Welcome to the fifth annual Gender & Work research symposium. This year's theme, "Images, Identities, and the Space(s) Between," takes up questions and innovations around identity categories, expression, and performance.

The 2017 symposium will focus on how identity categories are experienced, interpreted, and contested through practices of expression, performance, and self-presentation. It will examine such topics as the deconstruction of the gender binary; the concept of the authentic self; and how social identities, such as gender, race, social class, and sexual orientation, intersect to affect oppression and resistance to oppression.

The symposium will be held on the Harvard Business School campus in Boston, MA on Thursday, April 6 and Friday, April 7, 2017.

Organizers:

Robin J. Ely
Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration
Faculty Chair, Race, Gender & Equity Initiative

Lakshmi Ramarajan
Assistant Professor of Business Administration