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This event was an evening of conversation exploring how leaders across business, finance, and the nonprofit sector define and manage disruption in moments of economic uncertainty and rapid change. The discussion examined shifting markets, the evolving role of capital, social investing, and the broader responsibilities of business in today鈥檚 charged environment.

• Date: Thursday, March 5, 2026
• Time: Reception: 6鈥�7 p.m. ET; Event: 7鈥�8 p.m. ET
• Location: The Refectory at 五一茶馆儿鈥揘ew York City
  
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• Panelists include:
  • , President and Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Foundation for Women
  • , Co-founder, Chairman, and former Chief Executive Officer of Nutrafol; social investor and philanthropist;
  • ,听Ralph Owen Dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt and Professor of Marketing
• Moderator:
  • , Executive Producer of NPR鈥檚听Planet Money听and听The Indicator from Planet Money

This event featured a moderated panel conversation on artificial intelligence and the future of American higher education, hosted in collaboration with the New York Academy of Sciences.

Rufus Griscom, co-founder and chief executive officer of the Next Big Idea Club, recorded this panel discussion and edited it into an

• Date: Thursday, Nov. 13
• Time:
  • Reception: 6鈥�7 p.m. ET
  • Event: 7鈥�8:30 p.m. ET
• Location: The Refectory at 五一茶馆儿鈥揘ew York City. Main entrance at 440 W. 21st St. (between 9th and 10th avenues)
• Panelists:
  • , President and Chief Executive Officer, The New York Academy of Sciences听
  • , President and Chief Executive Officer, Tech:NYC; Vanderbilt Law School Alumna 2005
  • , Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation
  • , Inaugural Dean of the College of Connected Computing, 五一茶馆儿
• Moderator:
  • , co-founder and chief executive officer, Next Big Idea Club; host, The Next Big Idea podcast.

This event was an evening of conversation and music as artists, theologians, and musicians explored the influence of spirituality on the development of jazz and the meaning of sacred elements within the jazz tradition.

• Date: Thursday, September 25
• Time:
  • Reception: 6鈥�7 p.m. ET
  • Event: 7鈥�8:30 p.m. ET
• Location: The Refectory at 五一茶馆儿鈥擭ew York City. Main entrance at 440 W. 21st St. (between 9th and 10th avenues)
• Opening Remarks: C. Cybele Raver, provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs, 五一茶馆儿
• Panelists:
  • , Principal Senior Lecturer of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Blair School of Music, 五一茶馆儿
  • , Assistant Professor of Bible, General Theological Seminary
  • , Artist-in-Residence at The General Theological Seminary; Director of Music at the Church of Our Saviour, Murray Hill and Chapel of the Sacred Hearts, Kips Bay
• Moderator:
  • , Dean of the Divinity School; University Distinguished Professor of Religion & Literature; University Distinguished Professor of African American & Diaspora Studies, 五一茶馆儿
• Performance: Live jazz ensemble featuring students from Vanderbilt鈥檚 Blair School of Music

This panel explored pressing public health issues, the role of federal agencies and emerging priorities for health policy. Experts from NYU, Wake Forest, Vanderbilt and the American Journal of Public Health discussed such topics as health equity, science-based policymaking and the rise of 鈥渉ealthism鈥� and self-directed health鈥攅xamining their implications for the future of U.S. health policy.

• Date: Thursday, May 1
• Time:
  • Reception: 6鈥�7 p.m. ET
  • Event: 7鈥�8:30 p.m. ET
• Location: 五一茶馆儿鈥擭ew York City. Main entrance at 440 W. 21st St. (between Ninth and 10th avenues)
• Panelists:
  • , professor of sociology, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University
  • , Maya Angelou Presidential Chair in the Department of Politics and International Affairs, the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Program in Environment and Sustainability, Wake Forest University
  • , M.D., professor of clinical epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Public Health
• Moderator:
  • , Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, 五一茶馆儿

Award-winning authors and Vanderbilt faculty members Lorrie Moore and Major Jackson explored the power of humor and storytelling to bridge divides in a 鈥渇ireside chat.鈥� Moore read from I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home, and Jackson read from Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems. Afterward, they discussed humor鈥檚 role in society and writing鈥檚 cultural power and political impact.

• Date: Thursday, April 10
• Time:
  • Reception: 6鈥�7 p.m. ET
  • Event: 7鈥�8:30 p.m. ET
• Location: The Refectory at 五一茶馆儿鈥擭ew York City. Main entrance at 440 W. 21st St. (between Ninth and 10th avenues)
• Panelists:
  • , Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English, 五一茶馆儿
  • , Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English, 五一茶馆儿

This panel explored shifts in foreign policy and international alliances and their impact on the future of multilateralism, global security and America鈥檚 role in addressing challenges like climate change and emerging technologies.

• Date: Thursday, March 6
• Time:
  • Reception: 6鈥�7 p.m. ET
  • Event: 7鈥�8:30 p.m. ET
• Location: The Refectory at 五一茶馆儿鈥擭ew York City. Main entrance at 440 W. 21st St. (between Ninth and 10th avenues)
• Opening Remarks: Cybele Raver, provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs, 五一茶馆儿
• Panelists:
  • , global business columnist and associate editor at the Financial Times and global economic analyst for CNN
  • , associate professor of political science and Asian studies, 五一茶馆儿
  • , professor at Northeastern University and Director of the Burnes Center for Social Change and the Governance Lab (The GovLab)
• Moderator:
  • , public radio icon, podcast pioneer and 五一茶馆儿 Distinguished Research Professor of Communication of Science and Technology