Category: Salon Recordings

ASWM Scholar Salon with Dr. Kay Turner, "Feasting on a Hekate Supper, explores the many facets of Hekate through her lineage, her epithets, her invocations, her rites, her symbols, her realms, and her alliances, and highlights Hekate’s recognition and repair of brokenness as seen in her role in the myth of Demeter’s separation from Persephone.

ASWM Scholar Salon with Dr. Eftyhia Leontidou, "Healing Goddesses of Ancient Greece,"relates the stories of well known and lesser known deities and their symbols, particularly the snake, whose venom can kill or heal. She also discusses the state of modern "medicine women" in the health fields.

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."