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The Ad hoc Committee on a Code of Conduct for the 17³Ô¹ÏAnnual Meeting is charged with coming up with a code that will address multiple issues concerning the safety and well-being of participants at the 17³Ô¹ÏAnnual Meeting including but not limited to (1) discrimination based on sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, and religion; (2) harassment, including (a) sexual harassment, (b) harassment that creates a hostile or intimidating environment, (c) harassment that demeans a person or group of persons and that the person responsible knew or reasonably ought to have known would cause the target to be humiliated, intimidated, or otherwise gratuitously harmed; and (d) harassment that functions implicitly or explicitly to limit others’ participation in the Annual Meeting’s program and associated activities; (3) assault, including sexual assault. The code should also include plans for emergency management of such incidents at the Annual Meeting.

More specifically, we hope an 17³Ô¹ÏCode of Conduct for the Annual Meeting can set forward a series of principles for respectful and professional behavior to which every participant at the 17³Ô¹ÏAnnual Meeting should aspire, as well as a series of best practices that 17³Ô¹Ïshould strive to enact.