The 1st founding of North America Symposium
The History, Archaeology, and Architecture of Jamestown
Williamsburg, Virginia
July 18-22, 2007
Program Completed.
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PROGRAM INFORMATION
In 1607 and 1608, England and France each established tenuous colonial settlements in widely separated areas of North America. Spain followed shortly thereafter, chartering Santa Fe as a Spanish capital in 1609 and founding it in 1610. The experiences of those colonies created not one, but many new worlds. Join us for the first of three seminars—Jamestown in 2007, Ottawa and Quebec in 2008, and Santa Fe in 2009—to investigate, question, challenge and celebrate each of these 400th anniversaries of the founding of our nation.
The Jamestown Colony is regarded as the first ‘successful’ English colony in what is now the United States. Why did Jamestown succeed when others failed? This seminar, developed in concert with the upcoming Founding of America exhibits created by curators of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the Virginia Historical Society, focuses on the world created
at Jamestown in 1607 as well as the native peoples it affected. It will provide a new and unique historical perspective on the Jamestown Colony and its archaeological efforts; the English new world society that developed there; its architecture; the native Algonquians of the Powhatan chiefdom; the critical role of inter-tribal native politics on the American continent; and the early impact of indentured and enslaved Africans on the emergence of Anglo-American culture in the Chesapeake. We will also see and discuss how the Jamestown Colony is presented today—from the official Jamestown 2007 commemoration, to museum interpretations, to popular film and literature.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
WHO SHOULD ATTEND 
This seminar will give you an opportunity to explore the founding of our nation. It is designed for those with an interest in early North American history and its settlers, African populations, the American Indian, archaeology, early architecture, museum exhibits, and anyone who enjoys travel and learning opportunities that provide intellectual stimulation in a welcoming and congenial environment.
This seminar offers unsurpassed value, rich content, and is part of an educational travel tradition with a long history of exceptional participant satisfaction.
PROGRAM LOCATION
Your home for the program is historic Colonial Williamsburg, capital of colonial Virginia and crucible of American democracy. The 173-acre Colonial Williamsburg Historic Area appears as it did on the eve of the American Revolution, bringing the Colonial Era to life. A special pass to the Historic area is included with the program.
Williamsburg, Virginia is 150 miles south of Washington, D.C., midway between Richmond and Virginia Beach on Interstate 64. Frequent air, airport shuttle, rail, and bus connections make it very easy to travel to Williamsburg. Richmond International Airport and Norfolk International Airport are each less than 50 minutes away and Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport is 20 minutes from Williamsburg. Shuttle services provide convenient transportation between these nearby airports and Williamsburg. Williamsburg is also served by direct AMTRAK rail service from New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. Greyhound/Trailways provides bus service to Williamsburg from many points.
PROGRAM LODGING
We will be based at the Woodlands Hotel and Suites in Colonial Williamsburg, nestled on the edge of a 40-acre pine forest. It is one of the five lodging properties with income supporting the preservation of Colonial Williamsburg. No other Williamsburg hotel is as conveniently located, lying adjacent to the Visitors Center. There is a Nature Trail (or shuttle buses) leading to the Historic Area. This contemporary hotel has all of the modern conveniences, including a swimming pool.
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Program Faculty
Jeffrey L. Hantman, Ph.D., Director of the Archaeology Program and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. Mr. Hantman’s research in archaeology is concerned with regional systems, culture change, and the writing of anthropological history. He focuses on issues surrounding colonialism in North America and the study of early relations between European colonists and Indians, relations between Native peoples in the centuries just prior to and during European colonization, and longer term effects of colonialism on Native peoples today. He is interested in archaeology's role in describing hierarchical and non-hierarchical indigenous political, economic and ritual structures in the millennia prior to the arrival of Europeans. His earliest (and some recent) publications are concerned with long-term demographic and political processes in the northern Pueblo region of the American Southwest. For the past two decades, his research has focused primarily on the intersection of long-term processes of social change with historic events in the greater Chesapeake region of the eastern United States. Mr. Hantman is currently writing a long-term history of the Monacan people of Virginia, identifying the varied responses of the Virginia Monacans and the neighboring Powhatans to European colonization.
Barbara Clark Smith, Ph.D., Curator, Division of Politics and Reform, The National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Museum. Ms. Smith's research specialties include 18th century American social and political history; the American Revolution; household life, women, and gender; and public history. She is currently working on exhibitions on Jamestown, Quebec, and Santa Fe, 1607, 1608, 1609. She is also working on a book manuscript on popular participation in the American Revolution.
CONTRIBUTING Faculty
William Kelso, Ph.D.,
Director of Archaeology for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) at Historic Jamestowne. Previously, he served as director of archeology at Monticello. Mr. Kelso has lectured on Architectural History at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture since 1976 and, since 1995, has served as Adjunct Professor at the College of William and Mary. He is the author of several books, including Jamestown: the Buried Truth, Jamestown Rediscovery 1994-2004, and Kingsmill Plantations, 1619-1800: Archaeology of Country Life in Colonial Virginia.
James C. Kelly, Ph.D., Exhibition Curator and Director of Museums, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.
Andrew Veech, Ph.D., Archaeologist, Colonial National Historical Park, The National Park in Tidewater Virginia which includes Jamestown Island, Yorktown Battlefield, and Green Spring Plantation. Prior to joining the National Park Service in 2000, Mr. Veech worked as the Archaeologist of Gunston Hall Plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia. A University of Virginia undergraduate alumnus, his research interests include the archaeology of the early historic Chesapeake, early colonial archeology, and European-Native American culture contact. He has worked extensively on archeological sites in both Virginia and Maryland and has participated on projects in Maine, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Sicily.
Camille Wells, Ph.D., Department of History, College of William and Mary. Ms. Wells has worked as an architectural historian for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, and for the state historic preservation offices in Kentucky, Maryland, and North Carolina. She has held faculty positions at the University of Virginia School of Architecture and in the Historic Preservation Program of Mary Washington College. Author of several essays on the landscapes and buildings of early Virginia, she also founded the series Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture and edited its first two volumes. Ms. Wells served as faculty director for several of U.Va.’s Virginia Architecture Seminars.
Karenne Wood, Monacan Poet. An enrolled member of the Monacan Indian Nation, Karenne serves on the Tribal Council. She has worked as an editorial assistant, real estate agent, a domestic violence victims' advocate and as an activist for the rights of women and American Indians and for environmental issues. She has studied at the University of Virginia and George Mason University. Karenne's work has been published in, among others, The American Indian Culture and Research Journal, The American Indian Quarterly, Black Bear Review, Black Buzzard Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Chiron Review, Iris: A Journal about Women, Monacan News, Orion, Phoebe, Potato Eyes, and Red Ink. Karenne lives in Arlington, Virginia with her family. Writing available online includes Homeland from the Montana Committee for the Humanities; Markings on Earth; For My Ex-husband on The Common Reader. Karen gave the Invocation at the 2004 Monticello Independence Day Celebration (Audio).
Program Staff
Joan Elias Gore, Ph.D., is the Director of Travel Programs at the University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Ashleigh Edwards is the Program Administrator.
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Program Information | Faculty | Registration
Registration
Program Fee Includes:
- Four nights lodging in Williamsburg.
- Most meals, including special opening and closing receptions and dinners in Colonial Williamsburg.
- All internal transportation.
- Program sessions led by expert historians.
- All program tours including The Virginia Historical Society/Smithsonian Exhibit in Richmond and Great Hopes Plantation Tour.
- Colonial Williamsburg pass.
Ground transportation to and from Williamsburg is not included in the program fee.
Per Person Program Fee:
- $2,210 with single lodging at Woodlands Inn, Williamsburg
- $1,935 with double lodging at Woodlands Inn, Williamsburg (mutual requests only)
- $675 companion fee—includes lodging in a shared double room, breakfasts, opening and closing receptions and dinners, and Colonial Williamsburg pass (available for guests of full registrants only)
Please return the registration form with full program fee. Register by fax, 434-982-5297, or by telephone, 800-346-3882 or 434-982-5252, using VISA or MasterCard; or by sending us your downloadable registration form by mail with a check (payable to U.Va.) or credit card information to:
Founding of North America Seminar
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400764
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4764
WITHDRAWAL
If you withdraw in writing within 14 days of registration, you will receive a full refund (if not within final payment date.) If you withdraw in writing before May 21, 2007, you will receive a full refund, minus the $350 deposit. In the event withdrawal is necessary after May 21, 2007, there will be no refund but you may substitute another person to attend the program in your place.
We highly recommend you purchase travel cancellation insurance (and confirm what it may cover.) Useful travel insurance information can be found at www.TripInsuranceStore.com or 888-407-3854. You may also wish to check with your local travel agency for recommended sources.
There will be no refund for unused portions of the program, including but not limited to, missed meals, lodging nights, and sightseeing.
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