The Foundation for Mythological Studies (FMS) Workshops and Conferences

2008 EVENTS

JULY 26-27, 2008
MYTH & MYSTERY

Who is it that keeps us turning pages deep into the night, way past the hour when any sensible person would slip into the arms of Morpheus? What in the psyche will not rest until the perpetrator is unmasked? Where in ourselves is this lust for resolution, this compelling need to believe that good will triumph, and order is possible in the kingdom? Does the female crime solver differ archetypally from the male, or are these characters postmodern gender benders?

What is the mythology that fuels our love of a good mystery?

Sue Grafton is the author of the Kinsey Millhone mysteries.
We have traveled from A is for Alibi to her latest novel, T is for Trespass which finds Kinsey living next door to a cunning psychopath. It is an all night nail-biter if there ever was one. T is for tension. Grafton writes, "… [the mystery novel] offers a world in which justice is served. Maybe not in a court of law, but people do get their just desserts." Visit her cool website at http://www.suegrafton.com.

Jacqueline Winspear is the author of five novels about Maisie Dobbs, “extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator.”
Set in Great Britain during the first four decades of the twentieth century, Maisie lives in a world of rapid and dramatic change. She writes, “The Great War demanded that there was hardly a field of endeavor that women did not move into to release the men for the battlefield. The first women joined the police force, and it was also during these first decades of the century that scientific methods of detection were being rapidly developed. From medicine to international travel to the study of the human mind, all benefited from a time that was both terrifyingly painful in terms of the cost to human life, and yet demonstrated a hunger for innovation and a fascination with the avant-garde.” Read more at http://www.jacquelinewinspear.com.

Susan Rowland is Reader in English and Jungian Studies, at the University of Greenwich , London.
Her publications include: From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction; Jung as a Writer; Jung: A Feminist Revision; and C.G. Jung and Literary Theory; and Murder Most Fair: The Appeal of Mystery Fiction(Book Review)? The Modern Language Review - October 1, 2002. Impressive as all this sounds, she has a wicked sense of humor (the British kind).

Ricki Tannen, author of The Female Trickster: The Mask that Reveals
The Female Trickster presents a Post-Jungian postmodern perspective regarding the role of women in contemporary Western society by investigating the re-emergence of female trickster energy in all aspects of popular culture. Ricki Tannen explores the psychological aspects of what happened when women's imagination was legally and psychologically enclosed millenia ago and demonstrates how the re-emergence of Trickster energy through the female imagination has the radical potential to effect a transformation of western consciousness. Examples are drawn from a diverse range of sources, from Jane Austen, and female sleuth narratives, to Madonna and Sex and the City, illustrating how Trickster energy is used not to maintain power and control but to integrate and unite the paradoxical through humour.

Druscilla French is a ravenous omnivore, when it comes to mystery novels. She is also a cultural mythologist and the President of the Foundation for Mythological Studies. She is Southern funny and thinks the greatest American mystery was written by Fannie Flagg. Her first mystery, Shadows on Samhain, is available on Amazon in June of 2008. It is the first in a series of eight mythic mysteries crafted around the Celtic Sabbats. Watch for the mercurial inside jokes for those who study myth.

Join FMS and a few of the most popular female sleuths for a weekend of myth...and mystery.

Location: Soule Park, 1033 E Ojai Ave. Ojai, CA.

Time: Saturday, 9:00am to 4:00pm
Sunday, 9:00am to 4:00pm

Fee: $150
Lunches are provided both days


TO REGISTER for this event, please mail your check to:
Druscilla French
837 Mackall Ave.
MacLean, VA


MYTH & MYSTERY Sponsored by Ojai's LOCAL HERO BOOKSTORE. To pre-purchase any of the author's books before the event, GO TO: http://www.localherobooks.com

Sue Grafton: T is for Tresspass and other Kinsey Millhone novels

Jacqueline Winspear: Messenger of Truth and other Maisie Dobbs novels

Susan Rowland: From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell (this was the first book to consider seriously the hugely popular and influential works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, P.D. James and Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine).

Ricki Tannen: The Female Trickster:The Mask that Reveals

Druscilla French: Shadows on Samhain

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