Humanities

Recently recognized by The New York Times as the "leading poetry critic in America," Helen Vendler will speak Thursday, Jan. 18, at the Flynn Auditorium at the Vanderbilt University Law School. Read More

Who will be the next Albert Einstein? The next Stephen Hawking? A new report from Vanderbilt University reveals the complex mix of factors that create these intellectual leaders: cognitive abilities, educational opportunities, investigative interests and old-fashioned hard work. Read More

Wendell "Sonny" Rawls, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will visit Vanderbilt University during the spring 2007 semester to teach Investigative Reporting in America. Read More

Apocalypto continues tradition of inaccurately disparaging native cultures. The rich culture and complex intellectual achievements of Maya culture are ignored in Mel Gibson‘s new film Apocalypto in favor of stereotypical portrayals of Native Americans as "noble savages" or "evil Indians," says Annabeth Headrick, a Vanderbilt University professor and expert on the Maya. Read More

Programs promoting home ownership and bilingual skills within the Middle Tennessee Hispanic community will be recognized Dec. 4 during Conexi√õn Am√àricas‘ "Celebration of Achievements" at Vanderbilt University. The event, which is sponsored by Vanderbilt‘s Center for the Americas, will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the university‘s Alumni Hall. Read More

Acclaimed poet Mary Leader will read from her work this month at Vanderbilt University.Leader, author of the award-winning collections Red Signature and The Penultimate Suitor, will read at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 28, in Room 101 of Buttrick Hall on the Vanderbilt campus. The reading is free and open to the public. Read More

Fleeting mercies, painful secrets, the living and the dead find asylum - even sanctuary - throughout Rick Hilles‘ first published book of poetry. Read More

The Holocaust Lecture Series at Vanderbilt, the longest continuous holocaust lecture series at an American university, turns its attention this year to damage intentionally wrought upon their victims' rich cultures by Nazi Germany and other genocidal regimes. Read More

Two Vanderbilt Peabody College literacy and language experts are available to discuss why a resolution under consideration by the Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County to ban the use of bilingual services by many Metro agencies will not help non-English speakers learn the language and could in fact further isolate them from speakers of English and necessary services. Read More

From adolescence on, I heard a constant refrain from my Indian father: "Don't ever believe that you're really American." I found his advice peculiar, especially as I had been living in America since age 8 and had largely forgotten my time in India. To him, it didn't matter that the only language in which I could think a complex thought was English. It didn't matter that the only music I listened to was Michael Jackson, the Bee Gees and Billy Joel. Read More

Have you considered how many hands it took to get the broccoli you just purchased from the field to your table? Did you know that it quite possibly came from Guatemala? Did you ever consider that someone grew that broccoli for you so they could send their kids to a better school? Read More

Things will start getting a little less comfortable around Vanderbilt University this fall — and that's a good thing. Read More

Vanderbilt University has hired five prominent African American literature scholars in a blockbuster recruiting coup that advances its efforts to be a major player in the study of African American literature and deepen scholarship of Southern and American literature. Read More