The Oaks News

Dumbarton Oaks – First Postcards, 1945

James N. Carder (September 2017)

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Excerpting the Past

Laura Pfuntner investigates hermaphrodites in Byzantine and ancient texts

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The Benton Gospels

Dumbarton Oaks Museum acquires rare Greek manuscript

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The Treatises of Melchior Guilandino

Dumbarton Oaks acquires sixteenth-century botanical texts

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Dumbarton Oaks at Kalamazoo

Paper proposals for four sponsored sessions at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies due September 15

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Rethinking Empire

The 2017 Byzantine Studies symposium

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Landscapes of Pre-Industrial Cities

The 2017 Garden and Landscape Studies symposium

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New Acquisition: Le Temple du Soleil

James N. Carder (August 2017)

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New Acquisition: Loire Valley Poster

James N. Carder (July 2017)

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The Records of Life

Dumbarton Oaks acquires colonial Latin American manuscripts

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Celil Refik Kaya

Third recipient of Early-Career Musician Residency

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In Praise of Everyone

The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library adds two new volumes

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Jan Ziolkowski Elected to the American Philosophical Society

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Dumbarton Oaks Newsletters

James N. Carder (June 2017)

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Esclarmonde – Byzantine Empress and Sorceress

James N. Carder (May 2017)

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Grammars of the Former World

Rare Book Collection acquires Andreas Sennert’s seventeenth-century lexicographical studies

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On Mysticism and Materiality

Visiting Scholar Racha Kirakosian examines the fabric of medieval mysticism

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Lights in the Dark

Paul Magdalino delivers public lecture in Byzantine Studies

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The Tastes of Youth

Hartmut Troll traces the development of Germany’s first “English” gardener

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The Gardens Online

Abbey Stockstill adds to web-based garden research tool

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In the Shadow of a Cathedral

Nicolas Beaudry investigates a lived space of Byllis, Albania

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Going Out into the Desert

John Zaleski investigates the Syriac ascetic tradition

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What We Learned in the Gardens

Nathalie Miraval reflects on programming for second-graders and cultivating a sense of wonder

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All the Green Things 

Gareth Doherty presents an ethnographic account of landscape in Bahrain 

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2017–2018 Fellows and Project Grants

Dumbarton Oaks is pleased to announce the fellows and project grants for the upcoming academic year

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Mapping Cultural Philanthropy

Dumbarton Oaks launches online resource

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City Water/City Life

Upcoming exhibit showcases the history of waterfronts in urban design

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Farewell to the Freeways

Margot Lystra talks urban design in 1960s San Francisco

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Secrets in the Soil

Eduardo Neves delivers public lecture in Pre-Columbian Studies

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The Lost Archive

Anna Leone revisits the excavation history of Dibsi Faraj

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