[Ponte Alto] Freer and Sackler - Middle East Gardens

[Sarah Toich]

The Middle East Garden Traditions: Unity and Diversity
Question, Methods and Resources in a Multicultural Perspective
April 27-28, 2007
Meyer Auditorium 

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.
The symposium is cosponsored by Dumbarton Oaks and the Freer and Sackler
Galleries. 


http://www.asia.si.edu/

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 at doaks.org. 

-- 
Funny how the new things are the old things.
Rudyard Kipling