Events

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History Graduate Student Orientation

Date: Monday, Aug 18, 2025

The history graduate student orientation will be held on Monday, August 18.

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Welcome Back Block Party

Date: Friday, Aug 22, 2025

The College of Humanities and Sciences is hosting a block party that you don’t want to miss. Come see us at the History Department table for a chance to win some swag.

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What Does a Religion Feel Like? Thoughts on Emotion in Early Christianity

Date: Monday, Aug 25, 2025

Join the Humanities Research Center for a Meet VCU Authors talk with Andrew Crislip, Chair of the Department of History at VCU, and author of "Ascetic Passions: Emotions in Early Christian Egypt."

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Dam-breaking: The Arms Trade and American Revolutions

Date: Tuesday, Sep 9, 2025

Join us September 9 for a lecture by Brian DeLay, Ph.D., professor of history and Preston Hotchkis Chair in the History of the United States at UC Berkeley. He will discuss the history and complexity of the arms trade in the independence era of 1775–1825.

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History Transfer Student Tea Time

Date: Tuesday, Sep 16, 2025

New to VCU as a history transfer student? Want to meet other history transfer students? Join us Sept 16 for this special transfer week event for history majors and minors.

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Bishop Sullivan Lecture in Catholic Studies presents "An American Pontiff"

Date: Tuesday, Oct 7, 2025

Join the VCU School of World Studies for a Q&A session that will illuminate the major opportunities and challenges for "Pope Bob," the first American pontiff.

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The Greer Lecture in Latin American History Series presents "Time-Traveling Saints"

Date: Tuesday, Oct 14, 2025

Join us October 14 for a lecture by Julia Young, Ph.D., historian of migration, Mexico and Latin America, and Catholicism at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She will discuss the legacy of the Martyrs of the Cristero War.

Annual Lecture Series

The history department is pleased to offer the community four annual lectures supported by the generosity of donors. Visit the links below for more information.