Lectures

The role that physical location and urban design play in the social, economic, sexual, artistic and religious development of cities was the topic of a lecture by urban planning expert Edward Soja at the Wyatt Center Rotunda on the Vanderbilt Peabody campus, Monday, March 13. Read More

Neil Lerner, associate professor of music at Davidson College, discussed music, horror film and disability in the 1946 film "The Beast with Five Fingers," Feb. 23 at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The use of brain scans to detect Alzheimer\'s disease was the topic of a lecture by Dr. John Csernansky, director of the Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research at Washington University, St. Louis, at Vanderbilt University March 9. The lecture was part of the Brainstorm 2006 lecture and event series. Read More

The use of brain scans to detect Alzheimer's disease was the topic of a lecture by Dr. John Csernansky, director of the Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research at Washington University, St. Louis, at Vanderbilt University March 9. The lecture was part of the Brainstorm 2006 lecture and event series. Read More

Vivien Green Fryd, a Vanderbilt professor of art history who is conducting a seminar in conjunction with Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman\'s Multimedia Project of Discovery, lectured on the work of these two acclaimed artists who are Vanderbilt\'s first Chancellor\'s Artists-in-Residence. The lecture took place March 2 at Sarratt Cinema. Read More

With a "bold goal" to reinvest $300 million annually by 2016, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Harry Jacobson, M.D., told an auditorium packed with faculty, staff and students that he envisions Vanderbilt University Medical Center will be a far different place when it meets its ambitious 10-year goals. Read More

Sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Rodney Stark, who debunks the notion that Christianity has held back scientific progress in his new book, delivered the second in a series of four lectures about why religions succeed or fail during a lecture series at Vanderbilt University Feb. 28. Read More

Vanderbilt legal, First Amendment and religious experts discussed the issues surrounding the recent global uproar over the publication of satirical cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad during a forum sponsored by the Vanderbilt Interfaith Council Feb. 20. Read More

Vanderbilt legal, First Amendment and religious experts discussed the issues surrounding the recent global uproar over the publication of satirical cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad during a forum sponsored by the Vanderbilt Interfaith Council Feb. 20. Read More

Marc Galanther, author of Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture, discussed his research into the increase and changing tone of jokes about attorneys throughout history, and what these jokes say about our culture, in a lecture Feb. 21 at Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

An economic model is the best way to understand the rise and fall of religions, said sociologist Rodney Stark in the first of four lectures at Vanderbilt University as the first Templeton Research Fellow. Read More

Four Vanderbilt professors discussed their new research in black Atlantic history in an event sponsored by the Department of History Feb. 14 as part of Black History Month. Read More

The erosion of the legal recognition of torture as something that is forbidden in the United States and the implications for our broader legal system and society of that erosion were the subject of a lecture by Jeremy J. Waldorn, University Professor of Law and director of the Center for Law and Philosophy at Columbia University at Vanderbilt University Law School Feb. 3. Read More

The erosion of the legal recognition of torture as something that is forbidden in the United States and the implications for our broader legal system and society of that erosion were the subject of a lecture by Jeremy J. Waldorn, University Professor of Law and director of the Center for Law and Philosophy at Columbia University at Vanderbilt University Law School Feb. 3. Read More

"Dying old as a social problem" was the subject of a lunchtime discussion with Vanderbilt philosophers John Lachs and David Wood and 300 members of the Nashville community Feb. 1 at the Nashville Public Library. Read More

"Dying old as a social problem" was the subject of a lunchtime discussion with Vanderbilt philosophers John Lachs and David Wood and 300 members of the Nashville community Feb. 1 at the Nashville Public Library. Read More

Craig E. Colten, the Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University and a leading expert on the geographical and social/racial issues that complicate the recovery of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina, shared his unique perspective on the aftermath of the tragedy during a lecture at Vanderbilt Law School Jan. 26. Read More

Professor of Mechanical Engineering Thomas Cruse discussed future directions for Air Force science and technology in a lecture at Stevenson Center Jan. 20. Cruse is the chief technologist for the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Read More

Stefanie Lindquist, associate professor of political science and law, spoke Jan. 23 on how recent and Supreme Court changes may affect legal access to abortion in the United States. She made the argument that Roe v. Wade may have impeded and continues to impede progress toward reproductive freedom for women rather than advanced it. Read More

The question "Can our best values betray us?" framed a discussion with Vanderbilt philosopher Charles Scott and 300 members of the Nashville community Dec. 7 at the Nashville Public Library. The discussion was part of the Thinking Out of the Lunch Box series, co-sponsored by the library and Vanderbilt University. Read More