Speakers

Al Franken, a political satirist and author of the best-selling book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, will speak at Vanderbilt University on Monday, Nov. 17, as part of Vanderbilt's ongoing Project Dialogue series. Read More

In the last installment of this year's Holocaust Lecture Series at Vanderbilt University, Arthur J. Caplan will speak on "The Morality of Evil: Lessons from Nazi Medical Experiments." Read More

Tony Kushner, a playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize and two Tony Awards for his two-part stage work "Angels in America" and critical acclaim for his prescient "Homebody/Kabul," which explores geopolitics in Afghanistan, will appear at Vanderbilt University for an upcoming address. Read More

Poverty, drug addiction and prostitution in poor neighborhoods are the source of humor in Ghettopoly, a board game to be examined during a lunchtime forum at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Al Franken, a political satirist and author of the best-selling book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, will speak at Vanderbilt University on Monday, Nov. 17, as part of Vanderbilt's ongoing Project Dialogue series. Read More

The second lecture at Vanderbilt University commemorating the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that outlawed educational segregation is titled "Brown v. Board after a Half Century: The Gains of Integration, the Consequences of Resegregation." Read More

In September of 1957, a bomb exploded at the Hattie Cotton School as Nashville moved toward desegregating public schools. Five months later, dynamite exploded at the city's Jewish Community Center. Read More

David Brooks, a columnist for The New York Times and senior editor at The Weekly Standard, will explore "The Geography of Politics" in a Vanderbilt University address on Wednesday, Oct. 22. The lecture begins at 6 p.m. in Ingram Hall at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music. A reception with Brooks will precede the lecture at 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

Wayne Rosso, the self-proclaimed "Sultan of Swap," will address the Vanderbilt University community on Monday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m. His lecture, titled "Take Back the Music," will be held in Room 103 of Wilson Hall on the Vanderbilt campus. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

Vanderbilt University will host a series of public lectures throughout the 2003-04 academic year to mark the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's historic Brown v. Board of Education decision. Read More

Susan Blumenthal, a leader in bringing women's health issues to the forefront of American public policy and developing the U.S. government's "From Missiles to Mammograms" program, which utilizes missile and target recognition technology to detect breast cancer, will be the first speaker in Vanderbilt University's Chancellor's Lecture Series for 2003-04. Read More

Public relations industry veteran Robert Dilenschneider will speak at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Oct. 2, as part of the University's ongoing Chancellor's Lecture Series. Read More

Naomi Tutu, daughter of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, will deliver a lecture titled "Women and Leadership in the New Millennium: Privilege and Peace" Tuesday, Sept. 23, at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Susan Blumenthal, a leader in bringing women's health issues to the forefront of American public policy and developing the U.S. government's "From Missiles to Mammograms" program, which utilizes missile and target recognition technology to detect breast cancer, will be the first speaker in Vanderbilt University's Chancellor's Lecture Series for 2003-04. Read More

Directors of publicly traded companies will gather at Vanderbilt University Law School in June to address the issues directors now face as a result of recent regulatory changes in a climate of investor uncertainty. Read More

The eminent astronomer David Weedman, who is a Nashville native and graduate of Vanderbilt, will be delivering a free public lecture on Tuesday evening, May 27. Read More

Imagine a single, star-like object that burns with as much energy as billions of stars in hundreds of galaxies combined. Such objects exist. They are called quasars and are just one of the nearly unimaginable astronomical objects that eminent astronomer David Weedman will describe in the free public lecture, “Seyfert Galaxies, Quasars and the Edge of the Universe.”, on May 27. Read More

Approximately 2,400 students, including one of the largest undergraduate classes in the history of Vanderbilt, will receive diplomas at the University’s Commencement May 9 on Alumni Lawn. Read More

Mary L. Schapiro, vice chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers and president of its Regulatory Policy and Oversight Division, will deliver the keynote address to the graduating class of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Commencement exercises on May 9. Read More

Theodore (Ted) Rockwell, internationally renowned expert in nuclear engineering, will speak on “Nuclear Technology: Facts and Myths about Radioactivity” in a free public lecture at Vanderbilt University April 23. A media availability will precede the address. Read More