Lectures

Learn how Shakespeare’s fanciful comedy comes to life onstage in the form of dance by Nashville Ballet, part of the InsideOut of the Lunch Box series. Read More

Watch video of the 2010 Spring Faculty Assembly. Read More

Watch video of Ananya Jahanara Kabir, University of Leeds, speaking on history, art, film and modernity in post-colonial South Asia. Read More

Watch video of a Thinking Out of the Lunchbox discussion with Colin Dayan, professor of English, Robert Penn Warren Professor in Humanities; Jemima Pierre, visiting fellow, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities; and Jane Landers, associate professor of history. Read More

Watch video of Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson, two of the nation’s most experienced political reporters, engaging in an evening of political discussion. Read More

Watch video of a talk by Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Read More

Watch video of journalist John Stossel and political activist Ralph Nader speaking at the annual Impact Symposium. Read More

Watch video of the Seyfert Lecture given by Dr. David C. Jewitt. Read More

Watch video of an InsideOut of the Lunch Box discussion of the musical based on the classic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker and the moving film by Steven Spielberg. Read More

Watch video of a talk by Rick Perlstein, an author and political journalist who has written extensively about the history of conservatism in modern America. 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

Watch Robert Wright's March 17 talk "Sibling Rivalry: Can the religious offspring of Abraham get along?” Read More

Tom Reynolds suggests a reframing of what we consider "normal"and outlines how that reframing might alter how we think about the act of inclusion. Read More

Watch video of a March 3 talk by Assistant Professor of Sociology Laura Carpenter, part of the Thinking Out of the Lunchbox series. Read More

Watch video of Ken Feinberg, better known as President Obama's executive pay czar, delivering the keynote speech for a daylong executive pay conference at the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Watch video beginning of a talk by Charles M. Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering and President Emeritus, MIT. Read More

Watch video of the symposium "Vanderbilt and the Nashville Sit-In Movement: A 50-Year Retrospective." Read More

Amy-Jill Levine, a leading Biblical scholar from Vanderbilt University Divinity School, will address "Jesus, Judaism and Jewish-Christian Relations" at Vanderbilt on Thursday, March 18, at Wilson Hall, Room 103. Read More

Watch video of the Feb. 18 demonstration and discussion of the ultimate symbol of multi-tasking - juggling. Read More

Watch video of a Feb. 18 talk by Walter Earl Fluker, executive director of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College, speaking about leadership challenges. Read More