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A (M)otherworld is Possible: Two Feminist Visions
Schedule
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October 23, Friday evening
| 7.20- 7.30 pm | Opening Invocation - Agnes Williams (Seneca, New York) | |
| 7.30-7.35 pm | Welcome words of Andrea O'Reilly (Canada) | |
| 7.35-9.05 pm | Gift Economy Keynote Speakers 1 | |
| Genevieve Vaughan: (USA, Italy) | ||
| A Maternal Humanity and the Gift Paradigm | ||
| Wahu Kaara: (Kenya) | ||
| Feminist thinking in Context of African experience in the struggle for space, place and contribution to Human Prosperity | ||
| 9.05-10.35 pm | Matriarchal Studies Keynote Speakers 1 | |
| Heide Goettner-Abendroth: (Germany) | ||
| Matriarchies as Mother-centered Societies | ||
| Barbara Mann: (Seneca, Ohio) | ||
| Listen to Your Mother | ||
| Saturday, October 24 | ||
| 8:30-9:30am | Registration and Continental Breakfast | |
A (M)Other world is Possible EMBEDDED CONFERENCE |
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| 9.30-11.00 | Session one: Giving and Mothers | |
| Debbie Weingarten: (USA) | ||
| Legacy of Gift Giving Mothers | ||
| Nané Jordan: (USA) | ||
| A Poetics of the Placenta. Placental Cosmology as Gift and Sacred Economy | ||
| Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum (USA) | ||
| The Future has an Ancient Mother: the African Legacy | ||
| Paola Melchiori (Italy) | ||
| From Destiny to Choices | ||
| 11:00-11:15 | Break |
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| 11:15-12:45 | Session two: The Gift in Society at large | |
| Nina Simons: (USA) | ||
| Restoring the Feminine in Education, Economics and All Our Institutions | ||
| Bernedette Muthien: (South Africa) | ||
| Egalitarianism and Nonviolence as Gift of Life - the KhoeSan of Southern Africa and Lang Elsie of the Hessequa in the Overberg | ||
| Mechthild Hart: (USA, Germany) | ||
| Mutual Living Interdependence: An Embodied and Embedded Gift Economy | ||
| Erella Shadmi: (Israel) | ||
| Feminism, Gift-Giving, Matriarchy - and Anarchism | ||
| 12:45-1:45 | Lunch Break |
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| 1:45-3:15 | Session three: Aspects of Matriarchal Cultures | |
| Malika Grasshoff: (Berber, Kabyle) | ||
| The Meaning of Motherhood among the Berber of North Africa | ||
| Gudrun Frank-Wissmann: (Germany) | ||
| The most sacred Ritual on Palau: Initiation of a Mother after First Childbirth | ||
| Letecia Layson (USA) | ||
| Priestessing on the Edge of Chaos - Decolonization as revelation to matriarchal spirituality- a brief look at the Babaylan of the Phillipines, past,present and future. | ||
| Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve: (Austria) | ||
| What can we learn from Matriarchal Societies? | ||
| 3.15-3.30 | Break |
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| 3.30-5.00 | Session four: Aspects of Matriarchal Spirituality | |
| Marguerite Rigoglioso: (USA) | ||
| Divine Motherhood: The Case of Ancient Greece | ||
| Kalli Rose Halvorson: (USA) | ||
| Peacewalk through the Mother and Daughter Bear Constellations: Bearings of Love and indomitability for our Maternal Humanity | ||
| Nadine Mc Neil: (Jamaica) | ||
| Yoga Ethnochoreology: Bodily Practices/ Matriarchal Collectivizing Memory | ||
| Mary Louise Stone: (USA) | ||
| Andean Spirituality: Maternal Thinking and Inclusive Community | ||
| 5:00-6:30 | Dinner Break |
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| 6:30-8:00 | Gift Economy Keynote Speakers 2 | |
| Pilwha Chang: (Korea) | ||
| Gift Giving, Mothering, and Ancient Ways | ||
| Vicki Noble (USA) | ||
| The Scientific Underpinnings of Matriarchal (Mother-Based) Social Organization & Gift Economy Behaviors | ||
| 8:00-9:30 | Matriarchal Studies Keynote Speakers 2 | |
| Marina Meneses (Juchitán, Mexico) | ||
| About the Life of a Juchitecan Mother | ||
| Valentina Pakyntein (Khasi, India) | ||
| Khasi Matriarchal Social Structure: Tradition and Incessancy | ||
| Closing: | ||
| 9.30-10.00 | Lydia Ruyle: World Icons of Mothers and Grandmothers | |
| Sunday, October 25 | ||
| 11:00-10:50 | A (M)OTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE - SPECIAL GUESTS | |
| Sobonfu Somé (Burkina Faso, Africa) | ||
The Gift of Mothering |
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| Agnes Williams (USA, Seneca) | ||
| Original Instructions Practised Today: Law of Peace and Code of Handsome Lake | ||
| 10.50-12.15 | Panel: Political Significance of the Gift Paradigm for Feminist Transformation | |
| Angela Dolmetsch: (Colombia) Mothering Values as the Source of Sustainable Eco Village Building |
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| Linda Christiansen Ruffman: (Canada) Myths of "Progress": Women, the Gift Paradigm, Gender Relations and the Patriarchal Growth of the Modern World System (1400-2000) |
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| Kaarina Kailo (Finland) The Demise of Finnish Welfare? Loss of the Gift and Gender Equality |
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| Angela Miles (Canada) The Politics of the Gift |
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| 12:15-1:15 | Lunch Break | |
| 1.15-2.30 | A (M)OTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE - CLOSING PANEL | |
| A (M)otherworld is Possible - Matriarchal Visions of a Future of Peace General discussion with all keynote speakers, presenters, and public |
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