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NOVEMBER 8-10, 2024 | Online

6th annual Mythologium conference

Registration is Now Open!

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
  • SHRUTI DUBEY  | "The Story Flows On: A Study of Mythological Retelling in Children's Literature"

  • RUCHIKA JAIN | "The Villain as the Hero: Subversion and Creativity in Contemporary Ramayana Retellings"

  • FLORENCE LALDINPUII | "The Rih Dil Myth: ‘Journeying’ Across Indigenous Conceptions and Renderings of Death and the Afterlife"

  • AVANI UDGAONKAR | "Seductive, Mad, Monstrous: Circe and Medea in Contemporary Revisionism"

11am

BREAK

Fifteen Minutes
11:15am

LITERATURE & MYTH

PANEL 2
  • AVEN LUMI | "Story Forward: Creating a Non-Heroic Literature"

  • ILONA SINDHU | "Justified or condemned? How Viking audiences may have viewed Gudrun’s choice of killing her children"

  • ALYSSA HERZINGER | "Never Meet Your Heroes (or Underdogs): Archetypal Narratives in Contemporary Politics"

  • 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
  • MARIALUISA DIAZ DE LEON ZULOAGA | "Creativity’s Womb and Tomb: An Ode to the Sacred Wisdom of the Pelvis"

  • CARLA IONESCU  | "Mapping the Sacred: The Arduous Climb to Artemis Temples"

  • JOHN SELIG | "Language (the) of Mythology: How Understanding Myth and Symbol Can Make You More Creative"

  • ANURANJ C K | "Mythical Geography: Conjunctural Analysis Of Indian Majoritarian Political Spaces"

3:15pm

BREAK

Fifteen Minutes
3:30pm

GENDER STUDIES & SEXUALITY

PANEL 5
  • ALEXANDER BEREZKIN  | "Embodiment of the Intersex Psyche Through Fairy Tales And Myths"

  • SELENA MADDEN | "Awakening the Feminine Lover Archetype"

  • LAUREL BERGSTEN | "Hyperimage and Generative Divination"

  • DYLAN ODHNER | "Hidden Mandala Imagery in the Bible"

4:30pm

BREAK

Fifteen Minutes
4:45pm

RITUAL & DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY

PANEL 6
  • NICOLE MILLER | "Unstorying the Shadow"

  • PRIYANKA GUPTA | "Ek Nath Dattatreya: Unus Mundus to Lumen of the Self in Individuation"

  • KIRA KULL | "Line Dancing Towards Ecstasy: On Queering Country Culture and Dionysian Archetypal Psychology"

  • 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
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10:15am

BREAK

Fifteen Minutes
10:30am

DEPTH PSYCHOLOGy

PANEL 7
  • FUJIO MANDEVILLE  | "Erich Neumann, Leonardo da Vinci, And the Creative Unconscious"

  • HELEN BENNETT | "This it Personal? The Role of Art and Myth in the Individuation Process"

  • TEDDY HAMSTRA | "Dancing the Book of the Night: Jean Erdman, Creative Mythology, and the Embodiment of a Modern Myth"

  • 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.
  • CRAIG CHALQUIST | "Hidden Gods In Our Fiction"

  • JACLYN KALKHURST  | "Chinese Underworld Mythology"

  • CHRIS MUNROE | "Once and Future and Always"

12:30pm

LUNCH

One Hour
1:30pm

FATES & GRACES MYTH LIT

PANEL 9
  • DENNIS SLATTERY

  • JODY BOWER​

  • 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
  • TRACY MARRS  | "Archetypal Ass: Steadfast And Sturdy, The Fool That Stubbornly Succeeds"

  • JASON D. BATT | "The Myths of the Interstellar Diaspora: The Forgotten Homeworld & Abject Earth"

  • HEATHER TAYLOR | "Horses Leading Us Into New Worlds"

3:45pm

BREAK

Fifteen Minutes
4pm

POP CULTURE

PANEL 11
  • LYDIA GRIFFITH | "Fanfiction and Myth: Collective Creative Storytelling"

  • SARAH BREYFOGLE | "Fanfiction as Contemporary Myth"

  • MARY HOLDER | "Healing Transgenerational Trauma Through the Recognition and Rewriting of Toxic Narratives: The Power of Art Spiegelman's Maus"

  • 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

  • NICOLE DEAN | "Archetypal Bestiary Images"

  • LEIGH MELANDER | "Touch the Green"

  • ALYSSA HERZINGER  | "Lilies in the Bardo: An Interactive, Musical Tarot Reading"

  • ELLE DRAKOPOULOU | "Limited Palette Watercolour as Archetype"

  • CHRIS MUNROE | "Orientations"

  • JASON D. BATT | "Celestial Origins: Stellar Myth in Lakota Artwork"

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2024
9am

WELCOME

9:15am

ARCHAELOGY

PANEL 12
  • DONJETA BURCAJ | "A Journey Through Archaeology & Anthropology"

  • KATHRYN MAKEYEY | "Myth and Creativity in the Art of Anthropology"

9:45am

BREAK

Fifteen Minutes
10am

MYTH FLIX THREE

PANEL 13
  • ESTHER WALDRON | "A Buried Treasure In The Field: Towards A Telos Of Psyche" [RECORDING]

  • APRIL HEASLIP | "Synchronicities & Sensitivities: A Medial Synesthete Approaches (Creativity)"

  • ROMONA THOMAS | "Melinoe, Madness and Nightmares: . The Imprisonment of the Mind"

10:45am

BREAK

Fifteen Minutes
11am

CAREER

PANEL 4
  • SCOTT MASON | "Helios, God of the Sun: Creating Beauty After You’ve Lost Everything"

11:30am

LUNCH

One Hour
12:30pm

JOSEPH CAMPBELL FOUNDATION

SPECIAL PRESENTATION
"Sharing the Power of Mythic Writing: An Interactive Introduction"
1:30pm

BREAK

Fifteen Minutes
1:45pm

FATES & GRACES

SPECIAL PRESENTATION
"Careers and Marketing for Mythologists"
2:45pm

CONFERENCE CLOSING

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