Humanities

Programs promoting home ownership, business development and bilingual skills within the Middle Tennessee Hispanic community will be recognized Dec. 10 during Conexion Americas‘ "Celebration of Achievements" at Vanderbilt University. The Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt will sponsor and host the event. Read More

A professor from Vanderbilt‘s Blair School of Music was nominated for a Grammy on Thursday. Greg Barz, associate professor of ethnomusicology at Blair, is nominated in the Best Traditional World Music Album category for his album Singing for Life: Songs of Hope, Healing, and HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Read More

Property rights play a pivotal role in fashioning American constitutional order. New research by renowned legal historian and Vanderbilt professor of law and history James W. Ely Jr. traces the historical relationship between private property ownership and political liberty. Read More

Watch video of Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright Edward Albee speaking at Vanderbilt Nov. 27. The event was part of the Chancellor's Lecture Series. Read More

The co-writer of the autobiography of Ray Charles, along with the director of the Nashville Jazz Orchestra and Charles‘ longtime saxophonist, will discuss the late music great during "SoBro Sessions: Remembering Brother Ray" at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Friday, November 30. Read More

Playwright Edward Albee, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and three-time Tony Award recipient, will address "The State of Theater and the Arts in America" on Tuesday, Nov. 27, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music on the Vanderbilt University campus. Read More

Vanderbilt University kicks off its International Education Week events Sunday, Nov. 11. The week ñ officially celebrated this year Nov. 12-16 ñ is an annual initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to recognize the global exchange environment between the United States and other countries. All events are free and open to the public. Read More

In gentrifying neighborhoods there are typically clashes between racial and ethnic groups, the "haves" and "have-nots," homeowners and apartment dwellers and newcomers and longtime residents. However, a new book by Northwestern University professor Mary Pattillo explores the story with a twist. Read More

Twenty-five Chinese principals and educational administrators are in Nashville Oct. 30 - Nov. 9 as part of an ongoing exchange between Vanderbilt University‘s Peabody College, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools and South China Normal University. Read More

Seeking retribution for being overthrown and exiled to a magical island with his daughter Miranda, Prospero magically causes a storm ñ a tempest ñ to wreck the ship of those responsible for his situation and bring them to the island for vengeance. The Tempest premieres at Neely Auditorium at Vanderbilt on Nov. 8. Read More

Two film screenings at Vanderbilt University will revisit school desegregation‘s history Monday, Nov. 5, and Monday,Nov. 12. √± including the little-known story of 12 students who integrated Clinton (Tenn.) High School, the first public high school to be integrated in the South. Read More

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