All ICJS programs are offered in a hybrid format with in-person and online attendance opportunities. We look forward to welcoming you to our programs! Virtual programs at the ICJS are free, unless specified otherwise. In-person programs, while also free unless specified otherwise, may require advanced registration. See individual event pages for details.
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Join us on Thursday, August 15, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. ET for a fellow's forum with Graeme Mack, University of Richmond.
Join us on Tuesday, August 20, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. ET for a fellow's forum with Ethan Gonzales, PhD candidate at the University of Virginia.
Join DAACS staff and DAACS collaborating scholars for a diverse range of conversations on ground-breaking new archaeological research in the American South and Caribbean. Multiple dates.
A fellow's forum with Whitney Nell Stewart, Associate Professor of History and Faculty, Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas from July 24, 2024.
Lightning talks from DAACS collaborating scholars Kendy Alter, Jodi Barnes, Luke Pecararo, Karen Smith, and Myles Sullivan from July 19, 2024. This presentation, part of the DAACS Conversations series, was entirely virtual. Recording available.
A fellow's forum with Michael A. McDonnell, Professor and Chair of History at the University of Sydney, Australia, from June 27, 2024.
A fellow’s forum with Steven G. Krug, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Georgia, from June 24, 2024.
A conversation between Marlene L. Daut, Professor of French and African American Studies at Yale University and author of Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) and Laurent Dubois, John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History & Principles of Democracy and Academic Director of the Karsh Institute of Democracy, University of Virginia, from June 3, 2024. Recording available.
A fellow's forum with wine writer Sydney Love, from May 23, 2024.
The 2024 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Lecture with historian Sarah Pearsall, held at the University of Virginia's Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library in Charlottesville on May 13, 2024.
A fellow's forum with Steve Sarson, Professor of American Civilizations at Jean Moulin University, Lyon, France, from April 30, 2024.
A conversation between Whitney Nell Stewart, historian and author of This is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations and Andrew Davenport, Director of African American History & The Getting Word African American Oral History Project at Monticello from April 25, 2024. Recording available.
A fellow's forum with Benoit Leridon, University of Birmingham, U.K. from April 23, 2024.
A book talk by Talmage Boston, lawyer, historian, and author of How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents from April 18, 2024.
A presentation by presidential historian, Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky, as part of the 2024 Virginia Festival of the Book from March 24, 2024. Recording available.
Revolutionary Women: A Symposium was co-hosted by the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and the University of Virginia Press on March 22, 2024.
A conversation between Frank Cogliano, historian and author of Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic and Professors Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf from February 17, 2024. Recording available.
A hybrid fellow's forum with historian Paul Finkelman from December 14, 2023. Recording available.
A fellow's forum with Jim Ambuske, historian and Senior Producer at R2 Studios from December 12, 2023.
A hybrid fellow's forum with Alexander Lawrence Ames, Ph.D., Director of Outreach & Engagement, the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia from December 7, 2023. Recording available.
More information on our 2023 book talk series featuring new books by leading scholars discussing a variety of topics on the history of the early American republic.
Democracy in the Americas - the Monroe Doctrine and the Past and Present of US Policy in Latin America was co-hosted by the American Academy of Diplomacy, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, and the University of Virginia Center for Politics on November 17, 2023.
A fellow's forum with Iain McLean, Professor of Politics at Oxford University and a fellow of Nuffield College from November 15, 2023.
A book talk by John A. Ragosta, historian and author of For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry's Final Political Battle from November 7, 2023. Recording available.
A fellow’s forum with Anders Bright, PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania from October 31, 2023.
A fellow's forum with Louise Sebro, Danish historian and curator at the Reventlow Museum from October 26, 2023.
A hybrid fellow's forum with Iris De Rode, U.S. Committee Member of "America 2026" from October 3, 2023.
The Second Annual Leonard J. Sadosky Memorial Lecture, "American Reformation" given by Dr. Alyssa Penick, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, University of Virginia, from September 29, 2023.
A hybrid fellow's forum with Rob Myers, Director of the University Of Missouri Center for Regenerative Agriculture from September 27, 2023. Recording available.
A conversation between John Ragosta, historian at the International Center for Jefferson Studies and Gregory May, author of A Madman's Will from September 26, 2023. Recording available.
Studying the Past, Planning the Future: Commemorating the Centennial of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation was held at the Robert H. Smith Center at Montalto on September 22, 2023.
A book talk by J.C. Hallman, author of Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women's Health from September 14, 2023.
A hybrid fellow's forum with Armin Mattes, Assistant Research Professor and Assistant Editor of the Papers of James Madison at the University of Virginia from August 29, 2023. Recording available.
A hybrid fellow's forum with Simone Muhammad, MA student in Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton from August 28, 2023. Recording available.
A book talk by Lucia McMahon, Professor and Chair of History at William Paterson University from August 24, 2023. Recording available.
A hybrid fellow's forum with Andrew Hammann, postdoctoral fellow at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri from August 16, 2023. Recording available.
A fellow's forum with culinary historian, Karima Moyer-Nocchi from July 27, 2023.
A hybrid fellow's forum with S. Max Edelson, Professor of History, University of Virginia from July 25, 2023. Recording available.
A hybrid fellow's forum with art historian Jayne Yantz from July 20, 2023. Recording available.
A hybrid fellow's forum with Mercedes Haigler, Ph.D candidate in History at the University of Virginia from July 18, 2023. Recording available.
A hybrid fellow’s forum with Elizabeth Clay, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Central Connecticut State University from June 27, 2023. Recording available.
A hybrid fellow’s forum with David Carlson, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Notre Dame from June 22, 2023. Recording available.
A hybrid fellow's forum with Benjamin Anderson, PhD student at the University of Edinburgh from June 15, 2023. Recording available.
A hybrid fellow's forum with Khadene Harris, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Kenyon College from May 25, 2023. Recording available.
The 2023 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Lecture with historian Patrick Griffin, held at the University of Virginia's Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library in Charlottesville on May 12, 2023.
A conversation between Patrick Griffin, Madden-Hennebry Family Professor of History; Thomas Moore and Judy Livingston Director, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the University of Notre Dame and and author of The Age of Atlantic Revolution: the Fall and Rise of a Connected World and Frank Cogliano, Professor of American History and Dean International (North America), University of Edinburgh from May 11, 2023. Recording available.
A hybrid fellow's forum with Steven Sarson, Professor of American Civilizations at Jean Moulin University, Lyon, France from May 2, 2023. Recording available.
A hybrid fellow's forum with Susan Brynne Long, PhD Candidate in the American Civilization Program, University of Delaware from April 20, 2023. Recording available.
A presentation by Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian, Edward J. Larson as part of the 2023 Virginia Festival of the book from March 26, 2023. Recording available.
A hybrid fellow's forum with Liam Riordan, Professor of History, University of Maine from March 23, 2023. Recording available.
A hybrid fellow’s forum with Christopher Bates, Ph.D. Student, University of Edinburgh from February 22, 2023. Recording available.
A presentation by Eliga Gould, Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and 2022-2023 Fritz and Claudine Kundrun Fellow from February 16, 2023.
A fellow's forum with Chloe Chapin, Ph.D. candidate in the American Studies Program, Harvard University from February 15, 2023.
A hybrid fellow's forum with Vitor Izecksohn, professor in the Graduate Program of Social History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro from February 7, 2023. Recording available.
A hybrid fellow’s forum with Susan Kern, historian and author of The Jeffersons at Shadwell (Yale 2010) from January 19, 2023. recording available.
A virtual fellow’s forum with Holly Cowan Shulman, editor of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition from December 7, 2022. Recording available.
A virtual fellow’s forum with Americana Foundation Curatorial Fellow Molly Martien from November 30, 2022. Recording available.
A virtual fellow’s forum with Luke J. Pecoraro, PhD, Director of Archaeology, Drayton Hall Preservation Trust from November 29, 2022. Recording available.
A virtual fellow's forum with Jeanie Grant Moore, Professor Emerita from the University of San Diego and University of Wisconsin from November 9, 2022. Recording available.
A book talk with historian Peter Mancall author of The Trials of Thomas Morton: An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England from November 2, 2022.
A virtual fellow's forum with Stephen Lloyd, the Curator of the Derby Collection at Knowsley Hall from October 25, 2022. Recording available.
Diplomacy and the Environment was co-hosted by the American Academy of Diplomacy, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, and the University of Virginia Center for Politics on October 21, 2022.
A book talk with award-winning historian Robert Pierce Forbes and author of Notes on the State of Virginia: An Annotated Edition from October 12, 2022. Recording available.
A talk with Jim Ambuske (of Mount Vernon) and Jeanette Patrick (from George Mason University), moderated by Monticello's Jenna Owens, discussing their widely acclaimed podcast Intertwined about the enslaved community at Mount Vernon from September 14, 2022.
A virtual fellows forum with AriDy Nox: writer, librettist, playwright, and Jacinth Greywoode: writer, composer, and musical director from August 25, 2022.
A virtual fellows forum with Johanna Heide, a PhD fellow with the DFG-funded RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms at the University of Potsdam from August 23, 2022. Recording available.
A virtual fellows forum with Melissa Adler, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario from August 18, 2022. Recording available.
A virtual fellow’s forum with Jean-Baptiste Goyard, professeur agrégé (associate professor) in English at Versailles University and a PhD candidate in American history at Paris 8 University, France from August 4, 2022. Recording available.
A virtual fellow's forum with Emily West, Professor of American History at the University of Reading (UK) and Chair of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH) from July 26, 2022. Recording available.
A virtual fellow’s forum with Laura Sandy, Associate Professor in the History of Slavery & Director for the Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS), University of Liverpool, UK from July 21, 2022. Recording available.
A virtual Fellow's Forum with Mark Alan Mattes, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisville from July 19, 2022. Recording available.
A virtual fellow's forum with Bartosz Dudek, journalist and Head of the Polish Service of Germany's international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle. Recording available.
A virtual fellow's forum with Evan Haefeli, Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University from May 26, 2022. Recording available.
A virtual fellow's forum with Charles Cullen, President and Librarian Emeritus of the Newberry Library from May 24, 2022. Recording available.
The 2022 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Lecture with historian Joanne Freeman, held at the University of Virginia's Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library in Charlottesville on May 10, 2022. Recording available.
A virtual Fellow's Forum with Stephen Bygrave, Professor of English at the University of Southampton from April 28, 2022.
A virtual fellow's forum with Kenneth Morgan, Professor of History in the Department of Politics and History at Brunel University, London from April 26, 2022. Recording available.
A virtual fellow's forum with Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College from March 29, 2022. Recording available.
A presentation by author and historian Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy as part of the 2022 Virginia Festival of the book from March 20, 2022. Recording available.
A virtual fellow's forum with Cody Nager, PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York from February 24, 2022. Recording available.
A virtual book talk with Martin Clagett, independent scholar and author of A Spark of Revolution: William Small, Thomas Jefferson, and James Watt: The Curious Connection Between the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. This talk was co-hosted by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS) at the University of Aberdeen and the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello on February 22, 2022.
A virtual fellow's forum with Nicolas Bell-Romero, Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Legacies of Enslavement Inquiry at the University of Cambridge from January 27, 2022. Recording available.
A conversation between Andrew O'Shaughnessy and volume contributors Andrew Wehrman, Endrina Tay, Diane Ehrenpreis, and Elizabeth Chew reflecting on Jefferson's influence on scientific inquiry during the Early Republic and held in honor of the publication of a special issue of the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society - "The Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson" (Vol. 110, No. 2, 2022) from January 25, 2022. Recording available.
A book talk with bestselling author, Andrew Roberts from November 18, 2021. Recording available.
News, Propaganda, and Diplomacy was co-hosted by the American Academy of Diplomacy, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, and The University of Virginia Center for Politics on October 30, 2021. Recording available.
A book launch with Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy, author and Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello from October 5, 2021. Recording available.
A book talk with Paul Finkelman, President of Gratz College from September 1, 2021. Recording available.
The Transatlantic Slavery Symposium was a joint venture between the Robert H. Smith Scholarship Centre at Benjamin Franklin House in London, the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, and the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello held from August 9-13, 2021. Recording available.
The 2021 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Lecture with Professor Jane Kamensky, held virtually on May 13, 2021.
A digital book talk with Carolyn Eastman, Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University from April 29, 2021. Recording available.
A digital book talk with historian and Professor of Military Theory and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College, Colonel (Retired) Kevin J. Weddle from April 22, 2021. Recording available.
A virtual conference hosted by the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello on March 20, 2021. This program was made possible by the Fiske and Marie Kimball/Monticello Fund, generously provided by the Trustees of the Jane Tarleton Smith Moore estate. Recording available.
A digital book talk with historian and internationally known tax expert Gregory May from January 28, 2021. Recording available.
A digital book talk with R.B. Bernstein, Lecturer in Law and Politics at the City College of New York, on his newest book, The Education of John Adams from December 15, 2020. Recording available.
A virtual talk with four emerging Early American History scholars - Alexi Garrett, Michael A. Blaakman, Derek O'Keary, and Krysten Blackstone - from November 19, 2020. This event was co-sponsored by the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon and the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. Recording available.
A virtual discussion between Dr. Andrew O’Shaughnessy and Dr. Sandra Rebok from November 11, 2020. This presentation was co-sponsored by the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany. Recording available.
Does Europe Still Matter to America? was co-hosted by the American Academy of Diplomacy, the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, and the University of Virginia Center for Politics on October 24, 2020.
A virtual book talk with Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Ph.D. from October 8, 2020. Recording available.
A virtual discussion with Professor Frank Cogliano of the University of Edinburgh, co-hosted by Mount Vernon's Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington and the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello from August 27, 2020. Recording available.
A virtual book talk with Dr. Laura Sandy of the University of Liverpool on her new book, The Overseers of Early American Slavery: Supervisors, Enslaved Labourers, and the Plantation Enterprise from July 28, 2020. This presentation was co-sponsored by Mount Vernon's Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington and the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. Recording available.
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