2023 Panel: Daughters of The Sacred Sea: Aphrodite, Sinead, and the Witches of Lapurdi

ASWM Conference May 5-6, Syracuse NY

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2023 ASWM Schedule

photo by Maysam Yabandeh

2:15 – 3:45  Saturday May 6  (schedule subject to change)

Panel 14: Daughters of The Sacred Sea: Aphrodite, Sinead, and the Witches of Lapurdi

  • Khrystine Kelsey, “Aphrodite Anadyomene: Aphrodite as Water Goddess”
  • Idoia Arana-Beobide, “The Sea Loving Witches of Lapurdi Lapurdiko Sorginak – Itzasoakin Maite Induak”
  • Martina Cleary, “The Well at the Bottom of The Sea” (via Zoom)

PRESENTERS

Khrystine D. Kelsey is a Ph.D. candidate in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She also holds a master’s degree from Pacifica in Engaged Humanities and teaches undergraduate humanities courses in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her dissertation work explores the figure of Aphrodite through myth, depth psychology, and the humanities.

Idoia Arana-Beobide is a Euskalduna (Basque) dedicated to researching Indigenous belief systems specializing in Basque ancient mythology and its effects on contemporary social and national identity. She holds studies in Museology, a degree in Maedieval History, and a master’s in Religion and Public Life. She is presently conducting her doctoral thesis at the University of Ottawa on the effects of Indigenous Animism on the Basque psyche and cultural instinct.

Dr. Martina Cleary is an artist, researcher and academic lecturing in the Dept of Fine Art & Education at TUS in Ireland. She attended NCAD, Crawford College of Art & Design, the Finnish Academy of Fine Art, Aalto University and the European Centre for Photographic Research e(CPR). Her research areas include; Photography & Memory, Jungian Depth Psychology, Feminist Critical Theory, Technological Innovation in Fine Art and Socially Engaged Practices.

 

 

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