Word: dumbarton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, The Center for Hellenic Studies and Villa I Tatti--the University's three academic buildings outside Cambridge--were donated to the University by wealthy benefactors and operate largely off of multi-million dollar endowments...
Across the Atlantic Ocean sits another Harvard structure almost equally as resplendent as Villa Tatti. Adjacent to the Danish Embassy in Georgetown, nestled among 16 acres of formal gardens, Japanese cherry trees and pebble covered paths, is a 19th-century brick mansion, which houses the Dumbarton Oaks Research Center and Library...
...house has served as the site of several international conferences, including a meeting that established the principles later incorporated into the charter of the United Nations. It was also the inspiration for composer Igor Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto...
About 30 international scholars study and reside at Dumbarton Oaks each year, where they concentrate in one of three fields: Byzantine studies, Pre-Columbian culture or Landscape Architecture. Students completing doctoral or post-doctoral research receive about $9000 for their work...
...center has proved itself very useful to both young and old scholars in providing a setting for their work, but more importantly, it has provided a community of peers for discussion and progress," says Angeliki E. Laiou, the Dumbarton Oaks professor of Byzantine History. "Most of the best Byzantianists in America have spent some time at Dumbarton Oaks...