Making Soils Visible: Being with Muck and Memory

This is a hybrid event. Dr. Cornes will be speaking from Toronto. Those in Oxford, however, are warmly encouraged to participate together and in person at TORCH, where Barbara Stiubiener Abrahao, DPhil candidate in Anthropology will provide in-person comments on Cornes' talk.

Wine and snacks will be served.

 

Biography: Saskia Cornes is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University, and Program Director of Duke Campus Farm. Her teaching and research work together to rethink our relationship to food, and to the land and people that grow it. A Renaissance scholar by training, Cornes holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she focused on the culture of agriculture in 17th century England.