All News Items, 2012

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A Far Cry Closes the Friends of Music 2011–2012 Season

 

A New Face for the Dumbarton Oaks Website

 

An Interview with Allen Grieco, Visiting Scholar

 

Blogs from Dumbarton Oaks

ICFA, DO Conversations, and the Gardens are all blogging

 

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Archives join Facebook

Launch of the official Dumbarton Oaks Library and Archives Facebook page

 

Farewell and Happy Retirement!

Tylka Vetula, Serials and Acquisitions Librarian, retires May 2012

 

Good Ink

Dumbarton Oaks in the news, April 2012

 

Informal Talk by Bernard Frischer

3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage

 

Introducing the Dumbarton Oaks Tyler Fellows

Lisa Trever, "Moche Mural Painting and Practice at Pañamarca: A Study of Image Making in Ancient Peru"

 

Miracle Fruit Fête

 

Now on View: Cloud Terrace

Contemporary art installation by Cao | Perrot Studio

 

Now on View: From Clearing to Cataloging: The Corpus of Tunisian Mosaics

ICFA exhibition in the Bliss Gallery

 

Now on View: Rome Re-Imagined: Antiquarianism and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century Maghreb

Rare book exhibition in the Dumbarton Oaks Library

 

Now on View: Still Life and Landscape

Special exhibition in the Dumbarton Oaks Museum

 

Off the Press: Dumbarton Oaks Papers 64

New from Dumbarton Oaks Publications

 

Rome Re-Imagined: Byzantine and Early Islamic Africa, c. 500–800

2012 Byzantine Studies Symposium

 

Staff and Fellows Accolades

Congratulations to Elizabeth Boone and Jack Tannous

 

Byzantine Coins and Medallions

 

Food and the City

2012 Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium

 

Summer 2012 Fellows

 

Introducing the Dumbarton Oaks Tyler Fellows

Kuba Kabala, "Frontier Spaces: Eastern Europe, 800–1000 A.D."

 

Off the Press

De Administrando Imperio: A Commentary

 

Staff and Fellows Accolades

New scholarship from Cécile Morrisson and Joel Kalvesmaki

 

Friends of Music Announces the 2012–2013 Concert Season

 

Good Ink

Dumbarton Oaks in the News, May 2012

 

Engravings of North Africa

A featured item from the Library exhibit Rome Re-Imagined

 

DO on NPR

John Beardsley gives an interview on "Morning Edition"

 

Sign and Design Symposium

 

Byzantine Greek Summer School Concludes

A summary of the sixth session of the Greek Summer School at Dumbarton Oaks

 

An Interview with Panagiotis Agapitos, Visiting Scholar

 

Digital Humanities Informal Talk: Perry Hewitt

 

Conservation of "Three Erotes Fishing" Floor Mosaic

 

Manuscripts on Microfilm

 

More Dumbarton Oaks Titles Available on JSTOR

Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology are now available online

 

Off the Press: How to Defeat the Saracens

 

Farewell to Günder Varinlioğlu

 

Stephen Zwirn Retires

 

Now on View: Animal Bronzes

 

Summer 2012 Term Comes to a Close

 

Summer Interns Summary

 

ICFA Gardens Film

 

New Syriac Studies Resources

 

A Warm Welcome to the Dumbarton Oaks Fellows, 2012/13

 

God’s Regents on Earth: A Thousand Years of Imperial Seals

A new online exhibition of Byzantine seals from Dumbarton Oaks' collection

 

New Director of Pre-Columbian Studies Colin McEwan

 

Farewell to Michael Lee

 

Staff Highlight

 

Off the Press

Announcing the publication of Trade and Markets in Byzantium

 

The So-Called "Dollar of the Middle Ages": The Hyperpyron of Manuel I Komnenos (1143–1180)

 

Water in the Garden

A New Exhibit in the Catalogue House

 

Dumbarton Oaks Purchases Humphry Repton Drawing

 

Off the Press: Past Presented

 

Old Glyphs, New Findings

Tales from a Late Classic Maya Panel

 

Interview with Ioli Kalavrezou, Dumbarton Oaks Professor-in-Residence

 

The Making of an Exhibition

An interview with Dumbarton Oaks museum staff on the making of the All Sides Considered interactive exhibit

 

Now on View: The Ancient Future

Mesoamerican and Andean Timekeeping

 

The Measure and Meaning of Time in the Americas

A summary of the 2012 Pre-Columbian Studies symposium

 

Script as Image at Dumbarton Oaks

A summary of the proceedings of the Sign and Design Symposium

 

Bliss Symposium Award Recipients

Five Harvard students received Bliss Awards that allowed them to attend the "Sign and Design" symposium

 

The Aftermath of Superstorm Sandy

 

Digital Humanities Luncheon

 

Good Ink

A review of Dumbarton Oaks online publications and projects

 

Dumbarton Oaks Jack-o-Lanterns

 

Meeting of the Harvard Bilingual Libraries

 

Tyler Fellows in Residence

Processing of Two Important Pre-Columbian Archives at Dumbarton Oaks

 

Friends Of Music

 

From the Archives

The Bliss Christmas Card of 1938

 

DO at Digital Cultural Heritage DC Meetups

 

Staff Accolades

 

Good Ink

 

The Byzantine Emperors on Coins

A new online exhibit highlighting the Dumbarton Oaks coin collection

 

Maria Sibylla Merian

A new online exhibit from the Rare Book Collection

 

History and Memory in the Manchu Imperial Park of Bishu Shanzhuang

A public lecture by Stephen Whiteman

 

Interpreting Byzantine Dream Narratives

 

A Ninth-Century Greek-Arabic Palimpsest

An informal talk with Father Justin Sinaites and Professor Jack Tannous