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Exploring the Diversity and Impact of Agritourism in Southern Africa
Agritourism ventures across Southern Africa offer critical and engaging portraits of how ecological conservation connects to cultural heritage and the tourism industry. This panel will highlight how agritourism is helping to develop rural economie...
Agritourism Definitions and Standards around the World
What is agritourism anyway? Definitions and standards vary around the world, with some understandings focused on educational experiences on working farms while other perspectives are more expansive. Researchers and practitioners from Italy, India,...
KEYNOTE LECTURE: “Benin 1897: Artist Intervention & the Restitution Issue”
With Peju Layiwola, Professor of Art History, University of Lagos (November 5, 2021) Restitution is a way for communities that were harmed to remake themselves in the face of what was taken from them: for communities in Africa from whom people ...
Farm-Based Education in Every City and Town
Connecting with land through agriculture can be educational, joyful, healing, and empowering. From a Yellow Farmhouse in Connecticut to an apiary in Botswana, and a hillside campus in Vermont to an urban farm school in New York City, four panelist...
Dan Hicks Keynote from Repatriation/Restitution/Reparation Symposium — Nov. 4, 2021
Repatriation centers on the return of objects that were stolen from communities in Africa as part of European colonialism. The presence of these plundered objects in Euro-American museums contributes to ongoing imperial relationships and perspecti...