Events Archive: 2024-25

Weeks of Welcome

VCU Weeks of Welcome Run from Aug. 16-Sept. 8. Visit VCU Libraries for programming on both campuses.

StudyWell Fall 2024

StudyWell sessions focus on student wellbeing. Events highlight all types of health and wellness, including physical, financial, emotional and social health, in addition to academic success.

Meg and Me: An evening with Meg Medina

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.

Constitution Day 2024

VCU Libraries presents …. Constitution Day 2024

Free to Read Week 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.

How Might the 2024 Presidential Election Affect U.S. Foreign Policy?

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.

Levis Reading Prize Night

Elisa Gonzalez, the 2024 Levis Reading Prize winner, will read from for her poetry collection Grand Tour.

Social Justice Lecture 2024

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.

Zine Workshop: Making Facts from Fabrications

Jurgen Comics Contest Information Session

Learn about the Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest.

Tailored Humanity- A Revolution in Genetics

Climate Action Workshop

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.

GIS Day

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.

Cabell First Novelist Award 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.

Special Collections and Archives Open House

Visit Special Collections and Archives on the fourth floor of James Branch Cabell Library for the spring semester Open House: The Body and the Book!

Global Game Jam at VCU Libraries

The event is a localized version of the  popular Global Game Jam (GGJ), a unique, free event held worldwide among game creators. Participants collaborate to develop original, experimental video games based on a secret theme.

VCU Libraries' Black History Month Lecture

Recent history and future community-building will be the topic of VCU Libraries’ 25th Black History Lecture “Building a Home for Change: The Obama Presidential Center.”

VCU Visiting Writers Series: Melissa Febos & Donika Kelly

The VCU Visiting Writers Series hosts a joint-reading by acclaimed authors Melissa Febos and Donika Kelly.

Visiting Artist Yusuf Hassan Open House - Special Collections and Archives

Stop by the Special Collections and Archives' Reading Room to view a selection of publications from Graphic Design's Objects + Methods visiting artist Yusuf Hassan.