ASWM Conference May 5-6, Syracuse NY
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10:45 – 12:15 Saturday May 6 (schedule subject to change)
Panel 10: Ethics and Eco-Justice for Land and Water
- Margaret Ann Mendenhall, “Misuse of the Mycelial Network: Our Ecological Shadow Reflected in Star:Trek Discovery”
- Donna Giancola, “A Biophilic Ethic: Ethical Perspectives in the Use of Sacred Stories”
- Dilşa Deniz, “Gola Bûyêr, the myth of Grand Law: Water, eco-philosophy, femininity”
PRESENTERS
Margaret Mendenhall, PhD, resides in Long Beach, California and is a graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Mythological Studies Program. Her blog, My Daily Soul Trek, analyzes Star Trek episodes and films chronologically from a depth psychological perspective (https://mydailysoultrek.com/). Additionally, she has written, performed and produced two myth based one-woman shows, and produced and hosted the public access television series Myth Is All Around Us.
Donna M. Giancola is an associate professor of Philosophy and director of Religious Studies at Suffolk University in Boston. In addition to her latest book In the Name of the Goddess, she has co-authored, a philosophy textbook, World Ethics, and an eco-feminist novel, Her Underground. She has written numerous articles on comparative religion and philosophy, feminism and eco-feminism, and has lectured in national and international forums.
Dilşa Deniz is a socio-cultural Kurdish anthropologist and presently is visiting scholar at Harvard University Divinity School. She holds Ph.D. in Social Anthropology and published articles, book chapters as well as her monograph. Her research focuses on gender and cultural, political, and religious practices in Kurdish Alevis. She studies Alevism as an old independent Iranian (land of Arian) religion that cannot be considered a sect of Islam. She is presently researching the Shâmaran as the Mother Goddess of Kurdistan, and decolonization of this Kurdish myth.
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