PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT POLICY
Settler Vines: Making and Consuming Wine in a Globalizing World since 1850 is an international conference that sets out to create an environment for participants free from all forms of discrimination, harassment, bullying, and retaliation. Settler Vines participants are therefore expected to behave in accordance with the following Professional Code of Conduct. Participants who violate this policy will not be tolerated at this conference.
This conduct is inspired by the Anti-Harassment Policy of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and the Professional Conduct Policy of Convergence, the Graduate History Conference of York University, and the University of Toronto.
PURPOSE
Settler Vines recognizes the right of all participants to enjoy an atmosphere that is safe, equitable, and that stimulates free expression and exchange of scholarly ideas.
In pursuit of this ideal, professional misconduct will not be accepted. This includes harassment, bullying,discrimination, and violence based on age, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, language, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, disability, health conditions, socioeconomic status, marital status, domestic status, or parental status.
EXPECTED BEHAVIOR
All participants in Settler Vines, including the moderators and organizers, are expected to abide by the Policy of Professional Conduct during the panel sessions and Avie Bennet lecture. This includes any discussions held in the chats.
UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR
“Harassment consists of a single intense and severe act, or multiple persistent or pervasive acts, which are demeaning, abusive, offensive, or create a hostile professional or workplace environment. Harassment may include unwelcome sexual solicitation or physical advance which involves an expressed or implied reward for compliance or threat of reprisal for refusing to comply, or verbal or non-verbal conduct that is sexual in nature, thereby creating what reasonably may be perceived as a hostile or intimidating environment; it may also include threatening, intimidating, or hostile acts; circulation of written or graphic material that denigrates or shows hostility toward an individual or group; epithets, slurs, or negative stereotyping based on group identity.”[1]
ADDRESSING GRIEVANCES
If you witness any behavior that deviates from this Code of Conduct during Settler Vines, please alert one of the organizers, Benjamin Bryce, Marcel Martel, and/ or Adrian Shubert, as soon as possible. At least one if not all the organizers will be present during sessions.
You may also email the conference organizers at winevin@yorku.ca.
[1] “Anti-Harassment Policy,” Latin American Studies Association, Accessed June 21, 2021, https://lasaweb.org/en/anti-harassment-policy/.