WE OFFER YOU A WORLD OF IDEAS

Historic Settings - Special Tours - Intellectual Engagement

Expert Faculty and Interesting Company From Around The Nation and Around The World

Civil Rights South: In the Footsteps of the Movement

With Julian Bond, U.Va. Professor of History and NAACP Chairman and special lecturers and guests, from the famous to the everyday people who participated in the struggle. THIS PROGRAM HAS SOLD OUT. To join our mailing list for future Civil Rights Seminars, please e-mail travelandlearn@virginia.edu.

March 1-7, 2008 · Georgia and Alabama

Summer in the Vineyards and on the Lawn

The Virginia Wine Experience: Jefferson's Dream to the New World Scene

With Gabriele Rausse, Associate Landscape Director at Monticello and Mary Hughes, U.Va. Landscape Architect, along with vintners and other Virginia wine experts.

June 4-8, 2008 · University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

Summer on the Lawn

The 20th Jefferson Symposium: Thomas Jefferson's Friends and Foes

With Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at U.Va., along with colleagues nationwide.

June 18-22, 2008 · University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

Summer on the Lawn

The 8th Shakespeare Seminar: Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth

With Ralph Alan Cohen, Executive Director and Director of Education at Shenandoah Shakespeare's American Shakespeare Center.

June 25-29, 2008 · University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

The Founding of North America 400th Anniversary Symposia

The French, the Indians, and the History and Archaeology of Québec

With Jeffrey Hantman, U.Va. Professor of Anthropology; William Kelso, Director of Archaeology for the APVA Jamestown Rediscovery Project and U.Va. adjunct faculty; William Moss, Chief Archaeologist, Quebec; and Gilles Proulx, historian and author, along with other Canadian and U.S. museum and archaeology colleagues.

July 9-13, 2008 · Québec, Montreal and Ottawa

The 21st Seminar at Oxford, England

The Era of Revolution in Britain, France and America and the Making of the Modern Western World

With Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at U.Va. and Jeremy Black, Oxford University alumnus and Established Chair in History, Exeter
University.

August 10-16, 2008 · Merton College, Oxford University

(with an optional post-program excursion to Paris August 16-18)

Scheduled thus far for 2009

Please check back later in the year for a full list of programs and further details on those listed here. You can also join our mailing list (be sure to let us know what programs interest you specifically) and we will let you know as have further information.

Civil Rights South: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the NAACP

With Julian Bond, U.Va. Professor or History and Chairman of the NAACP

February 28-March 6, 2009 · Georgia and Alabama

Jefferson’s Wine Tour of France and Italy

With Gabriele Rausse, Vintner and Associate Director of Landscapes at Monticello

Spring 2009 · France and Italy

The 9th Civil War Conference: Petersburg to Appomattox

With Gary Gallagher, John L Nau III Professor of The American Civil War at U.Va.

May 27-31, 2009 · Richmond, Virginia

The 9th Shakespeare Seminar

With Ralph Alan Cohen, Executive Director of the American Shakespeare Center

June 2009 · University of Virginia, Charlottesville

The Founding of North America Symposium: 

The 400th Anniversary of the Spanish in Santa Fe

With Jeff Hantman, U.Va. Associate Professor of Anthropology

and Bill Kelso, Director or Archaeology at Jamestown

July 2009 · Santa Fe, New Mexico

The 22nd Seminar at Oxford, England:

English Art, Gardens and Architecture in the Age of Jefferson

With Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History at U.Va.

August 9-15, 2009 · Merton College, Oxford University

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