The speakers for this virtual event are Joshua Hahn, senior grant development specialist at VCU Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, and Heather Lennon, director of sponsored programs for the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences.

The speaker for this event is Ryan K. Smith, Ph.D., professor in the Department of History in the College of Humanities and Sciences at VCU and author of "Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries."

The speaker for this virtual event is Daphne A. Brooks, Ph.D., William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of African American Studies and professor of theater studies, American studies, and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Yale University. This event is part of the HRC Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice Speaker Series.

The HRC residential fellows for 2019-20 will give a presentation on the topic "Indigenizing Reform: Cultural and Political Transformations in the Global South."

The speaker for this event is Kathryn Murphy-Judy, Ph.D., professor of French, in the School of World Studies in the College of Humanities and Sciences at VCU and co-author with Victoria Russell of "Teaching Language Online: A Guide for Designing, Developing, and Delivering Online, Blended, and Flipped Language Courses." She will be in conversation with Betsy Starnes of Virtual Virginia.

The speaker for this virtual event is Christopher González, Ph.D., professor of English, founder and director of the Latinx Cultural Center, and associate dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah State University. This event is part of the HRC Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice Speaker Series.

The speaker for this virtual event is Archana A. Pathak, Ph.D., interim director of the Q Collective at VCU in the Office of Institutional Equity, Effectiveness and Success, and associate professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies.

The speaker for this event is Robert Volpicelli, Ph.D., associate professor of English at Randolph-Macon College, in conversation with Nick Frankel, Ph.D., professor in the Department of English in the College of Humanities and Sciences at VCU, about Volpicelli's book "Transatlantic Modernism and U.S. Lecture Tour."

Panelists will share their stories and experiences, reflecting on how race and racism have been foundational to the institution of medicine and how structural racism impacts health and healthcare. This event is part of the History and Health: Racial Equity Series.

The speakers for this virtual event are Ebony Walden, urban planner and consultant, and Meghan Gough, Ph.D., associate professor in the VCU Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs.

The speaker for this event is Faye Z. Belgrave, Ph.D., university professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Humanities and Sciences at VCU and co-author of "African American Families: Research, Theories, and Practice."

The speaker for this event is Alex Keena, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Political Science in the College of Humanities and Sciences at VCU and co-author of "Gerrymandering the States: Partisanship, Race, and the Transformation of American Federalism." He will be in conversation with Michael Latner, Ph.D., professor of political science at California Polytechnic State University and senior fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Center for Science and Democracy.

Author Bill Campbell and artist Bizhan Khodabandeh discuss their work on the acclaimed new graphic novel, "The Day the Klan Came to Town," a fictionalized retelling of a community’s resistance to a violent 1923 march of thousands of Ku Klux Klan members in Carnegie, Pa. This event is co-sponsored with VCU Libraries.

The speaker for this virtual event is Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Ph.D., American historian, writer and activist, and a professor emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, East Bay. This event is part of the HRC Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice (On Native Ground) Speaker Series.

The speakers for this event are Kim Case, Ph.D., and Salena Brody, Ph.D. Case, who is the director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence at VCU, is co-author of "Navigating Difficult Moments in Teaching Diversity and Social Justice." Brody, professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Dallas, contributed a chapter on white privilege and how it functions in the classroom.

Panelists will explore health disparities in Richmond; their historical roots in Black political disenfranchisement and racial segregation; and ways that we might improve our city's health by building more equitable neighborhoods. This event is part of the History and Health: Racial Equity Series.

The speaker for this event is LeAnne Howe, Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature at the University of Georgia. This event is part of the HRC Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice Speaker Series.

The speaker for this virtual event is Kyle T. Mays, Ph.D., assistant professor of history at UCLA. This event is part of the HRC Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice Speaker Series.

The speaker for this event is Danielle Dick, Ph.D., Greg Brown Endowed Chair in Neuroscience at Rutgers University and author of "The Child Code: Understanding Your Child's Unique Nature for Happier, More Effective Parenting."

The speaker for this virtual event is Massa Lemu, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media in the VCU School of the Arts.

History and Health: Racial Equity will host a virtual panel that examines the first transplant in the South in the historical context of racial inequality and segregation while also exploring the changes and advances in transplantation in the 21st century.

The speaker for this virtual event is Jessica Trisko Darden, Ph.D., assistant professor in the VCU Department of Political Science, and author of "Aiding and Abetting: U.S. Foreign Assistance and State Violence."

The speakers for this virtual event are Holly Crocker, Ph.D., founding director of the Humanities Directive at the University of South Carolina, and Adin Lears, Ph.D., assistant professor of English at VCU. This event is part of the HRC Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice Speaker Series.

The speaker for this virtual event is Patricia W. Cummins, Ph.D., professor of french in the VCU School of World Studies, and translator of "Desert Passions."

The Virginia Humanities Conference at VCU will address the transformational possibilities at the intersection of arts and humanities, texts and data, and the digital and computational sciences. When looking for equitable solutions to our most critical social issues, humanities and the arts interact with collective data to lead to more just choices.

History and Health: Racial Equity will host a virtual panel that explores how the COVID-19 pandemic reflects and exacerbates longstanding structural, systematic racial inequities that determine individual and communities’ health and access to healthcare.

The speaker for this event is Catherine Ingrassia, Chair and Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

The speaker for this virtual event is Jennifer Ho, Ph.D., Eaton Professor of Humanities and the Arts and professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado - Boulder. This event is part of the HRC Race, Ethnicity and Social Justice Speaker Series.

The speaker for this event is David Weinfeld, a visiting assistant professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, where he also holds the Harry Lyons Chair in Judaic Studies.