Events

What If: Designs from the Future of Crafting & Growing, an exhibit by Humanities Tennessee’s Shared Futures Lab, features artifacts and stories from the future imagined by seven Tennessee artists and farmers about their work. The speculative designs invite the public to imagine the broad impact of possible change–from sports to building, burial to celebrity–and…

Joe Pagetta, The Apostle of Tennessee: The Indefatigable Life and Ministry of Father Aloysius Orengo (Vanderbilt University Press) When Nashville became a Catholic diocese in 1837, it was mostly an aspirational exercise. The few Catholics scattered throughout the state were ministered to only occasionally by missionary priests who traveled by horseback from Kentucky. It is believed that…

Vanderbilt University Presents: The Southern Festival of Books, a program of Humanities TennesseeOCTOBER 17 (9am to 6pm)OCTOBER 18 (10am to 5pm)​The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word is among the oldest literary festivals in the country, annually welcoming hundreds of authors and thousands of visitors to downtown Nashville each OctoberThe Festival…