Announcing Scholar Salon 2 with Kathy Jones
“Motherworld: Creating a Life-affirming Society for All”
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time, online
MotherWorld is the society where Mother Earth, mothers and the values of mothering – love, care and support for each other, and for all Her creatures and nature – are placed in the center of our lives and communities.
In MotherWorld, creative and life-affirming values, actions, insights and awareness are honored and encouraged in women, men, children and all genders. It is the society that is grounded in the fact that we all live upon our Mother Earth–the source and foundation of all that we are and all that we have. We need to honor and take care of Her, of each other and of all life.
Kathy says, “MotherWorld is a grassroots movement which can change everything, arising from the Earth Herself. We are exploring what it means to create a MotherWorld community within Glastonbury Goddess Temple and we are setting up a MotherWorld political party.”
Internationally known goddess scholar Kathy Jones is the recipient of ASWM’s 2018 Demeter Award for Leadership in Women’s Spirituality. She has lived and worked in Glastonbury, England for the last forty years where she has played a key role in bringing the awareness of Goddess back not only to Glastonbury, but to Europe, the U.S., and the world. Kathy is Founder, Creative Director and Temple Weaver of Glastonbury Goddess Temple, Goddess Hall, and Goddess House. She is Founder of Glastonbury Goddess Conference, and is the MotherWorld Initiator. The author of ten acclaimed Goddess books, Kathy is a teacher offering the three-year Priestess of Avalon training, as well as Soul Healing and other Goddess trainings.
Scholar Salons give members the chance to join an online conversation with prominent scholars from all fields. This is a members only opportunity. Join or Renew for 2019 by 9:00 AM Eastern time on Wednesday, September 25th (thanks!) and we will send instructions on how to join the Salon. Access requests after this time cannot be guaranteed. For questions, email womenandmyth@gmail.com.
Kore Award for Best Dissertation: Applications Open
Applications are open until January 17, 2020 for The 2020 Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Women and Mythology.
The Kore Award is conferred by the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. The award, established in 2009, is funded by the gift of a generous contributor and carries a $500 prize. The intention behind its founding is to create awareness of excellence in Women and Mythology, and to provide an organizational framework for supporting graduate students in their work. The award is presented at the biennial national conference, for dissertations completed and defended in 2019 and 2018. Defense must be completed by December 31, 2019.
Applicants can be from any discipline, including but not limited to literature, religious studies, art or art history, classics, anthropology, and communications. Creative dissertations must include significant analysis of mythology in addition to creative work. Applicants must be members of ASWM at time of submission.
Past winners of this award include Dr. Dawn Work-MaKinne (2010), Deity in Sisterhood: The Collective Female Sacred in Germanic Europe, Dr. Shannan Palma (2012), Tales as Old as Time: Myth, Gender and the Fairy Tale in Popular Culture, Dr. Mary Beth Moser (2014), The Everyday Spirituality of Women in the Italian Alps, Dr. Annette Williams (2016), Our Mysterious Mothers: The Primordial Feminine Power of Àjê in the Cosmology, Mythology, and Historical Reality of the West African Yoruba, and Dr. April Heaslip (2018), Regenerating Magdalene: Psyche’s Quest for the Archetypal Bride.
Applicants must be members of ASWM upon submission of entry. A letter of support from dissertation chair/director must accompany application. Applicants will be urged to also propose a paper for the national conference, and to appear at and present work at national conference, if they receive award. Housing and meals will be covered by the ASWM Board of Directors. Information about the national conference can be found at www.womenandmyth.org
Schedule for 2020 award:
Dissertations completed and defended in 2018 and 2019
Deadline for completion and defense: December 31, 2019
Application window: Sept. 16, 2019-January 17, 2020
Announcement of award winner: February 14, 2020
Awarded at conference Saturday March 14, 2020, Albuquerque, NM
Application for Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Women and Mythology
ASWM Conference Call for Proposals
Call for Proposal
Rivers of Change, Prophecy, Possibilities
The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM)
2020 ASWM National Conference
March 12-14 2020
Tamaya Resort on Santa Ana Pueblo (near Albuquerque NM)
Our Call for Proposals for panel presentations is now closed. Proposals for poster sessions are still being accepted.
ASWM is a professional organization supporting scholarly and creative endeavors that explore or elucidate aspects of the sacred feminine. We will meet on land with deep connections to Native American and New Mexican traditions. Our conference themes include:
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- Cultural and mythic Native American and Latina traditions
- Women in states of creative or prophetic flow
- Relearning Nature through mythology and sense of place
- Myth and folklore related to relationships of women, animals and nature
- Stories of goddesses and strong women protecting the environment
- Mythologies of place-fulness and place-lessness
- Rivers and mythology of development in world cultures and traditions
- Myth and folklore associated with water, abundance and scarcity
Suggested topics for this conference include, but are not limited to, the following:
- How does mythology about women interact with the sense and reality of place? How does our scholarship change when place becomes an element or partner in our research? What does it mean to find wisdom in places?
- What are new paths for the fields of Women’s Spirituality and Goddess Studies? What are new models and methods for our scholarly inquiry?
- What are the complexities around issues of Cultural Appropriation? How do we understand and address the tensions around rootedness and local culture and issues of lineage and history? Are there new ways to honor history and culture while enriching our scholarship?
- One of the groundbreaking works from Patricia Monaghan was Oh Mother Sun: A New Vision of the Cosmic Feminine. We invite you to submit proposal ideas that are in dialogue with this work about solar goddesses.
- Rivers, development and mythology of development in world cultures and traditions
- Floods, Fires, fury of nature and destruction of the environment
- Environmental activism, sense of place and gender expression in world cultures and traditions
- Gender and myth and gender as myth in colonial and postcolonial cultures
- Mythology, environment and architectural expressions of the conscious and the unconscious
- The role of mythology in producing a sense of belonging and sense of place in colonial and postcolonial cultures
- Relearning Nature through mythology and sense of place
- Memory, mythology and sense of place
- Myths and sacred stories that strengthen identity and agency in girls and young women
- Science, technology, mythology and environmental ethics for the twenty first century
- The roles of women in prophecy and the role of prophecy in women’s lives
- Migrants, refugees, and mythologies of place-fulness and place-lessness
- Nature, Places, Non-Places and Spirituality in indigenous and late-capitalist societies
- Animal mysteries, including myth and folklore especially related to relationships of women, animals and environment
- Liminal deity, spanning borders of species, sex, and gender
Proposals for papers, panels, posters and workshops addressing these topics will be given preference, but other subjects will be considered. Please indicate the topic under which you are submitting your paper in your abstract. Papers should be 20 minutes; up to four papers on a related topic may be proposed together. Workshops (limited to 90 minutes) should be organized to provide audience interaction and must clearly address theme.
Presenters from all disciplines are welcome, as well as creative artists, filmmakers and practitioners who engage mythic themes in a scholarly manner in their work. Presenters must become members of ASWM prior to conference.
Send 250-word abstract (for panels, 200 word abstract plus up to 150 words per paper) by November 1, 2019. Include bio of up to 70 words for each presenter, as well as contact information including surface address and email. Notifications will be sent out in late December.
Submissions are closed for papers and workshops or panels. We are still accepting proposals for a poster session. If you have questions contact the Program Committee (aswmsubmissions@gmail.com).
Matriarchal Studies – Matriarchatsforschung New Bilingual Website
The Academy HAGIA is pleased to announce its newly created, bilingual website, Matriarchal Studies—Matriarchatsforschung (AHMSM), a unique bibliography of Modern Matriarchal Studies.
The Academy HAGIA has been planning the launch of AHMSM for quite some time, and now it is available on internet, in German at: www.matriarchatsforschung.comand in English at: www.matriarchalstudies.com
The Bibliography exhaustively lists all known studies of and commentaries on the subject of matriarchies, from ancient times up to the modern day. Each title mentioned includes a short caption, so that the origin and development of the field of matriarchy can be traced through to the establishment of modern matriarchal studies.
In the first part of AHMSM offers anthropological publications describing matriarchal societies and societies with matriarchal elements worldwide, in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia. The second part of the bibliography is dedicated to the history of matriarchal cultures through archaeological publications and the history of cultures, which have contributed to the knowledge about matriarchal societies in history in West Asia and Europe.
The Oxford University Press (U.S.) first published this comprehensive, English-language bibliography in 2015, with an update published in 2019, the same year that it was translated into German, making this excellent intellectual tool for research on matriarchal societies now accessible in both English and German.
Licensed by Oxford University Press, AHMSM is available, free of charge, as a gift to scholars and people interested in Modern Matriarchal Studies.
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