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- 1998 RIG-A-Fair: Girls, Generations, and Globalizations - explored three related sets of questions: Girls: What does cutting edge research about girls suggest are some of the most pressing issues facing pre-teen and adolescent girls today? Does the agenda that has been delineated for girls encompass the needs of girls across racial, ethnic, and class lines and does it recognize the particular needs of girls with disabilities and girls whose sexual identities differ from the heterosexualized norm so prevalent in youth culture? Generations: Why do so many girls and young women today reject the label feminism? If feminism is to remain vital into the future, how can transgenerational dialogue and leadership emerge, particularly given the ways issues primarily affecting youth have been marshaled to support a conservative social agenda? Globalization: How are global economic, political, and cultural changes shaping the dreams of young people in the West and the developing world? How can young people (traditionally with very limited political power) translate those dreams into policies nationally and internationally?
- 1997: Teaching the Past in the Present Conference: involved teachers and scholars in reshaping how the past is studied and presented. Special emphasis was placed on gendered perspectives, the needs of diverse audiences, and the development of interactive electronic resources. The content of sessions crossed historical periods and cultures. The three primary topics covered were: women and religion; women and power; women and the arts.
- April 1997: the Engendering Rationalities conference blossomed into a book, Engendering Rationalities, edited by Nancy Tuana and Sandra Morgen. Section content of the conference included: pragmatism and feminist epistemology, actual lives and ordinary knowers, recovered memories of childhood abuse: meaning, ethics, and healing, countering the absolutism of the familiar: the critical praxis of dialectical thought, gender, Judaism and knowledge, bodily texts, textual bodies, and looking at reason through historical lenses.
- Feb. 1997: Engaging Feminisms was the title of a one-day conference. The invited guests included Barbara Epstein (History of Consciousness Program, University of California, Santa Cruz), Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias (co-director, Pacific Institute of Women's Health and former President of the American Public Health Association), and Frances Winddance Twine (women's studies, University of Washington). A related discussion of Barbara Epstein's "Why Post-Structuralism is a Dead End for Progressive Thought," was also held.
