| “Hope for peace
is heartened by DNA evidence that all humans
are descendants of an African mother…”
presented at the Permanent Convention
of Women Against War, Bari, Italy,
February 6-7.
__“Dopo la Dea.” Presented
to women’s spirituality conference
organizers at the Armonia Center, Bologna,
Italy, February 20–21.
__Dark Mother: African Origins and
Godmothers (iUniverse, 2001). Italian
edition (La Madre O-Scura), Cosenza, Italy:
Media Mediterranea, 2004.
__Dark Mother of Sardinia Study Tour,
Sardinia, May–June.
__Received an award from the American Immigration
Law Foundation as one of five “extraordinary
Italian Americans,” honored for scholarship
and civil rights activism; Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, June 11.
__“Remembering Our Black Mother.”
Presented at the XXI Valcamonica Symposium
on Prehistoric and Tribal Art: New Discoveries,
New Interpretations, New Research Methods;
also presented Italian edition of Dark
Mother: African Origins and Godmothers (La
Madre O-Scura); Darfo-Boario Terme
(Bs), Italy, September 8-14.
__“Dark Mother: An Emerging New Paradigm
Replacing the Hegemony of White Western
Elites.” Presented at the 16th
Annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference,
Temple University and Ankh Institute,
Philadelphia, October 1.
__Acceptance of Dark Mother: African
Origins and Godmothers for a French
edition by Menaibuc, an African press located
in Paris; for distribution in Europe, Africa,
and Latin America, October 2.
__Honorary Lecturer: University of California,
San Diego, Italian Department. Presented
paper on “Dark Mother,” November
12.
__Lecturer in public series: Faiths
of the World, San Diego Public Library,
November.
 __Served
as editor for Volume 1 of an anthology entitled
She
is Everywhere! An Anthology of Writing in
Womanist/ Feminist Spirituality
(iUniverse, March 2005), featuring papers
by students and faculty in the CIIS Women’s
Spirituality program. Wrote “Preface
by a Strega Nonna” for volume 1.
__“Gathering Consensus on the ‘Dark
Mother.’” Presented at the Conference
on the Virgin, Galeria Tonantzin, San
Juan Bautista, California, December 11.
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