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The Spirit of Sustainable Agriculture Conference! Welcome to the Spirit of Sustainable Agriculture Conference! March 31st and April 1st, 2016 Harvard Divinity School This document is designed to be all the information you need for a successful two days with us. Don’t worry, though, if you have any questions; there are volunteers around to help you. Just ask! Below is a small table of contents highlighting what you will find in this conference guide. We are sharing this conference with others who cannot join us here this week. If you feel so inclined to post on social media (Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook) about your time at the conference we encourage you to use #agspirit to tag your posts! Schedule pg 1-6 Session Abstracts and Presenter Bios pg 7-37 Food Information pg 37-38 Campus Maps pg 39-40 THURSDAY, MARCH 31ST Session Type Speakers Session Description Location 7:55-8:55 am (and throughout the day) Check In - Lobby of Andover Hall 9-10 am Sperry and Jewish Tradition & Contemporary Life: Lessons Opening Keynote Nigel Savage Braun from the Evolution of the JOFEE Movement Rooms 10:15-11:15 am “Next Steps for the Christian Food Movement” Nurya Love Parish 1.1 Paper Session Andover Library “Solidarity in Everyday Life: The Culture of Tech Room Matthew DelSesto Sustainable Agriculture” "Women Provisioning in Local Food Systems" Rebecca L. Som Castellano Andover Library 1.2 Paper Session Rabinowitz "Becoming Soil: Green Burial as Environmental Kristel Clayville Activism and Religious Practice" Room "Nonviolent Religious Environmentalism: 1.3 Cosponsor Suzanne & Brayton Shanley of Human to Human and Human to Earth Andover 103 Workshop Agape Reconciliation" "Blessing of the Fields: Creating Rituals of Matthew Calkins and Abby 1.4 Workshop Blessing and Celebration for Meaningful Andover Chapel Nathanson Spaces" "Unity in Diversity: Alternative Agricultures at John Fagan, A. Thimmaiah, and 1.5 Workshop MUM—Vedic Agriculture, Biodynamic Sperry Room Travis Cox Agriculture, and Integral Agriculture" 11:30am-12:30pm “Growing a Biodynamic Farmer: Educating for Rukha Fuerst & Sarah Williams the Future from a Biodynamic Past” Andover Library 2.1 Paper Session Rabinowitz Maria Jaoudi “Contemplation as Sustainability in Buddhism Room and Christianity” “Converting Our Minds to Earth: Thinking Lily Oster Permaculturally about Religion” 2.2 Paper Session Andover 102 Jesse Rothman “The Politics of (Partial) Retreat: Farming and the Possibility of Democracy” Mike Miles & Jake Olzen of 2.3 Cosponsor “Sacramental Agriculture: Regenerative Anathoth Community Farm and Andover Chapel Farming and the Divine Intent” Workshop Jagerstatter Farm Bonita Ford, Sunny (David) Osawabine, Ashley “Lessons from Indigenous Knowledge & 2.4 Cosponsor Manitowabi and Joahnna Berti Permaculture: Planting, Building, Harvesting & Sperry Room Workshop Permaculture Institute of Eastern Hunting” Ontario and Debajehmujig Storytellers 1 12:30-2pm Lunch Pick-Up in the Braun Room Join us and enjoy your meal in the Braun Room, Andover 102, Sperry Room or Outside Please visit the Poster Session in Rock Lounge and the Photo Display in Andover Chapel. Poster presenters will be available for conversation at their displays during this time period. 2-3pm “How Experiencing Agency through Growing Food and Activism Allows Us to Connect to Mystery” Colin Beavan 3.1 Paper Session Sperry Room “An Appalachian ‘Milpa’ Life-way Zev Friedman Permaculture Carbon Farming Through a Community Ritual Cycle at Earthaven Ecovillage” “Catholic Sisters Practicing Environmental Justice” Mary Kate Dennis Andover Library 3.2 Paper Session Tech Room Gena Nonini “Biodynamic Agriculture and the Message of Pope Francis” Steffen Schneider of the Institute 3.3 Cosponsor of Mindful Agriculture and “Agriculture as Co-evolutionary Force” Andover 102 Workshop Robert Karp of the Biodynamic Association Andover Library Aleksandra Taranov and Amanda “Food Justice: Working Against Oppression 3.4 Workshop Rabinowitz Jacir of the RealFood Challenge in the Food System” Room “In Touch with Life: Weaving Alan Chadwick’s 3.5 Workshop Sally Voris Vision of Agriculture in Story, Song and Andover Chapel Movement” 3:15-4:15pm "Jesus and the Ethics of the Precautionary Principle: A Theological Response for Kenji Ishihara Sustainable Agriculture" 4.1 Paper Session Andover 102 Josh Lipman "Unsustainable Agriculture, Idolatry, and Pastoralism in the Bible" "Church Gardens as Embodied Theology" John Compton Andover Library 4.2 Paper Session “Resett(l)ing the Table: Grounding Soil-Care Nancy Victorin-Vangerud Practices as Spiritual Practices of Repentance Tech Room and Restoration” 4.3 Cosponsor Mac Mead of the Pfeiffer Center and Beth Ingham of Noonday "Soil Health and Humanity" Andover Chapel Workshop Farm Brianna Lloyd “Toward a New Lifestyle: Pope Francis’ 4.4 Panel Joan Mitchell Invitation and How It Is Lived in a Community of Sperry Room and Jennifer Tacheny Women Religious and Their Associates” 4:30-5:30pm “Hindu Religion and Peasant Agriculture in the Jagannath Adhikari Himalaya: Searching for Elements to make Andover Library 5.1 Paper Session Farming Sustainable” Maheswar Ghimire Tech Room “Rituals and Sustainable Agriculture in Nepal” 2 “Elemental Nature Spirits and Spiritual William Kracht Agriculture” 5.2 Paper Session Andover 102 Basil Williams “The Importance of Appreciating Spiritual Beings in Nature with Healing Substances and Celebrating the Festivals of the Year” 5.3 Cosponsor “Using Jewish Text, Tradition, and Ritual to Janna Siller of Hazon Sperry Room Workshop Reshape the Food System” Steffen Schneider of the Institute "Working with Spirit and Matter on the Farm: Start in Braun 5.4 Cosponsor of Mindful Agriculture and an Experiential, Introduction to the Biodynamic Room and move Workshop Robert Karp of the Biodynamic Preparations" Association to the Garden “Sensing into Wholeness: Co-creating Agri- 5.5 Workshop Daphne Amory Andover Chapel culture” 5:30-6:30pm Supper Pick-Up in the Andover 103 Join us and enjoy your meal in Andover 102, Braun Room or Sperry Room 6:45-7:15pm Agnihotra Ceremony on Campus Green 7:30-9pm Philippe Armenier, Performance & Brigitte Armenier, Gabrielle "The Spiritual Verticality of Biodynamic Andover Lecture Armenier, Murray Colosimo, Agriculture" Chapel Sea-Ana Vasilas Frederique Appfel-Marglin, "Reweaving the Web: Amazonian Dark Earth in Film filmmaker the Peruvian High Amazon" Sperry Room 3 FRIDAY APRIL 1ST 7:55-8:55 (and throughout the day) Check In - Lobby of Andover Hall 9-10 am Michelle Velez, Lauren O’Brien, Sperry and Hisham Moharram, Sebastian Practical Reverence: Sacred Reciprocity in the Plenary Panel Braun Kretschmer, Joan Armon, Chara Context of Sustainable Agriculture Armon Rooms 10:15-11:15 am “Nature Mystic Activists: Cosmic Eco- Sustainability in the Cascade/Siskiyou Madeline Duntley 6.1 Paper Session Borderlands” Andover Chapel Henning Sehmsdorf “The Spirituality of the Soil: The Idea of Teleology from Aristotle to Rudolf Steiner” "Animal Lives Matter" Tyson-Lord Gray 6.2 Paper Session Andover 102 Akisha Townsend “Food Justice, Climate Change, and Animal Welfare after Laudato Si’” 6.3 Cosponsor Carol Schachet, Yazmin Lopez “Agrarian Reformation: Rising Calls to Protest Sperry Room Workshop and Jovanna Garcia Soto for a Sustainable Food System” 6.4 Cosponsor Dr. Luiz Carlos Dematte Filho and Naohito Miura of Fundacao "Nature Farming" Andover 103 Workshop Mokiti Okada “Agriculture as if the Lives of the Living Andover Library 6.5 Paper Session Travis Cox & Stephen Cochenour Mattered: Process Agriculture Applied” Tech Room 11:30am-12:30pm “'The Universe Unfolds in God': Sacred Seeds, Jim Robinson Ecological Contemplation and Laudato Si” 7.1 Paper Session Sperry Room A. Thimmaiah “Vedic Organic Agriculture: Ancient Solution for Modern Problems” 7.2 Cosponsor Jess Bloomer of “Feed the Body, Soothe the Spirit” by Jess Andover 102 Workshop Groundwork Somerville Bloomer of Groundwork Somerville 7.3 Cosponsor Leah Penniman of "To Free Ourselves, We Must Feed Ourselves" Andover 103 Workshop Soul Fire Farm Paul V. Stock 7.4 Panel D. Byron Darby "New Farmers” Andover Chapel Tim Hossler 12:30-2pm Lunch We invite you to explore the larger Harvard Campus and wonderful Cambridge for lunch today. Please see page 38 for dining options! 2-3pm “A Hermeneutical Hybrid of Two Berries: Synthesizing the Macro-Microcosmic William J. Gekas worldviews of Thomas Berry & Wendell Berry” 8.1 Paper Session Sperry Room Nathan Stucky “Through Death to New Life: The Roots of Agrarianism and Christian Theology” 4 “The Roots of Sacred Seeds and Spiritual Ecology: Ethnobotany and Traditional Plant Claudia J. Ford Knowledge” 8.2 Paper Session Andover 102 Dheeraj Singh “Panchkutta: A Unique Indiginous Food of Thar Desert for Biodivesity Conservation and Nutritional Security” "Feeding the Body, Feeding the Spirit: Linda Hoffman Agriculture, Art, and Community at Old Pond 8.3 Paper Session Farm" Andover 103 Darby Weaver "Cultivation of Spirit at Sun Dog Farm" Frank Cordaro and 8.4 Cosponsor "Resistance and Resilience: Towards a Jake Olzen of Occupy the World Andover Chapel Workshop Regenerative Land Ethic" Food Prize and Catholic Worker 3:15-4:15pm “Co-ordinating the Substantial and the Insubstantial: Biodynamic Agriculture and the Robert King Christian Community” 9.1 Paper Session Sperry Room Jose Ma. Anguiano & Jose “Native Cosmovision Associated with the Manuel Palma Development of Biodynamic Farming in México” “Honeybees for Life: A Basic Call to Michael Joshin Thiele Consciousness” 9.2 Paper Session Andover 102 Mark Trela “Earthworms: Transformers
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