Remythologizing to (Re)mediate Our Presents April 2025 Mythological Studies M.A./Ph.D. Admissions Webinar
April 15, 2025
Free | Offered Live via Zoom
Program Description
April 2025 Mythological Studies M.A./Ph.D. Admissions Webinar
Join Our Mythological Studies M.A/Ph.D. Admissions Webinar
Join us for an exclusive admissions webinar featuring Monica Mody, PhD, Co-Chair of Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Mythological Studies program.
In this 60-minute webinar, Dr. Mody will discuss how:
Even as our cultural and political narratives are being mythologized to build a normative present in which certain ways of being human are delegitimized, we can stand between the realms of the seen and the unseen to call upon and recover ways of mythologizing that disrupt orthodoxy and help us awaken authentic participation. Myths can be not only a way of knowing, they can also continuously shift us out of linear thinking into border realities, weaving ancestral and cultural memory outside patricolonial representations back into the contemporary world. This makes the task of remythologizing critical to a decolonial reconstruction of our presents.
Live Q&A and Discussion
Following the presentation, you’ll have the opportunity to engage in a live Q &A and discussion with Dr. Mody.
Program Details
Date
April 15, 2025 , 5-6pm PT
Registration Fees
- Free
About the Teacher
Dr. Monica Mody is Assistant Professor and incoming Chair of the Mythological Studies MA/PhD Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her areas of specialization include decolonial, indigenous, and women of color paradigms and epistemologies; Anzaldúan frameworks; earth-sourced and feminist spirituality and ritual; poetry, divination, oracular speech, and arts-based research; and nondual embodiment, in conversation with ancestral lineages from South Asia. Her books include Wild Fin (Weavers Press, 2024), Bright Parallel (Copper Coin, 2023), and Kala Pani (1913 Press, 2013). Other creative and academic work have been widely published and presented in journals and edited books, at international and US-based conferences, and through invited talks. Her doctoral dissertation, on decolonial feminist consciousness in South Asian borderlands, was awarded the Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Women and Mythology conferred by the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. She has further been a recipient of Cultural Integration Fellowship’s Integral Scholarship, the Sparks Prize Fellowship (Notre Dame), the Zora Neale Hurston Award (Naropa), and a TOTO Funds the Arts award. Dr. Mody is affiliated with the Doctoral Program in Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership at Southwestern College Santa Fe and with the Women’s Spirituality Program at California Institute of Integral Studies, and offers public classes at Morbid Anatomy. More at www.drmonicamody.com.
General Information
Hosted Online
Registration Details
April 15, 2025
Number of Lectures: 1
Lecture Length: 1 hour
Lecture Time:5-6pm PT
CECs: 0
Category: Admissions Webinar
Participants requesting Continuing Education Credits (CECs) for Online programs must attend all live sessions (offered via Zoom) in order to receive CECs. Please make sure that your Zoom account name matches the name of the attendee requesting CECs.
