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Aug 29-31, 2025

Goddess-Makers in an Age of Autocrats:

The Power of the Creative Feminine to Re-Shape the World - An Arts-based Research Conference

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Join Kerry at this timely and powerful conference! Attend in person at Pacifica Graduate Institute or livestream the conference online.

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Kerry's presentation will be part of the Sunday keynote panel, alongside Susan Rowland and Angie Bennett. The keynote panel will take place from 8:45am-10:15am Pacifica Sunday Aug 31.

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Presentation title: Sovereignty Melts us into Wisdom

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Overview:

As we grapple collectively to resist authoritarianism, genocide, and institutional discrimination, this presentation offers insight from the Irish story of Odras and the Mórrígan, a complex goddess relating to sovereignty and conflict. In this story Odras, a wealthy, flashy woman, attempts to stop the Mórrígan from mating Odras’ cow to the Mórrígan’s bull. With a vengeful curse, the Mórrígan turns Odras into a puddle which eventually becomes a river. Inviting Jungian Arts-Based Research into creative conversation with this story, this research explores themes of resistance to, and confrontation with, an uncomfortable face of sovereignty.