Weeks of Welcome
VCU Weeks of Welcome Run from Aug. 16-Sept. 8. Visit VCU Libraries for programming on both campuses.
VCU Weeks of Welcome Run from Aug. 16-Sept. 8. Visit VCU Libraries for programming on both campuses.
Richmond-based writer Meg Medina will be in conversation with VCU’s SJ Sindu. Sindu, an assistant professor in the Department of English is a Sri Lankan American novelist and short story writer. From the Cabell stage, they will discuss creative strategies for storytelling that shares elements of culture broadly and expands our understanding of our world. This $35-per-seat event includes literary themed mocktails and reserved seating.
VCU Libraries presents …. Constitution Day 2024
Join VCU Libraries in celebrating the freedom to read. During Free to Read Week, we come together to support freedom of expression and equitable access to information for all.
The podcast Civil Discourse and the VCU Political Science Department present an election Forum to discuss the potential foreign policies of the two major party candidates in the 2024 Presidential race.
Elisa Gonzalez, the 2024 Levis Reading Prize winner, will read from for her poetry collection Grand Tour.
Election integrity is the core concern of any democracy. Citizen oversight of elections is paramount, and in healthy democracies voters share concerns about election processes, calling attention to malfeasance, raising questions about suspicious events, and calling power to account. At the same time, propagandists can flood the discourse environment with cheap, misrepresented, or fabricated evidence, making it difficult to distinguish real threats from counterfeit ones.
Learn about the Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest.
VCU’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and Environment, VCU Libraries, Green Action!, Sunrise RVA and the School of World Studies present an Environmental Justice Workshop.
To celebrate the importance of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and maps and their ability to connect people, regions and systems, VCU Libraries joins with hundreds of organizations around the world to mark GIS Day on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024.
Alice Winn, winner of the 2024 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award for In Memoriam, gives a reading and participates in a moderated Q&A session about the writing and publishing of her book.