Following the ASWM conference, Judy Grahn’s provocative and groundbreaking speech, “Goddess Is Alive! But How Do We Know?” has been made available as a PDF through the Women’s Spirituality Program of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (soon to be Sophia University).
“Exploring Myth” Symposium
Exploring Myth: Culture, Theory, Practice
August 31-September 2, 2012, Santa Barbara, CA
The first Symposium for the Study of Myth Co-sponsored by the Joseph Campbell Foundation, Opus Archives and Research Center, and Pacifica Graduate Institute. The Symposium will be held at Pacifica’s Ladera Lane Campus.
This interdisciplinary gathering will pay tribute to the fact that myth is a changing, elastic landscape that flourishes in surprising ways. Symposium themes are organized around three broad areas of inquiry and action: Myth in Theory, Myth in Culture, and Myth in Practice, and will include a blend of self-selecting energies and traditional formats. There will be roundtable discussion sessions, paper panels, keynote lectures by luminaries in the field of myth studies, and special events that include media presentations and performances.
For more information: studyofmyth.org
Treasures of San Francisco
One of our blessings in ASWM is the wonderful folks on our advisory board! They often have wonderful resources to share.
In anticipation of the Matriarchal Studies Day (May 10) and our National Conference (May 11-12), Lydia Ruyle has assembled a guide to her favorite museums and sites in San Francisco.
Whether you can join us for the conference, or get to the Bay Area another time, check out this link: San Francisco Treasures : ASWM 2012.
Thanks, Lydia, for sharing these resources with us all!
2012 Conference Schedule
Here at last is our conference schedule–subject to changes, of course, as life intervenes. Come and join us for this exciting program, and don’t forget about the Matriarchal Studies Day which occurs the day before our conference.
Our unbelievably amazing Schedule
“Goddesses” Performance at Conference
Goddesses—their stories often inspire us, well into the 21st century. But what happens to a modern woman when six Greek goddesses compete within her for control of her psyche? How will she respond to the strong, assertive personalities of these archetypal divinities? These are the questions posed in Dorotea Reyna’s play, Goddesses, based on the groundbreaking concepts found in Goddesses in Everywoman by Jean Shinoda Bolen.
Goddesses premiered at the Festival of One Act Plays at Dominican University of California, and went on to be produced at the Live Oak Theatre in Berkeley, Mills College, and live on KPFA 94.1 on the radio drama program, Act One.
At the ASWM conference, Goddesses will be presented as a one-woman performance by the playwright. Following the performance, there will be a panel discussion. In alphabetical order the panelists are:
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker who draws from spiritual, feminist, Jungian, medical and personal wellsprings of experience. She is the author of many books that explore women’s life passages, including Goddesses in Everywoman, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don’t Whine and, most recently, Like a Tree.
Mara Lynn Keller, PhD (Philosophy, Yale University) is a Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Women’s Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is a philosopher, thealogian, and specialist on the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone. As director of the Women’s Spirituality graduate program from 1998-2008, she produced special events on women’s sacred arts and scholarship, including an art exhibition on Ineffable/Woman with CERES Gallery in New York.
Arisika Razak, RN, MPH is the Chair of the Women’s Spirituality Program at CIIS. For five years she co-chaired the Womanist-Pan African Section of the American Academy of Religion-Western Region, and she is a regular contributor books and journals. Her film credits include Fire Eyes, the first full length feature film by an African woman on female genital cutting; and the forthcoming Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth where she is interviewed on Alice Walker womanism.
Dorotea Reyna. MA, received her Bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University and her Master’s in English with a concentration in poetry from the University of Texas at Austin. Her poetry has appeared in New Chicana/Chicano Writing published by the University of Arizona Press and in Imagining Worlds published by McGraw-Hill. She has read her poetry in venues across the San Francisco Bay Area,and has been awarded two grants from the Marin Arts Council for her writing.
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