Oct. 2, 1998
Contact: Jane Ford
(804) 924-4298
								


COLONIAL VIRGINIA IS TOPIC OF SYMPOSIUM 
HOSTED BY U.VA. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

	Recent scholarship about colonial buildings and colonial
landscapes of Virginia will be the theme of "Rediscovering Old
Virginia," a symposium at the University of Virginia School of
Architecture Oct. 15-17. The event will bring together scholars who are
using new methods, theories, and sources to discuss fresh and exciting
ways of understanding the architecture of colonial Virginia. 
	Rhys Isaac, Harrison Professor of History at the College of
William and Mary and the U.Va. School of Architecture Dean's Forum
speaker, will launch the symposium with a lecture, "Myth and Story in
Old Virginia Landscapes," in Campbell Hall 153 at 6:30 p.m. Thursday,
Oct. 15. Isaac's lecture is free and open to the public. There is a fee
for the remainder of the symposium.
	A native of the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, Isaac is the
author of "The Transformation of Virginia 1740-1790," published by
University of North Carolina Press in 1982 and winner of the Pulitzer
Prize in history that year. 
	The symposium is sponsored by the Department of Architectural
History and the Institute for Public History at the University of
Virginia.
	For more information and details about the symposium, contact
the Department of Architectural History at (804) 924-1428.

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