Speakers

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. The lecture will be held 4-5 p.m. in the main auditorium on the first floor of Featheringill Hall. Read More

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of the world's foremost human rights advocates, will address the Vanderbilt community on Wednesday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Langford Auditorium. Read More

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of the world’s foremost human rights advocates, will address the Vanderbilt community on Wednesday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Langford Auditorium. Read More

Kanan Makiya presents "The United States and Post-Saddam Iraq" on Wednesday, April 2, at 4:10 p.m. in Room 114 Furman Hall on the Vanderbilt campus. Makiya is an adviser for the Iraqi National Congress. Read More

Ken Pugh, a scientist renowned for his research on language organization and the neurobiology of reading, reading disabilities and attention deficit disorder, will speak at a free public lecture Thursday, March 27, at Vanderbilt University’s John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Read More

“I Am Beautiful,” a nationally recognized seminar that counters the obsession with feminine thinness will come to Vanderbilt University’s Sarratt Cinema Monday, March 24, at 7 p.m. Read More

Top businesswomen including the head of Time Inc. will share their strategies for succeeding in the workplace with Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management and the local business community at the Committee of 200 Spring Outreach Seminar on April 4. Read More

Ambassador David J. Scheffer, senior vice president of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), will discuss the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United States’ position on the ICC at Vanderbilt University Law School on Thursday, March 27. Read More

Peter Diamond, president of the American Economic Association, will speak about “Social Security Reform” at the McGee Lecture on March 27 at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Former supermodel Ann Simonton will cover topics ranging from corporate controlled media’s effects on democracy to issues of gender, violence and sexual intimacy during her lecture, “Sex, Power and the Media,” Wednesday, March 19, at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Ebrahim E. I. Moosa presents "Re-Thinking Islam in Modernity" on March 20 and Kanan Makiya presents "The United States and Post-Saddam Iraq" on Wednesday, April 2. Read More

MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews cancelled its scheduled live broadcast at Vanderbilt University’s Ingram Hall on March 19. In notifying the University of the cancellation, the producer cited the possible war with Iraq. MSNBC’s Hardball hopes to come to Vanderbilt at a later date. Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel will discuss her career in theater as Vanderbilt’s Chancellor’s Lecture Series presents “A Playwright’s Credo (and a wish-list for the theatre)” on Tuesday, March 11, at 6 p.m. in Ingram Hall at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. Read More

Craig Kennedy, who, as president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, has extensive knowledge about issues surrounding the strained U.S.-European relations over possible war with Iraq, will speak March 10 at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Mary C. Churchill, a scholar of the interaction between religion and gender in Native American cultures, will deliver the annual Antoinette Brown Lecture in feminism and religion Thursday, March 13. Read More

Sima Samar, chair of Afghanistan’s first Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC), will give a talk on the status of Afghan women after Taliban rule at Vanderbilt University Monday, Feb. 24. Read More

Historian Bryan Mark Rigg will discuss his book "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" at the Ben Schulman Center for Jewish Life at Vanderbilt on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. Read More

George Fredrickson, one of the leading American scholars on race, will compare and contrast anti-Semitism with racism against people of African descent during a Feb. 27 lecture at Vanderbilt University. Fredrickson will deliver the annual Byrne lecture at 8 p.m. in the Moore Room (218) of Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Noted scholar and orator Cornel West will deliver a talk titled “Race and Democracy” at Vanderbilt University on Thursday, Feb. 13. Read More

Rita D. Hayes, deputy director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland, will discuss the role of that international organization on current intellectual property issues at 12:10 p.m. Feb. 12 in Flynn Auditorium of the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More