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1st World Congress on Matriarchal Studies
Luxembourg 2003
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CONGRESS PROGRAM

Thursday 29th September Texas State University, San Marcos

	Opening Ritual

9:00 - 9:30a.m.	Words of Welcome
	Heide Goettner-Abendroth
	International Academy HAGIA, Germany
	Genevieve Vaughan
	Center for the Study of the Gift Economy, USA
	Sandra Mayo,
	Multicultural and Gender Studies, Texas State University-San Marcos


	Part I. Theory and Politics of Matriarchal Societies

9:30 - 10:30a.m.	Panel 1

	Heide Goettner-Abendroth, Germany
	Matriarchal Societies – Definition and Theory

	Claudia von Werlhof, Austria
	The Utopia of a Motherless World – Patriarchy as "War-System"

	Genevieve Vaughan, USA/Italy
	Matriarchy vs. the Market

10:30 - 11 a. m.	Discussion with the audience
11 - 11:30 a. m.	Break

	Part II. Present Matriarchal Societies - America

11:30 a. m. - 1:30 p. m.	*Panel 2: North America and Oceania*

	Barbara Mann, Bear Clan of the Ohio Seneca, Iroquois, USA
	"They Are the Soul of the Councils": The Iroquoian Model of Woman-Power
	[Keynote Speaker]

	Jeanette Armstrong, Syilx, Okanagan, Canada
	The (Okanagan), Syilx Principles of Coexistence

	Mililani B. Trask, Hawaii
	About the Polynesian People

	Taimalie Kiwi Tamasese, Samoan, New Zealand
	Restoring Liberative Elements of our Cultural Gender Arrangements

1:30 - 2 p. m.	Discussion with the audience
2 - 3:30 p. m.	Lunch Break

3:30 - 6 p. m.	**Panel 3: Central and South America**

	Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, Germany
	Matriarchal Principles for Today Economies and Societies:
	What We Can Learn from Juchitán / Mexico

	Rosa Martha Toledo, Juchiteca, Mexico
	The Life Cycle of the Juchiteca

	Dona Enriqueta Contreras, midwife/healer, Oaxaca, Mexico
	The Sierra Juarez Zapotecs of Oaxaca as a Cultural Matriarchy

	Antje Olowaili, Germany
	"Goldmother Created her Children on Earth"– The Kuna Culture

	Mariela de la Ossa, Kuna, Panama
	About the Kuna people

6 - 6:30 p. m.	Discussion with the audience

8:30 - 9:30 p. m.	Evening program
	Uschi Madeisky and Gudrun Frank-Wissmann, Germany
	"Societies in Balance": Film documentation of the
	First World Congress on Matriarchal Studies, Luxembourg 2003


Friday 30th September Texas State University, San Marcos

	Opening ritual

	Part III. Present Matriarchal Societies - Africa

9 - 10:30 a. m.	**Panel 4: North Africa**

	Hélène Claudot-Hawad, France
	"Woman the Central Pillar of Society"
	The Representation of Gender among the Tuareg (Imajaghen)/Sahara

	Fatimata welet Halatine, Tuareg (Imajaghen), Central Sahara
	Renouncing privileges: a Tuareg Woman in Modern Times

	Malika Grasshoff, Kabyle, Berber, Algeria/France/Germany
	The Central Position of Women among the Berber People of Northern Africa, exemplified by Kabyle Women

10:30 - 11 a. m.	Discussion with the audience
11 - 11:30 a. m.	Break

11:30 a. m. - 2 p. m.	*Panel 5: West and South Africa*

	Wilhelmina J. Donkoh, Akan, Ghana, West Africa
	Female Leadership among the Ashante

	Gad A. Osafo, healer, Akan, Ghana, West Africa
	Akan Healing Heritage – an Overview

	Cécile Keller, woman doctor/healer, Switzerland
	Matriarchal Medicine

	Dr. Yvette Abrahams, Khoekhoe, Namibia, South Africa
	Living in Our Natural World: Indigenous Women, Power and Knowledge

	Bernedette Muthien, Khoisan, South Africa
	Beyond Patriarchy: The Khoisan and Partnership

2 - 2:30 p. m.	Discussion with the audience
2:30 - 4 p. m.	Lunch Break

	Part IV. Present Matriarchal Societies - Asia

4 - 6 p. m.	**Panel 6: India, Sumatra, China**

	Patricia Mukhim, Khasi, Northeast India
	Matriliny among the Khasi and Garos of Meghalaya:
	Challenges and Opportunities

	Savithri de Tourreil, Nayar, Kerala, Southwest India/Canada
	Nayars: matrilineal or matriarchal or a bit of both?
	How do they fit into a South Indian Matrix

	Peggy Reeves Sanday, USA
	Divine Queenship: Considerations from the Minangkabau of West Sumatra
	of West Sumatra

	Ibu Ita Malik, Minangkabau, Sumatra, Indonesia
	The Role of Minangkabau Women

6 - 6:30 p. m.	Break

6:30 - 7:30 p. m.	Lamu Gatusa, Mosuo, China
	A Sacred Place of Matriarchy: Lugu Lake – Harmonious Past and Challenging Present

	Danshilacuo, Mosuo, China
	Mosuo Woman – Environment, Pullulation, and Views on Own Culture

7:30 - 8 p. m.	Discussion with the audience


Saturday 1st October Texas State University, San Marcos


	Opening ritual

	Part V. Past - Historical Matriarchal Societies

9 - 11:30 p.m.	**Panel 7: Research in the USA**

	Joan Marler, USA
	Old Europe through a Matriarchal Lens

	Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum, Italy/USA
	Black Madonnas, Cathars, and Witches – Peaceful Societies and Violence

	Vicki Noble, USA
	Those Without Husbands: How the Amazons Got Their Name

	Marguerite Rigoglioso, USA
	In Search of the Libyan Amazons: Preliminary Research in Tunisia

	Susan Gail Carter, USA
	The Matristic Roots of Japan
	and the Emergence of the Japanese Sun Goddess, Amaterasu-o-mi-kami

11:30 - 12 P. m.	Discussion with the audience
12 - 2 p. m.	Lunch Break

2 - 4 p. m.	**Panel 8: Research in Europe**

	Annette Kuhn, Germany
	Transitions of Matriarchal Power in the Symbolic and Social Sphere in History

	Kurt Derungs, Switzerland
	Landscape of the Ancestress. Principles of the Matriarchal
	Philosophy of Nature and the Mythology of Landscape

	Kaarina Kailo, Finland
	The "Helka Fest" - Traces of a Finno-Ugric Matriarchy and Worldview?

	Christa Mulack, Germany
	Matriarchal Structures in the Hebrew Bible

4 - 4:30 p. m.	Discussion with the audience
4:30 - 5 p. m.	Break

5 - 5:40 p. m.	*Origin of Patriarchy*

	Heide Goettner-Abendroth, Germany
	Origin of Patriarchy -
	Criticism of Theories and a Suggestion for the Solution

5:40 - 6 p. m.	Discussion with the audience


8 - 9 p. m.	Evening program
	Max Dashu, USA
	Slides Show: Mother-Right and Gender Justice

	Lydia Ruyle, USA
	Icons: Sacred Images of the Divine Feminine Around the Globe


Sunday 2nd October San Marcos, Texas

	At the Parks and Recreation Dept. Activities Center 501 East Hopkins San Marcos TX 78766

	Opening ritual

	Part VI. Matriarchal Politics

9 - 11 a. m.	*Big Panel:* All of the lecturers are invited who would like to make
	a short statement on this topic.
	Discussion with the audience

11 - 11:30 a. m.	Break

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.	Developing a DECLARATION


San Marcos River

3 - 6 p. m.
Public matriarchal ritual of

"The Circle of a Peaceful World"

All of the speakers and participants are invited.

Exhibitions during all days of the Congress:

	*Exhibition: "The Foundation for a Compassionate Society"*
	*Austin, Texas, USA*

	*Photo Exhibition: "The New Matriarchal Mystery Festivals",*
	*Academy HAGIA, Germany*

	*Exhibition: Texas State University Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies*

	Exhibition: "The Re-formed Congregation of the Goddess-International ", USA

	*Photo Exhibition: "The Life Cycle of the Juchiteca, Mexico"*

	*Goddess Banners from Lydia Ruyle, USA*

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Friday 30th September Texas State University, San Marcos