Food, Farming, and Faith: A LAMP Symposium on Growing Community - Panel 2

Allen, Sumayya; Ayres, Jennifer R.; Crane, Jonathan K.; Parajuli, Pramod; Smith, Jenny Leigh; Winders, William P.; Wright, Jacob L.

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Food, Farming, and Faith: A LAMP Symposium on Growing Community - Panel 2

dc.contributor.author	Allen, Sumayya
dc.contributor.author	Ayres, Jennifer R.
dc.contributor.author	Crane, Jonathan K.
dc.contributor.author	Parajuli, Pramod
dc.contributor.author	Smith, Jenny Leigh
dc.contributor.author	Winders, William P.
dc.contributor.author	Wright, Jacob L.
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Emory University	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Candler School of Theology	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Prescott College	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2016-03-07T20:38:23Z
dc.date.available	2016-03-07T20:38:23Z
dc.date.issued	2016-03-01
dc.description	The 2016 Leadership and Multifaith Program Symposium on Growing Community: Food, Farming, and Faith took place on March 1st, 2016 from 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at the Historic Academy of Medicine at Georgia Tech.	en_US
dc.description	Sumayya Allen is a certified permaculture designer, an urban agriculturalist, and educator working to design, implement and support regenerative agro-ecosystems. Her commitment to growing healthy soil, food, and community has benefited the Atlanta community through her work with various organizations including Truly Living Well's Center for Natural Urban Agriculture, Global Growers Network, The Wylde Center, Gaia Gardens, and Emory University's Educational Garden Project. As a permaculture designer she has worked with Sustenance Design, applying ecological principles in the conscious design of diverse, resilient, productive and beautiful landscapes on various scales, from residential to city parks to educational facilities. She currently works as Community Agriculture Programming and Design Specialist with Farmer D Consulting on projects which span the U.S. Sumayya studied ecology at Emory University, where she earned her B.S. in Environmental Science and is currently working on her Master's degree in Agroecology at the University of Florida. Sumayya serves as a guide for permaculture, sustainable agriculture, and natural living with SacredService, an Islamic faith-based organization aiming to build and heal people and communities, where she leads a monthly Sacred Hike in and around Atlanta. She serves on the local advisory board for the Emory University Center for Ethics CREATE (Culture, Religion, Ethics and the Environment) Program. Since 2002, Sumayya has been a regular contributor to Azizah, a Muslim women's magazine, on topics of environmentalism, food and faith.
dc.description	Jennifer R. Ayres came to Candler in 2011. Her research interests include religious environmental education, social activism and religious identity, faith formation in the context of popular culture, and feminist practical theology. She is the author of two books: Waiting for a Glacier to Move: Practicing Social Witness (Wipf and Stock, 2011 ), and Good Food: Grounded Practical Theology (Baylor Univ. Press, 2013). Her current research, for which she received a grant from Emory's University Research Committee, investigates the educational task of cultivating Christian faith that is deeply rooted in our ecological context, with attention to the kinds of religious leaders needed for this work. A frequent speaker on topics of faith formation, religion and food, and Christian ecological theology and practice, Ayres also serves on the steering committee of the Green Seminaries Initiative and the Emory University Sustainable Food Committee. Over the years, her work has been supported by grants from the Association ofTheological Schools Lilly Research Grants, the Louisville Institute, and the American Academy of Religion. Ayres is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
dc.description	Jonathan K. Crane holds a BA (sum ma cum laude) from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, an MA in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and an MPhil in Gandhian Thought from Gujarat Vidyapith in Ahmedabad, India. As a Wexner Graduate Fellow, he received both rabbinic ordination and a Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters from Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. He completed a PhD in Modern Jewish Thought at the University of Toronto. He currently serves as the Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar in Bioethics and Jewish Thought in the Center for Ethics at Emory University. The immediate past-president of the Society of Jewish Ethics, he has presented at conferences and taught around the world on such themes as Jewish ethics, bioethics, social and political ethics, warfare ethics, eating ethics, comparative religious ethics and interfaith relations, and Gandhian philosophy He is the author of Narratives and Jewish Bioethics (2013) and Ahimsa: The Way to Peace (2007, with Jordi Agusti-Panareda), co-editor with Elliot Dorff of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality (2012), and editor of Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents (2015). Forthcoming books include Eating Ethically: Religious, Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives on Eating Well, and an edited volume tentatively entitled Race with Jewish Ethics. He founded and co-edits the journal of Jewish Ethics. He received a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, from Wheaton College in Massachusetts in 2014.
dc.description	Born and raised in the Nepalese Himalayan foothills, Professor Pramod Parajuli is an award-winning sustainability educator, visionary, and curricular and social innovator. Over the last 30 years, he has designed and developed various programs in critical literacy, sustainability studies, farm and garden-based ecological literacy, and "soil-to supper pedagogy" with schools in Portland, Oregon, Prescott, Arizona, Peruvian Amazon and Nepal. Dr. Parajuli currently serves as Associate Faculty for the PhD Program in Sustainability Education at Prescott College and is exploring the next phase of academic and community engagement, including founding of the Annapurna Pluriversity. For the last eight years, he served as a core faculty member and director of program development for Sustainability Studies/Education at Prescott College. A contributor to two volumes in the World Religions and Ecology series, he is co-editor of the forthcoming book, Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethic (University of Kentucky Press, 2016). One of the key elements of Dr. Parajuli's writings is the use of food, gardens, and agriculture as a platform for learning, cultivating leadership, and nurturing processes of social change that are not only "deep" but also "delicious."
dc.description	Jenny Leigh Smith is an assistant professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work focuses on food, agriculture and the environmental impact of farming and food distribution. Her first book, Works in Progress: Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930- 7963 (Yale University Press, 2014), examined the environmental legacy of agricultural industrialization in the Soviet Union. Her new project is a global history of emergency famine relief over the course of the 20th century.
dc.description	Bill Winders is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech. He studies national policies, social movements, and the world economy, with a focus on food and agriculture. His book, The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy, won the 2011 Book Award from the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association. He also received the Bernstein & Byres Prize for his 2009 article in the journal of Agrarian Change comparing American and British food regimes. Winders is currently working on a few projects. The first project is a book titled Grains that will be published by Polity Press in late 2016. This book explores the geopolitics of grains, particularly corn, rice, and wheat. The second project examines food crises in the world economy, such as the 2007-2008 food crisis that saw food prices and world hunger rise dramatically. He has published articles on this topic in journals such as the Brown journal of World Affairs and Agriculture and Human Values. He is beginning a new project that examines the political economy of global meat.
dc.description	Jacob L. Wright serves as Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, the Director of Graduate Studies in Emory's Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, and an associate faculty member at Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion. He is the author of Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah Memoir and Its Earliest Readers (de Gruyter, 2004), which won a 2008 Templeton prize. Wright published his enhanced e-book, King David and His Reign Revisited (iTunes, 2013), billed as the first publication of its kind in the humanities. In 2015, his book, David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory (Cambridge University Press, 2014), won a Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research and received an honorable mention in the theology and religious studies category at the 2015 PROSE Awards, administered by the Association of American Publishers. Wright delivered the prestigious 2010-11 lecture in Milieux biblique at the College de France in Paris, and was awarded a 2011- 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. In 2015, he received a $50,000 Templeton Foundation grant to underwrite a new research project with the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, which will examine the highly developed discourse regarding the knowledge of God in the Hebrew Bible, as well as comparative work with the New Testament.
dc.description	Runtime: 113:44 minutes
dc.description.abstract	Sumayya Allen - TITLE: "Connecting Food and Stewardship in Islam". This presentation will focus on the Islamic concept of stewardship (khalifa) and how it pertains to caring for our environment and all of creation. Connecting to our place is where we begin to understand how this principle translates to our own lives. One way in which we can better connect to our place is by learning where our food comes from, how to grow our own, and the blessings that come from cultivating the land and feeding others. Community agriculture projects are perfect sites for not only bringing people together (of all faiths, cultures, and generations), but also serve to remind us of our human tie and dependency on the earth. Such projects can be catalysts for helping us to recognize and reestablish our roles as earth stewards.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Jennifer R. Ayres - TITLE: "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Food and Farming". How might the eucharistic table, around which Christians regularly gather, serve as a paradigmatic embodiment of divine abundance, divine presence in the material gifts of the earth, and divine delight in the nourishment and enlivening of earthly bodies? And what does this table practice signify and demand in the midst of hunger, dramatic changes in agriculture, and environmental degradation? This presentation establishes a Christian theological framework for examining and responding to our food system, and examines the moral commitments undergirding this work.
dc.description.abstract	Pramod Parajuli - TITLE: "Earthbounding Faith? A Story of Soil to Supper/Sustenance Pedagogy". What is the use in thanking God for food that has come at an unbearable expense to the world and other people?” asks, Wendell Berry. “What use is it to save our soul, if we forfeit the earth?” asks Bruno Latour. Indeed, where is the faith in what I call the Soil to Supper/Sustenance Pedagogies? What about the existing faiths and even inter‐faith collaboratives? While sharing the stories around learning gardens, I will propose potential ideas such as pluri‐species earthbounding, or regenerative reciprocity. What if we imagine a food, farming and faith trio in which soils are rich and are dancing with more life while pollinators are pollinating and have enough to go around and multiply. What if a sacred thread binds, and nature and culture are coupled and co‐constitutive in this drama? With care and elegant design, could such a food and garden‐based learning system achieve abundance, beauty, as well as sacredness?
dc.description.abstract	Bill Winders - TITLE: "Feed Grains, Food Grains, and World Hunger". This presentation discusses how the market economy and political‐economic divisions between grains can, at times, contribute to world hunger and undermine food security. Two particular examples demonstrate this relationship: grain exports in South Asia, and expanding global meat consumption. First, in South Asia, several countries export grains even while having “alarming” levels of food insecurity. Why would this be the case? Second, the expansion of feed grains and meat production have the potential divert grain production or distribution away from food to more expensive livestock production, but increased meat production also has the potential to use important resources (e.g., water and land).
dc.description.abstract	Jacob l. Wright - TITLE: "Food in Judaism". This response will examine some of the leading attitudes toward food production and consumption in the Hebrew Bible and early Jewish rabbinic sources. It will show that both topics are central features in biblical and early Jewish writings, and that these writings reflect ways of thinking about food that both resonate with and challenge our contemporary practices.
dc.description.sponsorship	H. Bruce McEver
dc.description.sponsorship	The Foundation for Religious Literacy
dc.description.sponsorship	The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
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dc.format.extent	113:44 minutes
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dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
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dc.subject	Christianity	en_US
dc.subject	Earth bounding	en_US
dc.subject	Eucharist	en_US
dc.subject	Farming	en_US
dc.subject	Food	en_US
dc.subject	Food justice	en_US
dc.subject	Food system	en_US
dc.subject	Grains	en_US
dc.subject	Growing food	en_US
dc.subject	Islam	en_US
dc.subject	Learning gardens	en_US
dc.subject	Pedagogy	en_US
dc.subject	Pleura‐species	en_US
dc.subject	Regenerative reciprocity	en_US
dc.subject	Soil to supper	en_US
dc.subject	Stewardship	en_US
dc.subject	Sustenance	en_US
dc.subject	World hunger	en_US
dc.title	Food, Farming, and Faith: A LAMP Symposium on Growing Community - Panel 2	en_US
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