{"id":3083,"date":"2013-06-29T08:18:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T08:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/?p=3083"},"modified":"2013-06-29T08:19:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T08:19:21","slug":"empowering-women-through-secularism-conference-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/2013\/06\/29\/empowering-women-through-secularism-conference-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Women Through Secularism conference guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ewts<\/a>Conference guidelines, although seemingly not appearing on the Empowering Women Through Secularism conference website, are affixed to the [now updated] schedule of Empowering Women Through Secularism.<\/p>\n

Here are these guidelines:<\/p>\n

Please follow the spirit of these guidelines using common sense and empathy. Please try to enjoy the conference, and to help others to enjoy it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Please let us know if you have any particular personal requirements in order to be able to participate as fully as possible.<\/em><\/p>\n

Please respect the agenda. Please be concise and stay on-topic when contributing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Please debate the merits of ideas and actions. Please do not speak abusively about people, or attribute negative motivations to them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Please listen respectfully, and speak without aggression to others. Please do not dominate discussions or marginalize or silence others.<\/em><\/p>\n

Please do not try to extend questions from the audience into ongoing coversations with panelists or speakers, unless the chairperson invites this.<\/em><\/p>\n

Please do not use language that is critical of a person on the basis of their gender, sex, race, ethnicity, class, ability, age, or body.<\/em><\/p>\n

Please do not create an unpleasant or hostile situation by uninvited and unwelcome conduct towards another person.<\/em><\/p>\n

Please keep these guidelines in mind when making online updates that other participants can read during the conference.<\/em><\/p>\n

Please let us know, privately if, for any reason, you are not having an enjoyable experience, and we will do our best to resolve the problem.<\/em><\/p>\n

Please let us know if you enjoyed your experience and tell us any ideas you have for improving future conferences.<\/em><\/p>\n

These guidelines, different than many other policies I have been critical of, seem quite sensible although they seem to be redundant. Of particular interest are guidelines to stay on-topic when contributing mainly because I have witnessed speakers\/panelists (and attendees) going off-topic or contributing discussion which is not applicable to topics they were assigned to speak about. More interesting is a guideline for attendees to keep guidelines in mind when making online updates.<\/p>\n

These guidelines can likely be more concise – adding an item concerning unwelcome\/hostile conduct\/language and eliminating individual points about such language and behavior. Even better, perhaps, can be a short paragraph encouraging attendees to behave with respect and contact organizers if necessary. At the end of the day, though, these policies are a vast improvement over other conference policies.<\/p>\n

As always, feel free to leave your comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conference guidelines, although seemingly not appearing on the Empowering Women Through Secularism conference website, are affixed to the [now updated] schedule of Empowering Women Through Secularism. Here are these guidelines: Please follow the spirit of these guidelines using common sense and empathy. Please try to enjoy the conference, and to help others to enjoy it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ewts2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/justinvacula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}