Cinema Theatre Events

Professor Claire Sisco King spoke with WPLN’s Tony Gonzales on an episode of Curious Nashville about film history and celebrity culture in Nashville. Watch… Read More

Friday, December 4, 2-4 PM At The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Sunny Xiang (English, Yale University) Conspiratorial Thinking; Or, Breathing Together Abstract: My talk uses two seemingly disparate material cultural objects that have long preoccupied me—gas masks and bras—to build toward a theory of conspiracy based on the… Read More

Friday, November 6th, 2 – 4 PM, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Pedagogy Workshop with Rebecca K. VanDiver (History of Art and Architecture, Vanderbilt University), Yucong Hao (Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University), and Isaac West (Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University). Abstract:Please… Read More

Friday, September 25, 2 – 4 PM, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities Debashree Mukherjee (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University) “Contract and Conjuring: Indian Film Exhibition in Colonial Fiji” Abstract: In 1933, three Indian gentlemen sued the owners of Lilac Theatre,… Read More

Two Weeks and a Day and Eurydice tickets are available NOW (for free!)! Two Weeks and a Day will be Saturday 9/26 and Sunday 9/27 at 7:30 PM RSVP HERE! Eurydice will be November 13th at 7:30 pm, 14th at 2:30 and 7:30, and 15th at 2:30 and 7:30… Read More

The robot revolution is coming! It’s time to pick a side. Я.U.Robot, a new play at Vanderbilt, will ask the important questions like: is your toaster trying to kill you? Does it have a good reason? And if so, is humanity toast? 100 years after… Read More

“The Missing Things People” Friday, April 10, 2026 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities In this era of climate disturbance, how do we decipher genres produced by increasing displacement and unhousing? How do we understand documents of loss? In this talk, I… Read More

Students Works are plays directed by students Ewon Kim, Brianna Dahle, and Will Growden, and written by students Anna Gabers, Sadie Karr, Jackson Smith, Wren Vinavongso, and Ethan Blevins. Come see these amazing works at 7:30 p.m. February 27, 28, and March 1 or at 2 p.m. on March 1… Read More

“Better Living in Eichlerville: California Modernism’s Influence on Apple” Friday, February 27th, 2026 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities This talk studies a set of Californian suburban tract housing developments built by Joseph Eichler during the 1950s-1970s. Working with architects… Read More

Students interested in auditioning for roles for the R.U. Robot spring production have two audition slots available. Wednesday, January 21, 5-7:30 p.m. Thursday, January 22, 2:30-4:30 p.m. If you cannot make either of these times, but would like to audition, email the director, Leah Lowe.  … Read More

“Horace Pippin and the Historical Medium of Wood” Susan Scott Parrish (University of Michigan) Friday, February 13, 2026 10 a.m.12 p.m. Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities In this talk, Parrish will focus upon Horace Pippin (1888-1946), a self-taught modernist painter and “pyrographer” who… Read More

“The Sincerity Threshold and the Media Theory of Muhammad Ali” Jennifer Fay (Department of English and Cinema & Media Arts, Vanderbilt University)  Friday, December 5, 2026 2 – 4 p.m. Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities  From the mid 1960s through the mid 1970s,… Read More

Vanderbilt Theatre presents “Peter and the Starcatcher” at Neely Auditorium. Come see this production on November 7-9 or November 14-16. https://as.vanderbilt.edu/theatre/wp-content/uploads/sites/55/2025/11/OCVideo.784216702.684712.mp4… Read More

Vanderbilt’s history written and staged by those who lived it. Written by Will Bonfiglio (’12) and Jess Owens (’12) Directed by Tobi Akisanya (’24) Dates: Thursday, November 7th at 7:30pm Friday, November 8th at 7:30pm Saturday, November 9th at 7:30pm Sunday, November 10th at 2:00pm Tickets will be available soon!… Read More

Thursday, September 26th at 7:30pm Saturday, September 28th at 2:00pm and 7:30pm Sunday, September 29th at 2:00pm Read More

Thursday, October 17th at 7:30pm Friday, October 18th at 7:30pm Saturday, October 19th at 7:30pm Sunday, October 20th at 2:00pm Read More

In collaboration with ArtLab Vanderbilt, come see a panel of speakers discuss “Hollywood Reimagined with AI.” This special event takes place at 2 p.m. on November 10 and is free to attend. Read More

Join us on Thursday Nov 10 for “Insta-flix Celebrity and Fashion: A Brave New Convergent World?,” part of the ongoing “Conversations in Film and Media” lecture series Who: Jorge Pérez (Peter T. Flawn Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin) Where: Wilson 115 When: Thursday November 10,… Read More

The Department of Cinema & Media Arts is excited to partner with Comparative Media Analysis & Practice, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and European Studies to sponsor the lecture series “Conversations in Film and Media”… Read More

Please join us for an event on Monday Nov 7 at 5pm in the Community Room of Vanderbilt’s Central Library. The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center, the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Jean and Alexander Heard Library, and the Office of LGBTQI Life are partnering to host “One to… Read More