- Being Jewish in America Today: Arnold EisenImage
- Tuesday, March 10
- 5:30pm to 7pm
- Wilson 301 or livestream via UVA Jewish Studies YouTubeAuthor and Chancellor Emeritus of Jewish Theological Seminary Arnold Eisen will visit UVA Jewish Studies on Tuesday, March 10 at 5:30 for the next "Being Jewish in America Today" conversation. He will speak with Professor Elizabeth Shanks Alexander (Religious Studies) about God, Torah, and being a Jew in America today. His talk will draw heavily from his 2024 book, "Seeking the Hiding God: A Personal Theological Essay."
- Lecture by Marquis Bey: Nonbinary Life and Living: An Offering
- Thursday, March 12
- 4pm to 5:30pm
Minor Hall 125
This talk, gleaned from Bey's forthcoming book Nonbinary Life: An Autotheory (Bloomsbury Transgender Theory Series, April 2026), offers the possibility of what nonbinary life might look like when it neither genuflects to the gender binary nor concedes that nonbinary is, strictly speaking, an identity with identifiable traits. Moving through the experiential, the philosophical, and the imaginative, this talk asks as humbly as possible: what do we have to gain by giving up a willingness to be included in the project of gender?
Contact Sarah Orsak with questions: orsak@virginia.edu
- Lecture by Marquis Bey: Nonbinary Life and Living: An Offering
- Friday, March 13
- 2pm to 3:30pm
Minor Hall 110
This workshop will engage with Bey’s essay-in-progress: “Bad Enbies: Scrawled Notes on the Intramural,” which attempts to think through the ways queer, trans, and/or nonbinary theory can be done in a moment where there are circumscriptions of that work by conservatives and “gender critical” feminists and by Leftists who sometimes insist on a “correct” template for social justice work. The workshop will be a collaborative one that invites others to share how they, too, have had their thinking foreclosed by structures and discourses of various modes of power. We will attempt to forge together how to continue to do radical work in the face of persistent resistance to that work.
Contact Sarah Orsak by March 6 to REGISTER: orsak@virginia.edu
- Native Voices: Speaking with Virginia’s Federally Recognized Nations
- Saturday, March 14
- 1:30 to 3pm
Small Auditorium
Representatives from the seven federal recognized Tribal Nations across Virginia will come together for a panel discussing Indigenous culture and education, how policy impacts Indigenous communities, environmental impacts on Native lands, and key figures within these communities. Refreshments will be provided. This event is presented by The English Department, UVA’s Tribal Liasion Kody Grant, UVA’s Native and Indigenous Relations Committee, and Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach.
- Writing the Object, Writing the World
- Wednesday, March 25
- 5:30pm
Campbell Hall 160
Dr. Jennifer Raab will deliver the keynote lecture for the symposium One and Done: Single Object Studies in which Art and Architectural History graduate students present research centered around a singular object. In this lecture, Dr. Raab will focus on her recent publication Relics of War: The History of a Photograph which examines how one photograph—carefully staged by Clara Barton through acts of collecting, naming, and labeling—transformed salvaged artifacts from a Civil War prison camp into material testimony, serving as both evidence of absence and witness to wartime suffering. The lecture will also reflect more broadly on photography, political violence, and cultural memory, as well as Dr. Raab’s methodological commitment to single object writing.
- ‘Love, All’: Tending the Tradition: A Retirement Conference and Celebration in Honor of Deborah E. McDowell
- Friday, May 22 & Saturday, May 23
- 9am to 5pm
Minor Hall 125
An event honoring the career of Deborah E. McDowell, "Love All": Tending the Tradition celebrates McDowell's intellectual production, trailblazing leadership, and groundbreaking contributions to the field of African American literary studies and Black feminism as a scholar, editor, mentor, colleague, and friend. This conference gathers the generations of scholars to share papers focused on the vast impact of Deborah McDowell's work and legacy.
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