The 3rd founding of
North America Symposium
the 400th anniversary of the Spanish
in Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
July 7-12, 2009
Registration Open
“…what happened in the 1600s {in Jamestown, Quebec,
and Santa Fe} set in motion many of the forces that have
shaped our society ever since and inaugurated some of
our nation’s enduring challenges: church-state conflict,
multiculturalism, geopolitics, participatory government,
economic individualism, racial inequity, and Native
dispossession.” --James C. Kelly and Barbara Clark Smith,
Jamestown Québec Santa Fe: Three N. American Beginnings)
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PROGRAM INFORMATION
In a few short years during the first decade of the 17th century, Spain, England, and France each established colonial settlements in North America—England on the Atlantic coast with Jamestown in 1607, France on the St. Lawrence with Québec in 1608, and Spain in Santa Fe. Each of these small villages grew to become centers for exploration and expansion, and their expansion created not one but many new worlds. Dust off your spirit of discovery and join us for the third and final in our series of seminars devoted to investigating, questioning, challenging, and celebrating the 400th anniversaries of the founding of North America.
Throughout its long history, Santa Fe has been at the nexus of competing and often warring Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo interests. Today, this small and stunning city in the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains celebrates its rich and remarkable heritage in its art and architecture, its languages, traditions, music, cuisine, and infectious spirit.
Led by U.Va. Associate Professor of Anthropology Jeffrey Hantman, we will examine how Santa Fe became the seat of power for the Spanish Empire north of the Rio Grande. We will also observe how Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and American interests have clashed, competed, and complemented each other and how these diverse legacies live on in Santa Fe and the American Southwest.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Gain insights into the complicated history and rich cultural traditions of the region from Jeffrey Hantman, one of world’s foremost experts on the American Indian.
- Visit traditional pueblos—including Taos, the largest surviving
multistory pueblo in the Southwest—and become acquainted with the deeply rooted culture that has shaped life here for generations.
- Wander centuries-old Spanish missions and come to understand what life was like there both for the Franciscan fathers and the Pueblo Indians forced into slave labor.
- Learn about the excessive cruelty meted out to Pueblo Indians by Don Juan de Oñate, 16th-century explorer and first Governor-General of the Kingdom of New Mexico. Even today, his ferocity is remembered and reviled.
- Enjoy the beauty of Spanish colonial churches and the stunning desertscapes of the Southwest.
- Explore the oldest building in America, Santa Fe’s Palace of the Governors, now a history museum.
- Join William Kelso, the archaeologist who discovered the Jamestown Fort, to learn about the similarities and differences between the Spanish, the French, and the English experiences.
- Challenge your beliefs as you explore the complex national and international trading, communications, and cultural exchanges engaged in by North and South America’s Native populations
- Revel in the ancient ruins, dramatic canyons and backcountry, and plentiful wildlife at the Bandelier National Monument.
- Visit museums and galleries famous for their collections of Native American art and artifacts and for the paintings of local artists.
- Take advantage of your free time to explore the storied, charming streets and galleries of Santa Fe, now a world-class art colony and travel destination—and recently called one of America’s prettiest towns by Forbes magazine.
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Enjoy an optional dinner and opera performance of L'elisir d'amore (Elixir of Love), Gaetano Donizetti's opera buffa (comic opera) at the world famous Santa Fe Opera Festival.
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Master the flavors of the real Southwest with a cooking class reflecting the unique cultural mix of Santa Fe. The classes, taught by some of the best chefs in Santa Fe, are not only entertaining and educational, but delicious, too. Lois Ellen Frank, local chef, photographer and food artist, (winner of the James Beard Award for her latest cookbook)will teach a class on “Native American Foods”, which might include Blue Corn Gnocchi Arrowheads with Guajillo Chile Sauce, Seasonal Greens with Fiery Jalapeno Dressing, Lamb stuffed Rellenos with Tomato Sauce, Sweet Frybread with Seasonal Berries and Prickly Pear Syrup.
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And more.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This seminar will give you an opportunity to explore the Spanish contributions to the Founding of North America and to compare the English, French, and Spanish experiences in establishing outposts on the continent. It is designed for those with an interest in early North American history and its settlers, the American Indian, archaeology, early architecture, Southwest history, the American Southwest, teachers, 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 
Our program begins Tuesday, July 7, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where we spend one afternoon and evening. On July 8, by way of Acoma Sky City, we travel by deluxe coach to Santa Fe, New Mexico where we will base the remainder of our program. We conclude Sunday morning, July 12 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. There are regularly scheduled shuttles from Santa Fe to the Albuquerque airport.
Because of its altitude, temperatures in the Santa Fe region are moderate, with daytime temperature ranges from lows of 57 to highs of 82 degrees Fahrenheit, with cooler evenings and an average relative humidity less than 50%.
ITINERARY HIGHLIGHTS
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Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico is a world-renowned travel destination unparalleled in richness of history, heritage, arts and culture. Nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the foothills of the Rockies, the area is immersed in natural beauty, with an average of 300 days of sunshine and blue sky. |
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Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1706 in the Rio Grande Valley, with a human history tracing back 2000 years.
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Taos Pueblo
Taos Pueblo, inhabited for over 1000 years and the only living Native American community designated both a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and a National Historic Landmark
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Taos
The village of Taos, New Mexico, with its legendary galleries, artist studios, shops and museums
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Acoma Sky City Pueblo
Acoma Sky City Pueblo, built in 1150 AD and situated atop a 367-foot high Mesa. About a dozen families continue to live on the 70-acre mesa where the Acoma people have lived since 960AD. Truly one of the most unique Pueblos in New Mexico, Acoma’s mission is on the National Register of Historic Places. This special visit allows us to walk through earthen streets and listen to an Acoma Indian guide. This tribe has successfully preserved their mesa-top ancestral home and also promoted tourism without sacrificing their pride |
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Chimayó
Chimayó, with Plaza del Cerro, the last surviving Spanish fortified plaza in the southwest and home to shrine El Santuario de Chimayó, believed to be built on sacred earth with miraculous healing powers. |
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Bandelier National Monument
Bandelier National Monument, a site for nomadic hunter-gatherers over 10,000 years ago and permanent home to the Ancestral Pueblo people starting in the 12th century. Bandelier is a canyon filled with the ruins of the Anasazi Indians, colloquially "the Ancient Ones." Located on the Pajarito Plateau of the Jemez Mountains, Bandelier was the home of the Anasazi from the eleventh to fourteenth centuries. Excavated over 90 years ago, these ruins were once home to over 200 people, ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians. Walk along easy paths past the remains of ancient Pueblo dwellings, to the cliff dwellings where you can climb ladders to peer inside. Take a walk further up the path that leads to the Ceremonial Cave, where the Anasazi and later descendants held spiritual rites and celebrations.
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PROGRAM LODGING
We will stay at the comfortable Hotel Albuquerque in Old Town the night of July 7.
We will spend the remainder of the program based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the Hotel Santa Fe in the historic downtown area with famed historic and artistic sites outside its door and within walking distance. It is also adjacent to the new Guadalupe Railyard District. The Hotel Santa-Fe is the only native-owned hotel in Santa Fe.
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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.
CONTRIBUTING Faculty
Robert J. Tórrez was born and raised in the northern New Mexico community of Los Ojos. He attended school locally at St. Joseph’s and Tierra Amarilla High School then received his BA and MA from New Mexico Highlands in Las Vegas. He served as the New Mexico State Historian from 1987 until his retirement in December 2000. Over the past three decades he has contributed to a dozen books and published more than one hundred scholarly and popular articles have appeared in New Mexico Historical Review, New Mexico Magazine, True West, Tradición Revista and other regional and national publications. He also writes a monthly column, “Voices From the Past,” for Round the Roundhouse and has published three books since his retirement. UFOs Over Galisteo and Other Stories of New Mexico’s History in 2004 and New Mexico in 1876-1877, A Newspaperman’s View in 2007. New Mexico in 1876 -1877 was a finalist for the 2007 New Mexico Book Awards and was selected as a national “Best Book” by USA Book News. His most recent book, Myth of the Hanging Tree, was released by the University of New Mexico Press in January 2008 and is currently completing a manuscript on the history of Rio Arriba County.
William Moss, M.A., Chief Archaeologist for the City of Québec.
Serving in this capacity since 1985, Mr. Moss coordinates archaeological heritage management for this UNESCO World Heritage City and its partners. He has worked in England and, in the province of Québec, for Parks Canada and the provincial Culture and Communications Department. He is a sessional lecturer at Laval University and a regularly-invited lecturer in Québec universities. A past president of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Mr. Moss is active in learned societies in Québec, Canada and abroad. He has numerous publications in both English and French to his credit.
Beverley Spears is the founder and principal of Spears Architects. She is a licensed architect and landscape architect, and has practiced in Santa Fe since 1974. She has directed Spears Architects since 1981, leading the firm to outstanding achievement in design as well as social responsibility.
Beverley received the New Mexico Architects Medal in 2000 for “contributions that have advanced the profession and the socially responsible role that architecture must perform within our greater society.” In 2002, she was honored with membership into the national College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. In 2003, she was recognized by the Old Santa Fe Association “for her contributions to the character and traditions of Santa Fe”. She has chaired the New Mexico Board of Examiners for Architects, the City of Santa Fe Business Capitol District Design Review Committee, and currently sits on the University of New Mexico Design Review Board.
She received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Tulane University. Her areas of expertise include programming and planning, building design, landscape design, historic preservation, and sustainability including the use of alternative building materials. Among her current projects are the Santa Fe Civic Center and the new Taos County Courthouse and Administrative Center.
Program Staff
Joan Elias Gore, Ph.D., Director of Travel Programs at the University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Cynthia Smith, Program Administrator.
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pricing and Registration
PROGRAM TUITION AND FEES INCLUDE:
- Five nights hotel accommodation.
- Breakfast each day, three lunches and three dinners.
- In-program transportation via deluxe coach.
- All site visits listed on the itinerary and admissions to them
- Program sessions led by expert historians, anthropologists and archeologists
- Baggage handling and gratuities to porters, waiters, guides and drivers
Airfare to the program and ground transportation to and from Santa Fe are not included in the program fee.
PROGRAM TUITION AND FEES: (Reserve your spot with a $500 deposit)
• $3,425 per person in a double occupancy hotel room (by mutual request only).
• $3,975 in a single occupancy hotel room.
• $3,600 per person in a double occupancy hotel room with opera/additional dinner option.
• $4,150 in a single occupancy hotel room with opera/additional dinner option.
• If you register prior to March 1, 2009, please return the registration form with a $500 per person deposit (or the full fee if you choose). The balance of your program fee is due by March 1, 2009.
• If you register after March 1, 2009, please return the registration form with full program fee.
We encourage early registration as space is limited. If space is available after June 19, 2009, a late registration fee of $175 will apply, unless you register from a wait list.
Register by fax, 434-982-5297, or by telephone, 800-346-3882 or 434-243-2277, using VISA, MasterCard, American Express or Discover; or by sending us your downloadable form by mail with a check (payable to U.Va.) or credit card information to:
Founding Seminar
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400764
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4764
WITHDRAWAL & OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION
If you withdraw in writing within 14 days of registration you will receive a full refund (if not within final payment date of March 1, 2009). If you withdraw in writing before March 1, 2009, you will receive a full refund, minus the $500 deposit. In the event withdrawal is necessary after March 1, 2009, there will be no refund but you may substitute another person to attend the program in your place.
There will be no refund for unused portions of the program, including but not limited to, missed meals, lodging nights, and sightseeing.
We highly recommend you purchase travel cancellation insurance that covers both your airfare and our program fees. Some insurers are also offering protection against job loss or income disruption. Confirm what your policy covers.
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.
Peace Frogs Travel/Outfitters, a registered travel vendor with the state of Virginia and a full-service travel agency, has worked with our participants in the past to guide them through booking appropriate travel insurance to fit their needs, including insuring expenses for the Travel&Learn program itself. They can also book airfare and arrange car rental, rail tickets/passes, hotel bookings and other excursions. If you wish to work with them, contact them at: Peace Frogs Travel/Outfitters, 434-977-1415, 1145 Emmet Street, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
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Each participant must be covered by a health insurance policy while on this program. If you are unsure of what your health insurance policy covers when you travel from home, please confirm your coverage with your insurer. The University of Virginia Travel & Learn program purchases MEDEX WORLDWIDE TRAVEL ASSISTANCE coverage for all program participants. Please note, this is not trip cancellation insurance and it is not health insurance coverage. MEDEX benefits include an essential 24-hour, multilingual travel emergency service, providing help during emergency service, providing help during emergency medical or security situations, replacement prescriptions, emergency travel arrangements, and emergency evacuations. Your MEDEX card will be issued you upon arrival at your travel destination.
Important information for Teachers: Many licensed teachers in the state of Virginia use their participation in Travel & Learn programs to earn professional development points applicable to meeting the requirements for the renewal of their teaching license. (http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Compliance/TeacherED/remanual.pdf). Out-of-state teachers may also be able to use their program participation for similar license renewal or professional development requirements and should check with their schools or state policy for requirements. Upon request, we will provide teachers with documentation describing their participation in this program.
For students: Travel & Learn seminars are noncredit adult learning programs. Some students use their participation in our Travel & Learn seminars as a foundation for a research paper in a course or independent study program they have arranged at their home university. Upon request, we will provide documentation describing your participation in this program for you to present to your home school faculty.
For University of Virginia faculty and staff: Travel & Learn seminars are noncredit adult learning programs. You may use your educational benefit to pay for the tuition portion of our Program Tuition and Fees. Please contact us at 434-243-2277 or travelandlearn@virginia.edu for further information.
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