Upcoming Events
2025 Conference on Ending Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence
May 19- 20th, 2025 @ The Michigan League.
University of Michigan presents the 2025 Biennial Conference on Ending Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence: Innovations in Research and Practice.
This in-person conference welcomes researchers, practitioners, staff, faculty, and students to discuss innovations in research and practice on sexual harassment and gender-based violence. The trauma-informed and survivor-centered event will focus on individual and collective healing and share novel approaches to prevention and response.
Past Events
2023/2024 Creating Climates Resistant to Sexual Harassment: Conversations with Colleagues Event
As part of the university’s ongoing efforts to address sexual harassment and cultivate a more respectful community, PEAR partnered with the Players at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) to offer Creating Climates Resistant to Sexual Harassment: Defining the Problem. The CRLT Players initially developed this session content In 2018-19, and in the years that followed developed an asynchronous Canvas Course with supplementary content designed to complement an in-person synchronous workshop for academic leadership teams to gain knowledge and reflective skills to cultivate climates resistant to sexual harassment. The program encourages knowledge norming and shared conversation to maximize the potential for leadership driven positive change in units across U-M campuses.
Between 2023 and 2024, the program expanded to five sessions offered to 347 leaders, including Deans, Associate Deans, Directors, Department Chairs, Associate Chairs, DEI Leads, and Chief Administrators across all three campuses.
2023 Conference on Ending Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence
Within its first year, PEAR organized the U-M Biennial Conference on Ending Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence, on May 18-19, 2023 in partnership with the Initiative on Gender-Based Violence and Sexual Harassment, the Office of the Provost, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the Office of Vice President for Research.
This in-person event built on the success of the 2018 Michigan Meeting on “Ending Gender-Based Violence” and welcomed researchers, practitioners, staff, faculty, and students to discuss innovations in research and practice on sexual harassment and gender-based violence. The theme of the event was Healing, Change, Transformation. This trauma-informed event focused on individual and collective healing and shared novel approaches to prevention and response. The first day was dedicated to professional development workshops. The second day included keynote presentations, concurrent sessions, poster sessions, and plenty of networking opportunities.
2018 Ending Gender-Based Violence
In spring of 2018, the University of Michigan hosted a national conference on ending gender-based violence focusing on Gender-based violence among adolescents and young adults. The 2018 Michigan Meeting brought together scholars, practitioners, and activists from across disciplines to share strategies and develop innovative ideas for moving forward.
This dynamic 3-day event aimed to inspire research and inform policy, pedagogy, and practice. The agenda highlighted activist, survivor, and student perspectives. Using an intersectional lens, we attended to the broad range of inequalities that are experienced in school, work, and personal life.
This event was made possible by the sponsorship of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan. The Michigan Meetings are a series of annual inter-disciplinary meetings on topics of broad interest and contemporary importance to both the public and the academic community.