Upcoming Events
All events at the HRC are free and open to all.
The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Culture
January 29, 2024
The speaker for this event is Cristina Stanciu, PhD, Associate Professor of English at VCU and author of The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924.
Recovery in Practice
February 2, 2024
The speaker for this event is John D. Freyer, artist, author and Associate Professor of Cross Disciplinary Media at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Breathing Life into Black Wombs: Ableism, Misogynoir, and the Reproductive Injustice within the Medical Industrial Complex
February 8, 2024
The speaker for this event is Anna LaQuawn Hinton, PhD, Assistant Professor of Disability Studies and Black Literature & Culture in the English Department at the University of North Texas.
Cliffhanger!: The First Movie Superheroes
February 12, 2024
Christopher Irving, Assistant Professor, Communication Arts, presents the history of the first superhero movies, the 1940s cliffhanger serials.
“Have You Seen the Nurse?": A Conversation with St. Philip School of Nursing Alumnae
February 22, 2024
Tori Tucker, RN, PhD, VCU Health System; Residential Fellow, Humanities Research Center will speak with St. Philip School of Nursing Alumnae Mary Gilbert Holmes, RN and Burlette Cooke Trent, RN in this Living Legacies event.
Justice Undone: Women Accused of Nazi-Era War Crimes
February 23, 2024
The speaker for this event is Jessica Trisko Darden, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the (In)Security Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University.
A Decolonizing Ear: Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive
February 26, 2024
The speaker for this event is Olivia Landry, PhD, Associate Professor in the School of World Studies at VCU and author of A Decolonizing Ear: Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive.
Living Legacies: Navigating Medicine with Dr. Philip E.B. Byrd Jr.
February 27, 2024
The speaker for this event is Philip E.B. Byrd Jr., MD, School of Medicine Alumnus 1969
Medicine, Marginalization and Resistance: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
March 12, 2024
The speakers for this event are Grace Gipson, Adin Lears, Gabriela León-Pérez, and Victoria Tucker.
Prestige, Perpetuity, and Progress: Understanding the James Weldon Johnson Collection’s Early Gift Economy
March 14, 2024
The speaker for this event is Melanie Chambliss, ACLS postdoctoral fellow in residence at the Humanities Research Center.
African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery
March 25, 2024
The speaker for this event is Mary Caton Lingold, PhD, Associate Professor of English and director of the PhD Program in Media, Art, and Text (MATX) at VCU, and author of African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of Sound and Slavery.
Mini Memoir Writing Workshop with Sonja Livingston
March 28, 2024
The speaker for this event is Sonja Livingston, Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of four books, including Ghostbread, a memoir of childhood poverty which won an AWP Book Prize for Nonfiction and has been widely adopted for classroom use.
Creative Inquiries: Suzanne Kite Ph.D.
March 29, 2024
Kite aka Suzanne Kite, PhD is an award winning Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, composer and academic raised in Southern California. Known for her sound and video performance with her Machine Learning hair-braid interface, Kite holds a B.F.A. from CalArts in music composition and a M.F.A. from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School. Kite earned a Ph.D. in the Individualized Program at Concordia University for her dissertation, sound and video work, and interactive installation Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road).
Memory Symposium
April 2, 2024
The Memory Lab at the HRC will present a symposium on memory, Tuesday, April 2, 2024 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Interconnections: The Research and Writing Process for ‘Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief’
April 8, 2024
The speaker for this event is Jessica Hendry Nelson, Assistant Professor in the MFA program and English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University, and author of Joy Rides through the Tunnel of Grief.
Claiming Space in the “Birthplace of America:” Latin American Immigrants and Struggles for Belonging in Williamsburg, Virginia
April 11, 2024
The speaker for this event is Jennifer Bickham Mendez, PhD, Professor and Chair of Sociology at William & Mary.
Reading the Invisible Script: How Black Dance Pioneers of the 1930s-40s Danced Between the Lines
April 22, 2024
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.
Sensing Sugaropolis: Moving Beyond the Local Scale in Sensory Geography Research
April 25, 2024
The speaker for this event is Marisa Wilson, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Geography and the Lived Environment, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh.
The Afterlives of Medical Exploitation: The East Marshall Street Well Project Symposium
April 27, 2024
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.
Barriers to Integration of Immigrants in Virginia
April 29, 2024
The speakers for this event are Dr. Saltanat Liebert, Associate Professor in the Wilder School at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Dr. Grant Rissler, Assistant Director of the Office of Public Policy Outreach (OPPO) in the Wilder School at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Isolation and Engagement: Presidential Decision Making on China from Kennedy, to Nixon
September 9, 2024
The speaker for this event is William Newmann, PhD, Associate Professor of Political Science at VCU and author of Isolation and Engagement: Presidential Decision Making on China from Kennedy, to Nixon.
Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality
September 23, 2024
The speaker for this event is Caddie Alford, PhD, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the Department of English at VCU, and author of Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality.
Interested in our offerings from prior years?
Each of the following pages offers a section at the bottom that lists topics and speakers from the past: