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Past Programs

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1980 Women in Stress: An Opportunity for Growth

 

1981 Women’s Creativity in the Arts

 

1982 Challenges into the 21st Century

 

1983 Influence and Power: Women as Communicators

 

1984 Current Ethical Dilemmas in Public and Private Decision Making

 

1985 Impetus-Implementation-Impact: Women as Innovators

 

1986 Rights in Conflict: The Individual and Society: At What Risk Liberty and Justice For All?

 

1987 The Education Conundrum: Priorities and Prospects

 

1988 The International Personality of Women: The Interrelationship of Women and Their Cultures

 

1989 Women at the Crossroads: Making Choices

 

1990 Tarnish on the Gold Coast: Challenges for the Nineties

 

1991 Women and Communications: The Female Voice

 

1992 Sex and Gender: Who’s Who? Vive La Difference!

 

1993 The Law: For and Against Women

 

1994 Women’s Health: What We Need – What We Get!

 

1995 The State of the Arts

 

1996 IQ-EQ – What Makes Us Tick?

 

1997 Relationships: How We Love, Bond, Swoon, Suffer and Thrive

 

1998 Health, Healing, Happiness: New Cures from Old Traditions

 

1999 Creative Aging: Growing Better While Growing Older

 

2000 The New Genetics: A Blueprint for Fate or Freedom?

 

2001 Searching for Sanity in a Crazy World: Perspectives on Mental Health Today

 

2002 Zero Degrees of Separation: The Power of Community

 

2003 Food as a Force: In the Kitchen and Around the World

 

2004 Crime and Punishment: Focus on Women

 

2005 Ethics in a Troubled World: Issues in Politics, Business, Journalism and Education

 

2006 Matters of Life and Death: Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine

 

2007 Women Empowering Women: Agents for Change Around the World

 

2008 Science and Religion: Colliding, Coexisting…Creating Change

 

2009 Hope in Anxious Times: Exploring New Dimensions of Poverty in America

 

2010 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Influences on How We See Ourselves

 

2011 3R’s + 4C’s = 21st Century Education

 

2012 Democracy Under Siege: Money, Media and Morals

 

2013 The Politics of Food: Whatever Happened to Old MacDonald’s Farm?

2014 Crime and Punishment: Justice for All?

2015 Income Inequality: What's Happening to the American Dream?

2016 Social Media and You: Unraveling the Mysteries and Realities

2017  Reclaiming Our Democracy

 

2018  Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown

 

2019  Global Warming: Confronting the Challenge

2020 No program because of the pandemic

2021 How We Can Avert the Next Pandemic: Using Environmental Law and Policy to Prevent Zoonotic Diseases 

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2022 How to Have Hard Conversations About Race and Racism 

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