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Announcing Scholar Salon 20: Register for January 27

“Decolonizing Diwatas – Reclaiming Ancestral Knowledge in Myth, Legend, and Folklore of the Philippines“

with Letecia Layson

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 3 pm Eastern Standard Time 

Letecia at lake in Wahta Mohawk Territory in Ontario

In this presentation, Letecia draws from her personal practice of reclaiming Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices of the Philippines that live in the Origin Stories, Myths, Legends, and Folklore of the Philippines. She will share the creation story from the Visayas of Maganda and Malakas and how the Diwatas (Goddesses)– GamaoGamao (Mandaya), Mayari (Tagalog), Haliya (Bicol), Kan-Laon (Hiligaynon) and Maria Cacao (Cebuano)–are providing inspiration for contemporary urban Filipinas both in diaspora and in the Philippines. Filipino are using living wisdom from Ancient Stories to help make meaning and navigate these challenging times.

Letecia Layson

Letecia Layson is a Filipina, Feminist, Futurist, Priestess of Morphogenesis (Form Coming Into Being), High Priestess of Diana; Priestess Hierophant in FOI/TOI-LA. Letecia is one of the founding Mothers of the Center for Babaylan Studies; a member of International Feminists for Gift Economy, and the Modern Matriarchal Studies Network. Letecia’s maternal Ancestors are Wary from Tacloban, Leyte and her paternal Ancestors are Ilongo from Iloilo, Panay.

Save these dates for upcoming ASWM Salons:

February 10 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
“Living in a Sentient World”
Judy Grahn

February 24 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
“Signs Out of Time: Honoring the Life and Work of Marija Gimbutas”
Starhawk and Donna Read

March 10 at 3pm Eastern Standard Time
“Women’s Mythologies; Is mythology relevant today?”
Tova Beck-Friedman

Benefit of Membership - ASWM

The Salon recording will also be available to members after the event. 

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Announcing Scholar Salon 19: Register for January 13

“Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet”

with Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen

Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 3 pm Eastern Standard Time 

Jean Shinoda Bolen and friend

In this time of ecological and social upheaval, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen returns us to timeless wisdom found in her book, “Like a Tree.” Gloria Steinem says of this poetic and inspirational book, “Like a Tree is the rare book that not only informs, but offers a larger consciousness of life itself.”  This remarkable book grew out of Jean’s practice of walking among tall trees and also mourning the loss of a Monterey pine that was cut down in her neighborhood.

How many of us recognize that we are “tree people? Jean’s presentation covers the subject of trees from anatomy and physiology to trees as archetypal and sacred symbols, and issues a call to learn from and protect our environment. She speaks about deforestation, global warming, and overpopulation, as well as the work of individuals and organizations to save trees everywhere. Her presentation is a strong and positive call to ecological activism and spiritual reflection.

 

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, an internationally known speaker and author of thirteen influential books in over one hundred foreign editions: The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don’t Whine, The Millionth Circle, Like A Tree, Urgent Message From Mother, Moving Toward the Millionth Circle, and Artemis: The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a past Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, and a former board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, and the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She is a 2020-21   Lifetime Achievement Award honoree from Marquis Who’s Who.  

Member Registration TBA on our Salon Registration page

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Call for Papers and Art Entries for 2021 ASWM Symposium

Call for Papers and Art Entries: Deadline Feb. 15, 2021

ASWM 2021 Symposium

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

July 16-18 2021

Marija Gimbutas founded the groundbreaking field of archaeomythology to investigate beliefs, rituals, symbols, and social structures of early European 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 of works inspired by archaeomythology or Nature-based societies.

Deadline for submissions: Feb 15, 2021

All presenters must be or become members of ASWM ($30-60 dues) and register for the event.

2021 Call for Papers

2021 Artist Entries

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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.

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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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