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Public Landscapes and Public Health: An Inquiry into the Histories of Landscape Design

May 10–28, 2021, hosted virtually | Intensive three-week workshop, focusing on issues of public health and democracy, for PhD and MLA candidates.

Healthy Living During the Counter-Reformation

Katherine M. Bentz considers the history of Italian villas beyond architecture

Planning the Postwar Status Quo

Lizabeth Wardzinski traces the postwar reach of American urban and regional planning

Baboons, Hyenas, and Slow Science

Erika Milam investigates the role of landscape in decades-long scientific projects

Volcanic Stone, Renaissance Fun Houses

Katherine Coty reimagines Italian villa gardens as experiments with the local landscape

Forced Labor in the Americas

James Almeida studies enslavement, racial ideology, and labor history in the Andes and at Dumbarton Oaks

Land Back: Indigenous Landscapes of Resurgence and Freedom

In this symposium, speakers highlight the many ways Indigenous peoples understand and practice land relations for political resurgence and freedom across the ...

Placemaking with Plants

Lindi Masur puts seeds under the microscope to find new evidence for indigenous food production and landscape management

Of Landscape and Lawsuits

Philip Gant studies legal implications of the Buddhist temple as critical infrastructure

Picturesque Public Parks in Paris

Ann Komara digs deep into a celebrated nineteenth-century park transformed from a quarry site