NOVEMBER 8-10, 2024 | Online
6th annual Mythologium conference
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SCHEDULE
Schedule is subject to change
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2024
9am
WELCOME
9:15am
DEVDUTT PATTANAIK
Keynote Address
9:45am
BREAK
Fifteen Minutes
10am
LITERATURE & MYTH
PANEL 1
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SHRUTI DUBEY | "The Story Flows On: A Study of Mythological Retelling in Children's Literature"
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RUCHIKA JAIN | "The Villain as the Hero: Subversion and Creativity in Contemporary Ramayana Retellings"
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FLORENCE LALDINPUII | "The Rih Dil Myth: ‘Journeying’ Across Indigenous Conceptions and Renderings of Death and the Afterlife"
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AVANI UDGAONKAR | "Seductive, Mad, Monstrous: Circe and Medea in Contemporary Revisionism"
11am
BREAK
Fifteen Minutes
11:15am
LITERATURE & MYTH
PANEL 2
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AVEN LUMI | "Story Forward: Creating a Non-Heroic Literature"
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ILONA SINDHU | "Justified or condemned? How Viking audiences may have viewed Gudrun’s choice of killing her children"
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ALYSSA HERZINGER | "Never Meet Your Heroes (or Underdogs): Archetypal Narratives in Contemporary Politics"
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LABANYA DEY | "Claiming the Musalmani Devi within the Shakta, Bhakti and Sufi Tradition. Can a Liminal and Spiritual Space coexist within Folk Tradition"
12:15pm
LUNCH
Forty-five Minutes
1pm
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY
OF WOMEN AND MYTHOLOGY
SPECIAL PRESENTATION
2pm
BREAK
Fifteen Minutes
2:15pm
MYTH FLIX ONE
PANEL 5
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MARIALUISA DIAZ DE LEON ZULOAGA | "Creativity’s Womb and Tomb: An Ode to the Sacred Wisdom of the Pelvis"
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CARLA IONESCU | "Mapping the Sacred: The Arduous Climb to Artemis Temples"
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JOHN SELIG | "Language (the) of Mythology: How Understanding Myth and Symbol Can Make You More Creative"
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ANURANJ C K | "Mythical Geography: Conjunctural Analysis Of Indian Majoritarian Political Spaces"
3:15pm
BREAK
Fifteen Minutes
3:30pm
GENDER STUDIES & SEXUALITY
PANEL 5
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ALEXANDER BEREZKIN | "Embodiment of the Intersex Psyche Through Fairy Tales And Myths"
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SELENA MADDEN | "Awakening the Feminine Lover Archetype"
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LAUREL BERGSTEN | "Hyperimage and Generative Divination"
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DYLAN ODHNER | "Hidden Mandala Imagery in the Bible"
4:30pm
BREAK
Fifteen Minutes
4:45pm
RITUAL & DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY
PANEL 6
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NICOLE MILLER | "Unstorying the Shadow"
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PRIYANKA GUPTA | "Ek Nath Dattatreya: Unus Mundus to Lumen of the Self in Individuation"
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KIRA KULL | "Line Dancing Towards Ecstasy: On Queering Country Culture and Dionysian Archetypal Psychology"
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TALIA HARRIS | "Divination and Magic in the Ancient Tale of Aladdin"
5:45pm
DAY ONE CLOSING
6pm
MYTHIC MIXER
Trivia & More
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2024
9am
WELCOME
9:15am
MICHAEL MEADE
Keynote Address
10:15am
BREAK
Fifteen Minutes
10:30am
DEPTH PSYCHOLOGy
PANEL 7
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FUJIO MANDEVILLE | "Erich Neumann, Leonardo da Vinci, And the Creative Unconscious"
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HELEN BENNETT | "This it Personal? The Role of Art and Myth in the Individuation Process"
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TEDDY HAMSTRA | "Dancing the Book of the Night: Jean Erdman, Creative Mythology, and the Embodiment of a Modern Myth"
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STEWART STEPHENS | "Manifesting 'Thrice Greatness' – The Alchemy of Costume-Making"
11:30am
BREAK
Fifteen Minutes
11:45am
MYTH FLIX TWO
PANEL 8
Host: Craig Chalquist, Ph.D.
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CRAIG CHALQUIST | "Hidden Gods In Our Fiction"
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JACLYN KALKHURST | "Chinese Underworld Mythology"
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CHRIS MUNROE | "Once and Future and Always"
12:30pm
LUNCH
One Hour
1:30pm
FATES & GRACES MYTH LIT
PANEL 9
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DENNIS SLATTERY
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JODY BOWER​
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ARTHUR GEORGE
Hosts: Joanna Gardner, Ph.D.
and Stephanie Zajchowski, Ph.D.
2:45pm
BREAK
Fifteen Minutes
3pm
DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY: Animals, PLants, & nature
PANEL 10
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TRACY MARRS | "Archetypal Ass: Steadfast And Sturdy, The Fool That Stubbornly Succeeds"
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JASON D. BATT | "The Myths of the Interstellar Diaspora: The Forgotten Homeworld & Abject Earth"
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HEATHER TAYLOR | "Horses Leading Us Into New Worlds"
3:45pm
BREAK
Fifteen Minutes
4pm
POP CULTURE
PANEL 11
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LYDIA GRIFFITH | "Fanfiction and Myth: Collective Creative Storytelling"
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SARAH BREYFOGLE | "Fanfiction as Contemporary Myth"
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MARY HOLDER | "Healing Transgenerational Trauma Through the Recognition and Rewriting of Toxic Narratives: The Power of Art Spiegelman's Maus"
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GERALD SHEAHAN | "Mimesis, Aesthetics, Transformational Tryptiques, and Eliade's Myth of the Eternal Return: A Response to the Q-Anon Shaman"
5pm
DAY TWO CLOSING
& ART GALLERY
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NICOLE DEAN | "Archetypal Bestiary Images"
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LEIGH MELANDER | "Touch the Green"
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ALYSSA HERZINGER | "Lilies in the Bardo: An Interactive, Musical Tarot Reading"
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ELLE DRAKOPOULOU | "Limited Palette Watercolour as Archetype"
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CHRIS MUNROE | "Orientations"
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JASON D. BATT | "Celestial Origins: Stellar Myth in Lakota Artwork"
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2024
9am
WELCOME
9:15am
ARCHAELOGY
PANEL 12
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DONJETA BURCAJ | "A Journey Through Archaeology & Anthropology"
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KATHRYN MAKEYEY | "Myth and Creativity in the Art of Anthropology"
9:45am
BREAK
Fifteen Minutes
10am
MYTH FLIX THREE
PANEL 13
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ESTHER WALDRON | "A Buried Treasure In The Field: Towards A Telos Of Psyche" [RECORDING]
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APRIL HEASLIP | "Synchronicities & Sensitivities: A Medial Synesthete Approaches (Creativity)"
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ROMONA THOMAS | "Melinoe, Madness and Nightmares: . The Imprisonment of the Mind"
10:45am
BREAK
Fifteen Minutes
11am
CAREER
PANEL 4
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SCOTT MASON | "Helios, God of the Sun: Creating Beauty After You’ve Lost Everything"