The cost is $60 ($40 for students). Please mail a check to Dumbarton Oaks at 1703 32nd Street, NW Washington, DC  20007 and complete the registration form found on our webpage   http://www.doaks.org/research/garden-landscape  

In 40 years of symposia, the Garden and Landscape Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks has addressed a nearly global range of cultures, epochs, and subjects.  But one region is conspicuously absent: sub-Saharan Africa. This omission is particularly glaring, given that the subcontinent is one of the oldest inhabited landscapes on earth, with a staggering range of geographies, cultures, histories, and patterns of settlement.

Confirmed speakers include: Suzanne Blier, Harvard University; Lazare Eloundou, UNESCO World Heritage Center;  Joost Fontein, University of Edinburgh;  Jeremy Foster, Cornell University;  Grey Gundaker, William and Mary;  Charlotte Joy, University of London;  Paul Lane, University of York;  Neil Norman, William and Mary;  Akin Ogundiran, UNC Charlotte;  Ikem Okoye, University of Delaware;  Innocent Pikirayi, University of Pretoria; Maano Ramutsindela, University of Cape Town; Gemma Rodrigues, UCLA; and Michael Sheridan, Middlebury College.