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[[underline]] "Kin and Communities: The Peopling of America" Symposium [[/underline]]

As an analogue to a university convocation, the first Smithsonian symposium since the 1973 observance of the Copernican quincentennial will open June 14 in Washington on the theme, "Kin and Communities: The Peopling of America." Smithsonian and guest scholars, along with public officials, educators and media specialists, will address themselves to three questions: Where did Americans come from and why? What happened after they got here? And whither kinship? The Symposium will generate a book, articles in journals and newspapers, and videotape cassettes for use in colleges and universities interested in curriculum which links the humanities and sciences. Special exhibits and film showings are planned around family history themes to coincide with the Symposium. The Copernicus celebration produced the highly praised volume, [[underline]] The Nature of Scientific Discovery [[/underline]], edited by Professor Owen Gingerich of the Smithsonian's Astrophysical Observatory.

Under the chairmanship of Dr. Margaret Mead, the June 14-17 Symposium brings a focus elements of a two-year educational program designed originally for the Bicentennial and aimed nationally at encouraging American facilities to learn something of world history and American history through themselves. The Symposium is organized and financed through initiatives of the Office of Smithsonian Symposia and Seminars directed by Wilton S. Dillon.