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Watch video of the Harry C. Howard Lecture with renowned poet and critic Rosanna Warren.
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Watch video of Roy Blount Jr. delivering the 2008-2009 Harry C. Howard. Jr. Lecture.
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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.
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Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, spoke about “The State of the Humanities” at Vanderbilt University, on Friday, Sept. 5.
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For the first time, anyone with access to the Internet can hear tapes of Robert Penn Warren's 1964 interviews with prominent Civil Rights activists like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X and the Rev. James Lawson. The interviews were conducted for Warren's book "Who Speaks for the Negro?" and this project was made possible with the cooperative efforts of the Vanderbilt, Yale and University of Kentucky libraries.
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Watch video of the Rev. James Lawson, professor at Vanderbilt, giving the keynote presentation for the "We Speak for Ourselves" conference.
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A special panel including Houston Baker, Richard King, Bob Moses and Ruth Turner Perot examine Robert Penn Warren's 1965 book "Who Speaks for the Negro?" as part of Vanderbilt's commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death.
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Watch video of "Las Maras: Street Gangs and Security in Central America and the United States."
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Watch video of Rigoberta Menchu, a Mayan Indian from Guatemala internationally recognized for her work for social justice and cultural reconciliation for indigenous people, speaking at Vanderbilt University.
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Watch video of Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright Edward Albee speaking at Vanderbilt Nov. 27. The event was part of the Chancellor's Lecture Series.
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Melanie Lowe, assistant professor of Musicology, lectured on the role of classical music in in our culture today. Lowe also teaches courses in American popular music, gender and sexuality in music, and music and American politics.
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Four Gray Line buses idle noisily at the curb by Branscomb Quadrangle as the sun slowly rises over a sleeping Greek Row. A group has quietly gathered on the steps out front -- a mix of students, faculty and staff -- shouldering overnight bags and sipping cups of coffee while members of the media prepare to capture their departure.
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Watch video of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley speaking Jan. 23, 2007, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music on the Vanderbilt University campus. The event was part of the 2006-2007 Chancellor's Lecture Series.
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