The Common Book Program is one of the largest initiatives in University College. We invite you to join us as we read together this fall.
The Common Book Program is a university-wide initiative to welcome first-year students to VCU's vibrant intellectual culture and create opportunities to explore interdisciplinary, complex social issues in the classroom and the broader Richmond community. Building upon the nationally recognized Summer Reading program, the new initiative expands the previous program into a university-wide initiative
10/25/2024
Embrace ‘uncomfortability’ of the past in order to move forward, ‘Memory Wars’ podcast creators urge audience.
Read more: https://news.vcu.edu/article/2024/10/embrace-uncomfortability-of-past-to-move-forward-memory-wars-podcast-urge-vcu-audience
10/23/2024
The Common Book Keynote with “Memory Wars” authors, Mallory Noe-Payne and Michael Paul Williams address is tonight!
Join us in person or via stream for a conversation around memory, memorialziation and atonement. This is not to be missed!
More info: https://commonbook.vcu.edu/fall-2024-events/ .en.720830
10/15/2024
📚🗣️Join us next Wednesday for the COMMON BOOK KEYNOTE ADDRESS with “Memory Wars” authors, Michael Paul Williams and Mallory Noe-Payne!
The authors will discuss memory, memorialization, reconciliation and how to move forward with a heavy emphasis on Richmond and its past.
If you are unable to attend in person, the event will be streamed via the Common Book website. The event is free and open to all Virginia Commonwealth University students, faculty, staff and the public.
We can’t wait to see you there!
01/24/2024
“Memory Wars,” a six-part podcast series that explores how societies confront their difficult histories and sin, has been selected as the 2024-25 Common Book. It is the first podcast selected in the decade-plus history of the Virginia Commonwealth University program, which introduces first-year students to complex social issues through a common text.
Read more: https://news.vcu.edu/article/2024/01/memory-wars-a-podcast-series-selected-as-the-2024-25-vcu-common-book
01/23/2024
🚨📚🎙️Here is our next Common Book: MEMORY WARS🚨📚🎙️
While it is actually not a book (it’s a six-part podcast), we are certain that the themes through this Common Book will make for important and impactful conversations across both campuses!
The biggest question this podcast explores, and what we know many of our conversations will center around, is how do places with difficult and horrific histories reckon with that and lay a path toward redemption?
To learn more about MEMORY WARS read more: https://news.vcu.edu/article/2024/01/memory-wars-a-podcast-series-selected-as-the-2024-25-vcu-common-book
10/03/2023
🗣️📚Our third and final speaker series event of the fall semester is this week!📚🗣️
Join us and faculty from VCU School of Social Work this Wednesday for a panel on loneliness and community!
Moderator & Panelists:
🟡 Shenita Williams, Director of Field Education and Assistant Professor in teaching, VCU School of Social Work
🟡Kimberly Compton, Program Assistant Director and Assistant Professor in Teaching, VCU School of Social Work
🟡 Alex Wagaman, Associate Professor, VCU School of Social Work
🟡Jacob Goffnett, Assistant Professor, VCU School of Social Work
🟡Mer Francis, Assistant Professor, VCU School of Social Work
🔗Visit commonbook.vcu.edu for more info!
09/18/2023
🗣️📚Our first speaker series of the fall semester is here!📚🗣️
Join us this Wednesday for a discussion with faculty from the VCU Humanities Research Center on why comics hold a significant place in our culture!
Moderator & Panelists:
Jason Bennett, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Arts
Bernard Means, Teaching Associate Professor, VCU School of World Studies
SJ Sindhu Sathiyaseelan, Assistant Professor, VCU Department of English
Grace Gipson, Assistant Professor, VCU Department of African American Studies
🔗Visit this link https://commonbook.vcu.edu/the-2023-common-book/events/ for more info!
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09/11/2023
We’re very excited to announce our fall speaker series for this year’s Common Book, “Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness.”
This three-part series will have faculty and staff from across ’s campus discussing themes throughout “Seek You.”
🔗Visit our site (https://commonbook.vcu.edu/the-2023-common-book/events/) to learn more about each panel and the panelists and moderators who will be participating!
01/31/2023
🚨New Common Book🚨
We have selected the next ! “Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness” is a graphic non-fiction book that explores themes of isolation, community and human resilience!
Read more about the text: https://news.vcu.edu/article/2023/01/seek-you-selected-as-vcus-2023-common-book
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.