2018

Loving Trees to Death

Terence Young unpacks the invention of modern camping

Moody Ancients, Renaissance Heroes

Glenn Most discusses Greek philosophers, Dutch art, and ancient trash culture

Reflecting on Botanical Gardens and the Urban Future

Bliss and Mellon conference award recipients discuss the 2018 Garden and Landscape Studies colloquium

Botanical Gardens and the Urban Future

2018 Garden and Landscape Studies Colloquium

Life of an Urban River

Sahar Hosseini reimagines river landscapes in the Safavid empire’s capital

Hagia Sophia’s Hidden History

Dumbarton Oaks is digitizing original records of Hagia Sophia’s restoration

Intimacy with Chairs

Xi Li considers Tang dynasty literati’s changing relationship with things

Dumbarton Oaks Museum Acquires Important Ninth-Century Byzantine Manuscript

The Space for Nothing

Toru Mitani explores useless use in urban landscape architecture

Fountains Built by Water

Katherine Rinne analyzes fluidity and failure in 16th-century fountains

Lives in the Stones

Mark Pawlowski surveys village remains to reveal Byzantine daily life

2018 Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium

Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR Launch Plant Humanities Initiative

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides support for digital tool and research and scholarly programming

Anna Stavrakopoulou Joins Dumbarton Oaks as Program Director for Byzantine Studies

Last Words

James N. Carder (September 2018)

Missing Tongues

Mary Kate Kelly examines language variation among the ancient lowland Maya

Putting Theory into Practice

Anastasia Day recounts her experience with the GLS summer graduate workshop

The Public and the Patriarch

Ivan Marić studies imperial power dynamics in 9th-century Byzantium

Dumbarton Oaks Wartime Poster, 1945

James N. Carder (August 2018)

The New Roses