Category: Salon Recordings

Scholar Salon #94: Dr. Pinar Durgun explores how our understanding of ancient Mesopotamian women’s lives shifts when we challenge common assumptions and examine evidence across legal, economic, religious, and visual sources.

Scholar Salon #93: Laura Shannon sheds light on indigenous value systems honouring mothers and childbirth, and to offer grounds for placing the Holy Mother at the heart of the Nativity story, as the one for whom the Magi's sacred gifts were intended.

Scholar Salon #92: Dr. Susan Moulton explores ancient human-animal relationships: "To understand the complexity of the remote past we must consider the experience of the first Hominins who lived in synchrony with all sentient aspects of their natural environment, including animals and plants."

Scholar Salon #91: In this presentation Ashley Remer discusses the Girl Museum, the first museum in the world dedicated to celebrating girlhood and advocating for girls’ rights.

Scholar Salon #90: In this presentation Dr. Kathryn Henderson explores the foundational myths of the antlered Deer Mother: "Deer Mother’s message is one of keeping balance, of reverence for the earth’s life-giving nurturance, death and rebirth. "