Speakers

Local school and community leaders and education researchers will look at the dynamics leading to and resulting from the racial composition of Nashville's K-12 schools Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 3:30 p.m. Read More

Families, faith and foster care are the focus of the 13th annual Family Re-Union conference, set for Oct. 18 at the downtown Nashville Public Library, located at 615 Church Street. Read More

Scholars from across Europe and the United States with expertise in European history, politics, and cultural studies will meet in Nashville for an international symposium. Hosted by the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies, the symposium "Imagining Europe: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent" takes place at Vanderbilt University Nov. 1-4. Read More

Leaders of a global immersion trip to Namibia will reflect on the experience during a community breakfast Nov. 1 sponsored by Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read More

Novelist and short story writer Robin Lippincott will read from his work at Vanderbilt University. Lippincott is the author of the new novel In the Meantime, which follows the intertwined lives of three friends for six decades from a small Midwestern town to Manhattan. Read More

Globalization may have transformed the world, but there's still much to learn from how things operated before that monumental shift. Read More

U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, will meet with Vanderbilt students interested in careers in the health professions on Monday, Oct. 8, for an in-depth discussion about health care policy. Read More

Noted art critic Arthur Danto will speak at Vanderbilt University about the Sistine Chapel as part of a two-day symposium that will probe the relationship between words and images. Read More

The development of four cities in the 20th century — one of them Nashville — will be traced when Kenneth Jackson speaks at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Oct. 25. Read More

The biographer of Noam Chomsky has written a new book on the linguist and political dissenter and will speak about it on Oct. 11 at Vanderbilt University. Read More

When former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso delivers a public lecture at Vanderbilt University on Oct. 8, he will continue an extraordinary relationship between Brazil and Vanderbilt that began shortly after World War II. Read More

Michael Bess, the first Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, will deliver his inaugural lecture Oct. 4 on the impact of rapid advances in science, medicine and technology on human identity. Read More

Acclaimed producer, writer and director Julie Dash, maker of the film Daughters of the Dust and CBS television movie The Rosa Parks Story, will give a talk, "Smuggling Dreams into Reality: Black Women in Filmmaking," Friday, Oct. 5, 3 to 5 p.m. at Vanderbilt University. Read More

The longest running Holocaust Lecture Series at an American university marks its 30th year with lectures and films this October and November spanning subjects from the life of children in Nazi Germany to genocide in Iraq and ethnic cleansing in the United States. Read More

A Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management student, pulled from his business studies by the United Nations to help manage peacekeeping missions in Africa, is returning to Owen to give his personal insight on the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. Read More

Six members of Vanderbilt University's Department of English faculty will give a joint public reading on Friday, Oct. 12. Read More

Conversational lectures from thought-provoking professors and entertaining performance-related presentations - all accompanied with delicious boxed lunches - continue for the 2007-08 school year, thanks to Vanderbilt University's thriving community partnerships. Read More

Author Mark Noll, named one of America's 25 most influential evangelicals by Time magazine, will deliver two lectures on "The Bible in American Public Life"as this year's Cole lecturer at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Read More

The changing brain, architectural "winners and losers" and the rise of Irish literature are among the topics offered this fall at Vanderbilt University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Read More

The role of lesbians and gays in the Christian church will be addressed at Vanderbilt University in the inaugural lecture of Ellen T. Armour as the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Associate Professor of Feminist Theology. Read More