Lecture by Professor Louis Nelson, "The University of Virginia: Revolutionary Intentions & Landscapes of Slavery"

Come see Louis Nelson, professor of History and Architechture at the University, give a lecture on Wednesday, March 28 at 6pm in the Garden Room of Hotel E. Prof. Nelson's lecture is entitled "The University of Virginia: Revolutionary Intentions & Landscapes of Slavery." The talk will discuss Jefferson's career as a both a revolutionary thinker and architect materialized in Monticello and the University, where his ideals for shaping a new nation and educating a body politic came to life. But as a product of its place and time, UVA was also a landscape of slavery. This lecture integrates these two realities into a single interwoven and complicated place and introduces recent research and digital tools being used to better understand the place of slavery in the everyday life of the University.