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2020 Saga Award Goes to Dr. Jane Caputi

 

Dr. Jane Caputi

The Board of Directors of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology has selected Dr. Jane Caputi for the 2020 Saga Special Recognition Award for Contributions to Women’s History and Culture. Her vision and scholarship reach far beyond the confines of academic institutions. This award recognizes her service both to individual women and to the future that is being created by all women.

Dr. Caputi has advanced bold ideas as a feminist theorist, documentarian, and unflinching critic of popular culture. Her books, The Age of Sex Crime (1987), Gossips, Gorgons and Crones (1993), and Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power and Popular Culture (2004), have explored in depth difficult issues concerning violence against women and entrenched sexism in society.

Dr. Caputi’s work as a filmmaker has also advanced important concepts regarding violence against women, in the 2006 film, “The Pornography of Everyday Life,” and the worldwide movement of ecofeminism, in “Feed the Green: Feminist Voices of the Earth (2015).” Her forthcoming book, Call Your “Mutha”: A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene, will be released in August 2020.

Past winners of the Saga Award include Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth, Genevieve Vaughan, Donna Read, Z Budapest, Dr. Peggy Sanday, and Dr. Arisika Razak.

See the complete Saga Award letter 2020 here and read Dr. Caputi’s  PBS interview about violence against women.

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2020 Brigit Award for Excellence in the Arts

Max Dashu and the Suppressed Histories Archives

The Association for Study of Women and Mythology Board of Directors has selected Max Dashu and the “Suppressed Histories Archives” as 2020 recipient of the Brigit Award for Excellence in the Arts.  The award is given in recognition of her decades of contributions as American feminist historian and artist focused on female iconography, mother-right cultures and the origins of patriarchy, along with extensive teaching, publications and cultural as well as political activism.

Max’s creation of the “Suppressed Histories Archives”, researching and documenting women’s history, makes the full spectrum of women’s history and culture visible and accessible through more than 15,000 slides and 30,000 digital images. Her work as work as a feminist art historian features pan-cultural & global inclusion of women shamans and priestesses, witches and the witch trials, folk religion and pagan European traditions, and evidence in support of egalitarian matrilineages.

Past winners of the Brigit Award include Layne Redmond, Lydia Ruyle, The We’Moon Collective and Anna Crusis Women’s Choir.

See the 2020 Brigit Award letter, and learn more about the  Suppressed Histories Archives and Max’s publications and artwork.

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Virtual Film Festival for Women’s History Month

To commemorate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, Women Make Movies (WMM) is hosting a virtual film festival that highlights the new releases in our Transnational Feminist Film collection.

Women Make Movies provides services to filmmakers and educators, and distributes over 700 films by and about women worldwide. WMM has worked with ASWM to bring the best of women’s films to our events and film series.

Throughout March, festival attendees will receive free access to select films about women from around the globe. New films will be added each week and will be available for viewing at no cost for the duration of the festival (March 1 – March 31, 2020).

Our thanks to the women of WMM for bringing us together in this way to celebrate women’s lives this month and every month!

You may sign up here to enjoy the 2020 free films.

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Announcing Conference Schedule/Abstracts

Here are abstracts of our wonderful panels and presentations. Thank you for bearing with us during a period of last-minute changes.  Please understand that our Schedule is subject to change right up until the day of the conference. 

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2020 ASWM CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

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All times and locations subject to change as necessary. 

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ASWM Conference is Taking Place As Planned

Letter to Registrants Confirming ASWM 2020 Conference is still happening.

 

The ASWM Board called a special meeting to address concerns that the novel coronavirus is presenting. By overwhelming agreement, we are proceeding with our plans to host this event on the Santa Ana Pueblo at the end of this week. Our hearts go out to those affected.

 

We know that these issues are much on the minds of everyone who is planning to attend our conference. Our plan is to follow the guidelines from the CDC and to proceed with the event. We have carefully crafted a program that includes presentations by women scholars and activists from the nearby Pueblos, and we have arranged to videotape those and many other sessions. It would be very difficult to replicate this program at another time or place.

 

Here is what the CDC says about domestic travel:

 

See the map at this address: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/index.html

 

Takeaway: The United States is considered in the lowest level of risk for travel.

 

And from CDC FAQs: Should I cancel my trip?  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/faqs.html

Watch Level 1: CDC does not recommend canceling or postponing travel to destinations with level 1 travel notices because the risk of COVID-19 is thought to be low.

We are working with the hotel to maintain a healthy environment. Hand sanitizers will be available. Our board and planners also believe that our work goes beyond conference sessions to promote healing and well being. We will practice and encourage modified behaviors such as “jazz hands” instead of handshakes and hugs, etc.

 

We look forward to seeing you. If you must cancel, unless you request a refund in writing to aswmevents@gmail.com, we will assume your cancelled conference fees are a donation to ASWM to help offset costs this year. We thank you for your generosity. We do encourage those who are ill not to attend.

 

Our cancellation policy is: The cancellation fee between March 1 and March 12, 2020 is $50.
 Sorry, we cannot refund ASWM annual dues.
 There will be no refund for cancellations after March 12, 2020.

 

Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to collaborating with you.

Warmly,  The ASWM Board