Local Event: April 27-28 Middle East Garden Traditions: Unity and Diversity

A symposium cosponsored by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Dumbarton Oaks. This 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 Indus plains.

http://www.doaks.org/gal_2007_spring_symposium_synopsis.html