Midday Dialogues are not open to the public and, due to COVID-19 and remote fellowships, only current fellows are invited to attend. Should staff like to attend a specific Midday Dialogue, please reach out to do.mellonfellows@doaks.org and we will do our best to accommodate you based on numbers.
2022–2023
Sovereign Curation: Placing Indigenous Knowledge Carriers at Center
Monday, February 13, 2023, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. in the Study | Gabrielle Tayac
Teaching In Place: Southern Black Women’s Literary Geographies
Friday, February 3, 2023, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. in the Study | Maia Butler
‘If People Were Like Flowers’: Anne Spencer’s Environmental Imagination
Monday, December 5, 2022, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. in the Study | Carlyn Ferrari
Black Ecologies and the Jim Crow Enclosure of the Tidewater
Friday, September 23, 2022, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. in the Study | J.T. Roane
2021–2022
A World Unmapped: Terrains for Resistance, Courtesy of the Great Dismal Swamp, 1607-1863
Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 3:30–5:00 p.m. in the Founder’s Room | Dan Sayers
Building Indigenous Earthworks Today: Replicas or Reactivations?
January 13, 2022, 4:00 p.m. ET on Zoom | Chadwick Allen
2020–2021
April 22, 2021, 12:00–1:30 p.m. ET on Zoom | Sara Zewde
Approaching Material Ecology: Plows and the Landscape Environment in the Lives of Many Enslaved
March 18, 2021, 12:00–1:30 p.m. ET on Zoom | Tony Perry
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
January 28, 2021, 12:00–1:30 p.m. ET on Zoom | Lauret Savoy
Water in the Lumbee World: Indigenous Rights, Environmental Justice, and the Reshaping of Home
December 3, 2020, 12:00–2:00 p.m. ET on Zoom | Ryan Emanuel
Architectural History as Migrant History: The Development of a Binational Construction Industry
November 19, 2020, 12:30–1:30 p.m. ET on Zoom | Sarah Lopez
Essential Businesses of Oak Bluffs: Black Heritage in the Highlands
October 22, 2020, 12:00–1:30 p.m. ET on Zoom | Fallon Aidoo
Landscape of Power: Mapping the Cultural Landscape at Great Zimbabwe through Narratives
October 6, 2020, 7:00–8:30 p.m. ET on Zoom | Ashton Sinamai
2019–2020
Colonial Sovereignty and the Unmaking of the Kanpur Memorial Well Monument
March 5, 2020 | Swati Chattopadhyay
Landscapes of Segregation: Race, Recreation and Resistance in Modern America
February 20, 2020 | Victoria W. Wolcott
January 23, 2020 | Andrea R. Roberts
January 16, 2020 | Robert Alexander González
The Geologic Setting of Dumbarton Oaks
December 12, 2019, at 1:00 p.m. in the Lower Level Refectory | Joe Marx
A Brief History of Water in the Ten Miles Square: 1790–1910
November 21, 2019 | David Wooden
November 7, 2019 | Scott Heyes
October 17, 2019 | LaDale Winling
2018–2019
Deurbanization and the Utopia of Dispersion
April 17, 2019 | Max Rohm
The Architecture of Leaves: Art and Atlas
March 13, 2019 | Douglas C. Daly and John D. Mitchell
February 19, 2019 | Sara Zewde
February 6, 2019, at 3:30 p.m. | Bradley Cantrell
Toward a History of the Bidonville/Karian as Urban Landscape
January 30, 2019 | Sheila Crane
Agro-Urban Environments and Implications for Resilience in Medieval Cambodia
November 14, 2018 | Sarah Klassen
To Feel at Home in the Wild: E. P. Meinecke’s Modern Autocampground
October 17, 2018 | Terence Young
The Zayandehrud River Speaks: Reading the Riverine Landscapes of Seventeenth-Century Isfahan
October 10, 2018 | Sahar Hosseini
Garden and Forest in Urban Space
September 19, 2018 | Toru Mitani
2017–2018
The Problem of Nature and Aesthetics in Planting Design
April 4, 2018 | Laurie Olin
Visions of an Unrealized Park: Chile’s Cerro San Cristóbal, 1915–1927
February 21, 2018 | Romy Hecht
Cultivating Communism: Soviet City Greening and Beautification, 1930s–1960s
February 14, 2018 | Maria Taylor
February 7, 2018 | Jacob Boswell
Today’s American Urban Spaces: New Roles and New Restrictions
January 31, 2018 | John King
The Emergence, Ecology and Future of Anthropogenic Biomes
November 29, 2017 | Erle Ellis
“What Would You Like to See on This Land?”: Building Equality in the Civil Rights Movement
October 25, 2017 | Brian Goldstein
October 4, 2017 | Basak Durgun
Confluences in Landscape Legibility
September 27, 2017 | Todd Gilens
Urban Historic Preservation: The Imperative for Ethnic Diversity and Collective Stewardship
September 20, 2017 | Everett L. Fly
2016–2017
Places to Share Beauty and Fear
April 25, 2017 | Rebecca Krinke
Rus in Urbe: The Urban Landscape of Rome in the Age of the Grand Tour
April 18, 2017 | John Pinto
How a Bird's Eye View of the City Teaches Us about Urban Ecology
April 12, 2017 | Amanda Rodewald
Gardens for the Senses: The Influences of History and Family Values in My Gardens
March 28, 2017 | Javier Mariátegui
March 15, 2017 | Margot Lystra
“It’s Like Scotland, Minus the Weather”: An Ethnographic Account of Landscape in Bahrain
March 7, 2017 | Gareth Doherty
Middling Landscapes: Animating Life and Work on the Carquinez Strait
March 1, 2017 | Peter Ekman
The Topography of Wellness: Health and the American Urban Landscape
February 8, 2017 | Sara Carr
The Metropolitan Garden as a Sensorial Expression of Place in the Metropolitan Context
February 1, 2017 | Saskia de Wit
Shape the Earth: Landscape Architecture in the Anthropocene
November 29, 2016 | John Davis and Jeanne Haffner
Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and the Making of Seattle's Urban Landscape
November 22, 2016 | Megan Asaka
Landscape Entanglements. Aesthetic Practices in a Networked World
November 8, 2016 | Elizabeth Meyer
Landed Internationals: Planning Cultures in the Cold War Middle East
October 26, 2016 | Burak Erdim
Street Tree Stories: On the Politics of Nature in the City
October 19, 2016 | Sonja Dümpelmann
October 11, 2016 | Jeremy Foster
Making Post Rock: Material Research through Design
October 5, 2016 | Meredith Miller
2015–2016
Producing Green Expertise: Place, Pedagogy and Sustainable Architecture in Mumbai
April 26, 2016 | Anne Rademacher
The Rise of Innovation Districts: The Intersection of Innovation and Quality Places
April 19, 2016 | Jennifer Vey
April 5, 2016 | Gary Hilderbrand
Inventing Informality in Algiers and Casablanca
March 29, 2016 | Sheila Crane
Informal by Design: From Amerindian “Garden Cities” to Olympic Urbanism in Brazil
March 16, 2016 | Bruno Carvalho
February 24, 2016 | Kara Schlichting
Talaab, Ghat & Canal Waterworks on the Indian Urban Landscape
February 24, 2016 | Alpa Nawre
Beyond the City: Metropolitan Environments and Urban Identification
February 2, 2016 | Mariana Mogilevich
Design Matters! (Even at the EPA)
January 20, 2016 | Clark Wilson
The Flood of Missed Opportunities: Florence, November 4, 1966
January 5, 2016 | Anatole Tchikine
Housing, Landscape, Environment
December 8, 2015 | Jeanne Haffner
Critical Work: Innovative Green Infrastructure Regulations Transforming DC
December 2, 2015 | David Wooden, Meredith Unchurch, and Rebecca Stack
Anticipating Future Urbanization in Nigeria’s Oil Sands Belt
November 10, 2015 | Christina Milos
Restoring Brown Places into Green Spaces Through Community Engagement: The Masonville Story
November 3, 2015 | Katrina Jones
October 14, 2015 | Juan-Andres Leon
A History of Environmental Designs
September 29, 2015, at 10:45 a.m. in the Lower Level Refectory | Peder Anker