Sponsored by the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies and the American Philosophical Society
Day 1, Panels

Day 1: Introduction - Education in the Early Republic and the Founding of the University of Virginia

Panel 1: Education in the Early Republic

Panel 2: Curriculum and Faculty

Panel 3: Building the University

Panel 4: Contested Spaces: Slavery and Peoples
Day 2, Panels

Day 2: Introduction - Education in the Early Republic and the Founding of the University of Virginia

Panel 5: Challenges in the Founding of UVA

Panel 6: “I cannot live without books…”

Panel 7: Jefferson and the University of Virginia

Keynote and Closing Remarks