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“Wisdom Across the Ages” 2021 Symposium To Honor Marija Gimbutas

Wisdom Across the Ages: Celebrating the Centennial of Archaeomythologist Marija Gimbutas

July 16-18, 2021

Marija Gimbutas

Marija Gimbutas’ pioneering scholarship on the earliest horticultural societies focuses on Old European cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean (6500-3500 BCE).

She founded the field of archaeomythology to investigate beliefs, rituals, symbols, and social structures of these early societies. Archaeomythology is inspiring a new generation of scholars to develop a deeper understanding of past and present earth-based societies.

Our ASWM symposium seeks to expand this understanding by highlighting the voices of First Nations and Indigenous scholars to discuss indigenous, Old European, and other Nature-based cultures.

We are seeking proposals in these topic areas:

  • Women at the Center: Matrifocal, Matristic, Matriarchal Societies
  • Voices from the Land
  • Sacred Human-Animal Relationships

We are also seeking artists’ entries for a juried art exhibit.

 Links to the Calls are on the womenandmyth.org/symposium page.

 

Our 2021 Symposium is presented in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeomythology (IAM). Inspired by the scholarship of Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, IAM is an international organization of scholars dedicated to fostering an interdisciplinary approach to cultural research with particular emphasis on the beliefs, rituals, social structure, and symbolism of past and present societies. The Institute encourages dialogue among specialists from diverse fields by sponsoring international symposia, by publishing collected papers and monographs, and by promoting creative collaboration within an atmosphere of mutual support.

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2021 Symposium: The Institute of Archaeomythology

 

IAM

ASWM’s 2021 Symposium, “Wisdom Across the Ages: Celebrating the Centennial of Archaeomythologist Marija Gimbutas,” is presented in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeomythology (IAM).  IAM is an international organization of scholars dedicated to fostering an interdisciplinary approach to cultural research with particular emphasis on the beliefs, rituals, social structure, and symbolism of past and present societies.

Marija Gimbutas

Inspired by the work of visionary scholar Marija Gimbutas, who encouraged students and colleagues from a variety of fields to examine problems in European prehistory with an inclusive, interdisciplinary point of view.

Learn more about IAM, and their free online journal and other publications.

Registration for symposium recordings is now available to the public! Register here.  

To give you plenty of time to view the program at leisure, all sessions will remain available, to those who register, until the end of July 2022.

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Scholar Salon 17

ASWM Scholar Salon 17 with Normandi Ellis "Hieroglyphic Thinking", moderated by Simone Clunie, Wednesday November 18, 2020, recording available now for members only.

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Scholar Salon 16

ASWM Scholar Salon 16 with Jeannette Kiel, PhD "Beyond the Trees: Ecofeminism and Connections to Current Movements for Change" on Wednesday, November 4 , 2020.

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Announcing Scholar Salon 18: Register for December 2

Deep Economy: the Maternal Gift

with Genevieve Vaughan

Wednesday, December 2, 2020
12 pm (Noon)  Eastern Standard Time 

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Patriarchal Capitalism/Capitalist Patriarchy is an artificial system that is destroying the Earth and her children. We need to return to the deep economy of the mother, based on the model of unilateral giving to needs, that every child has to experience in order to survive. Recognizing and validating this model puts us in alignment with Mother Earth and allows the creation of community on that basis. Unilateral gifting has not been seen as structural but recognizing it in the structure of language as well as of the economy, can restore it to the central place in our lives as the source of shared meaning and reveal a newly understood sense of who we are as a species. This will allow us to unite to transition toward alternatives to Capitalism and Patriarchy under the leadership of those who recognize and promote the maternal model. most of whom are women.

 

Genevieve Vaughan

Genevieve Vaughan (b.1939) has lived between Texas and Italy most of her life. She founded the all-women multicultural Foundation for a Compassionate Society 1988 – 2005 in Austin, the International Feminists for a Gift Economy network 2001-ongoing and the Temple of Sekhmet in Cactus Springs Nevada (1992-ongoing). She is the author of For-Giving(1997), Homo Donans (2008), The Gift in the Heart of Language(2015) and the editor of Il Dono/the Gift (2004), Women and the Gift Economy(2007), and The Maternal Roots of the Gift Economy (2018). An Issue of the Canadian Women’s Studies Journal: Vol. 34, Feminist Gift Economy: A Maternalist Alternative to Patriarchy and Capitalism (2020) has just appeared. See www.gift-economy.com

Gen Vaughan with Sekhmet
The week before our Salon, check out this free webinar on the Gift Economy: 

Matriarchal Gift Economy: Breaking Through

November 27 2020 4 pm to 7 pm GMT

with Vandana Shiva (India), Darcia Narvaez (USA), Heide Goettner-Abendroth (Germany), Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot Nation), Mary Condren (Ireland), and Genevieve Vaughan (USA/Italy). Moderated by Letecia Layson (USA)

and — Save these dates for upcoming ASWM Salons:

January 13 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
Like a Tree: How Trees, women and Tree People Can Save the World

Jean Shinoda Bolen

January 27 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
Title TBA: Animal mysteries in the Paleolithic
Susan Moulton

February 10 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
Living in a Sentient World
Judy Grahn

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The Salon recording will also be available to members after the event. 

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