, and philosophy has been moved to accommodate the overflow crowds that attended the first two. Read More

The popular Bluebird on the Mountain concert series begins its third season at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 12, at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory with a show featuring Kim Carnes, Dana Cooper, and Greg Barnhill. The 2007 series — which includes six concerts — runs from May 12 to Oct. 13 and will showcase nearly two dozen of Nashville's premier singer-songwriters. Read More

Democracy has solid majority support in Peru yet still lags behind most other Latin American countries, according to a survey by the Latin American Public Opinion Project released in Lima, Peru. Read More

In hip hop music and videos, young black women are consistently portrayed as sexually insatiable vixens willing to debase themselves for the privilege of even the shortest ride on the music industry party train. Read More

The results of the latest and most comprehensive study of public opinion in the Americas concludes that Latin America is drifting toward the political left and experiencing a rise in populism. Read More

James McPherson, a noted American Civil War historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, will deliver a public lecture at Vanderbilt University on May 2. Read More

What do you get when you put a group of creative and inspired Vanderbilt business students in with equally determined students from Vanderbilt's divinity school? How about divine inspiration on the future of business and how business can end poverty. Read More

The Trojan War, sparked by the abduction of the beautiful Helen of Troy, is over. The Greeks, led by Odysseus, are victorious. Odysseus has not yet spent his 10 years traveling the world in the tales made famous in Homer's Odyssey. Read More

Will people learn to be more tolerant in the 21st century than we are now? That's the question the current chief justice of Canada's Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, will discuss when she speaks at Vanderbilt Law School April 5 at 3:30 p.m. in Flynn Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. Read More

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, an expert in women's studies with a particular interest in the lives of African American women, will give Vanderbilt University's Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center's annual lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in Wilson Hall, Room 103. Read More

The author of the Piled Higher and Deeper comic strip, which has been called the Dilbert of academia, will speak at Vanderbilt University about "The Power of Procrastination." Read More

Historian Wilson Miscamble will explore Harry Truman's sudden transition to the presidency when Franklin Roosevelt died and its true impact on the outbreak of the Cold War in a Vanderbilt University public lecture on March 26. Read More