Singletary Center presents Jad Abumrad: Words Fail Me

Saturday, October 3, 2026•8:00 AM7:30 PM

Creator of RadioLab, MacArthur Fellow, Vanderbilt University professor, composer, and journalist Jad Abumrad creates “a new aesthetic” in broadcast journalism. His latest work “Words Fail Me” is a meditation on what it feels like to live inside information overload—part personal essay, part sound-and-music performance, and part philosophical detective story.

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