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

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

Date: Monday, Aug 24, 2026

Join us for a Meet VCU Authors event with Leigh Ann Craig, Associate Professor of History at VCU, and author of Deprived of Sense and Intellect: Insanity, Possession and Diagnosis in Medieval Europe.

Humanities Week Reception

Date: Tuesday, Sep 8, 2026

Join the HRC for a reception for Humanities Week!

Maria Sachiko Cecire

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.

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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.

Blair Kelley

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.

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Walking Tour with The Valentine Museum

Date: Friday, Sep 11, 2026

Join us for our final Humanities Week event of 2025: a walking tour with The Valentine!

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.

Inherited Hands, New Forms: Tradition and Modernity in Indigenous Art

Date: Monday, Oct 12, 2026

Join the HRC for an event with Erick Krigsvold, Pamunkey artist and former Karenne Wood Artist in Residence.

Ned Blackhawk

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.

HRC and Faculty Affairs Writing Retreat at Roslyn

Dates: Monday, Jan 11, 2027 – Wednesday, Jan 13, 2027

The HRC and the Office of Faculty Affairs invite you to join us for a three-day writing retreat at the Roslyn Retreat Center in Richmond! 

Inherited Hands, New Forms: Tradition and Modernity in Indigenous Art

Date: Monday, Oct 12, 2026

Join the HRC for an event with Erick Krigsvold, Pamunkey artist and former Karenne Wood Artist in Residence.