Join fellow alumni, family and friends for a weekend of reconnection with nature.

Between the food we eat to the feelings of peace we experience, nature provides us many benefits from the inside out. In this new weekend program with Sarah P. Duke Gardens, we will explore the role nature and green space plays in our lives, ways we can maximize the perks of our connec-tion and how we can support nature in return.

The weekend begins with a walk in the Culberson Asiatic Arboretum at Duke

March 9-11, 2018

Cultivating Nourishment

SCHEDULEFRIDAY, MARCH 94:00 pm Registration4:30 pm Oreintation/Tour5:45 pm Panel Discussion7:00 pm Reception7:30 pm Dinner

SATURDAY, MARCH 108:30 am Breakfast9:00 am Workshop10:30 am Lecture11:30 am Break2:00 pm Lecture

3:30 pm Workshop5:30 pm Farm Dinner7:00 pm Wrap-up

Gardens. You will hear from staff curators in this beautiful, meditative section of the Gardens and visit the new Pine Clouds Mountain Stream Japanese Garden. A panel discussion will follow, beginning our discussion of the benefits of green space in our individual lives and community well-being.

On Saturday, we will dig deeper into how gardens help us see our world and what an appropriate human place within that world may look like. Through hand-ons activities and lectures we will learn more about caring for the earth, connecting with soil and recognizing nature’s role in our life. To end the weekend, Elodie Farms will host us for a farm dinner with ingredients raised on site and at other local farms, then prepared and cooked by the hands of co-owners Sandra Vergara, PhD ‘10 and Chef Ted Domville.

Led by Duke faculty, it will be an unfor-gettable and educational weekend with Sarah P. Duke Gardens. Make your reser-vations soon, as space is limited.

ACCOMMODATIONSProgram participants are free to make their own lodging arrangements and there are several hotels and inns available in Durham. The closest accommodations to Sarah P. Duke Gardens are the Washington Duke Inn (919-490-0999), JB Duke and the Millennium Hotel (9190383-8575). More information about local accommodations will be sent upon your confirmation in the program.

LOCATIONSarah P. Duke Gardens is located at the heart of the Duke University campus, off of Anderson Street. Detailed directions will be included in your registration materials and are available on the Duke Gardens’ website (gardens.duke.edu).

FITNESS REQUIREMENTSThe physical demands of this program are light. The most significant challenge involves gardening and walking. Closed-toe shoes are required while in the gardens.

FEESProgram fees are $250 per person and include tuition, refreshments, a reception and two dinners, materials, and activities. Participation is limited to 28 people. Children must be accompanied by an adult and must be at least 16 years old, or in the tenth grade. The program fills quickly, so early registration is recommended.

REGISTRATIONRegistration for this program can be done by phone. For assistance with registration, please call 919-684-2988.

PRIMARY FACULTY

Saskia CornesSaskia is the Duke campus Farm Program Director and an Assistant Professor of the Practice with the Franklin Humanities Institute. Cornes holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where her dissertation focused on

the emerging concept of land-as-property in 17th century English literature. She also holds an advanced certificate in Ecological Horticulture from the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Using the Duke Campus Farm as a site of intellectual inquiry, Cornes creates innovative experiential learning opportunities in the humanities for Duke students, and collaborates with faculty in disciplines from microbiology to Romance Studies. She is one of a growing cohort of faculty members from diverse disciplines in an environmental arts and humanities initiative at Duke. When she’s not out in the field, she’s bringing the field to campus, working with departments and programs across Duke to rethink our relationship to food and to the land and people that grow it.

Norman WirzbaNorman Wirzba is a Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Agrarian Studies, as well as a senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. His work focuses on understanding and promoting practices that can equip both rural and urban church communities to be more

faithful and responsible members of creation. Wirzba’s research brings together philosophical and religious sources to explore what it means, and what it takes (practically speaking), to live peacefully and beautifully on this earth. His most recent books are Way of Love: Recovering the Heart of Christianity, From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World, Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating, and (with Fred Bahnson) Making Peace with the Land: God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation. He also has edited several books, including The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land and The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry.

Wirzba serves as general editor for the book series Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism, published by the University Press of Kentucky, and is co-founder and executive committee member of the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology.

Registration FormCultivating Nourishment from the Inside OutMarch 9-10, 2018

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Questions?Contact Jo Supernaw at Duke Alumni, (9190 684-9517 or jo.supernaw@duke.edu.

REFUNDS/CANCELLATIONSPayment will be refunded until 30 days prior to the program’s start date, minus a $125 per person cancellation fee. All refunds will be returned to the credit card used for the original transaction. Schedules will be carried out as closely as possible, but are subject to change.

Schedules will be carried out as closely as possible, but are subject to change.

Disclaimer: Duke University has no responsibility in whole or in part for any loss, death, damage, or injury to person or property or accident, mechanical defect, failure, or negligence of any nature howsoever caused in connection with any accommodations, transportation, or other services. Baggage is at the owner’s risk entirely. The right is retained to decline to accept or retain any person as a participant should such person’s health, mental condition, physical infirmity, or attitude jeopardize the operation of the program or the rights, welfare, or enjoyment of other participants. We reserve the right to revise the program itinerary as needed.