Lectures

The Musicroom at Dumbarton Oaks

Season Schedule 2010–2011

Upcoming Events

  • Wednesday, February 8, 2012

    Peter Walker, PWP Landscape Architecture

    Before the Memorial, Public Lecture by Peter Walker,

    The lecture is full. To be placed on the wait list, please email or call 202-339-6460
    Flyer

    2012-02-08T17:30:00-05:002012-02-08T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2681

  • Thursday, March 1, 2012

    Barbara E. Mundy, Fordham University

    Water and the Aztec Landscape in the Valley of Mexico, Public Lecture by Barbara E. Mundy,

    For reservations and information email or call 202-339-6440

    2012-03-01T17:30:00-05:002012-03-01T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2672

Recent Events

  • Saturday, January 28, 2012

    Blenda Femenias,

    Performing the Body: Movement and Adornment in the Ancient Andes, Public Lecture by Blenda Femenias,

    Flyer

    2012-01-28T13:00:00-05:002012-01-28T14:00:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2675

  • Saturday, January 21, 2012

    Lars Krutak, Smithsonian Institution

    Spiritual Skin: Guardian and Assistant Tattooing of the Americas, Public Lecture by Lars Krutak,

    Flyer

    2012-01-21T13:00:00-05:002012-01-21T14:00:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2674

  • Thursday, December 8, 2011

    Tamara L. Bray, Wayne State University

    At the End of Empire: The Inca, the Caranqui, and the Northern Imperial Frontier, Public Lecture by Tamara L. Bray,

    Flyer

    2011-12-08T17:30:00-05:002011-12-08T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2671

  • Thursday, November 10, 2011

    Averil Cameron, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    Dialogues in Byzantium: The long life of a literary form, Public Lecture by Averil Cameron,

    Flyer

    2011-11-10T17:30:00-05:002011-11-10T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2670

  • Thursday, September 22, 2011

    Suzanne Preston Blier, Harvard University

    Landscapes of Enchantment: Cosmology, Ritual, and Ideas of Place in the Ancient Yoruba City-State, Public Lecture by Suzanne Preston Blier,

    Flyer

    2011-09-22T17:30:00-05:002011-09-22T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2668

  • Thursday, September 29, 2011

    Nancy Ševčenko

    A Prince and his Monastery: Isaac Comnenus and the Church of the Virgin Kosmosoteira in Thrace (1152), Public Lecture by Nancy Ševčenko,

    Flyer

    2011-09-29T17:30:00-05:002011-09-29T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2669

  • Study Day: Friday, April 1, 2011

    Chairperson: Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University, Dallas

    Cyprus from Byzantium to the Renaissance, Study Day chaired by Annemarie Weyl Carr,

    Presented by Dumbarton Oaks Museum and the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, Washington, D.C.. Flyer, Program

    2011-04-01T08:30:00-05:002011-04-01T18:00:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2564

  • Thursday, March 31, 2011

    Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University, Dallas

    Dumbarton Oaks and the Byzantine Churches of Cyprus, Public Lecture by Annemarie Weyl Carr,

    Flyer

    2011-03-31T17:30:00-05:002011-03-31T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2547

  • Tuesday, March 15, 2011

    Peter Galison, Harvard University

    Wasteland and Wilderness, Public Lecture by Peter Galison,

    Flyer

    2011-03-15T17:30:00-05:002011-03-15T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2546

  • Thursday, March 10, 2011

    Stephen D. Houston, Brown University

    Into Death's Dark Night: Exploring a Royal Maya Tomb at El Diablo, Guatemala, Public Lecture by Stephen D. Houston,

    Flyer

    2011-03-10T17:30:00-05:002011-03-10T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2545

  • Thursday, March 3, 2011

    John Dixon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania

    The Role of History in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, Public Lecture by John Dixon Hunt,

    Flyer

    2011-03-03T17:30:00-05:002011-03-03T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2544

  • Thursday, February 24, 2011

    Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle, Copán Association, Honduras

    From Rosalila to Oropendola: Unearthing Maya Secrets at Copán, Honduras, Public Lecture by Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle,

    Flyer

    2011-02-24T17:30:00-05:002011-02-24T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2548

  • Thursday, February 17, 2011

    Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles

    Looking into Carolingian Monastic Libraries: Reichenau and St. Gall, Public Lecture by Patrick Geary,

    Flyer

    2011-02-17T17:30:00-05:002011-02-17T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2543

  • Wednesday, January 26, 2011

    Nancy Ševčenko

    A prince and his monastery: Isaac Comnenus and the church of the Virgin Kosmosoteira in Thrace (1152), Public Lecture by Nancy Ševčenko,

    Flyer

    2011-01-26T17:30:00-05:002011-01-26T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2542

  • Thursday, November 18, 2010

    Beat Brenk, Williams College, Williamstown, MA

    Rhetoric, ambition, and the function of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Public Lecture by Beat Brenk, Williams College

    Flyer

    2010-11-18T17:30:00-05:002010-11-18T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2523

  • Thursday, November 4, 2010

    John Haines, University of Toronto

    The Songbook of William of Villehardouin, Prince of Frankish Greece, Public Lecture by John Haines, University of Toronto

    Flyer

    2010-11-04T17:30:00-05:002010-11-04T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2478

  • Monday, October 25, 2010

    Diana Magaloni Kerpel, Museo Nacional de Antropología, INAH, Mexico City, Mexico

    Images and Painters of the New World: The Story of the Making of the Florentine Codex, Public Lecture by Diana Magaloni Kerpel, Museo Nacional de Antropología, INAH

    Flyer

    2010-10-25T17:30:00-05:002010-10-25T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2477

  • Tuesday, September 21, 2010

    Patrick Dougherty, Chapel Hill, N.C.

    Primitive Ways in an Accelerated World, Public Lecture by Patrick Dougherty,

    Flyer

    2010-09-21T17:30:00-05:002010-09-21T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, DC (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2476

  • Monday, April 19, 2010

    Ratish Nanda, Aga Khan Trust for Culture

    Working in Mughal Paradise: Restoring Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi and Bagh-e Babur, Kabul, Public Lecture by Ratish Nanda, Aga Khan Trust for Culture

    Flyer

    2010-04-19T17:30:00-05:002010-04-19T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, D.C. (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2407

  • Thursday, April 15, 2010

    Gunnar Brands, University of Halle, Germany

    Antioch-on-the-Orontes, Public Lecture by Gunnar Brands, University of Halle

    Flyer

    2010-04-15T17:30:00-05:00 2010-04-15T18:30:00-05:00 1703 32nd St NW, Washington, D.C. (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks) www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2406

  • Thursday, April 8, 2010

    Nicos Hadjinikolaou, University of Crete

    The state of El Greco studies at the beginning of the 21st century, Public Lecture by Nicos Hadjinikolaou, University of Crete

    Flyer

    2010-04-08T17:30:00-05:002010-04-08T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, D.C. (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2427
  • Dumbarton Oaks, Public Lecture, Peter Brown, 04/01/2010Watch Video

    Thursday, April 1, 2010

    Peter Brown, Princeton University

    Theology and social criticism: Salvian of Marseilles and the end of the Roman empire in the west, Public Lecture by Peter Brown, Princeton University

    Flyer

    2010-04-01T17:30:00-05:00 2010-04-01T18:30:00-05:00 1703 32nd St NW, Washington, D.C. (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks) www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2402

  • Thursday, March 25, 2010

    John Walsh, Emeritus, J. Paul Getty Museum

    Museum Sculpture Parks and Gardens” and film screening: “Art without Walls: The Making of the Olympic Sculpture Park” presented with the Environmental Film Festival., Public Lecture by John Walsh, J. Paul Getty Museum
    2010-03-25T17:30:00-05:00 2010-03-25T18:30:00-05:00 1703 32nd St NW, Washington, D.C. (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks) www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2405
  • Dumbarton Oaks, Public Lecture, Steve Bourget, 03/11/2010Watch Video

    Thursday, March 11, 2010

    Steve Bourget, University of Texas at Austin

    Dressed to Kill: The Regalia of the Lord of Ucupe and its Symbolism, Public Lecture by Steve Bourget, University of Texas at Austin. This lecture is a part of the free public lecture series sponsored by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. © 2010 Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University.

    Flyer

    2010-03-11T17:30:00-05:002010-03-11T18:30:00-05:001703 32nd St NW, Washington, D.C. (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks)www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2404

  • Wednesday, March 3, 2010

    Thomas E. Burman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

    Reading and Writing the Qur'an with Riccoldo da Monte di Croce, OP (fl. 1267–1316), Public Lecture by Thomas E. Burman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

    Part of the Perspectives on Islam lecture series

    2010-03-03T17:30:00-05:00 2010-03-03T18:30:00-05:00 1703 32nd St NW, Washington, D.C. (Music Room, Dumbarton Oaks) www.doaks.org/public_events/lectures.html#doaks_eid_2403

Lectures at 5:30pm

All lectures are given at 5:30pm in the Music Room at Dumbarton Oaks and are open to the public without charge.

Reservation required

Reservations are required, but last minute seats may be available. Please call to inquire.

Accessibility

For information on accessibility, please call 202-339-6410 during business hours.