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“Memory Wars,” a six-part podcast series that explores how societies confront their difficult histories and sin, has been selected as the 2024-25 #VCU Common Book. It is the first podcast selected in the decade-plus history of the VCU. Read more: news.vcu.edu/article/2024/0…
‘Seek You’ selected as VCU’s 2023 Common Book. The graphic nonfiction text explores the ‘silent epidemic’ of loneliness in America and seeks to offer solutions as to how people can connect with those around them. news.vcu.edu/article/2023/0…
“Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness,” a graphic nonfiction book by award-winning author @KristenRadtke that documents the “silent epidemic of loneliness” in American society, has been chosen as the 2023 @VCUCommonBook. news.vcu.edu/article/2023/0…
And a reminder: After you finish your projects and exams and give a deep exhale, muse on your entry for the Jurgen Comics Contest. Deadline is February 9, 2023. All #VCU students are encouraged to enter! go.vcu.edu/JurgenContest
Join us and @VCUOMSA tomorrow (10/27) for a screening of Jordan Peele’s ground-breaking 2017 film, “Get Out.” This is Part 1 of the Black Body Politics series. 📍Commons Theatre ⏰1 pm- 3pm
Join us and @VCUOMSA tomorrow (10/27) for a screening of Jordan Peele’s ground-breaking 2017 film, “Get Out.” This is Part 1 of the Black Body Politics series. 📍Commons Theatre ⏰1 pm- 3pm
Come join us in the Commons Theatre to watch "Get Out" tomorrow 10/27 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. for Part 1 of Black Body Politics.
Sometimes you just need a visual aid. As FI students processed what happened to Bruce Tucker in this year’s @VCUCommonBook Organ Thieves, a timeline of events helped them identity their biggest concerns in the case. #vcu2026 #vcu #organthieves #focusedinquiry
Join us Wednesday 10/26 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. for a film screening, "Until the Well Runs Dry" with Dr. Shawn Utsey in the Egyptian Building Auditorium.
A very special thank you again to Common Book author Chip Jones for an amazing keynote address last week around his book, The Organ Thieves. Read the recap of the address➡️ bit.ly/3MF9Tjq 📸: VCU University Relations
Our keynote is underway! If you can’t be here in person, tune into the livestream. Livestream➡️ rvav.com/commonbook-key…
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