Events

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

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.

Humanities Week Reception

Date: Tuesday, Sep 8, 2026

Join the HRC for a reception for Humanities Week!

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Guided Tour of the Shockoe Institute

Date: Wednesday, Sep 9, 2026

Join the HRC for a guided tour of the Shockoe Institute, led by HRC Community Fellow Gregg Kimball.

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Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Date: Wednesday, Sep 9, 2026

Join the HRC and the School of the Arts 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 2026: a walking tour with The Valentine!

Rachel Gomez

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.

Lyndon Harris

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," in conversation with Dr. Jim Somerville, Senior Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church.

After Jail, Before Freedom

Date: Monday, Sep 21, 2026

Join us for a Meet VCU Authors event with David Coogan, Associate Professor of English, and co-author of After Jail, Before Freedom.

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Indigenous Data Sovereignty and the CARE Data Maturity Model

Date: Thursday, Oct 1, 2026

Join the HRC Indigenous Humanities Lab for an event with Riley Taitingfong, CHamoru, Co-founder, US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network and Postdoctoral Researcher, Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona.

Ying-Chao Kao

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.

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Violence and the Impossibility of Repair

Date: Monday, Oct 26, 2026

Join the HRC 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.

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.

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Reform and Repair: Removing Blood Quantum from Tribal Citizenship Requirements

Date: Monday, Nov 2, 2026

Join the HRC 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.

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!