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| Opening Invocation - Agnes Williams (Seneca, New York) |
Welcome words of Andrea O'Reilly (Canada) |
Keynote Speaker
Genevieve Vaughan: (USA, Italy) - A Maternal Humanity and the Gift Paradigm |
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Wahu Kaara: (Kenya) - Feminist thinking in Context of African experience in the struggle for space, place and contribution to Human Prosperity |
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Heide Goettner-Abendroth: (Germany) - Matriarchies as Mother-centered Societies |
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Barbara Mann: (Seneca, Ohio) - Listen to Your Mother |
Debbie Winegarten: (USA) - Legacy of Gift Giving Mothers |
Nané Jordan: (USA) - A Poetics of the Placenta. Placental Cosmology as Gift and Sacred Economy |
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| Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum (USA) - The Future has an Ancient Mother: the African Legacy |
Paola Melchiori (Italy) - From Destiny to Choices |
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 |
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Mechthild Hart (USA, Germany)
Mutual Living Interdependence: An Embodied and Embedded Gift Economy |
Erella Shadmi (Israel)
Feminism, Gift-Giving, Matriarchy - and Anarchism |
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 |
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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? |
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 |
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Nadine McNeil (Jamaica)
Yoga Ethnochoreology: Bodily Practices/ Matriarchal Collectivizing Memory |
Mary Louise Stone (USA)
Andean Spirituality: Maternal Thinking and Inclusive Community |
Keynote Speaker
Pilwha Chang (Korea)
Gift Giving, Mothering, and Ancient Ways |
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Vicki Noble (USA)
The Scientific Underpinnings of Matriarchal (Mother-Based) Social Organization & Gift Economy Behaviors |
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Marina Meneses (Juchitán, Mexico)
About the Life of a Juchitecan Mother |
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Valentina Pakyntein (Khasi, India)
Khasi Matriarchal Social Structure: Tradition and Incessancy |
Lydia Ruyle (USA)
World Icons of Mothers and Grandmothers |
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 |
Book Presentation - Societies of Peace. With Heidi Goettner-Abendroth, Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, Genevieve Vaughan, Bernedette Muthien, Malika Grasshoff, Vicki Nobel, Kaarina Kailo, Marguerite Rigoglioso, & Luciana Ricciutelli
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Questions & Comments, Part 1 |
Questions & Comments, Part 2 |
| Panel: Political Significance of the Gift Paradigm for Feminist Transformation |
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Angela Dolmetsch (Colombia)
Mothering Values as the Source of Sustainable Eco Village Building |
Linda Christiansen Ruffman (Canada)
Myths of "Progress": Women, the Gift Paradigm, Gender Relations and the Patriarchal Growth of the Modern World System (1400-2000) |
Kaarina Kailo (Finland)
The Demise of Finnish Welfare? Loss of the Gift and Gender Equality |
Angela Miles (Canada)
The Politics of the Gift |
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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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| Discussion, Part 1 |
Discussion, Part 2 |
Discussion, Part 3 |
Discussion, Part 4 |
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| Discussion, Part 5 |
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