Theme: “Motherhood, Matriarchy, and Matriverse Re-deemed in the Cosmic Mother”
Date: June 12-15 PT (Pacific Time Zone) USA
Venue: Zoom Meeting Halls
Mago Academy (Lytle Creek, California 92358)
Executive Director: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang Ph.D.
Planning and Convening Board Members: Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. and Francesca Tronetti Ph.D.
Directing and Consulting Board Members: Nane Jordan Ph.D. and Helen Benigni Ph.D.
Zoom Technicians: Christiana Aro-Harle, Vivien Gibbons Ph.D., Collie Collier Ph.D.
Post-Event Registration Open: It’s not too late to experience and join the matriversal ride of the 2025 S/HE Conference! Video recordings of all 13 sessions with the program booklet (104 pages) are available for $50. Also ill out and email the Post-Event Registration form below.
You may copy and paste the form in the body of your email to fill it out. Email it to Dr. Hwang (magoacademy@gmail.com). In the subject line, state “Post-Event Registration for 2025 S/HE Conference.” The 2025 Program Booklet together with the video links will be emailed to you.
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Program Booklet (PDF E-Book Download) available for $5.00.
Below are the beginning pages of the 2025 S/HE Online Conference Program Booklet. Download is available at the menu bar by clicking the three dots on the far right.
Testimonials
Danica Anderson Ph.D.
What an extraordinary gathering—this Ceto-Magoist Studies conference was not only intellectually generative but soul-seeding. Witnessing so many of us bring forth the consciousness of the Creatrix, the Slavic Moist Mother Earth, was a moment of profound collective memory and re-emergence.
What pulsed through every offering was the living thread of the Matriverse—a knowledge system not lost but systematically erased, feared, and shamed. Yet here we were: restoring it—not with romantic nostalgia but with embodied knowing, with the ancestral intelligence braided into our guts, rituals, and uterine epigenome.
This was more than a conference. This was an act of female solidarity in a time when solidarity itself is surveilled, punished, and made invisible. As I’ve seen across my own research—from war zones to the kolo circles of Bosnian women—women are not only targeted in every war, but their capacity to transmit culture, memory, and justice is what war seeks to obliterate. And still, we speak. Still, we create. Still, we dance.
I am deeply moved by the clarity of this: patriarchy is not just a lie, it is a strategy of annihilation. One that kills the Great Mother and then insists the corpse was never there to begin with. Your words echo what I’ve long witnessed: the patriarchal archive is built not on wisdom but on the suppression of women’s first-person memory, of mythic biology, of the ninefold cosmic harmonics that preceded and outlast any male god narrative.
And yes, we do not do this alone. We are living archives. Our uteruses remember. Our food rituals are remembered. Our kolo remembers. This is not just our effort in our time—this is the unfinished labor of our ancestresses.
Well done to all who held and nourished this Cosmic Mother/Creatrix circle. It was seamless and stalwart, indeed. May this journal be the living imprint of a matriverse reborn.
Clare Lesley Hughes Ph.D.
Hi all
What a thoroughly enjoyable and informative conference and I was honoured to be a part of it. I was inspired by how the Goddess is alive and being acknowledged and studied by us all which gives me hope for the future. I needed this hope because the world seems quite bleak right now.
I would love to serve on the planning committee and the convening committee and the board if possible.
Thank you all x
Janet Rudolph
Congratulations to all. Helen, I can see the growth from last year in how the conference was run. Well done The sessions I went to were fascinating, also well done. I look forward to the recordings for what I missed. The tech people rocked! Thank you. I thought the respondents were magical in pulling together material in such a speedy and depthful manner.
I learned a lot and I think it will take me some time for it all settle in. The material was so rich. I feel privileged to be part of it.
All in all, an excellent job and I look forward to seeing this grow year after year.
Blessings to all
Noris Binet
Helen…Thank you very much and to everyone who made possible this wonderful event….
Much love and blessings
Carolyn Lee Boyd
Hi Helen,
What an amazing conference! Thanks to you and all who organized and presented for a unique, inspiring experience. I wasn’t sure if you wanted thoughts directed to the whole group or just to you, but here are mine for you to quote in your post however you like.
The SHE/Conference is truly a unique treasure of the Creatrix spirituality movement. This opportunity to experience the work of such brilliant, creative, and dedicated scholars, artists, and writers from all over the world through their presentations and then engage in meaningful conversations is unique and inspiring, exactly what is needed at this moment to help bring forth a compassionate, sustainable, just, and peaceful new world. I truly found fresh perspectives and new information from every participant, whether presenters or attendees who offered their comments and questions, that directly relate to my own work and life. Several days afterwards, I am still pondering much of what I heard and saw; not only will I be watching videos of presentations I couldn’t attend, but also rewatching those I did to capture all the richness of what was offered.
Blessings,
Shoshana Fershtman Ph.D.
I wanted to add my voice to the rousing chorus of appreciation for this wonderful conference.
I learned so much and the teachings from the various scholars have stayed with me in a profound way.
I look forward to the recordings of all the sessions to dive more deeply into the accumulated wisdom of the conference. What a profound weaving of Goddess wisdom from around the world. The interconnections are astounding and continue to evoke wonder.
I look forward to more time together learning, growing and sharing this work.
Thank you to Helen and Glennys, and all the organizers and tech supporters who worked so hard to create such a beautiful and profound conference.
With deep gratitude,
Rasa Lužytė Ph.D.
Dear All, Sisters,
What a magic experience it was to find you and to be part of this conference! It made me feel deeply connected and inspired. It is so amazing to see and feel this union of feminism and spirituality alive and working in all your original authentic research. It’s been 50 years of Goddess feminism by now, and we are making it to continue, of course, thanks first of all the organisers, but also participants. Taking part in this conference has given so much to think about, so much to realise. Also, it continues to grant benefits – I now have a better access to the recent publications and posts, also to Goddess poetry which is so nourishing when there is no other rites on hand. It’ been so enriching, thank you everyone, and especially organisers.
Best wishes,
Dilsa Deniz Ph.D.
Dear Helen and everyone included in this list,
First of all, it was a truly wonderful experience for me—the conference was a real treasure for Goddess studies. I learned so much and enjoyed every moment.
Thank you, Helen, as well as all the tech team, presenters, and participants. I’m very much looking forward to more events in this spirit.
Best regards,
Judy Grahn Ph.D.
Dear Helen and All,
Brava! For a wonderful conference, so well-organized and run, well moderated,
And full of delicious information and experience. I so look forward to the videos so
I can catch up with the presentations I missed.
Again, thanks to Helen and organizes, tech people.
In Spirit,
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