Speakers

Watch video of a February 2007 Chancellor's Lecture by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, speaking about "Racism, Poverty and the War in Iraq." Read More

Watch video of a February 2007 Chancellor‘s Lecture by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, speaking about "Racism, Poverty and the War in Iraq." Read More

A new organization with a goal of making healthy food reliably available to all Middle Tennesseans will publicly launch Friday, Feb. 23 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Country Music Hall of Fame in downtown Nashville. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

Nashville Vice Mayor Howard Gentry Jr. will share stories with middle and high school students across the nation about growing up in a segregated Nashville when he is a presenter for the Vanderbilt Virtual School on Feb. 15. "Breaking the Color Barrier" will be a step back in time to a very different life for African-Americans in the 1950s and even ‘60s, according to Patsy Partin, director of the Virtual School. Read More

Community college presidents from across Tennessee will convene at Vanderbilt University Feb. 13 to discuss service learning. The event will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. at the First Amendment Center, 1207 18th Ave. South. It is closed to the public. Media are welcome to attend. Read More

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano on HBO‘s Emmy-award winning drama The Sopranos, has cancelled her speaking engagement at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Feb. 15. Read More

Starting Feb. 15 Vanderbilt professors will offer informed perspective on the acclaimed exhibition Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920-1950, at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Read More

Afeni Shakur, former member of the Black Panther Party, community outreach activist and mother of slain rap artist Tupac Shakur, is the keynote speaker during a series of events commemorating Black History Month at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Civil rights pioneer and Vanderbilt Distinguished University Professor James Lawson will give a lecture at Vanderbilt‘s Benton Chapel on Feb. 2 at 1 p.m. Read More

Watch video of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley speaking Jan. 23, 2007, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music on the Vanderbilt University campus. The event was part of the 2006-2007 Chancellor's Lecture Series. Read More

Watch video of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley speaking Jan. 23, 2007, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music on the Vanderbilt University campus. The event was part of the 2006-2007 Chancellor‘s Lecture Series. Read More

The public is invited to experience "living history" Friday, Jan. 26, as those involved in the historic 1961 Freedom Rides discuss their experiences and talk about race relations in Nashville during the civil rights movement. Vanderbilt University‘s Office of Active Citizenship and Service and Fisk University have partnered to host the panel discussion scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. at Fisk Memorial Chapel. The event is free. Read More

The Rev. James Lawson, Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt and a key leader in the nonviolent resistance efforts of the civil rights movement, will be the featured speaker at the Vanderbilt Peabody College 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration. His lecture, "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?" will take place on Thursday, Jan. 25, at 12:30 p.m. in the Wyatt Center Rotunda. This event is free and open to the public. Read More

Actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano on HBO‘s Emmy-award winning drama The Sopranos will talk about her battle with anorexia Thursday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University‘s Student Life Center. Read More

Vanderbilt University will host a conference to encourage black church leaders, scholars and divinity students to create a dialogue about contemporary challenges facing the ministry of black churches. The Kelly Miller Smith Institute on Black Church Studies at the Vanderbilt Divinity School will present "Preparing Prophets and Priests for the Black Church Tradition" Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. All sessions are free and open to the public. Read More

Poet and novelist Richard Katrovas will read from his upcoming memoir The Years of Smashing Bricks at Vanderbilt University on Tuesday, Feb. 6. Read More

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Constance Rice, co-founder and co-director of The Advancement Project, a public policy and legal action group, has cancelled her speaking engagement at Vanderbilt University on Monday, Jan. 15. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Divinity School will host community breakfasts and programming this spring focused on timely and relevant topics such as the impact of the Abu Ghraib Prison photos, creation narratives, different voices interpreting the Bible and Latino/a immigration. Read More

The author of a new book about the effects of media consolidation on the American public will deliver the Curb Lecture at Vanderbilt University on Monday, Jan. 15. Read More

Constance Rice, Rita Sanders Geier and Cordelia Taylor, three African-American women dedicated to making a difference in their communities, will speak at Vanderbilt University Monday, Jan. 15.Their lectures ñ Taylor's at noon, Geier's at 3:30 p.m. and Rice's at 6:30 p.m. ñ help kick off the university's 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series scheduled Jan. 15-23. This year's series' theme is "Living the Legacy: Inquiries into Inclusion (Who's In and Who's Out)." All series events are free and open to the public. Read More