Call for Proposals for Challenge Talks: Place-based Pragmatism & Pedagogy: Food, Land, Culture, & Community Nourishment – Jun 23

Posted by Community-based Global Learning Collaborative on May 20, 2025

In partnership with Nobis Project join us for a place-based, experiential learning retreat, Place-based Pragmatism & Pedagogy: Food, Land, Culture, & Community Nourishment, exploring and learning from Gullah-Geechee history, traditions, and culture work today, November 8-9, 2025, in Savannah, Georgia.

We will build community through experiential learning together, including a visit to a rice farm, a walking tour highlighting Black history in Savannah, and shared meals. The Collaborative invites courageous conversation, learning, and applied insights at the intersections among shared history, food justice, and social and environmental change.

Participants will learn how educators, community leaders, and scholars in the region are navigating ecological and economic change through innovations including sustainable agriculture and ethical community partnerships.

Challenge talks draw on the Collaborative’s history of inviting colleagues together to consider challenges, critique, and case studies, while drawing on the collective wisdom of the community gathered to improve practices. Institute participants are invited to submit Challenge Talks for discussion and consideration on our key themes:

• Ethical community-based storytelling, oral histories, walking tours, and archives
• Cultural traditions, displacement, and food sovereignty
• History, interdependence, and collaboration
• Food justice and agriculture
• Community-led efforts to sustain and support the natural environment
• Developing programming and partnerships across ideological differences

Deadline to submit a Challenge Talk: June 23, 2025, 12:00 PM

Learn more and submit a proposal.