Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities

Video and Podcasts

Rosanna Warren, Emma Ann MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities, and Professor of English and Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at Boston University, presented the Harry C. Howard, Jr. Lecture, "Poems and Poem-Talk: A poetry reading and informal chat by Rosanna Warren," on October 29, 2009. (video)

Roy Blount Jr., acclaimed author, humorist, and Vanderbilt alumnus (B.A. 1963) presented the Harry C. Howard, Jr. Lecture, "Through Is Thoroughly Throughsome, Go Is Wide Open, and Wince Makes You Wince: On the Non-Arbitrariness of Words," on October 30, 2008. (video)

Peter Applebome, writer and editor for The New York Times, presented a lecture entitled "All the News That’s Fit to Blog: Old Media, New media, and the Brave New World of Election 2008" on October 13, 2008. (video)

Susan J. Carroll, Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, presented a lecture entitled "Gender and Hillary Clinton's Campaign: The Good, The Bad, and the Misogynic" on September 22, 2008. (video)

Bruce Cole, Chairman of the National Endowment of the Humanities, presented a lecture entitled, "The State of the Humanities," on September 5, 2008. (video)

The Appalachian Celebration: A Place for the Humanities, a concert of music featured in The Little House on the Praire series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, organized by Dale Cockrell, professor of musicology, Blair School of Music. (video)

We Speak for Ourselves: A Poet, a Prophet, and Voices for the 21st Century, a conference in honor of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Warren Center. (video)

Mona Frederick, Executive Director of the Warren Center, discusses the availability of Robert Penn Warren's original audio interviews with Civil Rights leaders through a new Vanderbilt Library web archive. These interviews were conducted in preparation for Warren's 1964 volume Who Speaks for the Negro? (podcast)

Charles S. Maier, the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, presented the 2007-2008 Harry C. Howard, Jr. Lecture entitled "The Space of Nations: Territory and History Before Globalization" on Oct. 29, 2007. (podcast)

Helen Vendler, the A . Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, presented a lecture entitled "The Yeatsian Sequence: ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’ and ‘Blood and the Moon’ " as the 2006-2007 Harry C. Howard, Jr. Lecture on January 18, 2007. (podcast)

Craig E. Colten, Carl. O. Sauer Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University, gave a talk entitled "Race and Relief in New Orleans: A Hazardous Topography" on January 26, 2006. (podcast)

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