Speakers

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

Noted Afro-Brazilian writer Esmeralda Ribeiro will join in a panel discussion at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, at Vanderbilt’s Furman Hall on the role of black women in Afro-Brazilian literature and sexism within the black movement in Brazil. The discussion is free and open to the public Read More

Political pundits James Carville and Mary Matalin and national security expert Gen. Barry McCaffrey will be the featured speakers for the 2003 IMPACT Symposium at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Roger W. Ferguson Jr., vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, will speak on “September 11, the Federal Reserve and the Financial System” as part of the Owen Distinguished Speaker Series on Feb. 5. Read More

Partners of the Heart, a documentary chronicling the 34-year relationship between a white physician and a black lab technician that resulted in a major breakthrough in pediatric cardiac surgery, will be shown Monday, Feb. 3, at 4 p.m. at Vanderbilt’s Sarratt Cinema. The special screening is free and open to the public. Read More

It’s a business where the cry of “strike” is as devastating to the game itself as to the player swinging the bat. The economic concerns of major league baseball—from labor-management relations and legal issues to competitive balance and contraction—will be the focus of a one-day conference at Vanderbilt University on Feb. 21. Read More

Renee Levine Melammed, assistant dean of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Israel will present "Defying the Spanish Inquisition: The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile" on Sunday, Feb. 2, and "The Forgotten Holocaust Victims: Sephardic Jewry," on Monday, Feb. 3. Read More

David Satcher, 16th Surgeon General of the United States, will give a series of lectures at Vanderbilt University on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Read More

Two of the leading thinkers in class action litigation will meet at Vanderbilt University Law School on Jan. 22 to debate controversial pending legislation that would reform the way class action lawsuits are tried. Read More

A sneak preview of an award-winning documentary on whites’ and African-Americans’ views about the brutal, racially motivated murder of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas, and a look at racial health disparities by former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher are just some of the highlights Jan. 14-24 during Vanderbilt University’s 2003 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series – “Colors of Justice.” Read More

Hanan Ashrawi, a spokesperson for the Arab League, will discuss the likelihood and legitimacy of a Palestinian state when she addresses the Vanderbilt community on Wednesday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Langford Auditorium. The event is open to the public. Read More