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.
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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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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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
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ASWM Scholar Salon 15 with Idoia Arana-Beobide "When the Moon and Sun are Daughters of Mother Earth: Analysis of Basque Mythology" , moderated by Mary Jo Neitz, Wednesday October 21, 2020.
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