Events

All events at the HRC are free and open to all.

Sarah Raskin

Structural Racism in the History of U.S. Professional Dentistry

Date: Friday, Jan 16, 2026

Join us for a Research Fridays event with Dr. Sarah Raskin, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning in the Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at VCU.

Oppression Made Us Leaders: Black Women, Heavy Lifting, and Leadership in State Legislatures

Date: Friday, Jan 30, 2026

Join us for a Research Fridays event with Dr. Jatia Wrighten, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at VCU.

david coogan

The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration

Date: Monday, Feb 2, 2026

Join us for a Meet VCU Authors talk with David Coogan, Liz Canfield, and Becca Ringle, co-authors of The Cambridge Companion to American Prison Writing and Mass Incarceration.

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Cinema of Crushing Motherhood: A New Feminist Cinema

Date: Monday, Feb 9, 2026

Join us for a Meet VCU Authors talk with Olivia Landry, Chair of the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, and author of Cinema of Crushing Motherhood: A New Feminist Cinema.

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Curriculum Conversation - Dennis Williams

Date: Wednesday, Feb 11, 2026

Join us for a Curriculum Conversation with Dennis Williams, Research Associate at the University of Virginia.

Sonja Livingston

Alumni Memoir Writing Workshop

Date: Friday, Feb 27, 2026

Join VCU's Office of Development and Alumni Relations and the Humanities Research Center for an in-person Memoir Writing Workshop with Sonja Livingston, Associate Professor of English at VCU.

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The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery

Date: Monday, Mar 2, 2026

Join us for a Meet VCU Authors talk with Brooke Newman, Associate Professor of History at VCU, and author of The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery.

Sarah Shear

Curriculum Conversation - Sarah Shear

Date: Wednesday, Mar 4, 2026

Join us for a Curriculum Conversation with Sarah Shear, Associate Professor of Social Studies and Multicultural Education at the University of Washington-Bothell.

The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes

Date: Monday, Mar 16, 2026

Join us for a Meet VCU Authors event with Jessica Trisko Darden, Associate Professor of Political Science at VCU, and author of "The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes."

David Wojahn MVA 2026

Secret Addressee: Essays on How Poetry Matters

Date: Monday, Apr 13, 2026

Join us for a Meet VCU Authors event with David Wojahn, Professor Emeritus of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and author of "Secret Addressee: Essays on How Poetry Matters."

Humanities Symposium

Humanities Symposium

Date: Thursday, Apr 23, 2026

Join us for VCU's first Humanities Symposium, which will showcase the vital research and creative work of our faculty and students across the humanities and humanistic social sciences.