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What: A Radically Different World View is Possible: The Gift Economy
Inside and Outside Patriarchal Capitalism
Who: Internationally Known Feminist Activists
When: November 12-14, Opening Friday 12th at 4:00 pm.
Where: Clark County Library, Las Vegas, Nevada
Contact: 512.444.1672
For more information and registration visit www.gifteconomyconference.com
This dynamic and thought provoking conference will be held right after
one of the most dramatic elections in this country's recent history, an
election in which citizens have been asked to choose between one extremely
patriarchal and one somewhat less patriarchal candidate. The conference
will discuss an alternative to patriarchy, with perspectives presented
by some of the foremost leaders and thinkers in the International Women's
Movement. Giving attention and value to the logic of gift giving as embodied
in the practice of mothers, indigenous peoples, immigrants, free soft
ware providers, artists, activists, volunteers and social experimenters,
reveals a widespread hidden gift economy that coexists with the market.
A gift economy can be seen as an alternative to Patriarchal Capitalism,
an alternative that continues to exist in spite of the misogyny, racism,
classism and greed that motivate the present system. Affirming the worldview
of the gift economy can provide the values and the link among movements
that can help us create a peaceful and abundant world. This alternative
vision is necessary at this time of worldwide violence caused by clashes
between market-based patriarchies.
Speakers and Titles
Heide Gottner Abendroth (Germany)
The Relationship between Modern Matriarchal Studies and the Gift Paradigm
Rabia Abdelkarim (Algeria/Senegal)
Solidarity Economics
Yvette Abrahams (South Africa)
The Social Structure of the Historical Khoekhoe as a Model for a Gift
Economy
Paula Gunn Allen (USA)
"Grab Day": Gift Giving as a Social Institution
Andrea Alvarado (Costa Rica)
The Gift Giving Philosophy of Open Source Technology
Peggy Antrobus (Barbados)
The Gift and Caribbean Economies
Jeanette Armstrong (Canada)
Whole Family Systems in Living Community on the Land and Sustainable Living
Madu Auditore (Ivroy Coast/Italy/Australia)
For the Children of the World
Chato Basa (Philippines/Italy)
Immigration in Europe- the Care Chain
Rokeya Begum (Bangladesh)
Gift giving and Women in Bangladesh
Marta Benavides (El Salvador)
Activism and the Gift Economy in El Salvador
Carol Brouillet (USA)
Facing the shadow of 9/11
Dotti Chamblin (USA)
Gift Giving and the Movement Against Domestic Violence
Linda Christiansen-Ruffman (USA/Canada)
Women's Gifting Relations and Community Work: Toward a New Public Policy
Framework and a New Knowledge Paradigm
Rauna Kuokkanen (Finland/Canada)
Enabling the Gift Logic of Indigenous Philosophies
Leslene Della Madre (USA)
Approaching Death from the View of Gift-giving
Brackin Firecracker (USA)
Activism:The Hopeful Gift of a Better World
Tracy Gary (USA)
Women's Funding Partnerships
Debra Harry (USA)
Indigenous Peoples and Biocolonialism: Conflicting Sovereignties and Worldviews
Mechthild Hart (Germany/USA)
The Bodiless Spirit of Patriarchal Capitalism, Real Bodies, and Corporeal
Feminist Resistance
Ana Isla (Peru/Canada)
Sustainable Development and Poverty Creation
Maria Jimenez (Mexico/USA)
Gift giving across Borders
Kaarina Kailo (Finland)
The Global Rat Race Revisited; Ecospiritual and Activist Movements Reviving
the Gift Imaginary
Corinne Kumar (India)
Women's Knowledges
Paola Melchiori (Italy)
Epistemology and the Gift
Angela Miles (Canada)
Women's Giving: A new Frame for Feminist Policy Demands
Sizani Ngubane (South Africa)
Rural Women in South Africa Caring for Children with AIDS
Vicki Noble (USA)
She Gives the Gift of Her Body
Patricia Pearlman (USA)
The Goddess Temple of Sekhmet as a Gift Economy Project
Susan Petrilli (Australia/ITALY)
Lady Welby: Semiotics and Mothersense
Erella Shadmi (Israel)
Can I Forgive Men (or Any Other Hegemony?)
Sylvia Shihadeh (Palestine/USA)
The Gift of the Peace Movement in the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict
Elisabet Sahtouris (USA)
Crisis as Opportunity: The Biology of Globalization
Mililani Trask (Hawaii)
Indigenous Women and the Gift Economy
Genevieve Vaughan (USA/Italy)
Heterosexual Economics: Genders as Economic Categories
Claudia Von Werlhof (Austria)
Capitalist Patriarchy and the Struggle for a Deep Alternative
Frieda Werden (USA/Canada)
The Gift of Community Radio
Organized and sponsored by The Center for the Study of the Gift Economy,
Austin, Texas. Endorsed by Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, Indigenous Women's Network, Indigenous People's Council on Biocolonialism,
Ms. Magazine, Yes Magazine, Fierce Magazine, Sage Woman Magazine, Feminist
International Radio Endeavor, Women's International News Gathering Service,
Reformed Church of the Goddess International, and Awakened Woman.
A second conference, Matriarchies: Societies of Peace will be held in
Austin, Texas, November 2005 under the direction of Heide Gottner-Abendroth.
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