“We’ve Got Game(s)” Trivia Night April 23, 4-5:30 p.m. Put your “game” face on and come join the Office of Student Engagement and Well-Being and the Peabody Library staff for a celebratory end-of-the- semester afternoon of games, giggles, and good times. Hope you can make it! Join us HERE for the event If you want… Keep reading
April 21 @ 12 p.m. Link to Meeting: https://cengage.zoom.us/j/134679167?pwd=QWZvelNFRlFPaEhnNk5XeTZTZm8rZz09 In the past year, Gale, a company that partners with libraries around the world to empower the discovery of knowledge and insights, has launched a new text mining tool for digital humanities research and teaching—the Digital Scholar Lab. It gives users the ability to search across their… Keep reading
Dream For Light Years: Ali Smith, painter, and Michael Alec Rose, composer Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery The opening reception for this exhibition has been postponed. The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery presents Dream for Light Years, a collaboration between California-based painter Ali Smith and Blair School of Music professor of composition Michael Alec Rose. This… Keep reading
Discover the surprising ancestral stories in your family at “Who’s in Your Tree?” a free drop-in genealogy workshop sponsored by the Friends of Vanderbilt’s Libraries. Whether you are an accomplished genealogist or a beginner, all are welcome. Genealogy experts and librarians will be available to guide and answer questions. Those same experts will deliver short… Keep reading
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Curated by Édouard Duval Carrié and Ada Ferrer Exhibition catalog Exhibition press Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom brings together twenty contemporary artists working across a range of media to interpret an extraordinary—and now lost—historical artifact: a so-called “Book of Paintings” created by José Antonio Aponte, a nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban revolutionary… Keep reading
Acclaimed artist and book maker Harry Reese, inventor of the Sandagraph technique, will speak March 19 at 12:30pm in Special Collections. In his talk Word, Image, Book, Presence: The User is the Content Reese will discuss his works produced with Sandra Liddell Reese for over 40 years at Turkey Press. Harry’s teaching has engaged with… Keep reading
This year’s ART+FEMINISM theme is activism. The goal is to correct Wikipedia’s well-known gender imbalance by adding high-quality work to articles about women artists. Join the work at Vanderbilt Visual Resources Center, Cohen Memorial Hall Room 134 on March 25, 2020 from 11am to 2pm where Rebecca VanDiver (History of Art) will speak on “The… Keep reading
Edit women’s stories into Wikipedia at Vanderbilt Libraries during Women’s History Month. Celebrations commemorating the 100th anniversary of Women’s suffrage continue on the Peabody Campus in March. Women of Peabody is an Edit-a-Thon March 18, 2020 from 12 noon to 3pm. Catherine Gavin Loss, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professional Education at Peabody College… Keep reading
This two-session course will focus on introductory spatial analysis in QGIS, a free and open source GIS platform. If you have always been curious about GIS and how to get started with it, this is the perfect opportunity. The course will run two days, 2/27 & 2/28, from 1-4:30 pm both days. Day 1 will… Keep reading
