Humanities

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

A distinguished German scholar who has played an important role in contemporary debates about interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary studies will speak at Vanderbilt University on March 27. Read More

Vanderbilt University will celebrate the establishment of the James M. Lawson Jr. Chair at Vanderbilt with a symposium on Lawson's legacy and an inaugural lecture by the first holder of the Lawson Chair. Read More

Knoxville author Julia Watts will read from her work at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, March 29, as part of Vanderbilt‘s Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers series. Read More

The nature of consciousness in humans and animals and its effect on how we view religion, science and philosophy will be tackled during three lectures at Vanderbilt University by prominent researcher Christof Koch. Read More

Evenings devoted to music and literature will highlight a three-day conference at Vanderbilt University examining the cultural practices of Jewish women from around the globe. Read More

A Vanderbilt University Divinity School professor will preach at Westminster Abbey during a lecture tour of England this month that is part of the bicentennial celebration of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. Read More

The degree to which morality and religion should influence political decisions about abortion, taxation, the environment and other issues will be explored in a four-part lecture series at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Acclaimed writers Kwame Dawes, Teresa de la Caridad Doval, Lorna Goodison, Francisco Goldman and critic J. Edward Chamberlin will all visit Vanderbilt University in March to take part in a creative writing symposium. Read More

A new album of uplifting music from Uganda compiled by a Vanderbilt University ethnomusicologist is being released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings as part of the effort to combat HIV/AIDS. Read More

Oakley Ray, who taught at Vanderbilt University for more than 30 years and wrote both an enduring textbook and self-help books for the general public, died Feb. 7. He was 76. Read More

The litany of woe has become familiar and seemingly overwhelming. The earth is running out of fossil fuel and facing chaotic weather due to global warming. Water will soon be scarce, and world population continues to explode, taxing diminishing resources. Read More