Speakers
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Activist seeking to put a human face on the Axis of Evil to speak
On a break from her "Listening Tour through the Axis of Evil," Kelly Hayes-Raitt will speak Jan. 29 at Vanderbilt's Leadership Breakfast about her experiences as an activist, political consultant and writer. Read MoreJan 21, 2009
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Podcast: Restless Souls: Searching for Authenticity in Nashville’s Music Scene
Listen to a podcast of a Dec. 4 presentation by Charlie Peacock, Brooke Waggoner, Amy Stroup, and John Davis. Read MoreDec 9, 2008
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Rabbi to speak at Vanderbilt about peace in the Middle East
Rabbi Everett Gendler will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, in Room 126 of Wilson Hall on the Vanderbilt campus. The lecture, part of a course called "The Nonviolent Struggle" taught by the civil rights leader Rev. James Lawson, is free and open to the public. Read MoreNov 25, 2008
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Podcast: “O Heaven Where Art Thou: The Redemptive Power of Bluegrass Music”
Listen to a Nov. 13 podcast of a presentation by Bobby Clark. Read MoreNov 14, 2008
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Podcast: "O Heaven Where Art Thou: The Redemptive Power of Bluegrass Music"
Listen to a Nov. 13 podcast of a presentation by Bobby Clark. Read MoreNov 14, 2008
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Best-selling author of Freakonomics available to media prior to Nov. 18 lecture at Vanderbilt University
Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of the international best-seller Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, will speak at Vanderbilt University Tuesday, Nov. 18. Read MoreNov 14, 2008
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Podcast: On Writing: Featuring Amy Griffith
Listen to a podcast of a Nov. 6 talk by Amy Griffith. Read MoreNov 7, 2008
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Podcast: ‘Kampala Flow: Spittin’ and Spirituality in Ugandan Rap?"
Listen to a Nov. 4 podcast by Gerald Liu. Read MoreNov 7, 2008
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Video: Bill Frist at the Health Care Business Alliance
Watch video of Bill Frist speaking at the inaugural Health Care Business Alliance hosted by the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. Read MoreNov 3, 2008
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Video: Roy Blount Jr.
Watch video of Roy Blount Jr. delivering the 2008-2009 Harry C. Howard. Jr. Lecture. Read MoreNov 3, 2008
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Video: American Holocaust: The Destruction of America’s Native Peoples
Watch video of the Oct. 28 lecture American Holocaust: The Destruction of America\'s Native Peoples. Read MoreOct 30, 2008
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Video: The Agitator’s Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family
Watch video of a lunchtime "Federal Forum" on the "Passage of the Higher Education Act: the feds want us to do WHAT?" Read MoreOct 30, 2008
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Best-selling author of Freakonomics comes to Vanderbilt University Nov. 18
Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of the international best-seller Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, will speak at Vanderbilt University Tuesday, Nov. 18. Read MoreOct 29, 2008
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Video: Spain and the Holocaust
Watch video of a talk by Maureen Tobin Stanley, associate professor of Spanish language, literature, and culture at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, speaking Oct. 23 as part of the Holocaust Lecture Series. Read MoreOct 28, 2008
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Video: “Learning, Teaching, and Diversity Dilemmas: Making Complex Connections in (Teacher) Education.”
Watch video of the Peabody Chair Lecture with Rich Milner, Lois Autrey Betts Associate Professor of Education. Read MoreOct 24, 2008
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Video: "Learning, Teaching, and Diversity Dilemmas: Making Complex Connections in (Teacher) Education."
Watch video of the Peabody Chair Lecture with Rich Milner, Lois Autrey Betts Associate Professor of Education. Read MoreOct 24, 2008
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Podcast: Cole Lectures: Randall Balmer on “Keep the Faith: Reclaiming Christianity from the Religious Right”
Listen to a podcast from the 2008 Cole Lectures. Read MoreOct 24, 2008
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Video: Robert Merton, Nobel Laureate in Economics | 2008 Financial Innovation Conference
Watch video of Robert Merton, John and Nancy Arthur University Professor at Harvard Business School, speaking at the Conference on Financial Innovation. Read MoreOct 22, 2008
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Video: Founder of financial futures speaks out on government intervention and the free market system
Watch video of a talk by Leo Melamed, chairman emeritus of the CME Group (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) and the founder of the first futures market Read MoreOct 22, 2008
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Video: Hip-hop, presidential election and youth vote
Watch video of a Sept. 25 talk about hip-hop, the presidential election and the youth vote. Read MoreOct 21, 2008