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Words of Invitation
We are happy to announce the Call for Papers for the first online meeting of S/HE Divine Studies and the pre-conference “the Gift-Sharing Day” meeting. We invite proposals of your paper concerning the topics suggested below. We also welcome the proposal of a panel with 2-3 papers with a moderator and a respondent. If you are interested in volunteering as a session organizer under a specific topic, please let us know your topics of interest. We will send you Instructions for session and section organizers separately. Papers selected and presented in the conference are given priority to be considered for publication in the peer-reviewed S/HE journal (https://sheijgs.space). For the proposal for the Gift-Sharing Day, please continue to read to find it.
By “the S/HE Divine,” we mean the world-wide manifestations of the female/mother/matriversal divine (Goddesses, Motherhood, and the Creatrix) from the ancient to this day. In response to the call of our time, we intend to develop a collective consciousness to overcome and redefine the compartmentalized categories of women, mothers, nature, animals, the cosmos, and men as part of the whole. The S/HE Divine Studies refuses to remain isolated within mono-disciplinary confinements but actively seek to connect women/humans, matriarchies, motherhood, civilizations, and the Creatrix (Cosmic Mother). It is not enough to say, “Personal is political.” Personal is Political and Cosmic.
The Main Meeting
Primary deadline: September 30, 2023
Theme: Why and How to Study the Female Divine
Dates: June 7-9, 2024 (Friday to Sunday)
Venue: Online Zoom meetings
Hosting Bodies: Mago Academy (https://magoacademy.org), Mago Books (https://magobooks.com), and S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies (https://sheijgs.space)
Allocated time for a session: 90 minutes
Topics but not limited to:
-Feminism and the Goddess
-The Female Divine and Matriarchy
-Motherhood and Thealogy
-Women, Goddess, and Nature
-Myth, History, and Culture of the Female Divine
-Matricentric Cosmogony and Cosmology
-Goddess and World Religions
-Trans-patriarchal Female/Matricentric Traditions
-Methodology: Why and How to Study the Female/Maternal Divine
-Decolonizing Studies of the S/HE Divine
-Comparative approaches to one or more of the above topics
Pre-conference Gift-Sharing Day
Date: June 7, 2024 (Friday)
Venue: Online Zoom meetings
Allocated time for a session: 90 minutes
Format: A workshop, salon, a book launch, or a special format
Topics and mediums but not limited to:
– Feminist activism
– Matricentric advocacy
– Introduction of particular art, poetry, and literature on the S/HE Divine
– Matricentric calendars
– Celebration of major heras and heroes
– Focusing on a particular scholar/artist/writer whose work debunks patriarchal/capitalist/
Paper and Panel Proposals
For individual papers, the proposal should include a title, an abstract (up to 250 words), 5-7 keywords, your name, and your affiliation (a name of institution or an independent scholar status).
For a panel: The proposal should include a panel title, an overall panel abstract (up to 250 words), 5-7 keywords, titles of papers, names of presenters, moderator, and respondent.
Pre-Conference Gift-Sharing Day Proposals
The proposal should include a title, an abstract (up to 250 words) that states what your event is about and why it needs publicity, your name as coordinator or organizer, names and affiliations of your presenters, their affiliations, and the description of a medium or a format.
Submission
Your proposal must be emailed with “Proposal for S/HE Conference” in the subject line to Dr. Helen Hwang (magoacademy@gmail.com) and/or Dr. Helen Benigni (benignih@dewv.edu).
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