February 6, 2012 David Scheffer served as the first-ever U.S. ambassador-at-large for war-crimes issues, an office sometimes referred to by his colleagues as “Ambassador to Hell.” In All the Missing Souls, Scheffer gives a firsthand account of the political and diplomatic struggle to form international courts of justice for what he calls “atrocity crimes,” and provides vivid accounts of his own encounters with the survivors of unimaginable brutality. David Scheffer will discuss All the Missing Souls in Nashville at noon on February 7 in the Flynn Auditorium of the Vanderbilt University Law School. The event is free and open to the public.

October 21, 2011 The word “Latino” is a catch-all term, “an imaginary space for filing diverse people in a singular slot.” In The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity, a new essay collection edited by Blas Falconer and Lorraine M. López, twenty-one writers examine the multifaceted nature of Latino identity and the way it shapes their work. Falconer will read from his work on October 24 at 7 p.m. at the Hodges Library on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville.