Speakers

Constitution building and reconstruction in Iraq will be the subject of a Vanderbilt University Law School symposium beginning at 3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 23. The two speakers, Judge Gilbert S. Merritt and Kevin Reinhart, each spent time working in Iraq in the summer of 2003. Read More

Vanderbilt University professor Cecelia Tichi, author of ExposÈs and Excess: Muckraking in America 1900/2000, will speak about the comeback of muckraking journalism at two Nashville events. Read More

A lecture series at Vanderbilt University examining the legacy of John Rawls, considered by many to be the most important philosopher of the 20th century, next features his most prominent critic. Read More

Brandon Silveria knows firsthand the perils of drinking and driving. At age 17, after drinking a couple of beers at a high school party and then getting behind the wheel of his car, Silveria was involved in a near-fatal crash that left him comatose for three months. What followed were a grueling three-year rehabilitation and permanent speech and walking disabilities. Read More

Juan Williams, best-selling author and senior correspondent for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition," will deliver the keynote address for Vanderbilt University's 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series Jan. 19-27. Read More

Brandon Silveria knows firsthand the perils of drinking and driving. At age 17, after drinking a couple of beers at a high school party and then getting behind the wheel of his car, Silveria was involved in a near-fatal crash that left him comatose for three months. What followed were a grueling three-year rehabilitation and permanent speech and walking disabilities. Read More

How much do babies understand about the world around them? More than we ever expected, Harvard researcher and national expert on infant development Elizabeth Spelke discovered. Spelke will discuss infant development and what it reveals about the origins of human knowledge in her lecture Thursday, Dec. 4, at 4 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Read More

Blanche Wiesen Cook, biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt, will speak at Vanderbilt University at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4. Read More

A lecture series at Vanderbilt University will be the first since the death of John Rawls to examine the legacy of the most important political philosopher of the 20th century. Read More

A Vanderbilt University lecture series dedicated in 2003 and 2004 to examining the concepts of ownership of ideas, Internet ethics and the right of privacy will bring the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to campus to speak. 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

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