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A New Project to Improve Garden Ecology

Healthy soil, locally grown trees, and a restored Ellipse

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Solving an 800-Year-Old Mystery

Dumbarton Oaks curator cracks the case of broken Byzantine seal

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Revival and Restoration in Stained Glass

Artist Jeffrey Miller discusses the state of contemporary stained glass production in France

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Simple Pottery Reveals a Society

James Zeidler illuminates 3,500 years of Ecuadorian history

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Modern Encounters with Medieval France

Hannah Weaver reflects on two Juggling the Middle Ages events

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Steve Mansfield Promises Sizable Gift of Byzantine Coins to Dumbarton Oaks

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Loving Trees to Death

Terence Young unpacks the invention of modern camping

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Moody Ancients, Renaissance Heroes

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

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Reflecting on Botanical Gardens and the Urban Future

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

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Botanical Gardens and the Urban Future

2018 Garden and Landscape Studies Colloquium

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Life of an Urban River

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

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Hagia Sophia’s Hidden History

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

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Intimacy with Chairs

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

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Dumbarton Oaks Museum Acquires Important Ninth-Century Byzantine Manuscript

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Juggling the Middle Ages Opening Lecture

Jan Ziolkowski traces the path of Le jongleur de Notre Dame, or Our Lady’s Tumbler, from the story’s first appearance in a 13th-century manuscript to today.

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The Space for Nothing

Toru Mitani explores useless use in urban landscape architecture

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Fountains Built by Water

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

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Lives in the Stones

Mark Pawlowski surveys village remains to reveal Byzantine daily life

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2018 Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium

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Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR Launch Plant Humanities Initiative

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

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Anna Stavrakopoulou Joins Dumbarton Oaks as Program Director for Byzantine Studies

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Last Words

James N. Carder (September 2018)

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Missing Tongues

Mary Kate Kelly examines language variation among the ancient lowland Maya

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Putting Theory into Practice

Anastasia Day recounts her experience with the GLS summer graduate workshop

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The Public and the Patriarch

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

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Call for Papers: Kalamazoo 2019

Paper abstracts are due September 15 for 3 sponsored sessions

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Dumbarton Oaks Wartime Poster, 1945

James N. Carder (August 2018)

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The New Roses

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Mythologizing the Church

Stephanos Efthymiadis examines the histories of Hagia Sophia

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A Displaced Unity

Michael Lee studies the administration of landscape architecture in 19th-century Germany

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