Category: Matriarchal Studies

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Matriarchal Studies Day 2016

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Modern Matriarchal Studies Day

March 31, 2016

 

Plan to come a day early to Boston and enjoy the Matriarchal Studies Day seminar and celebration, in the same location as our ASWM Conference.   Hosts for the day are Vicki Noble and Letecia Layson. The program includes a presentation from Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth, founder of Modern Matriarchal Studies (via Skype).   Also on the agenda are explorations of woman-centered arts, themes of motherhood, and the Gift Economy. Presenters will include Max Dashu, Polly Wood, Beverly Little Thunder, and Genevieve Vaughan. The keynote presentation is by Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, and evening entertainment will be provided by internationally known folksinger Julie Felix.

See the Matriarchal Studies Day agenda below or here Matriarchal Studies Day Agenda

The registration fee includes your lunch.  Follow the links to register:

$60 (before February 11)

$75 (Feb 11 to March 25)

$90 (after March 25 and Walk-ins)

For more information, contcact Joan Cichon at cichon@oakton.edu

Please note:  Matriarchal Studies Day is presented in conjunction with our conference, to the benefit of both groups,but registration for this event is not covered by registering for the ASWM Conference.

Matriarchal Studies Day Agenda

Burlington Marriott

Boston, MA

March 31, 2016

 

 

9:00     Opening Ritual / Julie Felix, troubadour

Greetings from Turtle Island / Kunsi Keya Tamakoce / Beverly Little Thunder

 

9:30-10:45

Herstory / Background of Matriarchal Studies:

Lydia Ruyle–Matriarchal Studies Conferences Intro

Matriarchal Studies Foundress: Heide Goettner Abendroth via SKYPE

 

BREAK

 

11:00-12:00

Woman Centered Art, Drama, Music:

Constance Tippett—Goddess Timeline

Indigenous Stories—Beverly Little Thunder

                        Polly Wood–Blood Songs

Foremothers Book—Vicki Noble & Miriam Robbins Dexter

 

LUNCH

 

1:00-2:20

            Reclaiming the Matriarchal, Radical and Wild Motherhood Panel:

Mariam Tazi-Preve, Genevieve Vaughan, Max Dashu, Lin Daniels

 

BREAK

 

2:30-3:30       

Women Centered Future:

Vicki Noble—Oxytocin, Matriarchy, and Human Evolution

Erica Starks—Matriarchal Studies High School Curriculum

Genevieve Vaughan—The Gift Economy

 

3:30-4:00

Honorary Speaker: Elinor Gadon—The Village Goddess in India

 

4:00-5:00

Presenters & Attendees Discussion

 

5:00-7:30                    DINNER [On Your Own]

 

 

7:30-9:00

Keynote Speaker: Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

Closing Ritual: Julie Felix, Troubadour

 

Our gratitude and thanks go to Lin Daniels, who helped Lydia Ruyle and Vicki Noble plan the Matriarchal Studies Day 2016. Thanks to Barb Lutz for building our altar.

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Modern Matriarchal Studies Panel

 

Matriarchal Studies Max Dashu writes of early feminist theory, “In 1970 we began asking, where are women free? Where are the egalitarian cultures, and why don’t we know about them? How can we access a fuller record of human experience, that acknowledges female sovereignty, elders, wisewomen, and spheres of power?”

Academics in the US tend to avoid the term Matriarchy to describe these cultures, because it is seen to project a mirror image of Patriarchy, with women dominating society. In Europe, however, the term has been brought into clear focus through the work of Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth and others.  This panel at the ASWM conference will explore the development of modern Matriarchal Studies and efforts at serious study of non-patriarchal, egalitarian societies past and present.  The panelists will be Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth, Max Dashu, Lydia Ruyle, and Vicki Noble.

Click here for a complete description of the panel and panelists:  MS Panel ASWM 2012

And–continue reading for information about these presenters and their topics.

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Matriarchal Studies Day, May 10, 2012

We have been working with a group of matriarchal studies scholars in the US, to arrange their Matriarchal Studies Day to occur the day before our national conference.  Like ASWM’s conference, their event will take place at the Holiday Inn at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco.  We have also arranged to co-sponsor their evening keynote presentation by Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth, the founder of Modern Matriarchal Studies as a branch of feminist anthropology.

When you see their program, and ours, we hope that you will want to join us for both of these exciting events!

Priestesses of Pele, by Lydia Ruyle
MATRIARCHAL STUDIES DAY  May 10, 2012: 9:00 am – 9:00 PM
Fisherman’s Wharf Holiday Inn, San Francisco, California
May 10, 2012: 9:00 am – 9:00 PM
Updated Matriarchal Studies Day Prospectus, March 31, 2012
MATRIARCHAL STUDIES DAY AGENDA
9:00-9:30 am  Opening Ritual
Altar making :  Lydia Ruyle / Goddess Icon Spirit Banners
9:45-10:30   Herstory Overview of Matriarchal Studies–Beginnings
Max Dashu / Suppressed Histories
Joan Marler / Marija Gimbutas’s Legacy
Lucia Birnbaum / The Future Has An Ancient Heart
10:30-Noon  Teaching Matriarchal Studies / Where We Are Today
Vicki Noble & students
Marguerite Rigoglioso & students
LUNCH 12:00-1:00
1:00-2:00pm  Matriarchal Creative Movement / Matriarchal Language / Matriarchal Households
Leilani Birely–Hula Traditions
Delphine Red Shirt–Lakota Language
MaShiAat Oloya Tyehimba-Ford –Matriarchal Household, Egyptian Yoruba Lineage
2:00-3:00pm  Matriarchal Studies Voices from Europe / Indigenous Cultures
Mariam Tazi-Preve–European culture, Austria
Malika Grasshof–Kabyle Berber culture, Africa
Deborah L. Neff–Nayar culture, Kerala, India
BREAK
3:30-3:45pm  Future of Matriarchal Studies
Max Dashu, Lydia Ruyle–Social Networking / Digital Herstories on Internet
3:45-5:30pm Open General Discussion moderated by Vicki Noble
 
DINNER / On Your Own  5:30-7:30pm
7:30pm
Janie Rezner
Heide Goettner-Abendroth
(Presented In Conjunction with the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology
Please Note: Agenda subject to change
For more information or to register see next page.
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Die Zeit ist Reif: Report on the 2011 International Congress on Matriarchal Studies

by Lin Daniels, MA, Amazon Icon Foundation

            “Better to build lifeboats than to wait for the Patriarchy-Titanic to listen to reason” was the emphasis of this year’s conference.  It was an examination of what to do about the patriarchy-built looming global crisis. The conference was a feast for the mind and the heart as women from all over the world convened to find answers.

The conference was held in the medieval town of St. Gallen, at the Town Hall. The old building was transformed by the art exhibitions.  The photo exhibit by Siegrun Claaben gave glimpses of the New Matriarchal Mystery Festivals that began in 1983. They invoked the spirit of the time. “The 1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe” exhibit displayed biographical postcards of women who have all profoundly changed lives on this planet for the better. Lydia Ruyle’s powerful banners graced all of the halls of the building. They set the atmosphere of the conference.

Dr. Cecile Keller designed and facilitated the rituals that closed the days of the Kongress, with drumming led by Isabella Verbruggen and Loes Moezelaar of the Netherlands.  We conjured a grand spectacle as hundreds of women made a sacred circle in the park in front of the town hall.

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Modern Matriarchal Studies

Modern Matriarchal Studies Week at the Academy Hagia

by Joan Cichon

This past July I was privileged to attend a special week long seminar taught by Dr. Heide Gottner-Abendroth at her International Academy Hagia (www.hagia.de) in Bavaria, Germany.  Entitled “Modern Matriarchal Studies,” the seminar was attended by sixteen women from Africa, Europe and North and South America.  Among the participants were politicians, activists, scholars, academicians, and artists.

We came to Bavaria for Dr. Gottner-Abendroth’s first seminar in English on Modern Matriarchal Studies, a field which she originated.

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