“Hearing the Invisible: Lessons from Sentient Beings and Inter-relational Ecosystems”
Call for Proposals: ASWM Online Symposium: Sunday, April 10, 2020
Jane Goodall has pointed out our own contemporary lesson that human global disregard for nature brought on the current pandemic, documenting that mistreatment/exploitation of sentient beings can result in an exponential crisis for the whole planet.
Our 2022 biennial Symposium focuses on meanings found in the relational reality among science, culture, and mythology in regards to animals, the green world, and ecosystems.
We especially encourage proposals from Native American/Indigenous scholars and women of color. We welcome scholars from all fields with contributions to further expanding our understanding of our universal relatedness in the community of sentient beings.
With our primary focus on interconnectedness, we welcome academic and artistic presentations concerning ecological and scientific scholarship. In particular we seek work that addresses collaborations between humans and other sentient beings, foundational myths about earth’s response to misuse, and scientific solutions to transgressions against the balance of nature.
Such topics may include (but are not limited to):
- Dialogues between “Western” scientific findings and indigenous science and insights
- Cautionary tales of animal guardians redressing human greed and over-consumption
- Examples, in Haraway’s terms, of “staying with the trouble” of ecological devastation
- Women’s roles in promoting justice for land, animals and climate
- Patterns of Cross-species Companionship in Science and Contemporary Fiction and Arts
- Our Cousins the Bears: Myths of Cross-species Relationships
- Selkies and Crane Wives: What Shapeshifting Women can teach us
- Goddesses and Sea Creatures: Wisdom from the Deep
- Comparative mythologies and science about pollinator-plant symbiosis
- Mythologies and goddesses of origins, transitions, liminalities, and migration
- Divine interventions for healing out-of-balance human behaviors
- Myths of reciprocity and partnership among sentient beings
- Feminist spiritual traditions that inspire earth-centered activism
Proposal deadline: January 20, 2022
For questions, contact submissions@womenandmyth.org .
Click here to view a detailed Call for Proposals with guidelines and submission form
About the artwork: “The Caretaker of the Precious,” a monoprint by Denise Kester of Drawing on the Dream (2001) beautifully conveys the intention and spirit of our program.
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