Humanities

The thing that makes Israeli officials nervous about the program to keep their country connected with young American Jews may be the reason it’s working so well. Read More

The papers of Julian Goodman, an NBC broadcast pioneer who helped bring to life the network news programs that we watch today, have been placed at Vanderbilt University Libraries’ Special Collections. Read More

Vanderbilt University is the primary organizer of a film festival in Paris that focuses on the experiences and contributions of blacks in French society. Read More

Watch video of a talk by Jonathan Culler of Cornell University. Read More

A Vanderbilt University professor whose expertise is medieval and Renaissance European history has been named a 2010 Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read More

An interdisciplinary research project at Vanderbilt, in partnership with the ALIAS Chamber Ensemble, has commissioned a piece of original music from award-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank. This fall the piece will be premiered and recorded by ALIAS, which includes musicians from the Blair School. Read More

A poet at Vanderbilt University was named one of "Forty Favorite Poets" by Essence magazine in honor of its 40th anniversary. Stephanie Pruitt, who will receive her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing May 14 at Vanderbilt’s Commencement ceremonies, was listed alongside such luminaries as Maya Angelou, Lucille Clifton, former Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Marilyn Nelson and Gwendolyn Brooks. Read More

"In the non-legal context, genocide has come to be thought of as the epitome of ’evil,’" writes Vanderbilt philosopher Larry May in his new book, Genocide. "Some authors have argued that we should regard genocide as merely a plain fact that should not be further investigated lest we risk that our explanations and conceptual inquiries will be mistakenly seen as forgiveness for the horror of what genocide is." Read More

Efforts by Nashville’s civil rights activists were key to the historic national struggle for civil rights. On Friday, April 30, members of Nashville’s movement will gather at Vanderbilt University to discuss their experiences. Read More

Angela Hsiau-mei Lin, a Vanderbilt German professor and musician, has died after a long illness. She was 40. Read More

An April 20 reading at Vanderbilt University by poet Ciaran Carson has been canceled because of travel difficulties. Carson was unable to travel to Nashville because of flight cancelations caused by volcanic ash from an eruption in Iceland. Read More

Poet Ciaran Carson will read from his work at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Watch video of a Thinking Out of the Lunchbox discussion with Colin Dayan, professor of English, Robert Penn Warren Professor in Humanities; Jemima Pierre, visiting fellow, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities; and Jane Landers, associate professor of history. Read More

A lecture about Google’s effect on culture, commerce and community set for April 15 at Vanderbilt University has been canceled. Read More

Ira Berlin, an American historian and author of The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations (Viking 2010), will speak at Vanderbilt University on April 16. Read More

Elie Wiesel, author and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, will speak at Vanderbilt University Monday, April 12, at 7 p.m. at Langford Auditorium. Read More

A national literary journal, Nashville Review, has been launched by graduate creative writing students at Vanderbilt University. The journal will operate under a broad definition of literature, including fiction, poetry, comics, songs and films. There will also be interviews of distinguished artists. Read More

Students in Vanderbilt University's World War II history class will watch a P-51 Mustang, arguably the most potent and effective fight plane of that war, fly over the northern part of the Vanderbilt campus at noon on Friday, April 2. Read More

The battle between creationists and Darwinians sometimes appears to be irresolvable. Pick science or religion – you can't have both. Read More

Sensitive issues about medical care for dying patients will be addressed in this year's Berry Lecture, sponsored by the philosophy department at Vanderbilt University. Read More