Call for Papers – Association for the Study of Women and Mythology

November 08, 2012

by Jennifer Maxon

Call for Papers, Goddess, Marija Gimbutas, myth

Bee Goddess of Rhodes

The Association for the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM) has announced a call for papers for their upcoming biennial symposium, ‘Lady of Ten Thousand Lakes: Finding Wisdom in Places‘. The symposium will be held in St. Paul, Minnesota on April 20, 2013.

The ASWM is a wonderful group of brilliant and creative scholars, students and artists. “The goal of ASWM is to support the work of those whose scholarly/creative endeavors explore or elucidate aspects of the sacred feminine, women and mythology.”

Lady of Ten Thousand Lakes: Finding Wisdom in Places

Call for Papers

Much of mythology is grounded in place. Suggested topics for this symposium might include, but are not limited to, the following:

How do and should the scholarship in Goddess Studies and Women’s Mythology and Spirituality engage with the sense and reality of place? What women’s myths are especially grounded in a place or places? What happens when such disciplines as Natural History, Ecology, and other sciences of place interact with Women and Mythology?

What does place mean methodologically? How does our scholarship change when place becomes an element or partner in our research? How does this intersect with Embodied Research or Embodied Methodologies? What are the criteria for solid scholarship using these new models?

Do issues of place add an activist quality to our scholarship? Does activism have a place in scholarship? What does it mean to find wisdom in places?

Visit ASWM’s website for more information and instructions on submitting a proposal by clicking here.