"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, and cultural issues.

Humanities Calendar

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

Announcements

The Warren Center has announced its 2010-2011 Fellows Program theme "Representation and Social Change," co-directed by Professors Laura Carpenter (sociology) and Bonnie Dow (communication studies). Information about visiting fellowship opportunities for this program can be found here. Information about internal fellowships can be found here.

The Warren Center invites applications for seven 2010-2011 Graduate Student Fellowships. These awards are designed to support innovation and excellence in graduate student research. These residential awards will offer graduate students in the humanities and the social sciences in the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University a service-free year of support to enable full-time work on the dissertation. Information about graduate fellowships can be found here.

Lectures and Events

David Johnston, Head of the School of Languages, Literatures and Performing Arts and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, will present a talk, "The Translator-Practitioner's Visibility? Lope de Vega and García Lorca in English," on Thursday, November 19 at 4:10 p.m. in Furman 311.

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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