Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa Symposium, May 10-11, 2013

Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium
Washington, DC

The "Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa" symposium is
scheduled for May 10-11, 2013.

This symposium will be held at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection, Washington,DC.

To register please 1) complete the registration form, 2) mail the
registration form together with a check for $60 ($40 for students), and 3)
sign up online.



This symposium will focus particularly on cultural landscape heritage:
what we know - or think we know about pre-colonial landscapes; how they
were read and misread in the colonial era; and how they are being
interpreted in the present for various purposes, including conservation,
economic development, education, and the creation of national identity.
The subcontinent offers a rich array of places for study by landscape
scholars and designers: World Heritage sites such as Great Zimbabwe, or
Djenne and Timbuktu in Mali; massive earthworks and palace grounds in
Benin; anthropogenic forests and forest shrines; contested wildlife parks
and ecological reserves; village compounds and seemingly chaotic
contemporary urban settlements; and official and unofficial memorials to
the struggles against colonialism. The characteristics and complexities of
such sites are only now beginning to be understood in the context of
landscape studies.



For more information see:

http://www.doaks.org/research/garden-landscape