- Chinese Diplomacy on the Ground: Northeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century
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Friday, March 20
- 3:15pm to 4:30pm
Monroe 118
This event explores how Chinese diplomacy worked in Northwest Asia in the early 15th century, specifically exploring the stories of recent Korean and Manchurian envoys for the Ming dynasty. This event is presented by the UVA East Asia Center.
- Graduate Student Forum at the BSUVA Annual Meeting
- Friday, March 20
- 4pm to 5:30pm
Harrison/Small Auditorium
On Friday, March 20, at 4:00 p.m., the Bibliographical Society of UVA will be holding its Annual Meeting in the auditorium of the Harrison/Small Library. The featured event is a Graduate Forum, with these three speakers: Jack Wallace (English) on “Reading Heraldry Bibliographically” Brenna McWhorter (Art History) on “The Bibliographical World of Francesco Giuntini’s Astrological Tractatus (1570)” Lucas Heck (English) on “The Publishing History of Confederate Col. Mosby’s Memoirs” The winners of the 14th round of Battestin Fellowships, as well as the winners of the 56th Book Collecting Contest will be announced during the Business portion of the meeting. A reception at the Rare Book School will follow the meeting. The Annual Meeting of the BSUVA is an event of the Virginia Festival of the Book.
- MELSAC Speaker Series, "When Black is White, and Empty is Full"
- Tuesday, March 24
- 3:30pm to 6:30pm
NCH 144
As part of the MESALC Speaker Series, Professor Shankar Nair will be presenting "When Black is White, and Empty is Full: Ambiguity and Amphibology in Amir Khusraw's Dibachah” at 3:30 PM on Tuesday March 24th in NCH 144. This talk explores the extraordinarily dense wordplay at play in Khusraw’s celebrated preface to his third poetic collection, the Dībāchah-i Ghurrat al-kamāl (Preface to the New Moon of Perfection), itself a landmark treatise on poetics and literary criticism.
Contact Adrienne Resha (amr9hk@virginia.edu) for more information.
- 2026 Gerszten Family Visiting Professor: Rolena Adorno Public Lecture
- Tuesday, March 24
- 4pm to 5:30
New Cabell 236
The SIP Department presents a public lecture by Sterling Professor Emerita of Spanish, Rolena Adorno. Her lecture is titled "The Fugitive Island," on Early Modern Spanish literature and historical writing.
Register here. Contact Dannah Persinger (nup4zr@virginia.edu) for more information.
- 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.
- Gender & Tech Online Talk Series: Immigration and Techno-authoritarianism
- Thursday, March 26
- 10am to 11:15am, EDT
Online - Zoom
The Gender & Tech Online Talk Series brings together leading scholars, advocates, and practitioners to discuss the intersections of gender, technology, democracy and human rights. It critically examines how digital platforms and technologies impact women, queer and gender-diverse individuals while exploring pathways for more inclusive, rights-focused digital governance frameworks. In this session, we will discuss the role of digital technologies in the production and expansion of surveillance networks that currently impact fundamental rights, enshrine authoritarian practices in public services and processes, and deepen social inequalities worldwide. Free and open to all.
- University of Virginia Department of English Graduate Symposium
- Friday, March 27 & Saturday March 28
- Friday, 8am to 5:30pm
Saturday, 9am to 6:30pm
The Graduate Symposium is an interdisciplinary event inviting graduate students working in the arts and humanities across Virginia and beyond to share their research on a centralizing theme. This year, our panelists will consider how the theme "Memory" operates in their research, from questions of institutional remembrance practices, to how landscape holds memory, to literary narrative, and more. Our keynote speaker, Dr. Tim Machan from the University of Notre Dame, will also take up this topic in a talk on how, when, and why languages are first written down.
- Astrology and History in Early Islam, a book talk by Antoine Borrut
- Monday, April 6
- 5pm to 6:30pm
New Cabell 349
The Medieval Studies Program hosts a discussion with author Antoine Borrut, Assoc. Professor of History at the University of Maryland, on his new book Astrology and History in Early Islam.
Contact Deborah McGrady (dlm4z@virginia.edu) for more information.
- Wafa Ghnaim: A Lecture on Post-1948 Palestinian Dress
- Friday, April 10
- 12pm to 2pm
Wilson 142
The Asian Student Union at UVA presents a lecture by Wafa Ghnaim, a Palestinian archivist, embroiderer, dress historian, and founder of the Tatreez Institute. This lecture is co-sponsored by Islamic Worlds Initiative and the Forum on Religion and Democracy. Light lunch will be provided.
To attend, please register at https://bit.ly/wafaghnaim by April 7. The first 30 registrants will be eligible to receive a free self-guided Tatreez kit provided by Wafa. More information can be requested at dyd6mg@virginia.edu.
- Public Arts for the Public Good
- Saturday, April 11
- 11am to 3:30pm
Studio 3B, Contemplative Sciences Center
The Public Arts for the Public Good symposium will convene students, faculty, and practitioners to explore how the arts can illuminate multidisciplinary service pathways critical to a flourishing democracy. The event will feature a film screening, performances, panelists, and a free lunch. Come for the whole day or pick and choose!
Register here. Contact Maggie Polistina (nmu4vk@virginia.edu) for more information.
- Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture, a book talk with author Benjamin Saltzman
- Tuesday, April 14
- 5pm to 6:30pm
New Cabell 349
The Medieval Studies Program hosts a discussion with author Benjamin Saltzman, Assoc. Professor of History at the University of Chicago, on his new book Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture.
Contact Deborah McGrady (dlm4z@virginia.edu) for more information.
Techne: Forum on Art & Technology
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- Friday, April 17
- Talks and panel: 9am to 4pm; multimedia exhibition and performance: 7pm to 10pm
Jefferson Scholars Foundation, 112 Clarke Ct, Charlottesville, VA
The conference brings together artists and scholars Alex Christie, Semi Ryu, Kate Sicchio, and Ross Wightman to showcase their work and discuss critical topics on how technology continues to (re)shape our relationship to art. Presentations and panels will discuss the intersection of various technologies in different artistic disciplines, encompassing music, dance, programming, AI, robotics, and virtual reality. Lunch will be provided. The conference is hosted by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, Department of Music, and Learning Design & Technology.
Race, Relationships and the Life of the LDS Church Now
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- Saturday, April 25
- 3pm to 5:30pm
UVA Darden DC Metro Facility (30th Floor) Rosslyn, VA
On Saturday, April 25, 2026, Latter-day Saint scholars Alice Faulkner Burch, Vinna Chowriamah, Matthew L. Harris, and W. Paul Reeve will join UVA Bushman Chair of Mormon Studies Laurie Maffly-Kipp for the continuation of Dialogue Journal’s “All Are Alike Unto God” series. This series examines the insights and aftermath of the 1978 Revelation to Latter-day Saint President Spencer W. Kimball which expanded the priesthood beyond just white men to “all worthy, male members of the Church.”
Charlottesville 2017: Antisemitism at the Crossroads of American Hatred
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- Wednesday, April 29
- 5:30 to 7:30pm
Nau 101
UVA Jewish Studies will host former Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History and UVA Jewish Studies Director James Loeffler to deliver the 2026 Paul and Dorothy Grob Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, April 29th at 5:30 PM in Nau Hall room 101. His lecture is entitled “Charlottesville 2017: Antisemitism at the Crossroads of American Hatred." Reception to follow.
- ‘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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