2025 Kore Award Announcement and Application
Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Women and Mythology 2025
The Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Women and Mythology is conferred by the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. The award, established in 2009, is funded by the gift of a generous contributor and carries a $500 prize. The intention behind its founding is to create awareness of excellence in Women and Mythology, and to provide an organizational framework for supporting graduate students in their work. The award is presented at the biennial international conference, for dissertations completed and defended in 2022- 2024. Defense must be completed by December 31, 2024.
Applicants can be from any discipline, including but not limited to literature, religious studies, art or art history, classics, anthropology, and communications. Creative dissertations must include significant analysis of mythology in addition to creative work. Applicants must be members of ASWM at time of submission.
Past winners of this award include Dr. Dawn Work-MaKinne (2010), Deity in Sisterhood: The Collective Female Sacred in Germanic Europe, Dr. Shannan Palma (2012), Tales as Old as Time: Myth, Gender and the Fairy Tale in Popular Culture, Dr. Mary Beth Moser (2014), The Everyday Spirituality of Women in the Italian Alps, Dr. Annette Williams (2016), Our Mysterious Mothers: The Primordial Feminine Power of Àjê in the Cosmology, Mythology, and Historical Reality of the West African Yoruba, and Dr. April Heaslip (2018), Regenerating Magdalene: Psyche’s Quest for the Archetypal Bride, and Dr. Monica Mody, (2020), Claiming Voice, Vitality, and Authority in Post-Secular South Asian Borderlands.
See these winning dissertations here.
Applicants must be members of ASWM upon submission of entry. A letter of support from the dissertation chair/director must accompany the application. Applicants will be urged to also propose a paper for the national conference, and to appear at and present work at the national conference, if they receive the award. Conference fees will be waived and housing and meals will be covered by ASWM for the winner.
Schedule for 2025 award:
- Dissertations completed and defended in 2022-2024
- Application window: Sept. 16, 2024-January 17, 2025
- Deadline for completion and defense: December 31, 2024
- Announcement of award winner: February 14, 2025
- Awarded at conference Saturday March 29, 2025 , Tucson AZ
Application for Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Women and Mythology
Name:
Mailing address:
Email:
Field of Study:
Title of Dissertation:
Date of defense:
Institution degree granted by:
Dissertation advisor’s name:
Dissertation abstract:
Please submit this form via email to awards@womenandmyth.org, with PDF (preferred) or MSWord attachment of dissertation. Please have your dissertation director email a letter of support, also in PDF or MSWord, to the same address.
2025 Conference “Sacred Stories of the Sentient Earth” Call for Proposals
CONFERENCE CALL FOR PROPOSALS
DEADLINE HAS PASSED FOR 2025 CONFERENCE
2025 Conference, Association for the Study of Women and Mythology
“Sacred Stories of the Sentient Earth: Scholarship for Collaboration, Intervention, and Reciprocity“
March 27-29, 2025
Westward Look Inn, Tucson, Arizona
With the precursor of Donna Haraway’s early work pointing out how dogs socialized people as much as we them, subsequent work that supports the same for cats, and Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016), a whole new interdisciplinary literature is emerging exploring the hidden lives of plants and animals and the earth herself. To name a few: The Soul of an Octopus (Sy Montgomery), Relational Reality (Charlene Spretnak ), The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Zoë Schlanger), What Would Animals Say if We Asked the Right Question? (Vinciane Despret), and Finding the Mother Tree (Suzanne Simard).
Overlooking or dismissing animal, plant , and earth intelligence is rooted in the hubris of Western culture. With rising consciousness, we turn instead to wisdom from Indigenous Cultures in conjunction with newer scientific discoveries and timeless mythologies to find inspiration and answers to our connection with every aspect of life on our planet.
Our 2025 Conference focuses on meanings and relationships among mythology, science, and culture regarding animals, the green world, the earth and her ecosystems.
With our primary focus on interconnectedness, we welcome academic and artistic presentations concerning mythological, ecological and scientific scholarship. In particular we seek work that addresses collaborations between humans and other sentient beings, foundational myths about the intelligence of nature, and scientific and cultural solutions to transgressions against the balance of nature.
Such topics may include (but are not limited to):
- Oasis: The Intersection of Hospitality, Survival, and Water in Desert Cultures
- Dialogues between Western scientific findings and indigenous science and insights
- Cautionary tales of animal guardians redressing human folly and greed
- From Drought to Plenty: Strategies for Transforming Scarcity into Abundance
- Patterns of cross-species companionship in science and contemporary fiction and arts
- Mythical Waters: Exploring the Legends and Preservation of Life-Giving Springs and Wells
- Embodying the Divine: Visual and Performing Arts Inspired by the Sacred Feminine
- The stories in the rocks: rock art, symbolism, and decolonization
- Comparative mythologies and science about pollinator-plant symbiosis
- “O Mother Sun” Exploring Female Solar Deities and gender in the cosmos”
- Mythologies and goddesses of origins, transitions, liminalities, and migration
- Myths of reciprocity and partnership among sentient beings
- Drops of Dew and Ephemeral Streams: Sacred Sites of Temporary Waters and Their Cultural Significance
- Water Wisdom: Integrating Traditional Practices with Modern Water Conservation
- New Discoveries and Ancient Wisdom: Labyrinths and Rings of Connection
We especially encourage proposals from First Nations women of the Americas, Indigenous women, internationally, and women of color.
We are accepting proposals for papers, panels, and posters. If you are proposing a poster please put “POSTER” before your title.
All proposal abstracts (no longer than 250 words) and a short (70 words or fewer) bio for each Presenter are to be submitted on this FORM (deadline has passed).
See complete guidelines and timelines: 2025 ASWM Call For Proposals
Check out our tips on writing proposals.
Deadline for papers, panels and posters has been extended to January 1, 2025.
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