A (M)otherworld is possible: Two feminist visions
The Gift Economy – Matriarchal Studies
October 23-25, 2009, York University, Toronto, Canada
Presented by
Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) / The International Academy Hagia / The Gift Economy Network /
International Feminists for a Gift Economy
This conference was embedded in MIRCI’s 13th Annual Conference Mothering and the Environment: The Natural, the Social, the Built Oct 22-25, 2009.
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Opening Invocation – Agnes Williams (Seneca, New York) Click to watch video |
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Welcome words of Andrea O’Reilly (Canada) Click to watch video |
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Genevieve Vaughan (USA, Italy) A Maternal Humanity and the Gift Paradigm Click to watch video |
| Heide Goettner-Abendroth (Germany) Matriarchies as Mother-centered Societies Click to watch video |
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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 Click to watch video |
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Barbara Mann (Seneca, Ohio) Listen to Your Mother Click to watch video |
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Debbie Winegarten (USA) Legacy of Gift Giving Mothers Click to watch video |
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Malika Grasshoff (Berber, Kabyle) The Meaning of Motherhood among the Berber of North Africa Click to watch video |
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Nané Jordan (USA) A Poetics of the Placenta. Placental Cosmology as Gift and Sacred Economy Click to watch video |
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Gudrun Frank-Wissmann (Germany) The most sacred Ritual on Palau: Initiation of a Mother after First Childbirth Click to watch video |
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Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum (USA) The Future has an Ancient Mother: the African Legacy Click to watch video |
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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 Click to watch video |
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Paola Melchiori (Italy) From Destiny to Choices Click to watch video |
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Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve (Austria) What can we learn from Matriarchal Societies? Click to watch video |
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Nina Simons (USA) Restoring the Feminine in Education, Economics and All Our Institutions Click to watch video |
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Marguerite Rigoglioso (USA) Divine Motherhood: The Case of Ancient Greece Click to watch video |
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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 Click to watch video |
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Kalli Rose Halvorson (USA) Peacewalk through the Mother and Daughter Bear Constellations: Bearings of Love and indomitability for our Maternal Humanity Click to watch video |
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Mechthild Hart (USA, Germany) Mutual Living Interdependence: An Embodied and Embedded Gift Economy Click to watch video |
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Nadine McNeil (Jamaica) Yoga Ethnochoreology: Bodily Practices/ Matriarchal Collectivizing Memory Click to watch video |
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Erella Shadmi (Israel) Feminism, Gift-Giving, Matriarchy – and Anarchism Click to watch video |
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Mary Louise Stone (USA) Andean Spirituality: Maternal Thinking and Inclusive Community Click to watch video |
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Keynote Speaker: Pilwha Chang (Korea) Gift Giving, Mothering, and Ancient Ways Click to watch video |
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Keynote Speaker: Marina Meneses (Juchitán, Mexico) About the Life of a Juchitecan Mother Click to watch video |
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Keynote Speaker: Vicki Noble (USA) The Scientific Underpinnings of Matriarchal (Mother-Based) Social Organization & Gift Economy Behaviors Click to watch video |
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Keynote Speaker: Valentina Pakyntein (Khasi, India) Khasi Matriarchal Social Structure: Tradition and Incessancy Click to watch video |
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Sobonfu Somé (Burkina Faso, Africa) The Gift of Mothering Click to watch video |
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Lydia Ruyle (USA) World Icons of Mothers and Grandmothers Click to watch video |
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Agnes Williams (USA, Seneca) Original Instructions Practised Today: Law of Peace and Code of Handsome Lake Click to watch video |
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| Panel: Political Significance of the Gift Paradigm for Feminist Transformation Questions & Comments |
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Angela Dolmetsch (Colombia) Mothering Values as the Source of Sustainable Eco Village Building Click to watch video |
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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 Click to watch video |
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Kaarina Kailo (Finland) The Demise of Finnish Welfare? Loss of the Gift and Gender Equality Click to watch video |
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Angela Miles (Canada) The Politics of the Gift Click to watch video |
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| 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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Societies of Peace Book Presentation Click to watch video |
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| A (M)otherworld is Possible: Two Feminist Visions: Matriarchal Studies and the Gift Paradigm Questions & Comments |
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Questions & Comments, Part 1 Click to watch video |
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Questions & Comments, Part 2 Click to watch video |
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| CLOSING PANEL – Matriarchal Visions of a Future of Peace General discussion with all keynote speakers, presenters, and public |
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General Discussion, Part 1 Click to watch video |
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General Discussion, Part 2 Click to watch video |
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General Discussion, Part 3 Click to watch video |
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General Discussion, Part 4 Click to watch video |
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General Discussion, Part 5 Click to watch video |
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