Student Engagement & the Presidential Debate

The opportunity to host the Town Hall Presidential Debate provides an invaluable educational experience to our students, allowing them to be participants in American history. The Art of Being Free celebrates Belmont's role as a modern, comprehensive liberal arts university during this pivotal, historical time for our campus, nation and world.

Keynote Speakers

Ken Burns
Documentary Filmmaker
Telling the American Stories
September 30, 2008

James Loewen
First Year Seminar Speaker
Lies My Teacher Told Me
October 23, 2008

David McCullough
Historian
Leadership and the History You Don’t Know
March 30, 2009

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Fine Arts Series

Freedom Sings
A critically acclaimed multimedia experience featuring music that has been banned, censored or has sounded a call for social change

What I Wish to Say to the Future President
Artist Sheryl Oring sets up her table and typewriter and types postcards dictated by people on what they wish to say to the future President

Aaron Copeland's A Lincoln Portrait,
Belmont Symphony Orchestra

Biloxi Blues, presented by the Belmont Theater Company
Simon's quasi-autobiographical account of 1940s U.S. Army basic training

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Energy, Entrepreneurship & The Environment Speaker Series

Dr. Kelly Tiller
Director of External Operations in the Office of Bioenergy Programs at the University of Tennessee
Tennessee Biofuels Initiative

Cameron Sinclair
Architecture for Humanity
Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises

Eric Peterson
Global Strategies Institute
The Seven Futures

Peter Kareiva, Chief Scientist
The Nature Conservancy
Conservation Strategies That Work

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Humanities Symposium

The Argument Culture: Debate, Dissent and Dialogue
Michael Berube
Paterno Family Chair in Literature, Pennsylvania State University

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Faith and Ethics Speaker Series

Dr. Stanley Hauerwas
The American Empire and the Kingdom of God

David Callahan
The Cheating Culture: Ethics and Democracy

Cynthia Cooper
WorldCom: What Went Wrong?

Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner
How Would Jesus Vote?

Melissa Rogers
The New President and the Politics of Faith

Shane Claiborne
Jesus for President

Barbara Bradley Hagerty
The Media and Religion

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Student Engagement

Your Voice Your Choice

PROJECT VOTE: SMART BUS

Ole Miss Debate Watching Party

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Partner Schools in the Multi-Campus Election Year Consortium

Belmont University
Trevecca Nazarene University
Aquinas College
Lipscomb University
Vanderbilt University
Nashville State Community College
Fisk University
Volunteer State Community College
Tennessee State University