Events

A Two-day Cultural Heritage Preservation Summit, July 19-20 You are invited to participate in four separate sessions over two days that are meant to inform and provide a forum for sharing experience and expertise, support learning and exploration, and facilitate creative problem-solving. Bring your ideas and questions and join the… Read More

As Vanderbilt began renovating Kirkland Hall in 2022 in anticipation of the Sesquicentennial celebration this year, a tantalizing piece of history awaited construction crews. In its cornerstone was a time capsule, interred in 1874 when the building was still known as the Main Building. Shortly before the capsule was… Read More

Join us for a discussion with Carole Boston Weatherford, award-winning-author, tomorrow, Friday March 31, at Peabody Library in the Fireside Reading Room, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. In partnership with the National Museum of African American Music, this event will feature a discussion with Boston Weatherford facilitated by Alice… Read More

Event poster On April 21, 2023, in Turner Recital Hall, the Blair School of Music will be hosting guest pianist Dr. Sarah Masterson for an event titled Forgotten Genius: The Piano Music of Philippa Schuyler. Dessert will be provided immediately following the concert. This event is sponsored by the… Read More

In Partnership with NMAAM, join us on March 31st from 3-4:30 p.m. in Peabody Library’s Reading Room as Alice Randall facilitates a discussion with Carole Boston Weatherford about Children’s Literature, Black Music, and the Social Justice Movement! Refreshments will be served. Carole Boston Weatherford, author of R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha… Read More

Learn all about entrepreneurship research and resources Vanderbilt has to offer at this three part workshop series! No experience is necessary for these workshops, which will be presented virtually. Recordings will be available upon request. These workshops are open to all Vanderbilt students, faculty, and staff along with community members. Read More

Join us for an exploration of historical audio recording featuring Martin Fisher, Manager of Recorded Media Collections at the Center for Popular Music (MTSU). Stop by the Wilson Music Library on March 7, from 10 a.m. to noon. Martin will demonstrate a wax cylinder recorder which also includes playback of… Read More

Vanderbilt University is making big plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the university, dating from Cornelius Vanderbilt’s letter of March 17, 1873, in which he offered to endow a university in the Nashville area. In honor of that event, our distinctive collections curators… Read More

Come join us in the Science and Engineering Library for Valentine’s Day events. All day long we will have card making and puzzle pages available. Early morning we will have coffee in the hallway. We will have button making in the hallway from 12:30pm-1:45pm.  Bring your own photo or chose… Read More

Please join us Tuesday, February 14, Noon–1:00 p.m. in the libraries’ Special Collections for a reception catered by Hattie B’s for the exhibition, The Reinvented Life of Belle da Costa Greene. One of the most well-known American librarians and experts in illuminated manuscripts in the early-mid twentieth century, Belle… Read More