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2005: Orlando, Florida
Conference Theme: "Women and the Environment:
Globalizing and Mobilizing"

Embedded Conference Theme:
Host Site: Renaissance Orlando Resort
at Seaworld
President: Jacqui Zita
President-Elect: Judith Roy
National Conference Chair: Gill Wright Miller
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Leslie Lieberman & Fran Ragsdale
NWSA Executive Director and/or Support Staff:
Keynote: Dr. Vandana Shiva
Plenary Topics: Women and the Environment (Jill Schneiderman, Winona LaDuke, Karen Warren); Theatrical Prevention and Commentary (Ntozake Shange, Belinda Boyd); Aging and Ageism (Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Kathleen Woodward)
Historical Notes:
1. Suggestions for these plenaries:
a. Feminist Mothering--contact Denise Bauer, bauerd@matrix.newpaltz.edu, bauerd@newpaltz.edu
b. Aging & Ageism--contact Leni Marshall mars0264@umn.edu
c. Feminist Publishing--non-specific as to particular focus/issues.

2004: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (click here to see plenary reviews)
Conference Theme: "Women in the Middle:
Borders, Barriers, Intersections"

Embedded Conference Theme: Coalitions and Conflicts Across Differences
Hosted by: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Women’s Studies in collaboration with The University of Wisconsin System Women’s Studies Consortium
Host Site: Hyatt Regency Hotel-Milwaukee
President: Colette Morrow
President-Elect: Jacquelyn Zita
National Conference Chair: Kathy Miller-Dillon
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Kathy Miller-Dillon & Merry Weisner-Hanks
Keynote: “Generations of Feminism” - Gerda Lerner, Lisa Jarvis, Ellen Bravo, Barbara Smith
Plenary Topics: Feminist Uses of Science and Technology (Rita Arditti, Adriane Fugh-Berman, Cynthia Pearson); Women and Globalism (Cynthoa Enloe, M. Jacqui Alexander)
Historical Notes: N/A

2003: New Orleans, Louisiana
Conference Theme: "Southern Discomforts"
Embedded Conference Theme: Southern Discomforts
Hosted by: The New Orleans Women’s Studies Consortium (Dillard University, Loyola University New Orleans, Southern University at new Orleans, Tulane University, University of new Orleans, and Xavier University of Louisiana)
Host Site: Radisson Hotel, New Orleans
President: Maria Gonzalez
President-Elect: Colette Morrow
National Conference Chair: Magdalena Garcia Pinto
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Susanne B. Dietzel
Keynote: Minnie Bruce Pratt
Plenary Topics: Southern Discomforts (Mab Segrest, Robin Jacks, Barbara Major); What Women’s Studies Graduates Do (Angela Brown, Isa Willians, Patricia Duncan); NWSA; The Next Twenty-Five Years (Nancy Naples, Chela Sandoval, Mallika Dutt)
Historical Notes:
1. The Lesbian Caucus and the Jewish Caucus had 2 hour pre-conference meetings on Thursday, along with the all day Administrators' and Women’s Center Pre-Conference meetings. (This was in addition to their regular 75-minute business meeting.)

2002: Las Vegas, Nevada
Conference Theme: "Invest In Feminist Education"
Embedded Conference Theme: Deconstructing Sin City
Hosted by: University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
Host Site: Alexis Park Conference Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
President: Magdalena Garcia-Pinto
President-Elect: Maria Gonzalez
National Conference Chair: Ellen Cronan Rose
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Megan Wilson
Keynote: “Past Presidents of the National Women’s Studies Association” - Maria Gonzalez, Berenice Carroll, Barbara Gerber, Betty Harris, Vivian Ng, Marjorie Pryse, Annette VanDyke, Bonnie Zimmerman, & Magdalena Garcia-Pinto
Plenary Topics: NWSA -Women of All Colors Building an Inclusive Organization Together (Aida Hurtado, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Lisa Albrecht); Political Women and Political Power (Nadine Strossen, Ellei Smeal, Sonali Kolhatker, Barbara Lee); Body Politics (Catherine Holland, Ann Russo)
Historical Notes: N/A

2001: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Conference Theme: "2001.Women’s.Studies.com?"
Embedded Conference Theme: The Future of Women’s Studies Administration
Hosted by: University of Minnesota
Host Site: Minnesota Raddison Hotel Metrodome
President: Annette VanDyke
President-Elect: Magdalena Garcia-Pinto
National Conference Chair: Ellen Cronan Rose
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Jacquelyn Zita, Jodi Horne, Kim Surkan, & Kati Medvedev
Keynote: “The Future of Progress: Women, Technology and the Soul” - Susan Griffin
Plenary Topics: Life Itself-In A Nutshell (AmyLee); Re-searching the Female (Charlene Spretnak); Weaving Another World: Women and Global Justice (Starhawk)
Historical Notes: N/A

2000: Boston, Massachusetts
Conference Theme: "2000 Subversions: Women’s Studies
and the Twenty-first Century"

Embedded Conference Theme: N/A
Host Site: Simmons College
President: Berenice Carroll
President-Elect: Annette Van Dyke
National Conference Chair: Ellen Cronan Rose
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Christina Brinkley
Keynote: “Rethinking Race, Gender, and Power” – Lani Guinier
Plenary Topics: Agendas for Feminist Education: Linking Academy and Community in 2000 and Beyond (Lourdes Beneria, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Connie Panzarino, Jamaica Rain); Feminist Action and Intellect: The Gendered Politics of War & Peace (Kathleen Weiler, Modhumita Roy, Elise Boulding, Valentine Moghadam, Radha Kumar, Betty Burkes); Violence in Schools/Schooling (Christina Brinkley, Theresa Perrym Jane Hardin, Gail Dines); Lesbian Images in the Media and the Impact on Culture & Society (Joan Gerry); Who Speaks for Lesbians of Color in the National Agenda (Willa Taylor); Who Speaks for Lesbians in the NWSA (Bette Tallen); Transformations: Feminist/Womanist/Gender/Queer/…Studies – Where Do We Go From Here? (Barbara McCaskill, Lisa Duggan, Paula Gunn Allen)
Historical Notes: N/A

1999: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Conference Theme: No Theme
Embedded Conference Theme: N/A
Host Site: Albuquerque Radisson Hotel & Conference Center
President: Berenice Carroll
President-Elect: Annette Van Dyke
National Conference Chair: Ellen Cronan Rose
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Beatrice Thompson
Keynote: “Feminism Without Frontiers” – Gayathri Chakravorty Spivak
Plenary Topics: Interdisciplinarity (Elizabeth Kennedy, Marilyn Boxer, Marjorie Pryse, Mary Romero); Life After Graduation: Women’s Studies Students Enter the World (Mary Ellen Reilly); Feminism & (Post) Colonialism (Berenice Carroll)
Historical Notes: N/A

1998: Oswego, New York
Conference Theme: "Foundations for the Twenty-first Century: Scholarship, Activism, Community
"
Embedded Conference Theme:
Host Site: State University of New York (SUNY), Oswego
President: Barbara Gerber
President-Elect: Bonnie Zimmerman
National Conference Chair: Ellen Cronan Rose
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Barbara St. Michel
Embedded Conference Theme: Women's Rights Around the World in conjunction
with The Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY
Keynote: Sally Roesch Wagner on the contributions of the Iroquois nations to
women's suffrage
Plenary Topics: Politics of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered
Communities; Feminist Science Education; Activism; Stanton Strategy and
Sympathy: Women's Rights in the US and Internationally; and Beyond the Sex
Wars: Feminism, Sexuality and Power in a Commodity Culture
Historical Notes: Historical connections for women in Central NY

1997: St. Louis, Missouri
Conference Theme: "Currents & Crosscurrents:
Women Generating Creativity & Change"

Embedded Conference Theme: PARTicipate: Celebrating Women in the Arts
Host Site: University of Missouri at St. Louis
President: Betty J. Harris
President-Elect: Barbara Gerber
National Conference Chair: Catherine Hobbs
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Frances Hoffman, Connie Jeffries
Keynote: “Why The Women Can Fly” – Faith Ringgold
Plenary Topics: I Remember: Women, Memory & Resistance in Latin America (Marjorie Agosin); Creating & Documenting Lesbian Imagery, Voice, & Inspiration (Angela Dawn); A Woman’s Voice (Carolyn Bremer); Against the Grain: Independent Women’s Film & Video (Debra Zimmerman); Feminism & the New Reproductive Technologies: Prenatal Diagnosis, Assisted Reproduction & Maybe Even Cloning? (Adrienne Asch); Indian Women Taking Care of Their Destiny (Winona LaDuke); Feminism, Science & Technology: What Should We Teach Our Students? (Anne Fausto-Sterling); Health & Medical Technologies for Women: Sorting Miracle from Menace (Judy Norsigian); Women’s Studies: Is It Still a “Lesbian Plot?” (Bonnie Zimmerman); Passing On Our Feminist Legacy (Phyllis Chesler); I Told You Twice the First Time: Black Feminist Studies in the Academy (Chana Kai Lee); Towards A History of Women’s Studies (Florence Howe); Towards a New Partnership Among Women: Sexual Orientation & the Future of Feminist Politics (Urvashi Vaid); Coalitions & Alliances: Bringing Our Politics Home (Maria Luisa “Papusa” Molina); Creating Communities Across Difference in the Undergraduate Classroom (Estelle Disch)
Historical Notes:

1996: Saratoga Springs, New York
Conference Theme: "Borders/Crossings/Passages:
Women Reinterpreting Development"

Embedded Conference Theme: Diverse Paths: Perspectives on Adolescent Girls
Host Site: Skidmore College
President: Marjorie Pryce
President-Elect: Betty J. Harris
National Conference Chair: Francine Frank
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Sharon Arpey, Patricia Rubio
Keynote: “Woman To Woman: What We Are Still Desperately Seeking in One Another” – Ruth Behar
Plenary Topics: Development Alternatives with Women: A Narrative from the Economic South (Peggy Antrobus); Paula, Queen of the Gypsies: The Collective Crossing of Inner & Outer Boundaries: to Lament: to Transform (Judith Johnson); Contesting Narratives of Tradition, Westernization, National Culture and National Development (Uma Narayan); Narrating Race & the Politics of Development (Janie Victoria Ward); Sexualities, Violence & Pleasure: Unraveling the Web for Adolescent Women (Michelle Fine & Jennifer Pastor); The Desexing of Disabled People (Simi Linton); Community, Solidarity, Danger & Justice: Lesbian/Jewish Politics for the 21st Century (Melanie Kaye-Kantrowitz); Sexual Morality & Women’s Bodies in Africa (Carolyn Martin Shaw); Border Patrol: Migrations Across Activism & Pedagogy (Karin Aguilar-San Juan); Stones in the Road: Anger, Class, & Adolescent Girls (Lyn Mikel Brown); First Environment: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge & Science to Create Woman-Centered Models for Respect, Equity, & Empowerment of Indigenous Women ( Katsi Cook); Education in South Africa: Crossing the Borders from Within (Rhoda Kadalie); Forging Transnational Connections Among Women (Edna Acosta-Belen); Changing the Face of Women’s Magazines (Dyann Logwood); Detours & Derailments: Adolescent Mothers & The Process of Change (Judith Smith Musick)
Historical Notes:

1995: Norman, Oklahoma
Conference Theme: "Women’s Movements (R)evolutions:
Cultural, Intellectual, & Political"

Embedded Conference Theme: N/A
Host Site: University of Oklahoma
President: Sandra Coyner
President-Elect: Marjorie Pryce
National Conference Chair: Cris Anderson
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Patsy Taylor, Betty Harris, & Vivien Ng
Keynote: “Feminist Futures: A Dialogue Between Beverly Guy-Sheftall & Bell Hooks” - Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Plenary Topics: Keeping Their Visions Alive: Native American Women’s Integration of Cultural, Religious, & Political Struggles (Inés Talamantez); Conflict, Change, & Continuity in the Liberation of Women (Mildred Jeffrey); Striking Back: Fear as a Feminist Tactic (Valerie Kameya); Political Matricide: Feminism’s Second Wave, Third Wave, & the Amnesia Problem (Louise Bernikow); Inventing Chaos, Managing (Dis) order: The State, Law, & Heterosexuality (Jacqueline Alexander); The Word is Colonization Not Patriarchy (Chrystos); Logical Order, Poetic Chaos, & the Naming of Reality (Andrea Nye); Wartime: Gendered Chaos or Gendered Order? (Cynthia Enloe); Voices from Beyond the Margins: A Native Woman Speaks (Julie Moss); A Better Life For Me & My Children: Low-Income Single Mothers Struggle for Self-Sufficiency in the Rural South (Bonnie Thornton Dill); Beyond Survival: Indigenous Women & the Recovery & Sustenance of Cultures & Lives (Inés Hernandez-Avila); International Women’s Movements for Reproductive Rights: The Politics of Language Meets the Politics of Survival (Rosalind Pollack Petchesky); Redefining the National Women’s Community Vis-à-vis Increasing Violence Against the State (Betty Harris); Common Oppressions, Common Work: Multi-Racial, Multi-Issue Coalition Organizing (Mandy Carter); Sisterhood: Make It Real (Leslie Feinberg); Global Feminist Diversity & Collaboration for Change (Charlotte Bunch)
Historical Notes: N/A

1994: Ames, Iowa
Conference Theme: "Teaching Theory & Action:
Women Working in a Global Context"

Embedded Conference Theme:
Host Site: Iowa State University
President: Vivien Ng
President-Elect: Sandra Coyner
National Conference Chair: Kris Anderson, Wendy Kolmar
On-Site Conference Coordinator:
Keynote: “Thinking & Acting: The Challenge of Global Feminism”
– Nawal El Saadawi
Plenary Topics: International Human/Women’s Rights, Political Accountability, & Shifting Cartographies (Sharon Hom); Human Rights & Development: The Gender Relations of Forced Migration (Wenona Giles); Women in Eastern Europe & the Social Change After 1989 (Mariana Katzarova); Native Women: Invisible Keepers of the Circle (Sharon Day); There’s a McJob in Our Future: Women’s Work & Labor Struggles (Karen Brodkin Sacks); Rethinking Citizenship in the Global Village: New Challenges for a Feminist Vision (M. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly); Beasts & Burden: Women in Agriculture & Animal Husbandry – The Silent Nurturers (Elizabeth McGregor); Women’s Unwaged Work: Hidden Face of the Economy (Margaret Prescod); The Politics of Bodies & the Body Politic: The Impact of African American Women (M. Njeri Jackson); A Body In Trouble (Nancy Maris); Impossible Bodies / Lesbian Possibilities (Ruthann Robson); A Body of Evidence (Jalna Hanmer); Anti-Eurocentrism: A Resource & Challenge for Feminisms (Sandra Harding); Global Perspectives: But Where Are the African Women? (Molara Ogundipe-Leslie); Should Jewish Studies Be Included in a Multicultural Curriculum? (Lynn Davidman); On Feminist Praxis & “New” World Orders, or Fighting for Sanity in the Belly of the Academic Beast (Chandra Talpade Mohanty); Doing the Master’s Work: The Role of Contemporary Theory in Maintaining the Status Quo (Barbara Smith)
Historical Notes:

1993: Washington, D.C.
Conference Theme: "Reweaving Women's Colors:
Scholarship, Curriculum, and Our Lives"

Host Site: Marriot, Embassy and Sheraton Suites Hotels
President: Sue Mansfield and Berenice Carroll, Co-Chairs
President-Elect: Vivien Ng
National Conference Chair: Kris Anderson and Wendy Kolmar
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Capitol Area Women's Studies Programs
Conference Theme: Reweaving Women's Colors: Scholarship, Curriculum & Our
Lives
Embedded Conference Theme:
Keynote: Catherine Stimpson
Plenary Topics: Putting Women on the National Agenda; Breaking/Making
Paradigms: Femininsm and Knowing; Women's Lives; Women's Stories;
Intellectual Foundations of Women's Studies: Beyond Political Correctness
(Paula S. Rothenberg, Lourdes Arbuelles, Vivien Ng & Ellen Messer-Davisow)
Historical Notes:

1992: Austin, TX
Conference Theme: "Enlarging the Circle:
The Power of Feminist Education"

Embedded Conference Theme: NA
Host Site: Hyatt, Palmer and Crest Hotels
President: Chair of Steering Comm. Wilma Boddie Beaman
President-Elect: NA
National Conference Chair: Goldie Thomas
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Mary Visser
Conference Theme: Enlarging the Circle: The Power of Feminist Education
Keynote: Annette Kolodny
Plenary Topics: Panel on Empowerment; After Roe vs. Wade;
Historical Notes: First hotel site conference. $5000 donation from the Ronya Kosmetsky foundation to support the conference, secured by Mary Visser.

1991: Washington, D.C.
Theme: "Making Connections, Rethinking
Structures: Women's Studies Programs and the
National Women's Studies Association"

Historical Notes: There was no NWSA conference in 1991, the program
administrators and the governance folks met in June 1991 for a
mini-conference and to work on the new constitution that was ready for
ratification at the 1992 conference in Austin, Texas.

1990: Akron, Ohio
Conference Theme: Feminist Education: "Calling the Question"
Embedded Conference Theme: N/A
Host Site: University of Akron
President: Caryn McTighe Musil
(Manual lists as “National Director”)
President-Elect: N/A
National Conference Chair: Suzanne Hyers (manual lists as “Conference Director”)
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Carol Garrison
Keynote: N/A
Plenary Topics: The National Debate on Education: Politics and Practice (Caryn McTighe Musil, Blandina C. Ramirez); Visioning: The Transformation of Society Through Education (Deborah K. King, Jane Roland Martin, Elanor Smeal; Bridging Our Common World: African American Women and the Politics of Culture (Renee Green, Sapphire, Kweli Smith); Theories of Sexuality (Somer Brodribb, Marilyn Frye); Listen to the Old Women (Ruth Harriet, Dororthy Redus, Shevy Healey); Educating For Our Lives: Women Redefining Global Economic Development (Maria Patricia Fernandez Kelly, Marta Benavides) (In Manual these are listed as forums)
Historical Notes: N/A

1989: Towson, Maryland
Conference Theme: "Feminist Transformations"
Embedded Conference Theme: N/A
Host Site: Towson State University
President: Caryn McTighe Musil (Manual lists as “National Director”)
President-Elect: N/A
National Conference Chair: Suzanne Hyers (manual lists as “Conference Director”)
On-Site Conference Coordinator: N/A
Keynote: N/A
Plenary Topics: Critical Questions: Two Decades of Feminist Scholarship (Hazel Carby, Patricia Hill Collins, Linda Gordon, Sandra Harding, Catharine R. Stimpson); Journey’s in our Lives: Learning Feminism (MyKela Loury, Abby Markowitz, Eden Torres, Lauren Wilson); Engendering Knowledge: Feminist Transformation of the Curriculum (Beverly Guy Sheftall, Betty Schmitz, Emily Style, Susan R. Van Dyne)
Historical Notes: N/A

1988: Minneapolis, MN
Conference Theme: "Leadership and Power:
Women's Alliances for Social Change"

Embedded Conference Theme:
President: Patricia Gozemba, Chair of Steering Comm.
President-Elect: NA
National Conference Chair: Sally Gordon
On-Site Conference Coordinator: several member committee
Keynote: NA
Plenary Topics: American Indian Women: Diverse Leadership for Social Change;
Alliances for Social Change: International Voices; (Corine Kumar-D'Souze, Roxanna Carillo, Sudarat Sereewat-Srisang, and Salimatu Tiangay Khan-Timbo)
Lesbian Alliances:
Combatting Heterosexism in the 80's
Historical Notes:

1987: Atlanta, Georgia
Conference Theme: "Weaving Women’s Colors:
A Decade of Empowerment"

Embedded Conference Theme: N/A
Host Site: Spelman College
President: Caryn McTighe Musil (Manual lists as “National Director”)
President-Elect: N/A
National Conference Chair: Eleanor Hinton Hoytt, Sally M.Gordon (Manual lists as Conference Coordinators)
On-Site Conference Coordinator: N/A
Keynote: N/A
Plenary Topics: The Political Empowerment of African-American Women: Furthering A Feminist Agenda for the Twenty-First Century (Georgia English Palmer, Angela Y. Davis, C. Delores Tucker); Pain, Survival, Triumph, Voices of Poor, and Working Class Women (Rena Grasso, Bonita Hampton, Lois Rita Helmbold, Jan Lightfoot, Bernice Mennis, Karen Ruggiero, Theresa Solis); Spinning Threads of Women’s Movement (Ada Deer, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, Tandi Gcabashe, Beverly Caffee Glenn, Bell Hooks, Alicia Partnoy, Mab Segrest; Women and the Constitution: Where do We Go From Here? (Maryt Francis Berry, Margaret Randall, M.P. Schildmeyer; Bib Mountain Relocation and Resistance (Roberta Blackgoat, Marilyn Harris
Historical Notes: N/A

1986: Urbana-Champaign, IL
Conference Theme: "Women Working for Change:
Health, Cultures, and Societies"

Embedded Conference Theme: NA
Host Site: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
President: Helen Moore, Chair of Steering Comm.
President-Elect: NA
National Conference Chair: Paula Gray & Jeann Rice
On-Site Conference Coordinator: NA
Keynote: NA
Plenary Topics: Feminist Jewish Women's Voices: Diversity and Community;
Women Working for Change: Feminist Education and Global Responsibility;
Coalition Building: Strategies for the 1980s; Women Changing the Future
Historical Notes:

1985: Seattle, Washington
Conference Theme: "Creating Choices Through Feminist Education"

Embedded Conference Theme: N/A
Host Site: University of Washington, Seattle
President: Caryn McTighe Musil (Manual lists as “National Coordinator”)
President-Elect: N/A
National Conference Chair: Wilma Beaman
On-Site Conference Coordinator: N/A
Keynote: N/A
Plenary Topics: N/A
Historical Notes: N/A

1984: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Conference Theme: "Steering Our Course:
Feminist Education in the 80’s"

Embedded Conference Theme: N/A
Host Site: Douglass College, Rutgers
President: Virginia Cyrus (Manual lists as “National Coordinator”)
President-Elect: N/A
National Conference Chair: Clair Bright (Manual lists as “Steering Committee Chair”)
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Dean Mary Hartman
Keynote: N/A
Plenary Topics: Steering Our Course: Feminist Education in the 80’s ( Beryle Banfield, Mindy Chateauvert, Ann Lowrance, Catherine R. Stimpson); Is Feminism the Agenda for Women of Color? (Polly Baca, Lucie Chang, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Lois Steele)
Historical Notes: N/A

1983: Columbus, Ohio
Conference Theme: "Feminist Education: Quality and Equality"
Embedded Conference Theme: N/A
Host Site: Ohio State University
President: Virginia Cyrus (Manual lists as “National Coordinator”)
President-Elect: N/A
National Conference Chair: Clair Bright (Manual lists as “Steering Committee Chair”)
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Diether Haenicke
Keynote: After the Leap: Feminism and the Fears of the 80’s (Deirdre English)
Plenary Topics: Right Wing Attacks on Women’s Studies: The Long Beach Story (Deborah Rosenfelt); Envisioning the Future of Women’s Studies: Autonomy/ Integration /Transformation/ Revolution (Gloria Bowles, Peggy McIntosh, Elizabeth Arch, Johnella E. Butler, Marian Lowe) The International Feminization of Poverty (Florence Howe, Anita Anand, Hanna Papanek, Suzanne L. Velez, Charlotte Bunch)
Historical Notes: N/A

1982: Arcata,California
Conference Theme: "Feminist Connections Throughout Education"
Embedded Conference Theme: N/A
Host Site: Jolly Giant Conference Center
President: Susan Gore (Manual lists as “National Coordinator”)
President-Elect: N/A
National Conference Chair: N/A
On-Site Conference Coordinator: N/A
Keynote: N/A
Plenary Topics: N/A
Historical Notes: N/A

1981: Storrs, Connecticut
Conference Theme: "Women Respond to Racism"
Embedded Conference Theme: N/A
Host Site: University of Connecticut
President: Elaine Reuben (Manual lists as “National Coordinator”)
President-Elect: N/A
National Conference Chair: N/A
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Dania C. Stevens & Diana Woolis
Keynote: N/A
Plenary Topics: N/A
Historical Notes: N/A

1980: Bloomington, Indiana
Conference Theme: - no specific theme
Embedded Conference Theme: N/A
Host Site: Indiana University, Bloomington
President: Elaine Reuben (Manual lists as “National Coordinator”)
President-Elect: N/A
National Conference Chair: Barbara Fassler, Judy Markowitz
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Jean Robinson
Keynote: N/A
Plenary Topics: N/A
Historical Notes: N/A

1979: Lawrence, Kansas
Conference Theme: First National Conference - no specific theme
Embedded Conference Theme: N/A
Host Site: University of Kansas
President: Elaine Reuben (Manual lists as “National Coordinator”)
President-Elect: N/A
National Conference Chair: Emily Abel, Peg Strobel
On-Site Conference Coordinator: Shirley Harkiss
Keynote: N/A
Plenary Topics: N/A
Historical Notes: N/A

1977: Founding Conference
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