Symposium: Middle East Garden Traditions - April 27-28 2007
SYMPOSIUM
SYMPOSIUM
SYMPOSIUM
The Middle East Garden Traditions:
Unity and Diversity Question,
Methods and Resources in a Multicultural Perspective
April 27-28, 2007
Meyer Auditorium
Sackler/Freer Galley
Smithsonian Institution
National Mall, Washington DC
The symposium will discuss the long lasting history of interlinked garden traditions in the Middle East, since Roman times, and in the Islamic world up to the present. It will highlight cultural continuities, variations and differences between gardens from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian plains.
Archaeologists and historians from the Mediterranean and Islamic worlds, Europe and the US, will bring together new sources for richly documented studies of gardens in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, the Ottoman world, Judea, Morocco and Moorish Spain. They will explore how conflicting influences operated, the form of cultural reception of gardens in religious and mystical societies, the political uses of gardens, and new directions of archaeological research. This conference will bring together new information and surprising results from the last fifteen years of research, at a remove from the clichés of Orientalism.
Program
Registration Form (PDF, 110 KB)
The symposium is cosponsored by Dumbarton Oaks and the Freer and Sackler Galleries.
Paid registration through Dumbarton Oaks is required.
To register, visit the Dumbarton Oaks Web site.
For more information:
please call Alison Maffry at 202- 339-6460
or email MaffryA@doaks.org.
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Home Garden and Landscape Studies
Copyright © 2007, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, Trustees for Harvard University,
All rights reserved.
Contact Webmaster
Freer + Sackler Galleries
Smithsonian Institution
202.633.4880. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
SYMPOSIUM
SYMPOSIUM
The Middle East Garden Traditions:
Unity and Diversity Question,
Methods and Resources in a Multicultural Perspective
April 27-28, 2007
Meyer Auditorium
Sackler/Freer Galley
Smithsonian Institution
National Mall, Washington DC
The symposium will discuss the long lasting history of interlinked garden traditions in the Middle East, since Roman times, and in the Islamic world up to the present. It will highlight cultural continuities, variations and differences between gardens from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian plains.
Archaeologists and historians from the Mediterranean and Islamic worlds, Europe and the US, will bring together new sources for richly documented studies of gardens in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, the Ottoman world, Judea, Morocco and Moorish Spain. They will explore how conflicting influences operated, the form of cultural reception of gardens in religious and mystical societies, the political uses of gardens, and new directions of archaeological research. This conference will bring together new information and surprising results from the last fifteen years of research, at a remove from the clichés of Orientalism.
Program
Registration Form (PDF, 110 KB)
The symposium is cosponsored by Dumbarton Oaks and the Freer and Sackler Galleries.
Paid registration through Dumbarton Oaks is required.
To register, visit the Dumbarton Oaks Web site.
For more information:
please call Alison Maffry at 202- 339-6460
or email MaffryA@doaks.org.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Home Garden and Landscape Studies
Copyright © 2007, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, Trustees for Harvard University,
All rights reserved.
Contact Webmaster
Freer + Sackler Galleries
Smithsonian Institution
202.633.4880. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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