Independent scholar Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970. Since then, she has photographed over 14,000 slides and created ninety slideshows on international women's history, including Women's Power, Patriarchies, Female Rebels and Mavericks, Taming the Female Body, and Racism: History and Lies. She has presented hundreds of slide talks at universities, community centers, bookstores, schools, libraries, prisons, galleries, festivals and conferences around North America.
Dashu has guest-taught classes at John F. Kennedy University (Orinda, CA), California Institute of Integral Studies and New College (San Francisco), among others. She has acted as historical consultant for a variety of projects, including Donna Deitch's film, Woman to Woman (1973-4) and the San Francisco Women's Building mural project (1994).She has done extensive interdisciplinary research on the European witch hunts and folk traditions about witches. See the Articles page for excerpts from her forthcoming book Secret History of the Witches.
A Partial List of Suppressed Histories Presentations
2007 Woman Shaman at Queenswood Centre, Victoria, B.C.
2007 Woman Shaman at Alliance for Arts and Culture, Vancouver B.C.
2007 Woman Shaman at SheShamans Conference, Calistoga CA
2007 Mother-Right and Gender Justice, Landmark College, Putney VT
2007 Suppressed Histories: Arabia at UU Church, Springfield MA
2007 Suppressed Histories: the Philippines, at New College of California, San Francisco
2006 Female Shamans as Indigenous Liberators, National Women's Association Conference, Oakland CA
(also featured at the Global Justice Conference in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in July 2006)
2006 Women's Power, Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2006 Suppressed Histories: Japan, at Ancient Ways, Oakland CA
2005 Conference Keynote at "Domestic Violence: Transformation Theory for Practice" at Rutgers, New Brunswick NJ
2005 Female Rebels and Mavericks, at M.I.T, Cambridge, and at The Fund for Women Artists, Northampton MA2005 Mother Right and Gender Justice, 2nd World Congress on Matriarchal Studies, San Marcos, TX
2005 Women's Power, for Sigma Theta Psi, Multicultural Sorority, Stanford University, CA
2005 The Canaanite and Hebrew Goddess, at Belladonna, Berkeley CA
2005 Taming the Female Body, at Change Makers for Women, Oakland CA
2004 Icons of the Matrix, at Female Mysteries of the Substratum Conference, Rila, Bulgaria
2004 Women's Power, at M.I.T., Cambridge Massachusetts
2004 Women's Power, at Queens College CUNY, New York
2004 Suppressed Histories: Asia Minor, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco
2004 Goddess Cosmologies, Isis Ancient Cultures and Religion Society, Los Angeles
2004 Priestesses, at Unitarian-Universalist Church, Andover, MA
2003 Female Rebels and Mavericks, at University of Connecticut, Storrs
2003 Female Rebels and Mavericks, U-Mass Amherst
2003 Women's Power, Washington State University, Bellingham
2003 The Goddess Veiled, University of Oregon, Eugene
2002 Women Elders, University of Connecticut, Storrs
2002 Women's Power, Princeton University Women's Center
2002 Witches and Pagans, New College of San Francisco, California
2001 Racism, History and Lies, San Francisco State University
2001 Women's Rites and Symbols, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda CA
2000 Drummers: The Women, Pantheacon Conference, San Francisco
2000 Series for Archaeomythology course, New College, San Francisco2000 Racism: History and Lies, University of Creation Spirituality, Oakland
1999 Suppressed Histories Series, Museo de San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
1998 Keynote address on Women in Power, California State University at Chico
1998 The Fates, Goddess 2000 Conference, La Honda CA
1997 Woman Shaman, California State University at Sacramento
1996 Racism: History and Lies, San Francisco State University
1996 Women in Power, Stanford University Women's Center
1994 Racism: History and Lies, University of California at Fresno
1989 Witch Hunts, Lewis and Clarke College, Portland Oregon
1988 Women of Power, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1987 Three slide lectures, Women's Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison
1987 Slide lecture series, University of Victoria, British Columbia
1986 Women of Power, Everywoman's Center, U- Massachusetts at Amherst
1986 From Women's Hands, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
1986 Three slide lectures for the Women's Center at Princeton University
1986-93 Six slide lectures, Northwestern University Women's Center, Evanston
1985 Suppressed Histories Series, Anchorage Fine Arts Museum
1985 Slide lecture series, Evergreen State College, Olympia WA
1984 Slide lecture series, San Francisco Women's Building
1984 From Women's Hands, Santa Rita Women's Prison, Pleasanton
1984 Lecture series, Center for the Study of Women, UC-Berkeley
1983 Indian Women Artists, Artista Ind’gena exhibit, Canessa Gallery, San Francisco
1982 Suppressed Histories: Sahara and Sudan, National Women's Studies Association Conferemce
1980 Women in Power, University of Washington, Seattle
1979 Suppressed Histories Slide Series, La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley CA
1977 Women in Mexico, Elmwood Women's Facility, Milpitas CA
1976 Women of Power, Mountain-Moving Cafe, Portland OR
1975 Women of Power, Full Moon Coffeehouse, San Francisco
1974 Matriarchives, A Woman's Place Bookstore, Oakland CA