Category: Salon Recordings

ASWM Scholar Salon with Dr. Vivien Monroe, "Decoding Delphi: Reconstructing the Technology of Divination," asks: What were the spiritual technologies used at  the Delphic Oracle? How did the Greeks understand that the Oracle worked, and  what role, if any, did gender play in the successful operation of the oracle?

ASWM Scholar Salon with photographer Maria Haas, "Exploring Matriarchal Societies: Encounters and Insights from Around the World," which takes the audience on a captivating journey through the matriarchal cultures she has visited and documented.

ASWM Scholar Salon with Dr. Edda Fields-Black, who tells a little-known story of Harriet Tubman's role as a Union spy in her groundbreaking book, "COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War."

ASWM Scholar Salon with Dr. Barbara Mann, “Of Golf Courses & World Heritage Sites” goes into the details of the Newark Earth Works mounds, their Indigenous meaning, their desecration, and finally their recognition as a treasure from antiquity. 

ASWM Scholar Salon with Guadalupe Urbina, internationally known singer-songwriter and researcher, whose work explores the rich oral tradition and stories of the Guanacaste region of Costa Rica. To tell her story of identity and culture, she has ventured into painting, children's books and poetry as extensions of her musicality.