Workshop on "Transdisciplinary Research on Incivility in STEM Contexts"

The Transdisciplinary Research on Incivility in STEM Context Workshop will bring together scholars across the STEM fields, social sciences, and critical studies to discuss varying accounts of, and definitions of, academic workplace incivility. The recent focus on sexual harassment and assault within academia broadly and science specifically has been an important one. However, workplace incivility requires greater attention within academic spaces.

This two day workshop — Oct. 17 and 18 at the Beckman Institute — will bring together scholars dedicated to: advancing understanding of incivility, promoting the scholarship and practice of engaging in healthy conflict, promoting productive academic discourse around difficult topics, and promoting equality, inclusion, and social justice in academia. We believe that fostering more conversations across disciplines on the scholarship and practice of civility in the workplace will allow researchers to share knowledge, enrich each other’s work, challenge theory, and forge new directions for research.

When: Thursday October 17 & Friday October 18, 2019

Where: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, UIUC