Vanderbilt University: Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
 
 
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The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities is located in the Vaughn home.

"In addition to embodying the history of the humanities at Vanderbilt, the Robert Penn Warren Center represents their future. The Center has proven prescient in its modeling of the value of collaboration in the humanities. Over its quarter-century of existence, the Robert Penn Warren Center has evolved into a site of deep exploration for Vanderbilt's faculty, as well as for national and international scholars, by its situation at the heart of campus and through its promotion of the work faculty from different departments and disciplines can do together, the RPW Center confirms all of Vanderbilt to be a place for the humanities."

— Chancellor
Nicholas Zeppos
 

Welcome to the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. Our center promotes interdisciplinary research and study in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Because cooperative study in higher education is crucial to the modern university and the society it influences, the Center is designed to intensify and increase interdisciplinary discussion of academic, social,r and cultural issues.

Humanities Calendar

To receive weekly email updates on Warren Center events please email katherine.newman@vanderbilt.edu.

Announcements

Lectures and Events

  • Sue Peabody, Professor of History at Washington State University, Vancouver, will deliver the 2009-2010 Black Atlantic History Lecture, "Justice on the Margins: Popular and Official Claims to Freedom under French Law." Sponsored by the Circum-Atlantic Studies Seminar, the lecture will take place Thursday, February 11 at 4:10 p.m in the Black Cultural Center Auditorium.
  • Malini Johar Schueller, Professor of English at the University of Florida, will deliver a public lecture entitled "Post-Orientalism, Neoliberal Feminism, and Afghan Women" on February 16 at 4:10 p.m. Sponsored by the Postcolonial Theory Seminar, the lecture will take place in Buttrick 101.
  • Trauma: Memory, the Body, and the Arts
    Members of the 2008-2009 Warren Center Fellows Program on “New Directions in Trauma Studies” will host a three-day symposium to be held at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center March 18-20.The symposium will consist of six sessions, featuring scholars from various disciplines around the country: Jackie Orr (Syracuse University), Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University), Ellen Bass (Pacific University), Gwendolyn Du Bois Shaw (University of Pennsylvania), and Kenneth Robinson (Yoga For the Emotional Body).

 

For more information, contact the Center's executive director, Mona C. Frederick

Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
Vanderbilt University
VU Station B #351534
Nashville, TN 37235
615-343-6060

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