CBGL Fall 2025 Institute

Place-based Pragmatism & Pedagogy:
Food, Land, Culture, & Community Nourishment

November 8-9, 2025
Savannah, Georgia


In partnership with Nobis Project join us for a place-based, experiential learning retreat exploring and learning from Gullah-Geechee history, traditions, and culture work today. 

Key themes of the Institute are:

  • 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


Registration coming soon!

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.

All will have opportunities to share best practices and challenges in their home community or institutional contexts, collaborating on strategies that center community voices in global learning.