Cultural Bridges: Using Artistic Expression To Narrow The Divide

Vanderbilt students were invited this spring to express how they feel about unity and democracy through a new poetry contest held by the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy in partnership with the Department of English and Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program. The theme was “what unity… Read More

 Vanderbilt students are invited to express how they feel about unity and democracy through a new poetry contest. The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy is holding the contest in partnership with the Department of English and Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program. The theme is “what unity through American democracy means… Read More

Unity’s definition is too often inspected under a microscope—or rather a macroscope—of division among differing groups at a grand scale, lacking little attention to the methods by which unity arrives among all groups, such as those characterized by an overlapping interest, belief, healing wound, or relationship. Even more so, all forms of unity—whether it is nations or neighbors—share a common thread of connection which permits for a sustainable agreement. Read More