Lectures & Events

Gary Gibbons, M.D. Gary Gibbons, M.D., director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), will deliver a special cardiology grand rounds on Wednesday, Feb. 25. His lecture, entitled “Charting Our Future Together: Setting an Agenda for the NHLBI,” begins at noon in 208 Light Hall. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Impact Symposium is marking its 51st year with lectures by award-winning playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith, "Washington Post" columnist Eugene Robinson, ESPN host Stephen A. Smith and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani. Read More

The impact of 18th-century art and visual culture in Spain on global affairs will be discussed during the Goldberg Lecture in Art History Feb. 19 at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall. Read More

Nashville Web designer Amanda Leigh Turner will share her perspective on current trends in web design and development at this month’s DigitalVU meeting. Read More

Legendary performer and social activist Harry Belafonte, award-winning historian Michael Beschloss and Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed will appear at Vanderbilt Jan. 13 for a conversation marking the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Read More

A new collaboration between the Center for Latin American Studies and Nashville Opera will expand programming around the first opera in Spanish to be presented in Nashville. Read More

Health care innovations will be discussed at the Health Care Conference Nov. 7 at the Music City Center. Read More

The possibility of extraterrestrial life and its impact on religion will be addressed in a free, upcoming talk at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory. Read More

There will be a forum on copyright law Oct. 24 in Flynn Auditorium at Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

An Oct. 14 lecture by Larissa Bonfante, an Etruscan civilization expert, is in honor of retiring Vanderbilt Professor Jack Sasson. Read More

Jeb Bush, Florida’s 43rd governor and a member of one of America’s pre-eminent political families, will join Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos and Distinguished Visiting Professor Jon Meacham in conversation Tuesday, Oct. 28. Read More

"A Work in Progress" is the title of artist and Fisk University professor Alicia Henry's lecture at Vanderbilt Divinity School Oct. 9. Read More

A Chinese art curator from the Ringling Museum of Art who is a Vanderbilt alumnus will speak at Cohen Memorial Hall Oct. 9. Read More

Hear fascinating stories about politicians, slaves, military leaders, executioners and diplomats from the pages of history this fall during Vanderbilt University’s Saturday University lecture series. Read More

The 2014 Cole Lecturer at Vanderbilt Divinity School is Tex Sample, an author and Methodist minister noted for his social justice work. Read More

As voters prepare to go to the polls Nov. 4, they will be able to take the measure of their congressional representatives’ effectiveness using a new website developed by Vanderbilt University and University of Virginia political scientists. Read More

James McBride, who wrote the National Book Award winner "The Good Lord Bird," will give the Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture Oct. 2 at Sarratt Cinema. Read More

The Mables will perform a special concert under the stars at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory on Saturday, Sept. 27, to benefit scholarship students attending the Dyer Observers Summer Science Camps. Read More

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Keith Huber, who exercised oversight and control of U.S. detention operations in Afghanistan, will be the keynote speaker for Vanderbilt Naval ROTC's sixth annual National Security Symposium Friday, Oct. 10. Read More

Renowned theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser will discuss his latest book, "The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, at Vanderbilt University’s Benton Chapel. Read More