CHS Welcome Back Block Party

Date: Friday, Aug 21, 2026

Join us for snow cones, tie-dye, giveaways, games and more!

Reel at the Ram

Date: Sunday, Aug 23, 2026

Join us for a special film screening of "Pitch Perfect."

Trivia Night

Date: Wednesday, Aug 26, 2026

Put that brainrot to work and win bragging rights at CHS Trivia Night.

CHS Night at the Flying Squirrels

Date: Saturday, Aug 29, 2026

Join VCU's College of Humanities and Sciences at CarMax Park when the Flying Squirrels take on the Portland Sea Dogs. Tickets are FREE.

A Conversation with David Brooks

Date: Monday, Sep 28, 2026

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.

2026 Levis Reading Prize

Date: Thursday, Oct 29, 2026

Matthew Tuckner, the 2026 Levis Reading Prize winner, will read from his poetry collection The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Make My Meaning Plain: A Celebration of Larry Levis

Dates: Wednesday, Oct 28, 2026 – Friday, Oct 30, 2026

This fall, VCU celebrates the life and work of the late poet and former VCU professor Larry Levis with three days of readings, talks, an exhibition of his letters, and the screening of a documentary film . . .

2026 Cabell First Novelist Award

Date: Thursday, Nov 12, 2026

Olufunke Grace Bankole has won the 2026 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, which honors an outstanding debut novel published during the preceding calendar year.

VCU Visiting Writers Series: Carvell Wallace

Date: Tuesday, Feb 16, 2027

The VCU Visiting Writers Series hosts a reading by acclaimed author Carvell Wallace . . .

The Blake Lecture in the History of Christianity

Date: Thursday, Apr 1, 2027

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.

Deprived of Sense and Intellect: Insanity, Possession, and Diagnosis in Medieval Europe

Date: Monday, Aug 24, 2026

What do the Middle Ages tell us about mental health then and now? Join the HRC for their Meet the VCU Authors series featuring history associate professor Leigh Ann Craig, Ph.D.

Making Worlds, Repairing Worlds: What We Do with the Humanities

Date: Tuesday, Sep 8, 2026

Join us for an event with Maria Sachiko Cecire, program officer for Higher Learning at the Mellon Foundation.

Humanities Week Reception

Date: Tuesday, Sep 8, 2026

Join the HRC for a reception for Humanities Week!

Virginia at 250: Leadership, Democracy and the Future of the Commonwealth

Date: Tuesday, Sep 1, 2026

As the nation marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs and the College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University will convene a timely conversation about Virginia’s enduring influence on America.

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Date: Wednesday, Sep 9, 2026

Join the HRC and VCUarts for a screening of Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World, including a Q&A with director Sasha Waters.

Black Freedom: Public Celebration and Commemoration as Practices of Remembrance and Repair

Date: Thursday, Sep 10, 2026

Join us for a keynote event with Blair LM Kelley, President and Director of the National Humanities Center.

Walking Tour with The Valentine Museum

Date: Friday, Sep 11, 2026

Join us for our final Humanities Week event of 2026: a walking tour with The Valentine!

Ned Blackhawk Lecture

Date: Friday, Oct 30, 2026

Join us for an event with Ned Blackhawk, Howard R. Lamar Professor of History at Yale University and author of The Rediscovery of America.

Racial Reconciliation and the Third Reconstruction A New Racial Justice Model

Date: Monday, Sep 14, 2026

Join us 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.

Fear of Queer Taiwan: Anti-LGBTQ Movements between Taiwan and the U.S. Religious Right

Date: Monday, Oct 5, 2026

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.

The Future of Our Past: A Conversation about Repair and Community Healing at the 25th Anniversary of 9/11

Date: Friday, Sep 18, 2026

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."