Wrong at the Root: Racial Bias and the Tension Between Numbers and Words in Non-Internet Data

Program

Summer Cluster: Fairness

Location

Calvin Lab auditorium

Date

Wednesday, June 5 – Friday, June 7, 2019

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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

8:30 – 9 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9 – 9:20 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Shafi Goldwasser (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley), Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University), Patricia Williams (Columbia University)

9:20 – 11 a.m.

Morning Session: Genomics, Medicine, Epidemiology and Data Interpretation

Marzyeh Ghassemi (University of Toronto), Joan Fujimura (University of Wisconsin), Nancy Krieger (Harvard University), Sendhil Mullainathan (University of Chicago), Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)

11 – 11:10 a.m.

Break

11:10 – 11:45 a.m.

Questions and Discussion

11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Lunch

1 – 2:20 p.m.

Afternoon Session #1: Science, Pseudo-science, Canon and Belief

Evelynn Hammonds (Harvard University), Jonathan Kahn (Mitchell Hamline School of Law), Harriet Washington (Columbia University), James Zou (Stanford University)

2:20 – 3 p.m.

Questions and Discussion

3 – 3:20 p.m.

Break

3:20 – 4:40 p.m.

Afternoon Session #2: Policies, Politics, Publics

Marcy Darnovsky (Center for Genetics and Society), Alondra Nelson (Social Science Research Council), Osagie Obasogie (UC Berkeley), Aaron Panofsky (UCLA)

4:40 – 5:20 p.m.

Questions and Discussion

5:20 – 6:20 p.m.

Reception

8:30 – 9 a.m.

Coffee and Check-in

9 – 10 a.m.

Morning Session: Carcerality

Ruha Benjamin (Princeton University), Jessie Daniels (CUNY), Naomi Murakawa (Princeton University)

10 – 10:20 a.m.

Break

10:20 – 10:50 a.m.

Questions and Discussion

10:50 – 11:20 a.m.

Lightning-Round Strategizing

11:20 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Lunch

1 – 2:20 p.m.

Afternoon Session: Governance

Alexandra Chouldechova (Carnegie Mellon University), Zachary Lipton (Carnegie Mellon University), Martha Minow (Harvard University), Patricia Williams (Columbia University)

2:20 – 3:10 p.m.

Questions and Discussion

3:10 – 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 – 5 p.m.

Small Group Strategizing

8:30 – 9 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9 – 10:20 a.m.

Morning Session: Causality

Y, iling Chen, M, oritz Hardt, J, ay Kaufman, I, ssa Kohler-Hausmann

10:20 – 10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30 – 11:10 a.m.

Questions and Discussion

11:10 – 11:30 a.m.

Lightning-Round Strategizing

11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Lunch

1 – 2:20 p.m.

Afternoon Session: Individuals, Groups, Pattern Recognition and Rich Data

C, Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University), Duana Fullwiley, J, Jamie Morgenstern (University of Washington), Sendhil Mullainathan

2:20 – 2:50 p.m.

Questions and Discussion

2:50 – 3:20 p.m.

Break

3:20 – 4:30 p.m.

Sharing Thoughts, Mapping the Future