Code of Conduct Agreement:
Before your registration can be confirmed, please read the code of conduct agreement below. You must certify that you have read and understood the statement in order to proceed to your registration confirmation.
Code of Conduct
Climate and Inclusion Statement
The organizers of The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Symposium are committed to providing a harassment-free symposium experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, national origin, ethnicity, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference at the discretion of the conference organizers.
Harassment includes, but is not limited to:
• Verbal comments that reinforce social structures of domination related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, ethnicity, religion.
• Sexual images in public spaces
• Deliberate intimidation, stalking, or following
• Harassing photography or recording
• Sustained disruption of talks or other events
• Inappropriate physical contact
• Unwelcome sexual attention
• Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior
• Presentations, postings, and messages that contain promotional materials, job offers, solicitations for services or product announcements in simulive, live, and on demand presentations (other than presentations in the virtual exhibit hall)
• Making copies or taking screen shots of Q&A or any chat room activity that takes place in the virtual space
• Use of a recording device (personal computer, mobile phone, camera, etc.) to capture images or presentations, chats, demonstrations, etc. taking place within the virtual platform during the annual conference.