The Garden and Landscape Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks is
> pleased to share with you the following announcements regarding new
> appointments, 2008-09 fellows, fellowship applications, lectures,
> our upcoming symposium, and new publications.

Recent Publications
>
> The following books have recently been published by Dumbarton Oaks
> for the Garden and Landscape Studies program:
>
> Xin Wu, Patricia Johanson's House and Garden Commission: Re-
> construction of Modernity, 2008
>
> Michel Conan, ed., Gardens and Imagination: Cultural History and
> Agency, 2008
> Michel Conan and Chen Wangheng, eds., Gardens, City Life and
> Culture: A World Tour, 2008
>
> Michel Conan and Jeffrey Quilter, eds., Gardens and Cultural
> Change: A Pan-American Perspective, 2008
>
> Michel Conan, ed., Middle East Garden Traditions: Unity and
> Diversity; Questions, Methods and Resources in a Multicultural
> Perspective, 2007
>
> Michel Conan, ed., Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and
> Agency, 2007
>
> Michel Conan, ed., Contemporary Garden Aesthetics: Creation and
> Interpretation, 2007
>
> Michel Conan and W. John Kress, eds., Botanical Progress,
> Horticultural Innovation and Cultural Change, 2007
>
> Michel Conan, ed., Performance and Appropriation: Profane Rituals
> in Gardens and Landscapes, 2007
>
> For a full list of Garden and Landscape titles from Dumbarton Oaks
> and for information on ordering the books, go to
> http://www.doaks.org/research/garden_landscape/
> doaks_gal_publications.htmll.

>
> New Director of Studies
>
> John Beardsley has joined Dumbarton Oaks as Director of Garden and
> Landscape Studies. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard
> University Graduate School of Design, where he has taught history
> and theory in the department of LandscapeArchitecture since 1998.
> A writer and exhibition curator, he has published widely on land
> art, vernacular art, and contemporary design.  His books include
> Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape (4th
> edition, 2006) andGardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary
> Artists (1995); his exhibitions include “The Quilts of Gee’s
> Bend” (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Whitney Museum of
> American Art, New York, 2002); “Hispanic Art in the United States:
> Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors” (MFAH 1987); and “Black
> Folk Art in America, 1930-1980” (Corcoran Gallery of Art,
> Washington, D.C., 1982).
>
> New Senior Fellows
>
> The Senior Fellows committee advises the Director of Dumbarton Oaks
> on all aspects of research and collection development in garden and
> landscape studies at Dumbarton Oaks; committee members serve three-
> year terms.  This year,Stephen Bann, former Chair of the Senior
> Fellows, and Erik De Jong have rotated off the committee; they have
> been replaced by Dorothée Imbert and Mark Laird. Kenneth Helphand
> is the new Chair.  The other Senior Fellows are Nurhan Atasoy,
> Diana Balmori, and Richard E. Strassberg.
>
> 2008-09 Fellows in Garden and Landscape Studies
>
> The following fellows will be in residence at Dumbarton Oaks in the
> 2008-09 academic year:
>
> María del Carmen Magaz, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires,
> Summer Fellow
> Public Space: Development of Garden and Park Conservation
> Practices, Current Debates and Laws
>
> Mahvash Alemi, Rome, Italy, Fellow
> Safavid Gardens as the Representation of their World and Culture
>
> Eric MacDonald, University of Georgia, Fellow
> The Art which Mends Nature: the Contributions of ‘Garden and
> Forest’ to the History of American Environmentalism
>
> Nina Gerlach, Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg, Junior Fellow
> The Garden as Film Backdrop: Construction of Cinematic Garden Space
>
> Jennifer Raab, Yale University, Junior Fellow
> The Language of Landscape: Frederic Church and the Culture of
> Detail in Nineteenth-Century America
>
> Stephen Bann, C.B.E., Fellow of the British Academy, University of
> Bristol, The Beatrix Farrand Distinguished Fellow
> Ian Hamilton Finlay and the Creation of the Garden at Stonypath/
> Little Sparta
>
> Forthcoming Lecture: October 1, 2008, Prof. Kongjian Yu
>
> The first lecture in the fall term will be given in the newly-
> renovated Music Room at 5:30 on Wednesday, October 1, 2008, by
> Kongjian Yu, one of the most prominent contemporary landscape
> designers in China.  Founder and Dean of the Graduate School of
> Landscape Architecture at Peking University, he is also founder and
> president of Turenscape, one of the first and largest private
> landscape architecture and urban design firms in China.  He
> received his Doctor of Design degree from the Harvard Graduate
> School of Design in 1995.  Dr. Yu’s lecture, “The New Vernacular:
> Redefining Urbanity in Contemporary China,” will challenge the
> homogenization and globalization of China’s urban landscape,
> proposing instead a contemporary design based on vernacular—and
> sustainable—cultural and horticultural values.
>
> Reservations are required.  Please RSVP by September 30th to:
> [log in to unmask] or 202-339-6460.
>
> Spring Symposium, May 8-9 2009
>
> The Interlacing of Words and Things in Gardens and Landscapes:
> Beyond Nature and Culture
> Organized by Beatrix Farrand Distinguished Fellow Stephen Bann
>
> Over recent decades, debates about environmentalism, global warming
> and its consequences for life have triggered a questioning of the
> opposition between nature and culture. This has become particularly
> obvious in discussions among landscape architects and
> anthropologists. Yet there is little in common between these two
> areas of debate. Landscapearchitects tend to be concerned with ways
> of devising new roles for humans in the transformation of a natural
> world shared to a great extent with non-humans, thus endorsing the
> embeddedness of nature and culture, but perhaps falling short in
> the criticism of these dualistic concepts. Anthropologists have
> been largely concerned with describing and understanding the
> perspectives of non-Western peoples without seeking to impose the
> implicit dualities of nature/culture, emotion/reason, practice/
> ideology, mundane/ritual, sacred/profane, cosmos/society.
>
> In this symposium, we attempt to bring these two areas of debate
> closer by proposing new modes for the description and understanding
> of gardens, whether in the context of history or in the present –
> as they have been, or are, experienced by those who make and use
> them across many different areas of the world.
>
> Gardens are obviously the result of a selection of plants, objects
> and animals for intentional reasons, that has led in turn to the
> transformation of those plants, objects and animals; that is to
> say, they have become liable be appropriated for the purposes of
> human communication, and become representations in poetry, imagery,
> religion and myth. So, if we temporarily bracket off the categories
> relating to nature and culture in the Western world, the
> description of gardens challenges us to rediscover the categories
> that were involved in constituting them as representations, and to
> track the distinctions from which such meanings have developed. The
> processes by which the human groups involved in making gardens have
> interacted with their environment have always been diverse in the
> extreme. Gardens offer the opportunity to review the many different
> modalities of transforming the world in which we live and act.
>
> Preliminary Program:
>
> Mahvash Alemi, Dumbarton Oaks
> Things seen in the garden of Shah Tahmasp in the Words of the poet
> and painter of his court
>
> Malcolm Andrews, Rutherford College, University of Kent
> 'Capturing the Scene': Painting, Gardening and Writing the Landscape
>
> Frederick Asher, Art History, University of Minnesota
> Unseen Gardens: Landscape of the Indian Temple
>
> Stephen Bann, University of Bristol
> ‘Little fields Long Horizons’: the poetic prelude to Ian Hamilton
> Finlay’s gardens
>
> Patricia Díaz Cayeros, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas,
> U.N.A.M., México.
> Garden as threshold in 18th century New Spain: Puebla´s cathedral
> hortus conclusus”
>
> Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara
> The New World as Paradise Garden:  From Metaphor to Lived Reality
>
> Stanislaus Fung, University of New South Wales
> The Animation of Buildings and Rocks:  Rhetorical Order and Design
> Thinking in Four Chinese Texts on Gardens
>
> Ann Kuttner, University of Pennsylvania
> Rooting a Community: Social Order and the Urban Embrace of Natural
> Environment in Republican and Augustan Rome
>
> Giorgio Mangani, University of Bergamo
> The landscape-garden of Marche region and the building of identity
>
> Henry Power, University of Exeter
> Virgil, Nun Appleton and the poetic landscape of the English Civil War
>
> Xin Wu, Dumbarton Oaks
> The Paired-quatrains by ZHU Xi and ZHANG Shi:  Poetic Dialogues in
> Landscape and Gardens
>
> For further information, please contact Shannon Leahy at
> [log in to unmask] or 202-339-6460
>
> Fellowship applications and deadlines
>
> Dumbarton Oaks offers residential fellowships in three areas of
> study: Byzantine Studies, Pre-Columbian Studies, and Garden and
> Landscape Studies; opportunities include Academic Year Fellowships,
> Academic Year Junior Fellowships, Summer Fellowships, and Short-
> Term Pre-Doctoral Residencies.  Application deadlines are November 1.
>
> This year, Dumbarton Oaks is offering a new research opportunity:
> One-Month Post-Doctoral Stipends; deadlines are October 15 for
> projects carried out January to June, and February 15 for projects
> carried out July to December. Short-term Pre-Doctoral Residencies
> are now available for up to four weeks.  Complete details on
> fellowship terms and application procedures are available at http://
> www.doaks.org/research/.
>
> In selecting fellows, the Garden and Landscape Studies program at
> Dumbarton Oaks seeks a balance between historical research and
> investigations of current practice, between inquiries at the scale
> of the garden and those addressing larger landscapes.  The program
> invites consideration of all aspects of this interdisciplinary and
> international field; applicants are encouraged to consider topics
> from a variety of perspectives. Additional information for
> applicants in garden and landscape studies is available at http://
> www.doaks.org/research/info_gal_fellowship.html.
>
> New procedures for submitting applications online have been
> instituted; please check the Dumbarton Oaks website athttp://
> www.doaks.org/research/fellowship_application.html.
>
> >

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