Upcoming Events
April 11, 2024
Claiming Space in the “Birthplace of America:” Latin American Immigrants and Struggles for Belonging in Williamsburg, Virginia
4:00 p.m. (In person)
The speaker for this event is Jennifer Bickham Mendez, PhD, Professor and Chair of Sociology at William & Mary.
April 22, 2024
Reading the Invisible Script: How Black Dance Pioneers of the 1930s-40s Danced Between the Lines
12:00 p.m. (Online)
The speaker for this event is E. Gaynell Sherrod, PhD, dance educator, choreographer, historian, and professor in the Department of Dance + Choreography at Virginia Commonwealth University.
April 27, 2024
The Afterlives of Medical Exploitation: The East Marshall Street Well Project Symposium
10:00 a.m. (In person)
The Health Humanities Lab at the Humanities Research Center will host a mini-symposium on the work of the East Marshall Street Well Project, underscoring its critical importance not only for VCU as it grapples with its own history of medical racism but also for other institutions nationally as they contend with their own similar histories.
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Karma Chávez, PhD, MPH
Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Department Chair, UT Austin