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HIS F22-10 Confinement in the Land of Enchantment

Tuesday, September 20, 10 am-noon

During World War II, 6000 Japanese Americans were held in confinement sites in Santa Fe, Lordsburg, Fort Stanton, and Baca Camp, with the Santa Fe Internment Camp holding the largest number of Japanese American internees.

This course first discusses national incarceration of Japanese Americans, then focuses on the New Mexico sites, using narrative, photos, and artifacts to cover the prisons’ locations, the origins of the prisoners, and life during confinement. The course concludes by addressing the lessons learned from this segment of American history. The instructor will display a prisoner roster, prisoner scrap album, and relevant publications

HIS F22-07 Jewish Vilna: The Jerusalem of Lithuania

Monday, September 19, 1-3 pm

Jerusalem of LithuaniaThe most vibrant Jewish city in Europe before World War II, Vilna (Yiddish) aka Vilnius (Lithuanian) aka Wilno (Polish) was home to revolutionaries, secular Yiddish scholars, and rabbinic geniuses. Throughout history, several nations claimed the city, and several armies occupied it. During the Holocaust, Jewish Vilna disappeared, but its contributions to Jewish scholarship, art, and literature remain. Join us and find out why Vilna was known as “The Jerusalem of Lithuania.”

confinement in the land of enchantment
Japanese Americans incarceration in New Mexico
Jewish Vilna history class

Archeology / Anthropology Treats

archaic African scull
Illustration from 19th century
Dead Sea Qumran rocks Israel

ARCH F22-01: Visiting the Ancestors: Archaic Africans, Neanderthals, and the Beginnings  of People Like Us

Wednesday, Sept 21, 3:15-5:15

The origin of modern humans—us—is a complex phenomenon. Both genetic and fossil human data show conclusively that modern humans emerged first in Africa and then radiated into Eurasia and beyond.

We will review and discuss how this evidence, particularly the fossil human record, helps us understand our origins. Although the African origin of modern people is apparent, the data also demonstrate that Eurasian archaic humans, including the Neanderthals and the enigmatic Denisovans, contributed to early modern humans in Eurasia. We will briefly look at human biological history leading up to the Neanderthals and their contemporaries and also dispel some common misunderstandings about our knowledge of human evolution.

ARCH F22-03-Z  The Dead Sea Scrolls 75 Years After Discovery

Monday, Sept 19, 10 am-noon

In late1946 or early 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in caves near the ancient ruins of Qumran in Israel.

history of earliest scrollsThis course revisits the story of how the earliest scrolls were found, surreptitiously sold, and eventually put on display in the specially built Shrine of the Book Museum in Jerusalem. This course also looks at archaeological evidence relating to Qumran, including hypotheses regarding the people who inhabited this site, and examines how the scrolls help us understand Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity in the context of other “Lost Scriptures” discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt

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