Riane
Eisler
The Speaker & The Author
Dr. Riane Eisler keynotes
conferences worldwide. She has given over 400
presentations at conferences, universities, corporations,
and governmental and nongovernmental agencies in the
United States, Canada, Latin America (Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mexico), and Europe
(Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Great
Britain, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Sweden).
Dr. Eisler spoke in Germany at the
invitation of Prof. Rita Suessmuth, President of the
Bundestag (the German Parliament) and Daniel Goeudevert
(Chair of Volkswagen International, who wrote the
Foreword to the German Edition of Eisler's international
bestseller The Chalice and The Blade). She was invited to
Greece by another TFF Associate Margarita
Papandreou (the First
Lady). She spoke in Colombia, invited by the Mayor of
Bogota, and in the Czech Republic, invited by Vaclav
Havel (President of the Czech Republic). She addressed
the NGO Forum of the End of the First U.N. Decade for
Women Conference in Nairobi, Kenya and was a plenary
speaker at the 2004 Barcelona Women's Forum. She keynoted
the Seventh Annual Conference of State Governors'
Spouses. She made a major presentation at the Second
Centennial Parliament of World Religions in Chicago, and
has addressed a wide range of audiences.
In 1999, she spoke at the Club of
Budapest in Rome (along with fellow honorary members such
as Yehudi Menuhin), at Forum 2000 in Prague on
"Partnership Economics: Beyond Communism and Capitalism,"
and to the Senior Women's Group of the Microsoft
Corporation. In 2000, she keynoted the annual conference
of the National Association of Women Business Owners, the
Montessori Peace Education Conference, and the national
conference of the Alliance for Work Life Professionals.
In 2001, she spoke to 4,000 Latin
American educators at the 5th International Congress of
Education in Cordoba, Argentina and keynoted the 2001ASCD
(Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)
Affiliate Leadership Conference in Washington DC. She
also presented her partnership economics model, speaking
on a New Economics of Caring, as part of the "Economics
for Human Well-Being" series (which included Amartya Sen)
in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 2002, after the publication of
Eisler's book on education, Tomorrow's
Children, and in the wake
of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Eisler focused on
"Educating for a Culture of Peace" at conferences such as
the American School Boards annual conference, the
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
(NASPA) Spirituality and Learning conference, and The
Alchemy of Peacebuilding conference in Dubrovnik,
Croatia.
In 2003, after the publication of
her book The
Power of Partnership,
Eisler spoke at the Women's International Network
conference in Switzerland, the Women's Leadership Summit
in Boston, the Case Western Business School conference on
the theme of Business as a Center for World Benefit, the
Social Venture Network conference, the Western Regional
Symposium on Child Abuse and Sexual Assault, and the
first Arab-American Economic Summit.
Venues for 2004 included plenary
addresses at the Sustainable Resources Conference, the
Committee of 200 conference, the Homeschooling
conference, and the Ethos Institute of Business and
Social Responsibility International Conference in Brazil.
Other venues have ranged from the
American Academy of Psychotherapists, the USSR - USA
Scholars' Dialogue on Human Rights, the International
Women's Forum, the Sisters of the Holy Name, the European
Educational House International Conference, and the
Founding Convention of the Cultural Environment Movement,
to meetings at such diverse places as the Canadian
International Development Research Centre, the San
Francisco Art Institute, the Heartland Area Education
Agency, the Chicago League of Theaters, and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. Universities where she has
spoken range from Yale, Haverford, Goddard College, and
UCLA to the University of St. Gallen, the University of
Costa Rica, the University of Helsinki, and the
University of Bologna. Corporations where she has spoken
include Du Pont, Disney, Arthur Anderson, Microsoft,
Volkswagen, and Sidley, Austin, Brown, and
Wood.
Riane
Eisler's books - some comments
The
Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our
Future
(Harper & Row, 1987)
"Some books are like revelations,
they open the spirit to unimaginable possibilities. The
Chalice and The Blade is one of those magnificent key
books that can transform us" Isabel Allende, author of
The House of the Spirits
"Apart from Darwin's Origin of
Species no book has impressed me as profoundly as The
Chalice and The Blade."
Ashley Montagu, Princeton
anthropologist
"The Chalice and The Blade may be
the most significant work published in all our lifetimes.
Read The Chalice and The Blade...it may make the future
possible.
Los Angeles Weekly
Sacred
Pleasure
(Harper Collins, 1995)
"Riane Eisler's most stunning,
far-reaching, and practical gift &endash; both to readers
and to a world that must change or perish." Gloria
Steinem
"This extraordinarily powerful and
beautiful book will stand as one of the epic works of our
generation."
John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America
Tomorrow's
Children
(Westview Press, 2000)
"Holistic and helpful, idealistic
yet practical. It's written by a scholar who is also a
grandmother and it's filled with knowledge, experience,
and love."
Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia
"Inviting readers to think outside
conventional boxes of educational reform, this is an
ambitious, imaginative, and practical guide to a better
educational future."
Publisher's Weekly
"Riane Eisler argues persuasively
that the adoption of a partnership model in both schools
and the larger society is essential for human life to
flourish.... With her, I believe that human happiness, if
not survival itself, depends on it."
Nel Noddings, Professor, Stanford
University
The
Power of Partnership
(New World Library, 2002)
"Great book. Great ideas."
Morris Dees, Co-founder, Southern Poverty Law
Center
"The Power of Partnership is the
right medicine for virtually everything that ails our
society and planet right now. . . a brilliantly
accessible plan for transforming ourselves and our
world."
Christiane Northrup, M.D., author, Women's Bodies,
Women's Wisdom
"From intimacy, to politics, to
service, to sustainability
this remarkable book
touches every critical node. . . a compelling argument
for the reality of conscious evolution."
Jim Kenney, Council for Parliament of the World's
Religions
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TFF & the author 2005
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