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Peabody Library Fireside Chat featuring children’s author Patsi Trollinger

Peabody welcomes children’s author Patsi Trollinger for a Fireside Chat on Monday October 15th at 11:30am in the Fireside Reading Room. Patsi will discuss humor and cultural identity in middle grade and YA novels as well as share her books Perfect Timing: How Isaac Murphy Became one of the World’s Greatest Jockeys (Junior Library Guild […]

Posted by on October 1, 2012 in Events

Faculty: Visit William Caferro’s History class at next week’s teaching visit

A Teaching Visit involves a small group of faculty who observe a colleague’s class (on a selected day), followed by an hour of conversation about what was observed, particularly shared teaching challenges. The Center for Teaching has hosted Teaching Visits…

Posted by on October 1, 2012 in Events, Teaching Visit

CSLS Event: Theme-Based Language Teaching in the 21st Century

From the Center for Second Language Studies, one of the CFT’s campus partners… The Center for Second Language Studies is pleased to announce a talk, “Theme-Based Language Teaching in the 21st Century,” by Dr. Jianhua Bai, professor of Chinese at…

Posted by on September 25, 2012 in Campus Partners, Events, Humanities

Upcoming Event: Feminist Pedagogies

Join us for this upcoming Conversation on Teaching! Feminist Pedagogies Date & Time: Tuesday, October 2 4:10-5:30pm   Join us for a discussion of feminist pedagogy, or teaching in ways that are informed by the feminist valuing of community, diversity, experience,…

Posted by on September 25, 2012 in CFT Event, Events, Feminist Pedagogies

CIRTL Online Coffee Hour: Teaching at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution, 9/27 at 1pm

See below for this week’s offering from the CIRTL Network’s online coffee house series on building academic careers in science, engineering, and mathematics. This week’s coffee house features two Vanderbilt alumnae, Tara Davis (Mathematics) and Heather Whitney (Physics). Teaching at…

Posted by on September 24, 2012 in CIRTL, Events, Future Faculty, STEM

Faculty: Visit Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey’s Psychology class at next week’s teaching visit

A Teaching Visit involves a small group of faculty who observe a colleague’s class (on a selected day), followed by an hour of conversation about what was observed, particularly shared teaching challenges. The Center for Teaching has hosted Teaching Visits…

Posted by on September 24, 2012 in Events, Teaching Visit

Author Azar Nafisi to Speak Oct. 9

Posted by on September 20, 2012 in Events, General News

‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ author to speak; book signing at Library

The Vanderbilt University Speakers Committee will welcome Azar Nafisi, the New York Times best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, to campus Oct. 9. Nafisi will deliver an address at 7 p.m. in the Student Life Center Ballroom. There will be a…

Posted by on September 18, 2012 in Events

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