Category: Salon Recordings

Dr. Mary Condren, author of "The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion and Power in Celtic Ireland," discusses the contrast between traditions such as the merciful saint/goddess Brigit and religions based on sacrificial social contracts and strategies of colonization. Salon Recordings are a member benefit of Association for the Study of Women and Mythology

Patriarchal Capitalism/Capitalist Patriarchy is an artificial and pernicious system that is destroying Mother Earth and her children. We need to return to the deep economy of the human mother, based on the model of unilateral giving to needs, a model that every child has to experience in order to survive. Economic theorist Genevieve Vaughan explores issues related to maternal gift-giving.

Ecologist Cristina Eisenberg shows how combining Western Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which is based on Indigenous matriarchal wisdom, can create solutions to our most pressing conservation and social justice problems. Salon Recordings are a member benefit of Association for the Study of Women and Mythology.

“The Fire of Umai, a call to our sacred Indigenous power” with Apela Colorado Thursday,  February 10, 2022 Moderated by Kathryn Henderson As told in the final chapter of her recently released book Woman Between the Worlds, Apela Colorado, PhD, and a group of healers were hiking a mountain in Kyrgyzstan 12 years ago, passing …

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Scholar Salon 35: "Listening to the Land" Novelist Elizabeth Cunningham shares how her encounters with place shaped The Maeve Chronicles, a series of award-winning novels featuring a feisty Celtic Magdalen. During her twenty years of research and writing, Elizabeth traveled to the Hebrides, Wales, Italy, Israel, France, Turkey, and England. Over and over, she discovered that the land itself has stories to tell to those who will listen