Past symposia, colloquia, public lectures, and other scholarly events in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks
- Frontiers in Urban Landscape Research
- November 20, 2015 | Graduate Workshop
- Landscape and Sacred Architecture in Pre-Modern South Asia
- November 14, 2014 | Garden and Landscape Studies Colloquium, John Beardsley and Subhashini Kaligotla, Colloquiarchs
- Travel and Translation
- November 1, 2013 | Garden and Landscape Studies Colloquium
- Working with Farrand/Farrand at Work
- March 8, 2013 | Garden and Landscape Studies Colloquium
- Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009)
- December 11, 2010 | Garden and Landscape Studies Colloquium
- How to Read the Chinese Garden? Qianlong Emperor’s Retreat in the Forbidden City
- March 20, 2014 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Eugene 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
- The Future of Mud: A Tale of Houses and Lives in Djenne
- March 21, 2013 | Garden and Landscape Studies Film Screening, Susan Vogel, Director; in collaboration with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital
- History and Memory in the Manchu Imperial Park of Bishu Shanzhuang
- December 5, 2012 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Stephen Whiteman, A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, CASVA
- Management and Conservation in the Historical Villas and Gardens of Rome
- November 14, 2012 | Garden and Landscape Studies Informal Talk, Alberta Campitelli, Director of the City of Rome’s Office of Historic Villas and Parks
- 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
- 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
- Wild Urban Plants
- March 30, 2009 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Peter del Tredici, Harvard University
- Sound and Scent in the Garden
- May 9–10, 2014 | Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Symposiarch
- Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa
- May 10–11, 2013 | Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium
- Food and the City
- May 4–5, 2012 | Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium, Dorothée Imbert, Symposiarch
- Technology and the Garden
- May 6–7, 2011 | Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium
- Designing Wildlife Habitats
- May 14–15, 2010 | Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium, John Beardsley and Alexander Felson, Symposiarchs
- The Interlacing of Words and Things in Gardens and Landscapes: Beyond Nature and Culture
- May 8–9, 2009 | Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium, Stephen Bann, Symposiarch
- Recent Issues in Italian Garden Studies: Sources, Methods and Theoretical Perspectives
- 2007 Garden and Landscape Symposium
- Middle East Garden Traditions: Unity and Diversity Questions, Methods and Resources in a Multicultural Perspective
- 2007 Garden and Landscape Symposium
- Archaeology of Garden Imagination
- 2006 Garden and Landscape Symposium
- Existence and Experience in Contemporary Garden Design
- May 4–7, 2005 | Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium
- Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations and Cultural Changes
- 2004 Garden and Landscape Symposium
- Lay Ritual Practices in Gardens and Landscapes
- 2003 Garden and Landscape Symposium
- Social Reception of Baroque Gardens
- May 11–12, 2001 | Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium
- Landscape Design and the Experience of Motion
- 2000 Garden and Landscape Symposium
- Thomas Woltz: “Culture, History and Context: Inspiring Contemporary Landscapes”
- April 30, 2015 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Thomas Woltz, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects
- River Cities: Historical and Contemporary
- May 8–9, 2015 | Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium, Thaisa Way, Symposiarch
- Film Screening: Containment
- March 23, 2016 | Mellon Initiative in Urban Landscape Studies and Garden and Landscape Studies, in collaboration with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital
- Olympic Landscapes: Green and Greener
- April 14, 2016 | Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture, Mary Margaret Jones
- Landscape and the Academy
- May 6–7, 2016 | Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium, Daniel Bluestone and John Beardsley, Symposiarchs
- Garden and Landscape Studies Graduate Workshop
- June 6–18, 2016
