ASWM Conference May 5-6, Syracuse NY
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Panel 5: Liminal Spirits: Avalon, Mermaids, Yemanjá, and the Lovers’ Leap
2:30- 4:00 PM Friday May 5
- April Heaslip, “Wayfinding While at Sea: Synchronistic Goddess Orienteering from Yemanjá to Polynesia, from Grief to Regeneration”
- Katinka Soetens, “Lady of the Lake: mythical methodology of consciousness as activism within the Avalonian mystery tradition”
- Kirsten Johnsen, “Liminal Women and the Lover’s Leap”
- Erika Nelson, “Undine in Red Corals: Rewriting the Inheritance of Romantic Mermaid Myths in Judith Hermann’s Summerhouse, Later“
PRESENTERS
April Heaslip, PhD, is a mythologist, educator, and artist with a doctorate in Mythological Studies (Pacifica Graduate Institute), master’s in Ecofeminism & Social Ecology (Goddard College) and bachelor’s in Psychology & Women’s Studies (West Chester University). She teaches Interdisciplinary Studies with SNHU. Her forthcoming book Regenerating the Feminine: Chronicling the Rise in Psyche, Culture & Nature (UP Mississippi, 2024) considers this monumental resurgence as healing agent across individual, collective, and environmental realms.
Katinka Soetens is a Ceremonialist of the Goddess, creator of the Path of Love Mystery School and the fully accredited Priestess of Rhiannon training, author, teacher and co-organiser of The Goddess Conference at Glastonbury, and a Director of the new pagan Temple of Avalon.She is a Sacred Sexual Priestess of Rhiannon, tantric practitioner, doula, and a Priestess of Avalon. Katinka works as an internationally renowned holder of ceremonies, workshops, Goddess tours and trainings.
Kirsten Ellen Johnsen, PhD. is a storyteller, spinster and weaver living on Northern Pomo land in Mendocino County, California. Her 2021 dissertation features primary research on the significance of the Lover’s Leap in early American settler culture and women’s history. She is the chief curator of the Morning Glory Goddess Collection, a private collection of over 300 votive images of female sacrality stewarded by Isis Oasis Sanctuary in Geyserville, California.
Erika M. Nelson is Associate Professor of German Studies and Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Union College in Schenectady, New York, where she teaches German language, literature, culture, and film, as well as Narrative Medicine and GSWS courses. Her research has focused on Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry, retellings of the Orpheus myth, transnational literature and film, systemic constellation work, and Doris Dörrie’s work on creative writing, and Buddhism.
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