Agrarianism, Spirituality, and the Ecopoetics  of Hope: A Conversation in Taiwan with Norman Wirzba

• Guest: Norman Wirzba

• Host: Shiuhhuah Serena Chou

• Date: 12-08-2022

• Venue: Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

Abstract

In “Agrarianism, Spirituality, and the  Ecopoetics of Hope,” Norman Wirzba, Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute of Ethics at Duke University, is interviewed by professor and environmental humanities  scholar Serena Chou at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Professor Wirzba has made fundamental contributions to the study of agrarianism as everyday practices of faith, community, and the ecopoetics of communion since his ground-breaking edited volume The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land in 2003. In his latest  book Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land (2022), Professor Wirzba revisits literary and environmental agrarianism by focusing not just on the spiritual dimensions but the actual practices and pragmatic ethos of farming. In this interview and conversation, Professors Wirzba and Chou reflect upon, discuss, and illuminate practices of farming, producing, and consuming as the basis for alternative futures and ecological conversion in the comparative and interdisciplinary contexts of contemporary Taiwan.

English and Chinese Transcriptions: Agrarianism, Spirituality, and the Ecopoetics  of Hope: A Conversation in Taiwan with Norman Wirzba

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