Events

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

Hope at the End of Despair: The Poetry of Aaron Zeitlin

Date: Friday, Feb 6, 2026

Join the Spirituality, Care, and Culture Lab at the HRC for an event featuring Richmond poet and translator Danny Kraft, who will be speaking about his work translating the Yiddish poetry of Aaron Zeitlin.

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Cinema of Crushing Motherhood: A New Feminist Cinema

Date: Monday, Feb 9, 2026

Join us for a Meet VCU Authors talk with Olivia Landry, Chair of the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, and author of Cinema of Crushing Motherhood: A New Feminist Cinema.

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Boundaries and Backlash: Resegregation and Recent Political Trends in Virginia’s Public Schools

Date: Wednesday, Feb 11, 2026

Join us for a Curriculum Conversation with Dennis Williams, Research Associate at the University of Virginia.

Jess Goldberg Abolition Time

Jess Goldberg: Abolition Time

Date: Thursday, Feb 12, 2026

Join VCU's Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, as well as the Humanities Research Center, for a book discussion with Jess Goldberg, Assistant Professor of American Literature at New Mexico Highlands University, and author of Abolition Time.

Sonja Livingston

Alumni Memoir Writing Workshop

Date: Friday, Feb 27, 2026

Join VCU's Office of Development and Alumni Relations and the Humanities Research Center for an in-person Memoir Writing Workshop with Sonja Livingston, Associate Professor of English at VCU.

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The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery

Date: Monday, Mar 2, 2026

Join us for a Meet VCU Authors talk with Brooke Newman, Associate Professor of History at VCU, and author of The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery.

Sarah Shear

“Destiny” Revisited: Inclusions and Erasures of Indigeneity in K-12 U.S. History Standards, 10 Years Later

Date: Wednesday, Mar 4, 2026

Join us for a Curriculum Conversation with Sarah Shear, Associate Professor of Social Studies and Multicultural Education at the University of Washington-Bothell.

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The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes

Date: Monday, Mar 16, 2026

Join us for a Meet VCU Authors event with Jessica Trisko Darden, Associate Professor of Political Science at VCU, and author of "The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes."

Amanda Morales

Community as Curriculum: When Cultural Solidarity, Critical Care, and Collective Healing Become Pedagogy

Date: Wednesday, Apr 1, 2026

Join us for a Curriculum Conversation with Amanda Morales, ssociate Professor of Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Secret Addressee: Essays on How Poetry Matters

Date: Monday, Apr 13, 2026

Join us for a Meet VCU Authors event with David Wojahn, Professor Emeritus of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and author of "Secret Addressee: Essays on How Poetry Matters."

Humanities Symposium

Humanities Symposium

Date: Thursday, Apr 23, 2026

Join us for VCU's first Humanities Symposium, which will showcase the vital research and creative work of our faculty and students across the humanities and humanistic social sciences.

Robert Gray

Indigenous Elder in Residence Welcome Reception

Date: Wednesday, Jan 21, 2026

Join the HRC and the Department of History as we welcome the HRC's new Indigenous Elder-in-Residence, Robert Gray, Chief of the Pamunkey Indian Tribe from 2015 through 2024.

Amanda Morales

Community as Curriculum: When Cultural Solidarity, Critical Care, and Collective Healing Become Pedagogy

Date: Wednesday, Apr 1, 2026

Join us for a Curriculum Conversation with Amanda Morales, ssociate Professor of Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.