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…

Timothy D. Johnson, Robert Neyland: The West Point Engineer Who Built Tennessee Football (University of Tennessee Press) Robert Neyland was not your typical college football coach. A graduate of West Point and veteran of both world wars, Neyland often played a dual role as both an army officer and football coach, shifting seamlessly between the two professions.…

Join us for a special opening gallery talk for the Shared Futures Lab's exhibit What If: Designs from the Future of Crafting and Growing. Participating designers Annie LaVoie (Mouthy Oddities), Renee Williams (Moore Family Century Farm), and Julia Donagrandi (Loof’n Round Gardens) will join exhibit curator Liza Blair to discuss the process of creating designs…

Join us for the final program in the Beyond The Divide series presented by Millions of Conversations (MoC) and hosted by Nashville Public Library Special Collections. From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville and producer Nicholas Ma—the same creative team behind Leap of Faith—Won’t You Be My Neighbor? takes an intimate look at America’s most beloved…

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…