From Olmsted to the High Line and Back: The Evolution of Urban Open Space
Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture with Ray B. Oladapo-Johnson
Radical Nonviolence, Interracial Utopias, and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Public Lecture with Victoria W. Wolcott
Martha Schwartz: “My Brilliant Career & Long and Winding Road”
Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture
Toward Black Environmental Imaginations
CANCELLED | Carlyn E. Ferrari discusses how individuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois had deep, intimate connections with the natural world, pointing to a rich legacy of Black environmental thought.
Where Was Jim Crow? Living in Frank Lloyd Wright’s America
Dianne Harris illuminates architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s role in the history of the divided and segregated American city. Mabel Wilson, Professor of Architecture and Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University will join Dr. Harris in a discussion following the lecture.
Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz illuminates the indispensable role Latin American immigrants have played in reviving American cities.
Memoryscapes of King Philip’s War: Revisiting Indigenous and Colonial Places, Histories, and Legacies
Christine DeLucia revisits late 17th-century Native American and colonial encounters, shedding new light on how and why diverse communities pursued diplomacy, peacemaking, and violence.
Learning from Detroit: Restoring Neighborhood Landscapes
Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Maurice Cox | Fully booked
“Outside/IN: Martha Jackson Jarvis at Dumbarton Oaks” Opening Event
The Power of Place: Preserving the Legacies of African American Settlements
Mellon Initiative in Urban Landscape Studies public event, jointly sponsored with the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
Between Land Art and Landscape Architecture: A Dialogue with Udo Weilacher and John Beardsley
Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture
Glorifying the City in Counter-Reformation Italy: Girolamo Righettino Rediscovered
Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture | Denis Ribouillault, University of Montreal
Olympic Landscapes: Green and Greenest
Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture | Mary Margaret Jones
The Monster in the Garden: Early Modern Landscape Design and the Grotesque
Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture | Luke Morgan, Monash University
How to Read the Chinese Garden? Qianlong Emperor’s Retreat in the Forbidden City
Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture | Eugene Y. Wang, Harvard University
Le Notre and Versailles in Modernity (20th to 21st Centuries)
September 23, 2013 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Georges Farhat, University of Toronto
Gardens and the Work of Environmental Memory
April 11, 2013 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Lawrence Buell, Harvard University; Sponsored by the Director’s Office
History and Memory in the Manchu Imperial Park of Bishu Shanzhuang
December 5, 2012 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Stephen Whiteman
Andy Cao and Xavier Perrot, Cloud Terrace Installation
April 5, 2012 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture
Before the Memorial
February 8, 2012 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Peter Walker, Principal, PWP Landscape Architecture
Landscapes of Enchantment: Cosmology, Ritual and Ideas of Place in the Ancient Yaruba City-State
September 22, 2011 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Suzanne Blier, Harvard University
Waste and Wilderness
March 15, 2011 | Dumbarton Oaks Public Lecture, Peter Galison, Harvard University
The Role of History in Contemporary Landscape Architecture
March 3, 2011 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, John Dixon Hunt, University of Pennsylvania
Primitive Ways in an Accelerated World
September 21, 2010 | Garden and Landscape Studies Artist’s Talk, Patrick Dougherty
Working in Mughal Paradise: Restoring Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi & Bagh-e Babur, Kabul
April 19, 2010 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Ratish Nanda, Projects Director, Aga Khan Trust for Culture
Museum Sculpture Gardens: A Brief Illustrated History
March 25, 2010 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture and Film Screening, John Walsh, Director Emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Museum
A Second Suburb: The Landscape of Levittown, PA
November 18, 2009 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Dianne Harris, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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October 1, 2009 | Garden and Landscape Studies Vaslef Public Lecture, Ken Smith, Principal, Ken Smith Landscape Architect
Wild Urban Plants
March 30, 2009 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Peter del Tredici, Harvard University
Sustaining Beauty: The Performance of Appearance
December 4, 2008 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Beth Meyer, University of Virginia
The New Vernacular: Redefining Urbanity in Contemporary China
October 1, 2008 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Kongjian Yu, Peking University