Lectures & Events
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Best-selling author of Freakonomics comes to Vanderbilt University Nov. 18
Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of the international best-seller Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, will speak at Vanderbilt University Tuesday, Nov. 18. Read MoreOct 29, 2008
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Podcast: Everything is Broken
Podcast from the The "Like a Prayer" series, part of the Religion and the Arts and Contemporary Culture Program financed by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. Read MoreOct 28, 2008
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Podcast: Cole Lectures: Randall Balmer on “Keep the Faith: Reclaiming Christianity from the Religious Right”
Listen to a podcast from the 2008 Cole Lectures. Read MoreOct 24, 2008
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Podcast: Owenbloggers
Podcast of Digital VU presentation by Jared Degnan, one of the Owen Bloggers Read MoreOct 23, 2008
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Podcast: A Conversation with Celebrated Filmmaker Charles Burnett
Listen to an Oct. 17 talk by celebrated filmmaker Charles Burnett. Read MoreOct 21, 2008
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Podcast: International Lens Film Series: "On the Map"
Listen to a podcast of a discussion with film director Annalee Davis. Read MoreOct 21, 2008
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Podcast: International Lens Film Series: “On the Map”
Listen to a podcast of a discussion with film director Annalee Davis. Read MoreOct 21, 2008
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Greek ambassador, Vanderbilt professor discuss roots of U.S. politics Oct. 27
Alexandros Mallias, Greece's ambassador to the United States, will join Vanderbilt University Professor of Classics, Emerita, Susan Ford Wiltshire for a discussion of the roots of the American political tradition in the ancient Greek city-states 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in Room 237 of The Commons Center. Read MoreOct 20, 2008
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Podcast: "Something Like Sanctified: Spirituality in Contemporary Pop Music"
Listen to an Oct. 14 podcast by Bill Friskics-Warren. Read MoreOct 17, 2008
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Podcast: “Something Like Sanctified: Spirituality in Contemporary Pop Music”
Listen to an Oct. 14 podcast by Bill Friskics-Warren. Read MoreOct 17, 2008
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Podcast: DigitalVU: Social Media
Listen to a podcast of a talk by Lacy Tite, Web developer for Development and Alumni Relations Communications. Read MoreOct 16, 2008
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Author Teresa Dovalpage to read from work Oct. 23 at Vanderbilt
Writer Teresa Dovalpage, author of the novel A Girl Like Che Guevara, will read from her work as part of the Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program at Vanderbilt. Read MoreOct 15, 2008
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Podcast: Children’s Author and Poet Carole Boston Weatherford
Listen to an Oct. 9 podcast by Carole Boston Weatherford. Read MoreOct 13, 2008
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Acclaimed author, humorist and Vanderbilt alumnus Roy Blount Jr. will present this year’s Harry C. Howard Jr. lecture at Vanderbilt Oct. 30
Roy Blount Jr., acclaimed author, humorist and Vanderbilt alumnus (B.A. 1963) will present this year's Harry C. Howard Jr. lecture at 4:10 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 30, in Flynn Auditorium at Vanderbilt University Law School. Read MoreOct 13, 2008
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Mayor Karl Dean, Vanderbilt students, author John Irving – what’s the connection? Find out Oct. 12
Mayor Karl Dean will discuss one of his favorite authors, John Irving, at an event for Vanderbilt University students Sunday, Oct. 12, 3 to 4 p.m. as part of a "citywide read" initiative. Read MoreOct 10, 2008
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Podcast: “It’s Like God is Testing Me: Approaches for Researching Religion and Hip-hop”
Listen to a podcast of a presentation by Juan Floyd-Thomas. Read MoreOct 9, 2008
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Podcast: "It’s Like God is Testing Me: Approaches for Researching Religion and Hip-hop"
Listen to a podcast of a presentation by Juan Floyd-Thomas. Read MoreOct 9, 2008
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Vanderbilt speaker to argue for changes in Israel
Israel should become a secular democracy and better integrate its Arab minority to help secure its future, Israeli political economist Bernard Avishai will argue during a lecture at Vanderbilt University based on his latest book. Read MoreOct 8, 2008
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Randall Balmer to speak about faith, the presidency and the religious right
Randall Balmer, professor of American Religious History at Barnard College and visiting professor at Yale Divinity School, will deliver the annual Cole Lectures at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read MoreOct 6, 2008
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Podcast: “If They Could See it Now: The Evolution of the American Presidency From the Founding Fathers to Present Day”
Listen to a podcast from Constitution Day. Read MoreOct 3, 2008