Join the HRC for a Meet VCU Authors event with Rachel Gómez, Assistant Professor of Foundations of Education in the School of Education at VCU, and Julio Cammarota, Professor of Education at the University of Arizona, co-authors of Racial Reconciliation and the Third Reconstruction: A New Racial Justice Model.
Join the VCU Department of Forensic Science for a film screening of Baby Doe, followed by a A Q&A with the director and a panel discussion of faculty experts.
Join the HRC for the first event in our Repair Speaker Series, featuring Lyndon Harris, forgiveness teacher and author of "Forgiveness at Ground Zero: A Journey of Service, Loss and Redemption After 9/11."
Join the Humanities Research Center for a Meet VCU Authors event with David Coogan, Associate Professor of English, and co-author of After Jail, Before Freedom.
Join VCU's College of Humanities and Sciences Baldacci Institute and the Library of Virginia for an evening with author and political commentator David Brooks.
Is AI just the next disruptor in a long line of world-changing technologies, or is it something genuinely new? Dr. Jason Ross Arnold, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, tackles the question.
Join us for a Meet VCU Authors event with Ying-Chao Kao, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of Sociology at VCU, and author of Fear of Queer Taiwan: Anti-LGBTQ Movements between Taiwan and the U.S. Religious Right.
Join us for a conversation with Geoff Bennett, co-anchor and co-managing editor of the PBS NewsHour. Bennett will discuss his book "Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to '90s Sitcoms."
In partnership with the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, the College of Humanities and Sciences presents a screening of the documentary “Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War” from VPM and director Stacey L. Holman.
Join the Humanities Research Center for an event in our Repair Speaker Series, featuring Dr. Laura Terrance, a Mohawk scholar, to discuss Indigenous sovereignty, Indigenous vengeance, and the productive potentials of anti-colonial violence.
A screening of Michele Poulos's 2016 documentary “A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet,” with an original score by Iron & Wine, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
Join the Humanities Research Center for an event in our Repair Speaker Series, featuring Dr. Jill Doerfler (Anishinaabe), Professor and Department Head of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
In his visit to the VCU campus, Adam Jortner will talk about the main points he writes about in his book, "A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom."
Olufunke Grace Bankole has won the 2026 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, which honors an outstanding debut novel published during the preceding calendar year.
Dates: Wednesday, Nov 18, 2026 – Sunday, Nov 22, 2026
The Humanities Research Center is proud to be part of the VCU team providing leadership support to Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
Save the date of April 1, 2027 for the annual Blake Lecture in the History of Christianity featuring Shaily Patel, Ph.D., an assistant professor of early Christianity in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech.
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