Dean's Research Seminar

Date: Wednesday, Oct 22, 2025

Start time: 3:00 PM

End time: 4:30 PM

Location: STEM Building, rm 202 (817 W Franklin St, Richmond, VA 23220)

Audience: Open to all

Join the HRC and VCU College of Humanities and Sciences for a Dean's Research Seminar event, featuring Aspen Brinton and Joshua Eckhardt.

About the Speakers

Aspen Brinton, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of World Studies at VCU, and a political theorist. Her research interests include democratic theory, dissident movements, East-Central Europe, phenomenology, and the intellectual history of civil society and free speech.

Joshua Eckhardt, Ph.D. is a Professor of English at VCU. He is the author of Religion Around John Donne (Penn State University Press, 2019) which received the John Donne Society Award for Distinguished Publication.

Event contact: Ellie Musgrave, musgraveec@vcu.edu