Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Code of Conduct

EPIC values and promotes the inherent worth of every person; fosters dignity, understanding, and mutual respect; and embraces diversity as an essential component of our community and ethnographic practice. When you participate in EPIC programs and spaces you are also making a commitment to these principles.

We work in an interdisciplinary field that explores social complexity. We gain strength through collaboration among groups with different backgrounds, worldviews, interests, needs, and skills. We encourage our community to pursue areas of interest, as well as be inspired and challenged by unexpected people, practices, and ideas. We believe in the value of continual, multi-disciplinary learning and critique in a constantly changing world.

We invite you to help make EPIC a place that is welcoming and respectful to all participants so we can make the most of this wonderful community.

What Is Harassment?

We will not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form, in person or online, including but not limited to:

  • Verbal comments, including jokes, that reinforce discrimination of any kind
  • Verbal threats or demands or personal attacks
  • Sexualized, discriminatory, and/or exploitive images in any conference space, including presentations, sponsor exhibits, or public areas
  • 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 harassing behaviors
  • Slights and negative messages based on appearance

The Code of Conduct applies to all conference-related interactions and activities, in any venue, whether public or private, in person or virtual.

Privacy & Communications

With the exception of reporting violations of this Code of Conduct outlined above, all participants will respect the privacy of other individuals. We gather together to share ideas, opportunities, and challenges, and this requires trust. Whether you ar communicating with others in person or online, please remember these essential rules:

  • The right to communicate with other members must be exercised with care and respect for every person’s time, attention, trust, well-being and safety.
  • Personal or professional information should be shared only with permission. If you’d like to help someone out—for example, by sharing open positions, job status, or the candidacy of individuals (or anything else)—it’s essential to obtain permission first.

Prohibited Uses of Data

Scraping or extracting personal or professional information about attendees in any quantity for business purposes without the explicit permission of each individual is strictly prohibited.

Solicitation or promotion, including solicitation for research studies, is strictly prohibited unless an individual has specifically requested information about products and services. Conference sponsors have promotional opportunities and these will be clearly identified.

Chats, Comments & Discussion Boards

In spaces provided for comment, posts must be relevant and respectful. Posts that are determined by the EPIC Board to violate the Code of Conduct, or that violate the stated purpose of the space if one is posted, may be removed.

Enforcement

By participating in EPIC events, all attendees, speakers, sponsors, and volunteers commit to following this code of conduct at the conference, at conference-adjacent social events at off-site locations, and in related online communities and social media. Participants asked to stop harassing behavior or violations of the code of conduct are expected to comply immediately. Conference participants who do not fully comply with such requests may be expelled from the conference without a refund at the discretion of EPIC and the conference organizers.

Reporting

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or experience or witness any violation of this code of conduct, please contact us immediately: info@epicpeople.org. You may also visit the Info Desk and ask to speak to an EPIC staff member.

Get in touch!

We welcome questions, comments, and suggestions: info@epicpeople.org

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