Going to Ground: A Research-Creation Series in the Environmental Humanities
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The Oxford-Penn-Toronto IDC in Environmental Humanities presents the launch of “Going to Ground: A Research-Creation Series in the Environmental Humanities” Workshop and Lecture with Saskia Cornes, Duke University
9.30 - 11.30am (EST), St Hilda’s College
Living Soil: A Hands-On Workshop | with Saskia Cornes, Eva-Lynn Jagoe, and Bill Kroeger
Join us at St. Hilda's College, U of T, from 9:30-11:45 for an immersive event exploring the role of soil in our ecosystems. Touch soil as you watch projections of microscopic organisms, and listen to the sounds of life underground. Encounter poetry, philosophy, and literature that engages with soil. Learn what makes soil healthy, and how we can nourish it. We will explain vermicomposting, and teach you how to make a worm bin, which you can then take home. Living Soil invites you to connect with the processes beneath our feet. Questons? Email Emily MacCallum.
12.00pm (EST) / 5.00pm (BST), Northrop Frye Centre, VC102 | light lunch provided | or online via zoom
Making Soils Visible: A Talk with Saskia Cornes
Respondent: TORCH Environmental Humanities Hub, Oxford University
Questions? Email Jacob Burternshaw.
Speaker bio: Dr. Saskia Cornes is an assistant professor of the practice at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University and Director of the Duke Campus Farm. She holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where her work focused on the emergence of private property as a guiding logic in the culture and agriculture of 17th century England, and as a key point of origin for the climate crisis. A farmer by vocation, she learned regenerative agriculture through a range of on-farm apprenticeships, and through post-graduate study at the Center for Agroecology at UC Santa Cruz. In her work now, she weaves teaching, farming, and more traditional forms of research together to rework our relationship to food, and to the land and people that grow it.
Both the workshop and lecture are free to attend.
