Lectures & Events

Listen to podcasts from the Food Security Summit, which addressed many of our region's most pressing issues -- including hunger, poverty, obesity, land use, development and the depletion of natural resources -- through their connection to food. Read More

Watch video of an April 1, 2008 luncheon presentation by Timothy Shriver, chairman of the Special Olymics, at the Community Partnership Luncheon honoring the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. Read More

Listen to Luca Barattoni, lecturer of Italian at Clemson University, speak on "Fernando Di Leo and the Italian Crime Thriller Genre of the '70s: Its Influence on Quentin Tarantino and its Recent Developments." The lecture on Jan. 24, 2008, was part of the International Lens foreign film series at Vanderbilt. Read More

We go from meeting a Nobel Peace Prize winner to a day filled with laughter, tears and remembering. A day for famlies, lifelong friends and making new memories: Welcome to Commencement 2007. Read More

Gina Frieden, assistant professor of human and organizational development, led a lunch discussion on balancing the demands of life in graduate school. The event was part of the "Women in Academe" series. Read More

Listen to the first year results of Vanderbilt\'s field study on religion and politics. Read More

Vanderbilt professors Stefanie Lindquist and Mark Brandon discuss judicial activism at Constitution Day. Read More

Read the text of Chancellor Gordon Gee\'s farewell address to the class of 2006. Read More

Read the text of First Lady Laura Bush\'s Senior Class Day address Read More

Watch video of an April 2006 talk, "The Paradox of Design: Success through Failure," by Henry Petroski, Aleksander S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and Professor of History, Duke University. Read More

Listen to Susan Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, discuss whether nature can be evil and what philosophers have had to say about the issue over the centuries. Read More

"Science Education in the 21st Century" was the topic of discussion between Virginia Shepherd, Vanderbilt professor of pathology and medicine, and approximately 300 members of the Nashville community at the Nashville Public Library March 1. The lecture was part of the popular "Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box" lecture series co-hosted by the library and Vanderbilt University. Read More

The reputation and prestige of the United States is "at a very low ebb" in much of the world and a vigorous campaign of public diplomacy is needed to reestablish moral leadership, agreed two former U.S. ambassadors who spoke at a Vanderbilt forum. Read More

One of the most prolific medical inventors in history, Robert S. Langer, spoke at Vanderbilt Nov. 11 about a variety of topics including how drug delivery technologies, including novel polymers and intelligent microchips, promise to create new treatments for cancer, heart disease and many other illnesses. Read More

An Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and a member of the Nazi Youth Movement discuss their "uncommon friendship" as part of Vanderbilt's Holocaust Lecture Series Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Law School. Read More

An Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and a member of the Nazi Youth Movement discuss their "uncommon friendship" as part of Vanderbilt\'s Holocaust Lecture Series Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Law School. Read More

The work of three Fisk University scholars who researched the lives and music of people in the Mississippi Delta in the 1940s was celebrated Nov. 3 with music and discussion in Fisk\'s historic Jubilee Hall. Read More

The Rev. Edward A. Malloy, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame and a member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, spoke during a Oct. 27 seminar in Buttrick Hall on science, religion and the mission of higher education. Read More

When Vanderbilt\'s administration contacted Law School Dean Ed Rubin about a new federal requirement requiring that every educational institution receiving federal funds celebrate Constitution Day, Rubin initially considered submitting a list of constitutional law classes currently in session. Read More

Listen to a Sept. 13 lecture by Karen R. Harris and Stephen E. Graham, the first holders of the Currey Ingram Chair of Special Education at Peabody College. The two professors of special education are committed to improving the literacy abilities of all children, including those with learning disabilities. The chair was made possible through a gift from John Rivers Ingram and Stephanie Currey Ingram. Introductory speakers at the lecture were: Peabody Dean Camilla Benbow, Provost Nicholas Zeppos and Chancellor Gordon Gee. Read More