Summoning Voices: A conversation with Max Dashu
A conversation with Max Dashu that took place during the Summoning
voices - A radio symposium on feminist world making July 8-9.23 in
Goethe Institut Rotterdam and at radioecho.net In the conversation
you can hear Max talking about her practice and research into
goddesses, feminist history and archives.
Max Dashu is the founder of the Suppressed Histories Archives where
she researches and documents women's history from an international
perspective. She built a collection of thousands of images of female
cultural heritages across human history. Dashu's work bridges the
gap between academia and grassroots education. It foregrounds
indigenous women passed over by standard histories and highlights
female spheres of power retained even in some patriarchal societies.
Dashu is internationally known for her expertise on ancient female
iconography in world archaeology; female spheres of power and
matricultures; patriarchies and allied systems of domination;
medicine women, female shamans, witches, and witch hunts. Dashu is
the author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Culture,
published in 2016 among many other publications, videos and essays.
Find Max Dashu here: https://suppressed-histories.teachable.com/
Summoning voices - A radio symposium on feminist world making
Words make language, language makes stories, and stories make worlds
Radio Echo is summoning a diversity of voices of storytellers,
artists, radio makers, community builders, researchers and activists
during a two day radio symposium, online at our radio platform and
physically at the Goethe Institut Rotterdam. Through a series of
conversations, dj sets and vocal experimentations that weave a
multilayered broadcast that touches upon methods to reimagine the
realities that define our lives. With it we challenge normative
understandings of being together and compose a web of solidarity
amongst our communities. We aim to provide a space where many
disciplines can intersect, nurture each other and find a channel to
influence the world with a touch of our magic.
