Schedule
Saturday, January 23, 2016
8:00 – 8:45 Registration and coffee & pastries
8:45 – 9:00 Welcome talk – Kahena Viale
9:00 – 10:30 Session One
- Armando “Murtagh An Doile” Marini - Elitism and Identity Formation in American Craft and Paganism: a Historical Perspective
- Karen Tate - Goddess Spirituality as Liberation Thealogy (Reawakening Our Earliest Sacred Stories)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45 -12:15 Session Two
- Kellen Smith - Feminist Spirituality: From Counterculture Revolution to the Feminist Movement
- Marie Cartier - Preview of *The Homofiles*- a documentary directed by Kimberly Esslinger, co produced by Marie Cartier and Kimberly Esslinger
12:15 – 12:45 Lunch merging into…
12:45 – 2:00 Key Note Presentation: Gus DiZerega: Rethinking Social Justice in Accordance with Pagan Values
2:00 – 2:15 – Break
2:15 – 3:45 Session Three
- Wendy Griffin - The Retelling
- Annie Waters - Sustainability Must Embrace The Sacred
3:45 – 4:00 Break
4:00 – 5:30 Session Four
- Marsha Scarbrough - Calling on the Orishas to heal racial injustice
- Herleena Hunt - The Social Injustice of Mass Incarceration of People of Color; Can this be changed
- Aline “M. Macha NightMare” O’Brien - Into the Labyrinth: Finding the Way as a Volunteer in Abstruse Prison Culture
6:00 Ritual
Sunday, January 24, 2016
8:00 – 8:45 Registration and coffee & pastries
8:45 – 9:00 Welcome talk – Kahena
9:15 – 10:30 Session Five
- Jeannette Lacey - Retirement, Community and Social Justice
- Ayamanatara - Synthesizing the Dark Goddess and the God of Light on the Internet to Effect Social Justice
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45 -12:15 Session Six
- Kimberly D. Kirner - Art, Study, and Service: Being a Druid and an Anthropologist Working for Justice
- Kenneth Christensen - Saoshyantism From The Past To The Internet Age
- Mark Cedar Love-Williamson - The Activist Witch; The Virtuous Witch
12:15 – 12:45 Lunch merging into…
12:45 – 2:00 Key Note Presentation: Nikki Bado: The Athame Cuts Both Ways: Pagan Responsibility and Social Justice
2:00 – 2:15 – Break
2:15 – 3:45 Session Seven
- Kahena Dorothea Viale - Kali Dancing in Justice
- Hannah Epstein - Pagan Clergy and Unpaid Emotional Labor
- Joseph Futerman - Justice, Fairness, and Balance in Polytheist World
4:00 – 5:00 Session Eight – TBA