Nov 12-14, 2004: Las Vegas, Nevada

A Radically Different World View is Possible

The gift economy inside and outside of Patriarchal Capitalism

Women and men from across the US are coming to hear international women speakers discuss a different point of view, one that will offset the negative and exploitative mentality of our times, while encouraging non violent activism to change the global Patriarchal Capitalist system. Proposing to unite the women's movement, the movement of indigenous peoples for social change, the movement against domestic violence, the movement for alternative spiritualities and many others with the anti nuclear and peace movements, the gift paradigm envisions total and long lasting social change stemming from an economic and cultural model based on women's practice. In these times it is not enough to vote Democrat or Republican. Whoever wins the presidential election, a mind shift that will stop producing violence, war and abuse must take place in this country. The conference will be held in Las Vegas because of the possibility of cheap flights and because of the need to be healing and constructive in the midst of chaos.

Genevieve Vaughan 

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Program
Friday, November 12

Evening 7:00-10:00 PM
Opening: Luisah Teish

Introduction by Genevieve Vaughan

Paula Gunn Allen (USA)"Grab Day": Gift Giving as a Social Institution

Kaarina Kailo (Finland) The Global Rat Race Revisited; Ecospiritual and Activist Movements Reviving the Gift Imaginary

Madu Auditore (Ivory Coast/Italy/Australia) For the Children of the World

Susan Petrilli (Australia/Italy) Lady Welby: Semiotics and Mothersense

Paola Melchiori (Italy) Epistemology and the Gift

•Questions & Answers

Saturday, November 13

Morning 8:45 AM -12:30 PM

Opening: Indigenous Women

Genevieve Vaughan (USA/Italy) Heterosexual Economics: Gift-giving and Exchange

Yvette Abrahams (South Africa) The Social Structure of the Historical Khoekhoe as a Model for a Gift Economy

Mililani Trask (Hawaii) Indigenous Women and the Gift Economy

•Questions and Answer

Heide Gottner Abendroth (Germany) The Relationship between Modern Matriarchal Studies and the Gift Paradigm

Rauna Kuokkanen (Finland/Canada) Enabling the Gift Logic of Indigenous Philosophies

Debra Harry (USA) Indigenous Peoples and Biocolonialism: Conflicting Sovereignties and Worldviews

•Questions and Answer

Afternoon 2:00-5:00 PM

Peggy Maze Johnson  (USA ) Nuclear isuues in Nevada

Claudia Von Werlhof (Austria) Capitalist Patriarchy and the Struggle for a Deep Alternative

Sylvia Shihadeh (Palestine/USA) The Gift of the Peace Movement in the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict

Erella Shadmi (Israel) Can I Forgive Men (or Any Other Hegemony?)

•Questions and Answer

Peggy Antrobus (Barbados) The Gift and Caribbean Economies

Rabia Abdelkarim (Algeria/Senegal) Solidarity Economics

Dotti Chamblin (USA) Gift Giving and the Movement Against Domestic Violence

Ana Isla (Peru/Canada) Sustainable Development and Poverty Creation

•Questions and Answer

 Evening 7:00-10:00 PM

Elisabet Sahtouris (USA) Crisis as Opportunity: The Biology of Globalization

Corinne Kumar (India) Towards a New Political Imaginary

Leslene Della Madre (USA) Approaching Death from the View of Gift-giving

Vicki Noble (USA) She Gives the Gift of Her Body

•Questions & Answers

Sunday, November 14

Morning 9:00AM -12:30 PM

Introduction

Patricia Pearlman (USA) The Goddess Temple of Sekhmet as a Gift Economy Project

Maria Jimenez (Mexico/USA) Gift giving across Borders

Jeanette Armstrong (Canada) Whole Family Systems in Living Community on the Land and Sustainable Living

Mechthild Hart (Germany/USA) The Bodiless Spirit of Patriarchal Capitalism, Real Bodies, and Corporeal Feminist Resistance

 •Questions & Answers

Sizani Ngubane (South Africa) Rural Women in South Africa Caring for Children with AIDS

Tracy Gary (USA) Women's Funding Partnerships

Marta Benavides  (El Salvador) Activism and the Gift Economy in El Salvador

Riane Eisler (Austria, Cuba, USA) Changing Economics--And the World

•Questions & Answers

Afternoon: 2:00-7:00 PM

Carol Brouillet (USA) Facing the shadow of 9/11

Andrea Alvarado (Costa Rica) The Gift Giving  Philosophy of Open Source Technology

Renea Roberts (USA)Gifting it at Burning Man

Brackin Firecracker (USA) Activism: The Hopeful Gift of a Better World

Frieda Werden (USA/Canada) The Gift of Community Radio

Angela Miles (Canada) Linda Christiansen-Ruffman (USA/Canada)Women's Giving: A new Frame for Feminist Policy Demands

 •Questions & Answers

Group Discussion

Closing Remarks

Closing: Luisah Teish

For more information:  www.GiftEconomyConference.com 
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