Lectures & Events

The mixed-media Mexican folk art exhibit Retablos: Miracles on the Border will be on display at Vanderbilt's Sarratt Art Gallery Sept. 4-30, with an opening reception and lecture by Latin American anthropologist Jorge Durand on Sept. 11. Read More

Lari White, Buddy Cannon and John Barlow Jarvis will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 19, as part of the 2008 Bluebird on the Mountain series at Dyer Observatory. Read More

Tips to tone up your upper body and hear from some of the first inductees in the Vandy Athletics Hall of Fame! (6:21) Read More

Nationally recognized author, speaker and expert on food justice issues Mark Winne will be featured at a talk and signing of his book Closing the Food Gap, which examines methods to get decent, healthy food to our nation's poor. Read More

Watch video of members of The Blair Piano Faculty performing in Ingram Hall on March 15, 2008, as part of the Spring Concert Series at Blair School of Music. Read More

Watch video of a roundtable on health care at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville on Tuesday, May 27, with Sen. Bob Corker. Corker organized the roundtable to hear from those who are on the frontlines of the issue as he works in the Senate to reform the country's health care system. Read More

Watch videos from the Study Breaks, Senior Day learning sessions for our guests, conducted by Vanderbilt faculty members Benoit Dawant, Colin Dayan, John Geer, Roy Neel, Claire Smrekar and Sten Vermund. Read More

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