Category: Events

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

Past Events

Here are some of our excellent Salon and Conference presenters!

Jeannette Kiel
Jeannette Kiel PhD
Annie FInch Portrait
Annie Finch, photo by Kate Warren
Anne Key and Veronica Iglesias Portrait
Anne Key and Verónica Iglesias
Jane Caputi Portrait
Jane Caputi
Cristina Biaggi Portrait
Cristina Biaggi
Normandi Ellis
Normandi Ellis
Mandisa Amber Wood Portrait
Mandisa Wood
Starr Goode Portrait
Starr Goode

 


2025 CONFERENCE

All About 2025 Conference
2025 Conference Recordings ~ COMING SOON
“The Ancient Warriors Within,” by Antoinette Johnson


2023 CONFERENCE

All About 2023 Conference
2023 Conference Recordings
“Salmon River” by Natalie Sappier

 


2022 SYMPOSIUM

All About 2022 Symposium
2022 Symposium NEWS


2021 SYMPOSIUM

All About 2021 Symposium
2021 Symposium NEWS
Marija Gimbutas
Marija Gimbutas

Ongoing Scholar Salons: Save the Dates

News posts about Scholar Salons News can be found here.

Scholar Salons are a member benefit; members will find a comprehensive list of all upcoming Salons, Registration links and Recrodings can be found on the Scholar Salons: Registration and Recordings page.   Or members can browse Salons and recordings here. 

Note to members: Please try to register at least a week before a salon, so that if you have any issues registering or logging in, our volunteers can help resolve them in time.

 

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Green Goddess Conference Follow-up

The 2010 Green Goddess Conference has come and gone (alas) but it has left us with wonderful memories and connections.

More than 80 of us met in the mountains of Pennsylvania for three very busy, very productive days.  The program was packed full, including both academic presentations and experiential workshops.  The conference was a great success,  according to our measures—the “hive” was full of energy and ideas, many new friendships and collaborations took place, and we enjoyed diverse and stimulating presentations and performances.  Furthermore, all of the organizers are still good friends (not always a given in event planning)!

Your president/web reporter will offer follow up articles and pictures of the event soon.  At present I am re-learning to sit still with a cat on my lap and to listen to the violets bloom.

Watch this site for conference reports and announcements of upcoming events.  We are already planning for regional symposia in 2011 (WI and PA) and a conference in Chicago in 2012!

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2010 Kore Award for Best Dissertation

Dawn Work-MaKinne receives first Kore Award

The first Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Goddess Studies was presented  April 24, 2010, at ASWM’s  Green Goddess Conference.  The award went to Dawn E. Work-MaKinne, Ph.D., a graduate of Union Institute & University.  Her dissertation, Deity in Sisterhood: The Collective Sacred Female in Germanic Europe, was commended for its “skilled integration of important German language material critical to studies of mythology.”

Dr. Work-MaKinne received her Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies in 2010, with a Concentration in Arts and Sciences and a specialization in Women’s Studies in Religion. Continue reading “2010 Kore Award for Best Dissertation”

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Report on 2009 Symposium–by Storyteller Nancy Vedder-Shults

Nancy Vedder-Shults takes notes at the ASWM Symposium

I want to thank the newly-formed ASWM (Association for the Study of Women and Mythology) for the wonderful conference they put on last Thursday.

When I walked into the space, I knew I was in the right place, because of the beautiful goddess banners made by Lydia Ruyle that hung around the room.  It felt like a homecoming!  They included Tara, Isis, and Mnemosyne, the Mother of the Muses who as Lydia says “is RE-membering Herstory.”

And when we took our first break, we left the space through a fabric Sheila-na-gig made by Lee Melchior and Susan Swope, that they had hung in the doorway after we arrived.  How wonderful to be birthed and rebirthed through this “vulva” again and again throughout the day!!

About the 2009 Symposium itself:  It was fantastic!  Sid Reger was the M.C., and she started out by introducing Barbara Marx Hubbard’s term “vocational arousal” for passionate work, which was demonstrated by presenters throughout  the day.  Every one of them was enthusiastic about what she shared.   Continue reading “Report on 2009 Symposium–by Storyteller Nancy Vedder-Shults”

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“New” Goddess Figure Puts in Appearance at Symposium

When ASWM members met in Madison, WI, on the morning of May 14, we could feel  excitement buzzing in the room even before the presentations started.  Several women had just heard about the discovery of a Paleolithic goddess figure in Germany, and they were sharing her image on their phones and computers!

The Paleolithic Hohle Fels Figure

The story and image of the Hohle Fels figure hit the media just as we were meeting.  Carbon dating suggests that this ivory goddess was made at least 35,000 years ago, making her one of the oldest sculpted representations of the human figure.

Among sensationalized and sexist accounts in the media, here is one well-written article from the Science Daily web site:  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514084126.htm