Upcoming Events
- August 27 - September 30, Americans Who Tell the Truth Portrait Exhibit
- September 5 - October 6, Courageous Citizenship: Americans Who Tell the Truth Portrait Exhibit
- September 14, Harrisonburg Rockingham African American Festival
- September 18-21, Furious Flower's Fourth Decennial Conference: Celebrating the Worlds of Black Poetry
- September 23, International Day of Peace Celebration with Gandhi Center Open House
- September 25 and 26 - Beitzel Symposium, The Union Taylor 404 and 405
Past Events
2024
- February 7-10, 14th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, African, African American & Diaspora Studies (AAAD)
- March 5, 5-6:30, Making Universities "Good Neighbors" in Communities: An Author Talk by Davarian Baldwin, Ph.D., Central Library, 174 S. Main Street, Harrisonburg
- March 7, Gandhi Center Research Showcase, Union Ballroom
- April 3, 4-5:30, Dr. Sahar Aziz (Rutgers University) "Islamophobia, Free Speech, And The Palestine Taboo," Wilson Hall
- April 3-4, ICJY Spring Symposium, Taylor 404 & 405
2023
- October 9, Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration, SSC 1075
- September 18-22, International Week, Center for Global Engagement
- September 20, CISR Fellowship Panel, Highlands Room, Festival
- September 21, Gandhi Center Open House, International Day of Peace
- September 27-28, Beitzel Symposium, JUSTPEACE week
- June 17, 2023 - World Refugee Day, Harrisonburg, VAWorld Refugee Day is an international day designated by the United Nations to shine a light on the rights, need, and dreams of refugees, helping to engage communities and mobilize political will and resources so refugees can not only survive but also thrive.
- March 8, 2023 - Beitzel Lecture Series - Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butley, The Marines, and The Making and Breaking of America's Empire
Join us in Grafton-Stovall Theatre from 6 - 7:30 p.m. Presented by Jonathan M. Kratz. Learn More
2022
- Sept. 24, 2022 - Mahatma Gandhi Center National Nonviolence Award Presentation
The Gandhi Center at JMU honored David Hogg and March for Our Lives (MFOL) with the Mahatma Gandhi Center National Nonviolence Award. - Summer 2022 - Grupo de Baile
We piloted the first Latin American and Spanish Dance Group. Special thanks to Sylvia Whitney Beitzel & Lisa Porter for all of your hard work on this program! Follow them on Instagram @grupochicasb - April 7, 2022 - Virtual Beitzel Symposium
We continued to honor and celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Terry Beitzel by highlighting Dr. Beitzel's scholarship in the area of responsibility by presenting research from the International Journal on Responsibility, which he co-founded with Howard Carrier. - April 7, 2022 - Bystander Intervention Training
Join us on Zoom from 4 - 5:15 p.m. to learn Right to Be's 5Ds of bystander intervention methodology. - March 3, 2022 - Beitzel Lecture Series - Fall of Kabul: Critical Factors in Taliban's Return
Free and open to the public in Wilson Hall from 4 - 5:30 p.m. Presented by Dr. Samiullah Nuristani, Gandhi Center Research Associarte