Conferences & Symposia

UPCOMING: Telling the History of Slavery: Scholarship, Museum Interpretation, and the Public, February 22-23, 2013
This two-day event will feature panel discussions exploring recent innovations in slavery research and its impact on scholarship and public interpretation.
Charlottesville, VA

Democracy, Republicanism and State Building in the Age of Jefferson: An International Symposium, November 16-18, 2012
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, Peking University and the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello 
Beijing, China.

SAR Annual Conference on the American Revolution: Thomas Jefferson's Lives: Biography as a Construction of History, June 22-24, 2012
Co-sponsored by Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and ICJS
Thomas Jefferson's Montalto

Soundscapes of Jefferson’s America, March 30-31, 2012
Co-sponsored by the UVA Department of Music and the ICJS
Thomas Jefferson's Montalto

Diplomacy and Revolution, March 19, 2012
Co-hosted by the American Academy of Diplomacy and the ICJS
Thomas Jefferson's Montalto

"Stability & Reconstruction. The Jeffersonian Diplomatic Tradition and Contemporary Security: Lessons Learned from Afghanistan," a conference with the American Academy of Diplomacy (Monticello's Jefferson Library, March 20, 2010).

"What is the legacy of Thomas Jefferson and why does it matter today, "The Jefferson Symposium" in Sydney Australia, supported by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello and Sydney University's School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI) (April 2009)

"Early Modern Virginia: New Thoughts on the Old Dominion," a symposium in association with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, State University of New York-Binghamton, Hampden-Sydney College, and the Rockefeller Library of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Jefferson Library, August 17-18, 2007).

 "The Call for a New World Order: Thomas Jefferson's Separation of Religion and State," (Archbishop's Palace, Prague, Czech Republic, March 7-9, 2007).

"Legacies of Founding: The Heritage of Early American Democracy in Contemporary Times," a workshop in association with the U.S. Embassy and the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary, March 4, 2007).

"Inventing America: The Interplay of Technology and Democracy in Shaping American Identity" in association with the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science's Department of Technology and Society (University of Virginia, November 3-4, 2006).

"Dialogue among Civilizations" a symposium which featured His Excellency Seyyed Muhammed Khatami, the former President of Iran (Jefferson Library, September 9, 2006).

"Thomas Jefferson Today" (Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, April 20-21, 2006)*
Oxford/University of Virginia Symposium (Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, April 14-15, 2005 and Lincoln College, Oxford University, March 4-5, 2006)

Conferences and Symposia prior to 2006

• "The Old World and the New: Exchanges between America and Europe in the Age of Jefferson" (Salzburg, Austria, October 2005)

• Oxford/University of Virginia Symposium ( Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, April 14-15, 2005)*

• "Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers in Retirement" (Kenwood, March 2005)

• "The Louisiana Purchase" (Paris, May 2002, and Kenwood, October 2002)

• "Thomas Jefferson, Rights, and the Contemporary World" (Bellagio, Italy, June 2002)

• "Thomas Jefferson and the Ideals of the American Revolution" (Berlin, May 2002)

• "Thomas Jefferson and the Revolution of 1800" (December 2000)*

• "Jefferson and His Friends" ( Paris, October 2000)

• "Thomas Jefferson, Democracy, and the New Poland" ( Warsaw, June 2001)

• "History and New Technologies in the Twenty-first Century" (November 1999)*

• "The Ideas and Ideals of Thomas Jefferson: Do They Transcend Time and Place" (London, September 1999)

• "Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture" (March 1999)

• "Housing Slavery in the Age of Jefferson: Comparative Archaeological, Architectural, and Historic Perspective" (October 1998)"

• Interpreting the -€˜Great Man:' The Image of Thomas Jefferson in the Twenty-first Century" (1998)

• "A Definitive Edition of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia" (September 1997)

• "A Definitive Edition of Jefferson's Legal Commonplace Book" (May 1997)

• "New Horizons in Jefferson Scholarship" (October 1996)

• " Jefferson's Architectural Drawings" (May 1996)*

• "Interpreting Slavery at Historic Sites in the Upper South" (November 1995)

• "The State of Jefferson Scholarship" (June 1995)

• "Major Jefferson Repositories" (March 1995)

*Collaborative Conference