2021 Symposium Call for Proposals for Papers/Visual Presentations

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

A Virtual Symposium   July 16-18, 2021

Submissions Deadline:  Feb 15, 2021

Proposals are accepted on these topics for this symposium 

          • Women at the Center
          • Voices from the Land
          • Human-Animal Relationships

WOMEN AT THE CENTER  (balanced societies engendering peace, collaboration and mutual respect), including such topics as:             

  • Perspectives of Indigenous, land-based cultures regarding traditional roles and social structures.
  • Views of Indigenous Mother-centered societies—birthing, nurturing, and guiding past, present, and future generations.
  • Women at the Center /Goddess at the Center: exploring archaeomythological expressions of the main themes of Old European Goddess symbolism described by Marija Gimbutas as “the mystery of birth and death and the renewal of life, not only human but all life on earth.”
  • Sacred symbolism, oral traditions, and women’s traditional arts and technologies within past and present female centered societies.
  • Principles of social and environmental justice: responses to structural violence against women and the planet.

VOICES FROM THE LAND (Old European/Indigenous/First Nations Wisdom, symbols and enduring traditions, codes of sustainability and respect – then and now), including such topics as:                     

  • Honoring the Earth as the source of life, origin stories linked with sacred places.
  • The land as a living sanctuary: rituals in sacred caves, springs, mountain top shrines and processional ways.
  • On the brink of extinction: floods, fires, earthquakes and hurricanes. Ancient wisdom for mutual [healing and] survival.
  • Sacred relationships with living ecosystems engendering traditional earth-based technologies, such as basket making, weaving, pottery, ethnobotany, and ancient pharmacology.

HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS (sacred roles of our non-human ancestors), including such topics as:

  • Animals as totems, teachers, touchstones:  Animal ancestors in myths, images, rituals, sounds, and symbols.
  • Animal-human fusions: hybrid figures of Old Europe and beyond when humans and animals shared a common language.
  • Supporting the Kurgan Hypothesis: What genomic studies and ancient DNA reveal about early domestication and human and animal migrations.
  • Honoring animals as models of collaboration, communication, interdependence,  and agency in folk mythologies, ritual expressions, and imagery.

Presenters from all disciplines are welcome, as well as creative artists, filmmakers and practitioners who engage these appropriate themes in a scholarly manner in their work. Presenters must become members of ASWM 60 days prior to the conference.

Proposals should be 250 words.  Presenters whose work is  accepted will be asked to submit full text of paper or powerpoint.  Presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length. Panels are 90 minutes including discussion. Submit a Proposal by February 15, 2021 via the Form below.

 

Notifications will be sent out by mid-March. Guidelines for proposals here.  For more information contact submissions@womenandmyth.org

UPDATE: SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED. Check in for new Calls from time to time by bookmarking this News feed: Calls for Submissions. Also bookmark our Calls for Submission page.

2021 Symposium Call for Artists’ Entries

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES

JURIED ONLINE ART EXHIBIT 

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

 Offered in conjunction with online symposium, July 16-18, 2021

Presented by the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM) in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeomythology

Entry Deadline: Feb 15, 2021

This online art exhibition will be featured on the ASWM public website between June 15  and September 15, 2021. 

Submit a Response via the Form below.

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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

 Call Deadline: Feb 15, 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.

2022 ASWM Symposium

 “Hearing the Invisible: Lessons from Sentient Beings and Inter-relational Ecosystems”

ASWM Online Symposium: Sunday, April 10, 2022

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  • Concert only/General public all recordings  here.  
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“The Caretaker of the Precious” by Denise Kester

SYMPOSIUM DETAILS:

Jane Goodall has pointed out that human global disregard for nature brought on the current pandemic, documenting that mistreatment/exploitation of sentient beings can result in an exponential crisis for the whole planet.

Our 2022 biennial Symposium focuses on meanings found in the relational reality among science, culture, and mythology in regards to animals, the green world, and ecosystems.

With our primary focus on interconnectedness, we feature academic and artistic work that addresses collaborations between humans and other sentient beings, foundational myths about earth’s response to misuse, and scientific solutions to transgressions against the balance of nature. 

Read about Denise Kester and “The Caretaker of the Precious,” the featured artwork for this event.

Calls for Submissions

Calls for Submissions and Proposals for ASWM Sponsored Events, Publications, Conferences & Symposia. These News posts list the most recent Call first in chronological order.

Call for Proposals: Poster Session for 2023 Conference

Posters Due February 1, 2023 This year we will again feature a juried poster session at our conference, "Waters of Life: Mythos, Divinity, Beings and Ecology."This is a great opportunity to explain your ideas and applied work in a more engaging way to a wider audience. During the poster session, participants will informally discuss their presentations with conference attendees. Posters will be displayed throughout the conference. Poster session participants place materials such as pictures, data, graphs, diagrams and narrative text on boards size A0 (33.1" x 46.8") or video. Video posters are short videos where the presenter discusses the nature and impact of their research/project which is illustrated on the printed poster they are displaying at the conference. Presenters from all disciplines are welcome, as well as creative artists and practitioners whose work engages mythic themes in a scholarly manner. As with paper presentations, posters should follow the conference themes found in our Call for Proposals. Submit your information and 250 word abstract on the Submissions Form. Make sure to start your title with the word "POSTER" so that we will include it in the correct category. All Poster Presenters must become members of ASWM.  If you have questions please contact us at  aswmsubmissions@gmail.com by January 25, 2023. ​Use "2023 poster proposal" and last name in the subject header of your email. ​Include a bio of up to 70 words and contact information including surface address and email. All Poster Presenters must become members of ASWM ...

2023 ASWM Conference “The Waters of Life” Call for Proposals

Conference Call for Proposals The Waters of Life – Exploring Water Mythos, Divinity, Beings & Ecology May 5th and 6th, 2023 Crowne Plaza, Syracuse New York This conference will provide the opportunity to explore myths from around the world of water Goddesses, water creatures and water itself in cultural, spiritual, historical, and ecological contexts.  Water as one of the Elements (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) is recognized as a building block of everything on earth from the spiritual to the mundane in multiple spiritual traditions and Water as 50%-60% of our bodies is scientifically recognized as an elemental component of life, crucial for survival.   Indigenous peoples honor the intertwining of life and water and hold it as sacred in ritual, story and everyday life, while the industrial world has reduced it to a commodity.  With the onset of global warming, a consciousness is arising of the need for respect, reverence and protection for our water sources – a time to look back and around to gather the wisdom of Water Keepers, past and present, around the globe.  Potential topics include, though are not limited to:  Water Mythos Grounded in Reality & Science Exploring Beings, Myths and Ecology of our Aqueous Worlds Oceans Infinite but Endangered- Exploring Water-based Mythology and Ecology New views on key species in myth and in the real world such as: cranes/waterbirds, sharks, whales, octopuses Indigenous sciences and traditional technologies Interrelationships of water, water beings and ecosystems in myth and science Ethical perspectives in the use of sacred stories Emerging new perspectives in post-humanism that grant agency to non-human beings Methodologies for inclusions of mysteries in traditional and academic research Place wisdom, environmental resilience, identity and myth Examining racial and gender intersectionality in history and myth, nature and society Indigenous science and climate change: decolonizing environmental and ...

Call for Proposals: ASWM 2022 Symposium

 "Hearing the Invisible: Lessons from Sentient Beings and Inter-relational Ecosystems" Call for Proposals: ASWM Online Symposium: Sunday, April 10, 2020 Jane Goodall has pointed out our own contemporary lesson that human global disregard for nature brought on the current pandemic, documenting that mistreatment/exploitation of sentient beings can result in an exponential crisis for the whole planet. Our 2022 biennial Symposium focuses on meanings found in the relational reality among science, culture, and mythology in regards to animals, the green world, and ecosystems. We especially encourage proposals from Native American/Indigenous scholars and women of color.  We welcome scholars from all fields with contributions to further expanding our understanding of our universal relatedness in the community of sentient beings. With our primary focus on interconnectedness, we welcome academic and artistic presentations concerning ecological and scientific scholarship. In particular we seek work that addresses collaborations between humans and other sentient beings, foundational myths about earth's response to misuse, and scientific solutions to transgressions against the balance of nature.  Such topics may include (but are not limited to): Dialogues  between "Western" scientific findings and indigenous science and insights Cautionary tales of animal guardians redressing human greed and over-consumption Examples, in Haraway's terms, of “staying with the trouble” of ecological devastation Women's roles in promoting justice for land, animals and climate Patterns of Cross-species Companionship in Science and Contemporary Fiction and Arts Our Cousins the Bears: Myths of Cross-species Relationships Selkies and Crane Wives: What Shapeshifting Women can teach us Goddesses and Sea Creatures: Wisdom from the Deep Comparative mythologies and science about pollinator-plant symbiosis Mythologies and goddesses of origins, transitions, liminalities, and migration Divine interventions for healing out-of-balance human behaviors Myths of reciprocity and partnership among sentient beings Feminist spiritual traditions that inspire earth-centered activism Proposal deadline: January 20, 2022 For questions, contact submissions@womenandmyth.org . Click here ...

The Sarasvati Nonfiction Book Award Application

Sarasvati Nonfiction Book Award submissions deadline has been extended:  Dec. 31 2021 The Sarasvati Nonfiction Book Award solicits nonfiction books published in English during 2019-21 in the field of women and mythology. Named for the Hindu goddess of learning and the creative arts, the Sarasvati Award from the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM) honors scholarly work in the fields of goddess studies and women and mythology. Anthologies and self-published books are not eligible for consideration. Applications must be submitted by publisher and must be received by the ASWM Sarasvati Award Committee no later than December 31, 2021.  The award will be presented during ASWM’s next biennial conference. Publishers Submission Form:  2021 Sarasvati Submission Form Previous winners of the Sarasvati Award for Nonfiction: 2018: Sheela na gig: The Dark Goddess of Sacred Power by Starr Goode (Inner Traditions) 2016: The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor (Princeton) 2014: The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology and the Origins of European Dance by Elizabeth Wayland Barber (Norton) 2012: Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Victor Mair (Cambria Press) For questions please contact the Awards Committee ...

2021 Symposium Call for Proposals for Papers/Visual Presentations

Wisdom Across the Ages: Celebrating the Centennial of Archaeomythologist Marija Gimbutas A Virtual Symposium   July 16-18, 2021 Submissions Deadline:  Feb 15, 2021 Proposals are accepted on these topics for this symposium  Women at the Center Voices from the Land Human-Animal Relationships WOMEN AT THE CENTER  (balanced societies engendering peace, collaboration and mutual respect), including such topics as:              Perspectives of Indigenous, land-based cultures regarding traditional roles and social structures. Views of Indigenous Mother-centered societies—birthing, nurturing, and guiding past, present, and future generations. Women at the Center /Goddess at the Center: exploring archaeomythological expressions of the main themes of Old European Goddess symbolism described by Marija Gimbutas as "the mystery of birth and death and the renewal of life, not only human but all life on earth." Sacred symbolism, oral traditions, and women's traditional arts and technologies within past and present female centered societies. Principles of social and environmental justice: responses to structural violence against women and the planet. VOICES FROM THE LAND (Old European/Indigenous/First Nations Wisdom, symbols and enduring traditions, codes of sustainability and respect - then and now), including such topics as:                      Honoring the Earth as the source of life, origin stories linked with sacred places. The land as a living sanctuary: rituals in sacred caves, springs, mountain top shrines and processional ways. On the brink of extinction: floods, fires, earthquakes and hurricanes. Ancient wisdom for mutual [healing and] survival. Sacred relationships with living ecosystems engendering traditional earth-based technologies, such as basket making, weaving, pottery, ethnobotany, and ancient pharmacology. HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONSHIPS (sacred roles of our non-human ancestors), including such topics as: Animals as totems, teachers, touchstones:  Animal ancestors in myths, images, rituals, sounds, and symbols. Animal-human fusions: hybrid figures of Old Europe and beyond when humans and animals shared a common language. Supporting the Kurgan Hypothesis: What ...

2021 Symposium Call for Artists’ Entries

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES JURIED ONLINE ART EXHIBIT  Wisdom Across the Ages: Celebrating the Centennial of Archaeomythologist Marija Gimbutas  Offered in conjunction with online symposium, July 16-18, 2021 Presented by the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM) in cooperation with the Institute of Archaeomythology Entry Deadline: Feb 15, 2021 This online art exhibition will be featured on the ASWM public website between June 15  and September 15, 2021.  Submit a Response via the Form below ...

“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  Call Deadline: Feb 15, 2021 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 ...

Call for Proposals: 2020 Poster Session for ASWM Conference

Due January 5, 2020 This year we will feature a juried poster session at our conference. This is a great opportunity to explain your ideas and applied work in a more engaging way to a wider audience. During the poster session, participants will informally discuss their presentations with conference attendees, and posters will be displayed throughout the conference. Poster session participants place materials such as pictures, data, graphs, diagrams and narrative text on boards size A0 (33.1" x 46.8") or video. Video posters are short videos where the presenter discusses the nature and impact of their research/project which is illustrated on the printed poster they are displaying at the conference. As with paper presentations, posters should follow the conference themes found in our Call for Proposals. Send a 250 word abstract in PDF or MSWord to aswmsubmissions@gmail.com by November 23, 2019. ​Use "2020 poster proposal" and last name in the subject header of your email. ​Include a bio of up to 70 words and contact information including surface address and email. Presenters from all disciplines are welcome, as well as creative artists and practitioners whose work engages mythic themes in a scholarly manner. Poster Presenters must become members of ASWM ...

Writing an ASWM Conference Proposal

How does ASWM's program committee read and review proposals? We start by focusing on the written proposal that you submit. We look for a clear and succinct statement of your work. We have more than a hundred proposals to review for each event, so we are serious about the 250-word limit for an individual proposal. In this case, giving us more information than that word limit works to your disadvantage. If you exceed the word limit, you will probably be asked to submit your proposal again, following the guidelines. (Some organizations would reject such a proposal on the basis of guidelines alone.) It will be this 250-word abstract that is made available to attendees. Your proposal enables people to make a choice of what to attend during the conference. It is your best chance to present your work, so it needs to be spelled out clearly. (Remember that you are presenting the proposal to an intelligent general audience, who may not be familiar with the jargon of your field.) See below for a checklist for proposal form and content. Your 70-word bio will need to have enough information so that people can find you after the event if they want to make contact about your work. Biographies are included in the conference program book. Accepted proposals will be available on the website, alphabetical by author last name. Film Proposals If you are proposing to show a film, know that, at the first stage, our proposal readers will not look up films on websites. That's the job of the film subcommittee, which doesn't see proposals until we have determined whether/how the film fits with our themes. The general proposal readers recommend films to the subcommittee. What is the subject of your film (be specific)? How does it fit with our themes? ...

ASWM Conference Call for Proposals

Call for Proposal Rivers of Change, Prophecy, Possibilities The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM) 2020 ASWM National Conference March 12-14 2020 Tamaya Resort on Santa Ana Pueblo (near Albuquerque NM) Our Call for Proposals for panel presentations is now closed. Proposals for poster sessions are still being accepted. ASWM is a professional organization supporting scholarly and creative endeavors that explore or elucidate aspects of the sacred feminine. We will meet on land with deep connections to Native American and New Mexican traditions. Our conference themes include: Cultural and mythic Native American and Latina traditions Women in states of creative or prophetic flow Relearning Nature through mythology and sense of place Myth and folklore related to relationships of women, animals and nature Stories of goddesses and strong women protecting the environment Mythologies of place-fulness and place-lessness Rivers and mythology of development in world cultures and traditions Myth and folklore associated with water, abundance and scarcity Suggested topics for this conference include, but are not limited to, the following: How does mythology about women interact with the sense and reality of place? How does our scholarship change when place becomes an element or partner in our research? What does it mean to find wisdom in places? What are new paths for the fields of Women’s Spirituality and Goddess Studies?  What are new models and methods for our scholarly inquiry?   What are the complexities around issues of Cultural Appropriation?  How do we understand and address the tensions around rootedness and local culture and issues of lineage and history?  Are there new ways to honor history and culture while enriching our scholarship? One of the groundbreaking works from Patricia Monaghan was Oh Mother Sun: A New Vision of the Cosmic Feminine. We invite you to submit proposal ideas that are ...

“Woman Rising!” Conference at CIIS October 2018

We are happy to share the Call for Proposals for this exciting conference. WSE Women Rising CFP March 2018 ...

International Transpersonal Conference in Prague

"Beyond Materialism--Towards Wholeness" September 28-October 1, 2017 We at ASWM just got word about this conference that may be of interest to our members.  The date for proposal submissions is May 15.  The link to submit is below. The mission of the conference is to present an exclusive series of lectures, panel discussions and experiential workshops delivered by legendary founders of transpersonal psychology and key figures of the current transpersonal movement, as well as by young and progressive adepts. Our aim is to facilitate a major gathering of scholars, researchers, practitioners, supporters and all other kinds of people interested in transpersonal movement and new paradigm sciences. The Conference will consist of 7 tracks in 4 full days. Lectures, panel discussions, experiential workshops and many more led by legendary founders of transpersonal psychology and key figures of current transpersonal movement, as well as by young and progressive adepts. For more information:  http://www.itcprague2017.org They ask you to submit through this call for abstracts online form ...

Call for Papers: AAR Goddess Studies Unit, Western Region

The Goddess Studies Unit of the American Academy of Religion, Western Region, is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of female (cis/LGBTQ/non-binary inclusive) figures and goddesses in religion, mythology, and culture. Possible lenses of critique include, but are not limited to: Gender and LGBTQ studies, history, literature, film, folklore, psychology, and/or critical race theory. See CFP for AAR West here.  The deadline for submissions to the Goddess Studies Unit is Friday, September 30, 2016. The conference will be held on March 10-12, 2017 at Loyola Marymount University in the Westchester community of Westside Los Angeles, California ...

Call for Proposals: The Afterlives of Eve

The Afterlives of Eve 9-11 September 2016 at Newcastle University and Durham University Keynotes: Sandra M. Gilbert (UC Davis), Wendy Furman-Adams (Whittier), John Bothwell (Durham) From Genesis to mitochondrial Eve, the idea of a single common foremother has occupied a crucial space in the Western cultural imaginary. Eve, whether as bringer of sin, as life-giver, as burden, curse or saviour, functions as a commentary on maternity, sexuality, creativity and power.  This cross-period and interdisciplinary conference will be an opportunity to explore the impact of her varied representations through the centuries and across different genres and media. How has this archetypal figure been revised and revisited by conservative and radical thought? What personal, polemical and/or creative uses have been made of the figure of Eve? What persists and what changes in her depictions across time and geographical space?  How have women and men negotiated their shared and different relationships to Eve? How has Eve been appropriated, neglected or rejected as a foremother? How does she speak to fantasies of masculine or feminine self-sufficiency? What cultural, political, literary and/or theological spaces does she occupy now? Topics might include, but need not be limited to: Origins of/Sources for Eve                                                                                                                                  Other Eves                                                                                                                                                            The absence of Eve                                                                                                                                             Representations and Transformations of Eve                                                                                                         Eve as Over-reacher We welcome papers from all disciplines in arts, humanities and sciences and covering any historical period. We also welcome panel proposals including PGR panel proposals. Titles and abstracts of no more than 250 words per speaker should be sent to Ruth Connolly (ruth.connolly@ncl.ac.uk) and Mandy Green (mandy.green@durham.ac.uk) by 12 March 2016. Panel proposals should also include a title for the panel's programme. Speakers will be notified by March 21st. We gratefully acknowledge support from MEMS at Newcastle (http://research.ncl.ac.uk/mems/), Newcastle University's Academic Conference Fund and also from IMEMS at Durham University (https://www.dur.ac.uk/imems/research/) ...

Call for Papers: Feminist Gift Economy

Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme: Feminist Gift Economy Theorizing and Practice:  A Matricentric Alternative to Patriarchy 32.1 (Summer/Fall 2016) Deadline:  January 30, 2016 The aim of this issue of CWS/cf is to recognize and give value to unilateral gifting and to explore the new theoretical and practical understandings and political possibilities uncovered by the recognition of its maternal roots. The study of Indigenous gift economies in the West denies the importance of direct unilateral giving and some have even questioned its existence. However a great deal of unilateral giving is called for in the practice of care by mothers, who are usually women but can also be men, other children, or entire villages. Write or call as soon as possible indicating your intention to submit your work. Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme 210 Founders, York University, 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Telephone: (416) 736-5356 Fax: (416) 736-5765 E-mail: cwscf@yorku.ca ...

2016 Western Region AAR Conference

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION/WESTERN REGION (AAR/WR) 2016 ANNUAL CONFERENCE – CALL FOR PAPERS University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 1-3, 2016 Conference Theme: The overall theme for the 2016 Conference is Social Justice. We are using this idea in its broadest terms. We are hoping to encompass racism, feminism, womanism, eco-justice, gender justice, classism, neo-colonialism, etc., seen through the eyes of religious scholars. See submission guidelines and application here. Extended Deadline:  Saturday, October 10, 2015, is the deadline for submitting proposals via e-mail to unit chairs for papers for the 2016 AAR/WR Conference. Proposals or abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length and, along with participant forms, should be sent as an attachment to unit chair(s) at the e-mail addresses provided below. If you are proposing a panel of three to four papers, please include short abstracts for each paper on the panel, and a short description of your panel theme. Individuals whose proposals are accepted must be members of the AAR before the conference date in order to present.  For any questions regarding the call for papers please contact the Program Chair Dorothea Kahena Viale at  dkviale@cpp.edu ...

Call for Papers–AAR/SBL Regional Conference

Call for Papers:  Pacific Northwest Region, American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature 2015 Annual Regional Conference Marylhurst University, Portland, OR  March 27-29, 2015 See http://pnw-aarsbl.org/ for CFP and information ...

Call for Papers: American Academy of Religion, Western Region

2015 Annual Regional Conference Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA  March 20-22, 2015 Conference Theme:  Open/None See web site for CFP and information ...

Call for Papers: “She is Everywhere” Anthology 4

This volume is to be gathered/edited by Viviane Dzyak, Ph.D., Shannon Marie Reich, M.A., and Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, Ph.D. The focus of volume 4 is The Dark Mother: Embodied Spirit, Political Hybridity and Radical Transformation. We are seeking scholarly papers, creative nonfiction essays/memoir pieces, short fiction, prayers, poetry and artwork. Deadline for submissions is Oct. 1, 2014 Written Submissions: Prose (scholarly, creative nonfiction and fiction) submissions are limited to 5000 words exclusive of endnotes and bibliography. Poetry submissions are limited to three poems. All submissions should be single-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font with 1-inch margins. Artwork Submissions: please submit artwork in JPG format. For inquiries and complete submission guidelines contact Shannon Reich at SheIsEverywhereVol4@gmail.com. Include She Is Everywhere in the email subject line ...

Archaeoacoustics Conference

ARCHAEOACOUSTICS: The Archaeology of Sound INTERNATIONAL MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE 19-22 February 2014 on the Mediterranean Island of Malta An exciting international multi-disciplinary event that welcomes academics, researchers, musicologists and non-presenting enthusiasts.  Anyone can attend.  Anticipated presentations include performance, discoveries, observations and science from around the world -- all focused on the Archaeology of Sound. Our goal during this event is to pull together information and experience from a wide range of sources, seeking a thread that identifies the most fundamental application of the human experience of hearing.  We are particularly interested in the role acoustic behavior may have had in the development and design of important architecture and ritual spaces throughout the ancient world, and its possible biological impact on human brain activity Hosted by the Corinthia Palace Hotel in Malta and organized by the U.S. based OTS Foundation, the Archaeoacoustics event is already stirring up excitement with its first submissions.   Researchers from Australia, Chile, Iran and all over Europe are proposing presentations that imply that there is more to this scenario than anyone imagined. They may be unlocking something big, and it underscores the value of a multidisciplinary event that puts these people in the same room to share experiences, methodology and observations. On hand will be the Senior Lecturer in Music Technology at the University of Huddersfield and author of 'Songs of the stones: the Acoustics of Stonehenge', Dr. Rupert Till; Senior Curator for UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Malta, Dr. Reuben Grima; and the Head of the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Malta, Dr. Nicholas Vella. All presentations will be in English.  Registration is required.  Call for Papers is now open. Website: otsf.org Free literature and registration form on request.  The OTS Foundation, P.O. Box 17166, Sarasota, FL  34276  USA   ~  941 918 9215 ...

Mankato State University Conference Call for Papers

The Mankato State University (MN) will hold its 31st Annual Women and Spirituality Conference on October 12-13, 2013, on the university campus.  The Call for Papers is for academic presentations and workshops pertaining to "any aspect of spirituality."  Starhawk will be they keynote speaker.  For more information or to submit a proposal: Mankato_cfp 2013 ...

Call for Proposals: Brigit: Sun of Womanhood

Goddess, Ink is seeking proposals comprising works about the Celtic Goddess and Christian Saint Brigit in any printable form, including but not limited to: Scholarly essays Personal essays PoetryInterior artwork (including small line drawings, in black and white) Cover and Back artwork (color) Chants and Invocation translations of ancient poems, prayers and invocations to Brigit Co-editors Michael McDermott and Patricia Monaghan are scholars and followers of Brigit. Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2012  Planned publishing date for the anthology: Imbolc 2013.  Send submissions to Submit to Goddess Ink Press Please direct inquiries to BrigitAnthology@gmail.com ...

Christine Downing Dissertation Fellowship for 2012

Christine Downing Dissertation Fellowship for 2012 OPUS Archives and Research Center is announcing the Christine Downing Dissertation Fellowship for 2012. This Fellowship carries the name of Professor Downing in acknowledgement of her contribution to the fields of depth psychology and mythology, her many years of teaching at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and her gift to OPUS of her own archival materials. The purpose of the Downing Fellowship will be to award an annual scholarship to dissertation students of any accredited graduate level institution in the fields of depth psychology and mythology. Once awarded, the winning student must use the collections at OPUS for a significant amount of her or his dissertation research. The archival collections available for research at OPUS include Joseph Campbell, Marija Gimbutas, James Hillman, Jane and Joseph Wheelwright, Christine Downing, Marion Woodman, Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig, and Katie Sanford. Visit our website for more information at www.opusarchives.org GUIDELINES Applicants must demonstrate the necessity of substantial on-site use of OPUS’ collections. Eligible Candidates. Students in doctoral programs writing within the fields of depth psychology and mythology whose proposal and /or first two chapters of the dissertation has been accepted by their dissertation committee. Further, the student must plan to use the collections at OPUS for a significant amount of their research. The fellowship will be awarded September 15, 2012. Amount and Duration of Fellowship. The fellowship award is $5000. These funds are for one (1) year of research to be conducted between October 1, 2012 and October 1, 2013. Dates and Deadlines: Deadline for Submission: June 30, 2012 Notification of Awarded Grants: September 15, 2012 Selection Committees. Proposals will initially be screened by OPUS staff. Final selection will be made by the Fellowship committee which includes Christine Downing, David Miller, Richard Tarnas and Lyn Cowan.If You’re Interested. Please visit our website ...

Call for Writers: The Red Tent Anthology

Call for Writers Womanspace, a not-for-profit organization in Rockford Illinois is seeking submissions to be part of their "Red Tent Anthology" of women's poetry and non-fiction to be published in time for the Red Tent Events, June 21-26, 2011. These Events are to be held in conjunction with the forthcoming documentary "Things We Don't Talk About--The Red Tent Movie," by Isadora Leidenfrost. There is no entry fee for submissions, but you do have to submit your entry by March. If you want more info or the application visit: http://www.redtentmovie.com/red_tent_anthology.html ...