Lectures & Events

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

Mayor Karl Dean and businessman Cal Turner Jr. will speak at a May 6 breakfast to introduce an online directory of classes and services for the city’s growing foreign-born population. 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

Sen. Bob Corker, a member of the Senate Banking Committee who has played a role in helping craft the Senate's version of regulatory reform legislation, is coming to the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management to hold a discussion on regulatory reform with academic experts, banking leaders and finance graduate students. Read More

Vanderbilt's Dyer Observatory is free and open to the public March through November during monthly Open House Telescope Nights and Open House Days. 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

Listen to a lecture about reggae music and Rastafarian theology. Read More

Should states “take back” some of the power to regulate land use from local governments to help facilitate more environmentally sustainable building? That's the question that will be debated during a panel discussion on the role of local and state land use regulation in fostering green building design. Read More

Vanderbilt University's Center for Latin American Studies will host a public conversation and reception with Alberto Fuguet, an acclaimed Chilean author, journalist and filmmaker, on March 22 at Fido in Hillsboro Village. The event begins at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Read More

Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson, two of the nation's most experienced political reporters, will engage in an evening of political discussion April 1 at the John Seigenthaler Center at Vanderbilt University. The 5:30 p.m. event will be followed by a reception and book-signing. Read More

A Vanderbilt Divinity School professor will present his viewpoint on Rastafarian theology and reggae music March 16 during an event sponsored by the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture program at the divinity school. Read More

Five artists who believe that God has inspired them to build structures are featured in the film God's Architects, to be screened at Vanderbilt University as part of the International Lens Film series. Read More

The current chief of the United States Central Command and the former top U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. David Petraeus, will speak about his actions as commander of the surge in Iraq, the role of U.S. forces overseas and the latest developments in the surge. The event will be held Monday, March 1, at 5 p.m. at the Student Life Center. Read More

The Vanderbilt Political Review, a non-partisan political journal run entirely by Vanderbilt undergraduate students, will host the first Nashville Intercollegiate Activism Conference on Feb. 27. The one-day conference will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Nashville civil rights sit-ins and will examine how students were able to defeat segregation as well as how students can be involved in social change today. Read More

The student-run Vanderbilt Initiative for Vegetarian Awareness will join several other student organizations to host a screening of the documentary Food Inc. Saturday, Feb. 27, at 2 p.m. at Vanderbilt's Sarratt Cinema, located at 2301 Vanderbilt Place. Read More

A mural depicting an epic battle between junk and healthy food will transform a large wall of Rand Dining Hall at Vanderbilt University as part of a week-long mural workshop. Read More

New York Times best-selling author L.A. Banks will be at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Feb. 18. Banks will address the Black Student Alliance on a panel about black sexuality during the group's weekly lunchtime gathering. Read More

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, journalist John Stossel and political activist Ralph Nader will deliver public lectures and sign copies of their books at Vanderbilt University March 30-31 as part of the university's annual Impact Symposium. Read More