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Jamestown anniversary focus of Winchester lecture
On Thursday, March 29, 2007 at 7 p.m, Professor Jeffrey Hantman will highlight the ongoing commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the settling of the Jamestown colony from different historical, geographic and cultural perspectives. The extraordinary and exciting new data and ideas coming from recent archaeological excavations at Jamestown and at contemporary Native American sites will be discussed. Some new ideas currently being debated concerning how and why Jamestown 'survived' after earlier European colonies in the Chesapeake had failed will be evaluated.
This Engaging the Mind free lecture will be held at the Old Town Event Center, located at 403 S. Loudoun Street, Winchester. The community will learn about the highlights of this year’s commemoration. Professor Hantman will discuss the manner by which Virginians have marked Jamestown anniversaries every fifty years since 1807, and compared the events and ideas defining the current 2007 commemoration. While many of the larger commemorative themes have been surprisingly unchanged over two hundred years, new and important interpretations mark the current year's events and emphases.
Mr. Hantman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on relations between Europeans and Indians in early colonial Virginia, placing that cultural exchange into a long-term Native precolonial context through the interpretation of archaeological data. Presently he is writing a long-term history of the Monacan Indian people of central and western Virginia and their role in the Jamestown event.
Additional information about the engaging the mind lecture series
Coordinated by the University of Virginia Office of the Vice President and Provost in partnership with the Faculty Senate Speakers Bureau and sponsored by Virginia National Bank, the series provides opportunities for people throughout Virginia to engage with the University’s top scholars and teachers in a free public forum. Faculty speakers engage in public conversations with local communities across the state. All lectures are free and open to the public.
- Since 2001, over 6,000 people have attended the Engaging the Mind lectures in 12 different cities across Virginia. “Our faculty members really enjoy the opportunity to interact with people of diverse backgrounds and experiences,” said University Vice President and Provost Gene Block.
For additional information on the UVa Engaging the Mind lecture series, visit www.virginia.edu/engagingthemind.
Contributed by the University of Virginia.
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