Humanities

Poet Kate Light will perform with the Blair String Quartet and give a solo reading during a visit to Vanderbilt University on Nov. 12 and 13. Read More

Families, faith and foster care are the focus of the 13th annual Family Re-Union conference, set for Oct. 18 at the downtown Nashville Public Library, located at 615 Church Street. Read More

Former Vice President Al Gore, a former Vanderbilt student and moderator for a decade of annual Family Re-Union conferences held at the university, was named a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his work to combat global warming. Read More

Nashville Public Television (NPT) and Vanderbilt University have entered into a new strategic partnership designed to develop, enrich and extend educational programs and services throughout the region. Read More

Novelist and short story writer Robin Lippincott will read from his work at Vanderbilt University. Lippincott is the author of the new novel In the Meantime, which follows the intertwined lives of three friends for six decades from a small Midwestern town to Manhattan. Read More

Globalization may have transformed the world, but there's still much to learn from how things operated before that monumental shift. Read More

Four Vanderbilt University graduates are traveling in China, Germany and Spain as Fulbright Scholars during the 2007-2008 academic year. Read More

The development of four cities in the 20th century — one of them Nashville — will be traced when Kenneth Jackson speaks at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Oct. 25. Read More

The biographer of Noam Chomsky has written a new book on the linguist and political dissenter and will speak about it on Oct. 11 at Vanderbilt University. Read More

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