Speakers

A scientist with Yahoo! will lecture on the workings of Internet search engines at Vanderbilt University in January.Jan O. Pedersen, chief scientist for search and marketplace with Yahoo!, will speak at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 11, in Room 4327 of the Stevenson Center on the Vanderbilt campus. A reception will precede the lecture at 3:30 p.m. in Room 6333 of the Stevenson Center. Read More

Recently recognized by The New York Times as the "leading poetry critic in America," Helen Vendler will speak Thursday, Jan. 18, at the Flynn Auditorium at the Vanderbilt University Law School. Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley will speak Tuesday, Jan. 23, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music on the Vanderbilt University campus. Read More

Jan O. Pedersen, chief scientist for search and marketplace with Yahoo!, has cancelled his Nov. 30 speaking engagement at Vanderbilt. Peterson was to lecture on "Web Search: How Does it Work?" 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 Wednesday, Nov. 15. Read More

Best-selling author John M. Barry will speak Thursday, Nov. 30, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music on the Vanderbilt University campus. Read More

Acclaimed poet Mary Leader will read from her work this month at Vanderbilt University.Leader, author of the award-winning collections Red Signature and The Penultimate Suitor, will read at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 28, in Room 101 of Buttrick Hall on the Vanderbilt campus. The reading 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 Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University‘s Student Life Center. Read More

"Still Black at Yale," a 2004 documentary film that looks at issues of race on the campus of one of the world's leading higher education institutions, will be shown at Vanderbilt University's Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center on Thursday, Oct. 12, at 6:30 p.m. Read More

Educators, administrators, public policy experts, parents and students will gather at Vanderbilt University Oct. 16 to explore the challenges and solutions that families and schools must face as they prepare young people for the future. Read More

Vanderbilt Hillel will honor Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved more than 1,200 lives during the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and inspired the movie Hotel Rwanda Read More

Local religious leaders and interested members of the public are invited to conversations with Vanderbilt University researchers on Christianity and the environment on Saturday, Sept. 30. Read More

Kevin Klose, president and chief executive officer of National Public Radio (NPR), will speak Sept. 27 at Vanderbilt University Law School. Read More

The Holocaust Lecture Series at Vanderbilt, the longest continuous holocaust lecture series at an American university, turns its attention this year to damage intentionally wrought upon their victims' rich cultures by Nazi Germany and other genocidal regimes. Read More

Watch video of historian Niall Feguson delivering the first 2006-07 Chancellor's Lecture: "The War of the World." Read More

Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved more than 1,200 lives during the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and inspired the movie Hotel Rwanda, will speak Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University's Student Life Center. Read More

A new university-wide initiative is urging tourists and Middle Tennessee residents alike to Visit Vanderbilt. 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

Sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Rodney Stark delivered the final lecture in a four-lecture series March 28 at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center. Read More

Henry Petroski, the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University, will speak on "The Paradox of Design: Success through Failure" on Wednesday, April 12, at Vanderbilt University in the final presentation of the 2005-06 Chancellor's Lecture Series. Read More