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.

williams Opening Invocation – Agnes Williams (Seneca, New York)
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orielly Welcome words of Andrea O’Reilly (Canada)
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Gift Economy   Matriarchal Studies  
gen Genevieve Vaughan (USA, Italy)
A Maternal Humanity and the Gift Paradigm
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Heide Goettner-Abendroth (Germany)
Matriarchies as Mother-centered Societies
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wahu 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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mann Barbara Mann (Seneca, Ohio)
Listen to Your Mother
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weingarten Debbie Winegarten (USA)
Legacy of Gift Giving Mothers
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grasshoff Malika Grasshoff (Berber, Kabyle)
The Meaning of Motherhood among the Berber of North Africa
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nane jordan Nané Jordan (USA)
A Poetics of the Placenta. Placental Cosmology as Gift and Sacred Economy
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gudren Gudrun Frank-Wissmann (Germany)
The most sacred Ritual on Palau: Initiation of a Mother after First Childbirth
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lucia Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum (USA)
The Future has an Ancient Mother: the African Legacy

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leticia 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
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paolo Paola Melchiori (Italy)
From Destiny to Choices
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tazi_preve Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve
(Austria) What can we learn from Matriarchal Societies?
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n_simons Nina Simons (USA)
Restoring the Feminine in Education, Economics and All Our Institutions
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rigiglioso Marguerite Rigoglioso (USA)
Divine Motherhood: The Case of Ancient Greece
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muthein2 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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halvorson 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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hart Mechthild Hart (USA, Germany)
Mutual Living Interdependence: An Embodied and Embedded Gift Economy
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mcneil Nadine McNeil (Jamaica) Yoga Ethnochoreology: Bodily Practices/ Matriarchal Collectivizing Memory
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shadmi Erella Shadmi (Israel)
Feminism, Gift-Giving, Matriarchy – and Anarchism
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stone Mary Louise Stone (USA) Andean Spirituality: Maternal Thinking and Inclusive Community
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pilwha Keynote Speaker: Pilwha Chang (Korea)
Gift Giving, Mothering, and Ancient Ways
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meneses Keynote Speaker: Marina Meneses (Juchitán, Mexico)
About the Life of a Juchitecan Mother
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nobel Keynote Speaker: Vicki Noble (USA)
The Scientific Underpinnings of Matriarchal (Mother-Based) Social Organization & Gift Economy Behaviors
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valentina Keynote Speaker: Valentina Pakyntein (Khasi, India) Khasi Matriarchal Social Structure: Tradition and Incessancy
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sobonfu Sobonfu Somé (Burkina Faso, Africa)
The Gift of Mothering
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ruyle Lydia Ruyle (USA)
World Icons of Mothers and Grandmothers
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williams Agnes Williams (USA, Seneca)
Original Instructions Practised Today: Law of Peace and Code of Handsome Lake
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Panel: Political Significance of the Gift Paradigm for Feminist Transformation
Questions & Comments
dolmetsch Angela Dolmetsch (Colombia)
Mothering Values as the Source of Sustainable Eco Village Building
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ruffman 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 Kaarina Kailo (Finland)
The Demise of Finnish Welfare? Loss of the Gift and Gender Equality
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miles Angela Miles (Canada)
The Politics of the Gift
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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  
societies Societies of Peace
Book Presentation
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A (M)otherworld is Possible: Two Feminist Visions: Matriarchal Studies and the Gift Paradigm
Questions & Comments
qna2 Questions & Comments, Part 1
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qna Questions & Comments, Part 2
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CLOSING PANEL – Matriarchal Visions of a Future of Peace
General discussion with all keynote speakers, presenters, and public
descuss1 General Discussion,
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discuss2 General Discussion,
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discuss3 General Discussion,
Part 3
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discuss4 General Discussion,
Part 4
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discussion6 General Discussion,
Part 5
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