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Thursday 29th September |
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| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Part II. Present Matriarchal Societies - America | |
| 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] | |
| Mililani B. Trask, Hawaii, About the Polynesian People | |
| Taimalie Kiwi Tamasese, Samoan, New Zealand, Restoring Liberative Elements of our Cultural Gender Arrangements | |
| 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 | |
| Doña 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 | |
| Uschi Madeisky and Gudrun Frank-Wissmann, Germany. "Societies in Balance": Film documentation of the First World Congress on Matriarchal Studies, Luxembourg 2003 | |
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Friday 30th September |
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| Part III. Present Matriarchal Societies - Africa | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Part IV. Present Matriarchal Societies - Asia | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Saturday 1st October | |
| Part V. Past - Historical Matriarchal Societies | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Origin of Patriarchy | |
| Heide Goettner-Abendroth, Germany. Origin of Patriarchy -Criticism of Theories and a Suggestion for the Solution | |
| 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 | |
| Part VI. Matriarchal Politics | |
| Big Panel: All of the lecturers are invited who would like to make a short statement on this topic. | |
| Developing a DECLARATION | |