The Oaks News

Of Plants and Power

New from Dumbarton Oaks Publications: The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Revisiting the Codex

Lori Diel Parses the Images and Enigmas of the Codex Mexicanus

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The Beads of Las Orquídeas

Eric Dyrdahl Investigates Pre-Columbian Craft Production in Ecuador

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The Networks of Paradise

Jan Haenraets Discusses the History and Preservation of Mughal Gardens

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The Ruins of Syria

Dumbarton Oaks Acquires a New Collection of Images

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The Year Santa Visited DO

James N. Carder (December 2016)

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Tristan Schmidt Joins Byzantine Studies as a Short-Term Predoctoral Resident

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Learning among the Plants

Second-Grade Classes from the Hyde-Addison School Visit the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens

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Anthi Andronikou Joins Byzantine Studies as a One-Month Research Award Recipient

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The Bug Market

Deirdre Moore on Cochineal Insect Cultivation in Eighteenth-Century Mexico

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In Memoriam Irfan Shahîd

Director Jan Ziolkowski Remembers Shahîd’s Scholarship and Long Association with Dumbarton Oaks

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Righettino’s Views

Denis Ribouillault Delivers the 2016 Garden and Landscape Studies Public Lecture

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Raf Praet Joins Byzantine Studies as a Short-Term Predoctoral Resident

Raf Praet Joins Byzantine Studies as a Short-Term Predoctoral Resident - Read More…

Reading the Notemakers

Andrea Cuomo on Greek Scholia and Byzantine Pedagogy

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Monarch Butterflies Flutter By

The New Pollinator Garden at Dumbarton Oaks

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Garden Theory and the French Picturesque

Bliss Symposium Award Recipients Cabelle Ahn and Carlo Urmy Reflect on the Garden and Landscape Studies Colloquium on Hubert Robert

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Ecologies of the Former World

Adam Goldwyn Pushes Ecocriticism Back to Byzantium

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Beth Meyer Joins Garden and Landscape Studies as a Visiting Scholar

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Ephemera: The Dumbarton Oaks Disciplines as Viewed in Popular Culture

Lane Baker (November 2016)

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Looking for the Nomads

Florin Curta on Byzantium and the Nomads

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A Tree (Re)Grows in Brooklyn

Sonja Dümpelmann on the History of Street Trees

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Theories of Ritual

Pre-Columbian Studies Junior Fellow Jessica MacLellan on Maya Stone Platforms and the Organization of Community

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Contextualizing Robert

Garden and Landscape Studies 2016 Colloquium on Hubert Robert and French Garden Culture

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Building after Stone

Meredith Miller on Confronting Climate Change through Design

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“The World Upside Down”

Byzantine Studies Fellow Eleni Kefala on Byzantium and America before and after the Age of Reason

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Good Ink

Dumbarton Oaks in the News, October 2016

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“The Lord of Vilcabamba”

Pre-Columbian Studies Fellow Brian Bauer on the Wari Empire

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Introducing Elena Boeck

Dumbarton Oaks’ New Director of Byzantine Studies

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The Dumbarton Oaks Gardens in Vivid Black and White

James N. Carder (October 2016)

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Rhetoric and Rewriting

New Titles in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library Series

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