Innovations in Research and Practice
University of Michigan presents the 2025 Biennial Conference on Ending Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence: Innovations in Research and Practice.
Join Us
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. This trauma-informed and survivor-centered event will focus on individual and collective healing and share novel approaches to prevention and response.
Monday, May 19, 2025
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Michigan League
911 N University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Conference Sessions
Our conference features three tracks—Healthcare, Higher Education, and Community—each designed to address these fields’ unique challenges and opportunities. Attendees can engage in various expert-led sessions tailored to their professional interests, fostering meaningful discussions, innovative solutions, and actionable strategies. We encourage attendees to explore sessions in each track to foster interdisciplinary and interprofessional engagement.
Higher Education Track
- Innovations in student prevention programs
- Strategies for effective survivor support and advocacy
- Responding to campus community harm and healing
- Working effectively with people who have caused harm
- Addressing power dynamics and sexual harassment
- Restorative Justice and campus sexual harm
Healthcare Track
- Confronting healthcare provider misconduct
- Comprehensive approaches to intimate partner violence screening and response
- Systems-level approaches to prevention
- Restorative justice in academic medicine
- Patient-initiated harassment
- Clinical approaches to discussing, screening, and education about current sexual practices
Community Track
- Community-based work with men and boys to prevent violence
- Technology and violence
- Arts-based prevention and healing practice
- Community-based work with communities
- Sexual health education
- Global collaborative groups
Registration
General:
Early Bird (before March 28th) – $250
Regular Registration (March 28th and after) – $300
Students (undergraduate, graduate, or postdoc):
Early Bird (before March 28th) – $75
Regular Registration (March 28th and after) – $100