Events

Loyalty Bookstores (DC & MD) are excited to welcome Terry Tempest Williams and Lauret Savoy in conversation for Erosion! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast.  Click here to register for the event with a donation of any amount of your choice.  Donations will go to Black Lives Matter DC.  You can order books here, and there will also be an option to buy books during the event.

Mellon Midday Dialogues at Dumbarton Oaks are not open to the public and, due to COVID-19 and remote fellowships, only current fellows are invited to attend. Should staff like to attend a specific Midday Dialogue, please reach out to Mellon@doaks.org and we will do our best to accommodate you based on numbers.

Lauret Savoy will offer elements from her book Trace and introduce her current writing project on the Chesapeake region. The new work braids histories of the land and of “race” via her search for ancestors, who were free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and Indigenous peoples.  Their stories are entangled with the rise and fall of tobacco agriculture and the origin and growth of the capital city along the Potomac River.  Lauret delves through fragmented histories—geological, personal, cultural—to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in America.  She asks, what is your relationship with history, told and untold, on this land?