Roots Setting
The “Roots 2008” Seminar will meet in the recently remodeled, air-conditioned conference facilities of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, located in a pleasant campus-like setting just west of Charlottesville, with occasional excursions to the state-of-the-art library and media complex at the University of Virginia.
Seminar participants will have UVa adjunct faculty privileges, including full access to the University’s excellent libraries and its internet resources for the humanities – some of the most advanced in the world.
The Seminar will also make field trips to the National Museum of African Art and the “African Voices” exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC and to Thomas Jefferson’s and Sally Hemings’ home, Monticello, near Charlottesville. Participants may also independently explore Virginia’s own deep African-American heritage at well-known historic attractions in the vicinity, including Colonial Williamsburg in Tidewater Virginia, numerous Civil War battlefields, and an African-American Heritage Trail sponsored by the VFH.
Charlottesville is a very pleasant and stimulating community, particularly in the summer.
View a map produced by a former participant of useful locations in and around Charlottesville.
