Vanderbilt University Podcasts

Watch video of the April 12 performance of The Pa's Fiddle Project Concert, part of a series of special events in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Vanderbilt University's Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. The Pa's Fiddle Project features songs from the "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Watch video of Sankofa, the Blair School of Music's African Performing Ensemble, performing April 13 in Ingram Hall.

Watch video of the Vanderbilt University Orchestra, with Robin Fountain, conductor, and featuring the 2007-08 winners of the Student Concerto Competition.

Watch video of Deep Brain Stimulation surgery, featuring a customized miniature sterotactic platform and computer-aided placement of DBS electrodes.

Watch video of Amy Jarman, soprano; Jonathan Retzlaff, lyric baritone; Gayle Shay, mezzo-soprano; and Melissa Rose, pianist, perform "Singing Back Through Time: American Song from 2008-1900," which opened the Spring 2008 Faculty Concert Series at the Blair School of Music.

John McCain and Barack Obama, the likely presidential nominees for the GOP and Democrats, will need to run negative ads as they seek to define each other in the general election campaign, says Vanderbilt political scientist John Geer. He and colleague Bruce Oppenheimer are preparing to teach a course on the 2008 elections in the fall.

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.

Larry R. Churchill, the Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics, discusses the reasons why Medicare is prone to crises and which reason we need to pay attention to, at the May 7 "Thinking Out of the Lunchbox."

Watch live streaming video of humanitarian and music star Bob Geldof delivering the 2008 Senior Class Day address at Memorial Gym on the Vanderbilt campus.

Feminist activist and researcher Srilatha Batliwala spoke at Vanderbilt University as part of a workshop on social, environmental and gender justice.

Watch videos from the April 22 Marino Autism Research Institute Scientific Symposium at Vanderbilt University. The purpose of the symposium was to provide researchers with a platform to discuss the role of environment in increasing autism risk and impact on the diversity of behavioral and medical symptoms.

Vanderbilt political scientist Marc Hetherington believes that if Barack Obama gets a surprise win in the Pennsylvania primary, Hillary Clinton's campaign is effectively done. However, that does not mean that she will withdraw from the race. "She is unlikely to pull out because her supporters have invested much money, time and effort," he said.

Steve Squyres, lead scientist of the Mars Exploration Mission, talks about his passion for the red planet and the amazing journey to build and launch the Rovers.

Vanderbilt Professor of Law Richard Nagareda speaks to the Federalist Society about the argument before the Supreme Court this week in Taylor v. Sturgell. The case concerns the outer limits of claim preclusion in civil litigation under the Freedom of Information Act.

Watch video of the Spring Faculty Assembly, with remarks by Chancellor Nick Zeppos; Claire Smrekar, associate professor of public policy and education; Bruce Barry, chair of the Faculty Senate and professor of management and sociology; and the presentation of five teaching awards.

Michelle V. Buchanan, associate laboratory director for physical sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, spoke at the Hall Engineering Lecture Series.

Watch video of a talk by Dan Sperber, "Rituals and Institutions," part of the 2008 Templeton Research Lectures exploring "The Causes of Religion."

Watch video of discussion from the Vanderbilt Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care."

Watch video of the Rev. James Lawson, professor at Vanderbilt, giving the keynote presentation for the "We Speak for Ourselves" conference.

Carl E. Wieman from the University of British Columbia who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics for the creation of a new state of matter talks about the future of science education.

Watch video of the April 8 talk by Dan Sperber, "Beliefs and Values," part of the 2008 Templeton Research Lectures exploring "The Causes of Religion."

Watch video of the April 7 talk by Dan Sperber, "Asking the Right Questions," part of the 2008 Templeton Research Lectures exploring "The Causes of Religion."

Watch video from the Vanderbilt Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care."

Watch video of the April 7 talk by Dan Sperber, "Asking the Right Questions," part of the 2008 Templeton Research Lectures exploring "The Causes of Religion."

Watch video of discussion from the Vanderbilts Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care."

Watch video of discussion from the Vanderbilt Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Center for the Study of Religion and Culture conference, "Religion and Genomics: Navigating Pathways and Perspectives of Patient Care."

Listen to a podcast of an April 4, 2008, lecture by University of Michigan anthropologist Webb Keane on "Religion as Linguistic Practice."

Watch video of an April 2 discussion of eight country music videos, with special attention to religious content in the lyrics and religious imagery in video conception.

Watch live video of part two of the 2008 Templeton Research Lectures entitled: "Beliefs and Values."

Watch video of an April 1, 2008 luncheon presentation by Timothy Shriver, chairman of the Special Olymics, at the Community Partnership Luncheon honoring the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center.