Event Details
Friday, May 4, 2012
Culturally La Florida Lecture: Religion in the New World
Time: 10:00 am til 11:00 am
Location: Flagler Auditorium, St. Augustine
Description: "The Apocalypse in St. Augustine: Religion in the New World"
Speaker: Dr. Timothy Johnson
Just why did Columbus sail the ocean blue in 1492? The traditional response focuses on economics and political power, but this presentation examines the religious dynamic, an apocalyptic fervor that saw the voyage of Columbus, the founding of St. Augustine and the Spanish presence in the new world as the center stage of evangelization and the return of Christ as foretold in scripture.
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Culturally La Florida Lecture: America Before the Americans
Time: 11:00 am til 12:00 pm
Location: Flagler Auditorium, St. Augustine
Description: "Culture and Place: America Before the Americans"
Speaker: Dr. Rachel Cremona
While most countries are named for the people who inhabit them, Americans are named for the land they inhabit. Dr. Cremona asks, how did this native land manage to take people from diverse places, with different languages, beliefs and customs, and make them its own? Did the first Spanish footsteps on American shores sow the seeds of the American Dream? We begin our exploration of these questions where it all began – St. Augustine.
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Culturally La Florida: The Saltwater Frontier/ Townspeople in 18th-C
Time: 1:30 pm til 3:00 pm
Location: Flagler Auditorium, St. Augustine
Description: "The Saltwater Frontier: Specialists in Survival"
Dr. Amy Turner Bushnell
From the early years of the 18th-C through the U.S. Civil War, citizens of Florida lived under the threat of war, or war itself, & the constant presence of the military. This fighting or threat of conflict bound all peoples of Fl: whites, blacks, native Americans, free or enslaved, & it is the similarities of their lives & their common drive to adapt that serve as the focus of this enlightening program.
"Invaders, Privateers, Runaways, Renegades, & St. Augustine's Townspeople In 18th-Century La Florida"
Dr. Susan Parker
The residents of Spain's colony of La Florida were right in the middle of the "long century" of war. In the 1700s troops from the British colonies of South Carolina & Georgia invaded La Florida & laid siege to its capital of St. Augustine. Enemy privateers confiscated goods bound for Florida, while Spanish privateers countered with their own heists of food & money for St. Augustine. Indians & blacks ran from rival colonies to find refuge in Florida. Renegades, opportunists & scofflaws claimed whatever nationality benefited them at the moment.
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Culturally La Florida Lecture: Spanish Missions & Indians in the SE US
Time: 3:00 pm til 4:00 pm
Location: Flagler Auditorium, St. Augustine
Description: "Laboring In the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Indians in the Southeast United States"
Dr. Jerald T. Milanich, University of Florida
The missions of La Florida, Spain’s name for the southeastern United States, have been one of history’s best kept secrets. Beginning in the 1560’s, Jesuit and Franciscan friars established more than 150 missions among native peoples, primarily in what is now coastal Georgia and northern Florida. By the 1760’s, only two remained. Today, archaeology and history are the tools used to give voice to those long forgotten, a process ably described in this moving presentation.
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Culturally La Florida Roundtable Discussion by Presenters
Time: 4:00 pm til 5:00 pm
Location: Flagler Auditorium, St. Augustine
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Culturally La Florida Lecture: Colonial Spain in the Southeast US
Time: 7:00 pm til 8:00 pm
Location: Flagler Auditorium, St. Augustine
Description: "In 1492 Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue...Then What Happened? Colonial Spain in the Southeastern United States
Dr. Jerald T. Milanich, University of Florida
By the time of the founding of Jamestown in 1607, St. Augustine was already up for urban renewal. This fact, and Spain’s 16th century activities in the southeast in general, is largely overlooked by our predominantly English language textbooks. This program by Dr. Milanich explores this period of early colonialization with particular emphasis on the impact on the American Indian societies.
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Culturally La Florida Lecture: The Menendez Encampment of 1565
Time: 8:00 pm til 9:00 pm
Location: Flagler Auditorium, St. Augustine
Description: "The First St. Augustine: The Menendez Encampment of 1565"
Dr. Kathleen Deagan, University of Florida
Since 1976, Dr. Deagan has been directing archaeological investigations targeting the initial encampment of St. Augustine founder, Pedro Menendez de Aviles. Her efforts continue, primarily on the site of the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park, and her findings, some of which are very recent and quite significant, are the subject of this fascinating and extremely relevant presentation.
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