Events

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

Deprived of Sense and Intellect: Insanity, Possession and Diagnosis in Medieval Europe

Date: Monday, Aug 24, 2026

Join us for a Meet VCU Authors event with Leigh Ann Craig, Associate Professor of History at VCU, and author of Deprived of Sense and Intellect: Insanity, Possession and Diagnosis in Medieval Europe.

Maria Sachiko Cecire

Keynote Event: Maria Sachiko Cecire

Date: Tuesday, Sep 8, 2026

Join us for an event with Maria Sachiko Cecire, program officer for Higher Learning at the Mellon Foundation.

Blair Kelley

Black Freedom: Public Celebration and Commemoration as Practices of Remembrance and Repair

Date: Thursday, Sep 10, 2026

Join us for an event with Blair LM Kelley, President and Director of the National Humanities Center.

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Walking Tours with The Valentine Museum

Date: Friday, Sep 11, 2026

Join us for our final Humanities Week event of 2025: walking tours with The Valentine!

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Humanities Week Reception

Date: Friday, Sep 11, 2026

Join the HRC for a closing reception for Humanities Week!

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.

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.