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Turn Your Education into a Career with Passion and Purpose

The WGSS program invites its faculty and staff, current and alumni majors and minors, and everyone in the UR community who cares about the program to gather for an evening and a day to consider what “careful worldmaking” means in the fields of women, gender, and sexuality studies, and specifically what it means, or might mean, at the University of Richmond. The symposium invites us to...

Careful Worldmaking: A WGSS Symposium Please join us for an AFTERPARTY to celebrate the pre-publication of Humanities Coordinator Nathan Snaza’s Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man (officially published February 16). There will be a brief reading from the book followed by Q&A, plus food, drinks, and esoteric arts.

Chris Martin writes in May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, and Our Neurodivergent Future (HarperOne, 2022): “I believe autistic attention is a form of love… What if we let our poetic, autistic resistance to neurotypical ‘minding’ serve as an opening toward the loving, liberatory worlds we deserve?” Taking up this axiom (autistic attention is love) and this...

Born in Beijing, C. Pam Zhang is mostly an artifact of the United States. She is the author of Land of Milk and Honey and How Much of These Hills Is Gold, winner of the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award and the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature; nominated for the Booker Prize; and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and a Lambda Literary Award. Zhang’s writing appears in Best...

Shane McCrae is the author of the memoir Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping and ten books of poetry, including In the Language of My Captor, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, Sometimes I Never Suffered, which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, and most recently Cain Named the Animal. McCrae is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for...

Join the School of Arts & Sciences for the A&S Honors Convocation, an annual ceremony recognizing outstanding student achievement in our A&S academic programs, and celebrating our honor societies along with departmental and interdisciplinary program award recipients.  

Join the School of Arts & Sciences for the A&S Student Symposium, an annual showcase of over 150 student-led research projects from nearly 30 disciplines in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.