The landmark conference was held May 22-24, 2007 at the
Kellogg Conference Center, Tuskegee University,
Tuskegee, Alabama The conference is over, but abstracts, photos and attendees contact list are online.
The conference was designed to broaden the environmental discussion by asking, "What is a framework for Black ecological philosophy that can inform African American agriculture and sustainable agriculture more broadly?"
The purpose of the conference was to develop more concrete thinking and identification with Black ecological thought and its applications to African American farming, sustainable agriculture, and professional development opportunities. The goal of the conference
was to move innovation in Black sustainable agriculture forward and contribute to overall diversity of thought in sustainable agriculture.
General Information
Conference topics included:
- Agrarian ethics emerging from slavery and Southern farming
- Contemporary Black environmental thought in rural settings
- Influence of Africanisms on Black Ecological thought
- Symbiotic exchange between native and African American world views
and their impact on Black environmental thinking
- Interface between justice, sustainability and landscape
- Black perspectives on sustainable agriculture
- How African American artistic expression can encourage learning and
integration of Black ecological philosophy
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