lucia's current events

March 20, 2005

Lucia was invited by Black Women Stirring the Waters to discuss African and contemporary western history. Oakland, California.

April 7, 2005

Lucia, representing exhibit sponsor Women's Spirituality of California Institute of Integral Studies, will introduce Beth Grossman and her exhibit, Our Mother Mary Found. Interfaith Sacred Art, at CIIS Minna Center. Our Mother Mary Found recontextualizes the story of Mary by asserting her Jewish origin as part of her identity. Ten rustic wooden household tools collected in Italy are gilded with Jewish prayers that correspond to fragments of Mary's life. Our Mother Mary Foundconveys the more pragmatic reality of a woman whose daily labor as a mother and a faithful Jew gave birth to a prophet and nurtured a revolutionary. CIIS Minna Street Center Gallery, 695 Minna Street (at 8th Street), 2nd floor.

May 13, 2005

Signing and celebration of She is Everywhere! An Anthology of Writing in Womanist/Feminist Spirituality, gathered by Lucia, will be held at Belladonna, Women's sanctuary, archive, and gathering place, 2436 Sacramento 94702. Write Info@Belladonna.ws for more information. The jacket of the volume that contains fifty scholars, artists, and poets, states, "Perhaps the first womanist/feminist anthology which includes women's voices from many cultural and spiritual traditions across the globe from past to present. This book will be enormously useful and stimulating to women's studies classes and the emerging vibrant study of women's spirituality."

May 24, 2005

Lucia's lecture to Lydia Ruyle's class on the dark mother at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

June 18, 2005

Lucia will be among the scholars, students, ministers, writers, artists, musicians, labyrinth facilitators, and performance "as we examine and celebrate the re-emergence of this symbol in our time." Awakening the Energy for Change, The Black Madonna and the Womb of God. Transcultural symbols of Healing and Liberation. The conference is sponsored by Graduate Theological Union Summer Session, Images of the Divinity Project/Center for Arts, Religion, and Education, and California Institute of Integral Studies. www.gtuss.org and www.imagesofdivinity.org.

June 22 - July 13, 2005

Lucia and her husband, Wally, will travel to Cathar country in southwestern France to research Cathar women. The Cathar heresy was so threatening to the pope he declared a crusade against them. Cathars were defeated, but the heresy, which has contemporary overtones, spread throughout Europe. This research refers to Lucia's book in progress, Tanit! Healing and liberation legacy of african migrations in Europe.

September 29-30, 2005

Lucia will participate in the conference, Societies of Peace. Past, Present, Future, Second World Congress on Matriarchal Studies, San Marcos/Austin, Texas. This congress follows the First World Congress in September 2003 Luxembourg/Europe under the heading, Societies in Balance. Gender Equality in matrilineal, matrifocal, matriarchal Societies. This second world congress is sponsored and co-organized by Genevieve Vaughan and The Center for the Study of the Gift Economy and by Dr. Heide Gottner-Abendroth of the international academy, HAGIA. Lucia's invited paper is entitled "Matriarchal (in the sense of women in the beginning) societies in Africa, Spain, France, Sardinia, and Sicily."

September 30 - October 1, 2005

Lucia to participate in 17th Annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference, "African Explorations: Theories and Models of Creativity and Discovery for a Resurgent African World", Philadelphia, PA. Lucia's paper: "Legacy of african migrations . . . healing and liberation. Cases of France and Italy."

November 4-6, 2005

Conference of American Italian Historical Association, Los Angeles, CA. Lucia's paper: "Legacy of african migrations in Italy."