Category: Events

ASWM-sponsored events: conferences and symposia and online events such as film series and scholar salons

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Outreach Grant for Native American and Indigenous Presenters

We are pleased to announce that ASWM has received a special outreach grant for our 2018 conference. This will fund presentations and participation by Native American and indigenous scholars and researchers. Proposals will be read by an outside panel of scholars, and applicants may be asked to provide certification of their tribal membership. ASWM will consider successful grant projects and articles for inclusion in our forthcoming Proceedings series.

Our external grants committee invites Native American and indigenous scholars, researchers, artists, and activists to submit critical, creative, and practitioner proposals on topics that address the identity and empowerment of Native American and indigenous women, girls, families, and the environment through women-centered mythologies, earth centered mythologies, story-telling, healing practices, inter-generational exchanges, and traditional knowledge and practices.  We encourage work whose objective is to empower both women and the earth to alleviate violence and suffering in both women and the environment. We invite proposals that demonstrate the application of traditional knowledge and wisdom practices in rectifying social justice issues pertaining to women and the environment.

Grant funded presenters will present their work at the 2018 biennial conference. The final paper or presentation form of approved grant projects should adhere to a 20 minute conference presentation format.

The deadline for submissions has been extended until October 15, 2017.

2017 External Grant Call for Proposals

ASWM External Grants Proposal Submission form

 

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2018 Conference in Las Vegas NV

MARCH 16-17, 2018

Las Vegas NV

Location TBA

 

Save the dates!  At last we will hold our conference in a place that has both a contemporary goddess temple and a rich heritage of Native American and women’s spirituality.  Fortuna is smiling on us this year.  Our program will be enriched by a grant  to fund presentations by Native American and indigenous scholars.  Watch for newsletters and website updates as this exciting program evolves.

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Pendle Hill evaluation 2017

                 PENDLE HILL  PARTICIPANT EVALUATION FORM

 

CONFERENCE TITLE:___________________________________________________________

NAME (optional):________________________________________________________________

DATES: ________________________   MEETING SPACE:_____________ BEDROOM #______

 

As a participant, my overall experience/impression of the Customer Service at Pendle Hill was: (please circle one number, with 1 being very poor and 10 being amazing)

 

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Please explain ________________________________________________________________

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 Please evaluate the level and quality of support you received from Pendle Hill.

    (Use the reverse side to continue your responses if necessary).

  1. Arrival

        Were you warmly greeted and given adequate information at the Pendle Hill orientation?

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Was the Pendle Hill orientation presented clearly? _______________________________

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         Was your personal room clean, orderly, and welcoming? __________________________

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         Did you get clear answers to your questions? ___________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________2. Support

        Requests handled courteously and expeditiously? ________________________________

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        Were your facilities kept clean and tidy? ________________________________________

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        Comments on the meeting space, dining room, common areas and other Pendle Hill facilities?

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Continued on the other side.

Comments on your bedroom and bath. ________________________________________

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        Comments on the teas, refreshments, snacks, if applicable.________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________

Comments on the food preparation and service__________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Were you given adequate departure support from Pendle Hill?  _____________________________________________________________

 

  1.  Things that Pendle Hill could have done better to facilitate your participation in your conference?

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  1.  Other comments. ___________________________________________________________

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Dr. Peggy Sanday To Explore Concept of “Matrixial” Cultures

“The Matrixial Foundation of Maternal Cultural Meanings in Myth and Ritual”

Keynote Presentation, ASWM 2017 Symposium

 

Minangkabau Women, via Indonesian Tourism Forum
Minangkabau Women, by Indonesian Tourism Forum

“In my long term study of and stay with the matrilineal Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia—off and on between the years l981 and 2007—I found that women have a social value and structural importance in the historical continuity of  their culture that is observable today in their individual autonomy and collective identity. The same is true of adult men, who reside with their wives while carrying out life-long social responsibilities to their maternal family.  This matrilineal society tends toward gender equality rather than gender (including male) dominance.

“The question I raise in this presentation is: What encourages the relative stability of this and other matrilineal egalitarian socio-cultural systems?  

Mosuo Women, via Chinancient
Mosuo Women, via Chinancient

“I address this question by reference to the symbolic similarities in the origin stories of selected matrilineal societies including the Minangkabau and the matrilineal Mosuo of China, whom I visited briefly at the end of 2016. In doing so I introduce a new term–“Matrixial”–that was coined by the Israeli scholar/artist Bracha Ettinger.

“This term challenges Freud’s concept of ” the “phallic” as a universal phase in psycho-social development.  (If this were the case, all societies should be male dominant, but as I have shown elsewhere they are not.) Ettinger’s concept helps us to appreciate the tremendous variation in human socio-cultural systems along with environment, history, food source and other factors, which have a profound impact on the organization of societies and on cross-cultural understandings.”