Workshops

Summer 2019

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

Jun 5, 2019 to Jun 7, 2019

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Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–9:20 am		Opening Remarks Shafi Goldwasser (Simons Institute), Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University), Patricia Williams (Columbia University)
9:20 am–11:00 am		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)
11:00 am–11:10 am		Break
11:10 am–11:45 am		Questions and Discussion
11:45 am–1:00 pm		Lunch
1:00 pm–2:20 pm		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 pm–3:00 pm		Questions and Discussion
3:00 pm–3:20 pm		Break
3:20 pm–4:40 pm		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 pm–5:20 pm		Questions and Discussion
5:20 pm–6:20 pm		Reception

Thursday, June 6th, 2019
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-in
9:00 am–10:00 am		Morning Session: Carcerality Ruha Benjamin (Princeton University), Jessie Daniels (CUNY), Naomi Murakawa (Princeton University)
10:00 am–10:20 am		Break
10:20 am–10:50 am		Questions and Discussion
10:50 am–11:20 am		Lightning-Round Strategizing
11:20 am–1:00 pm		Lunch
1:00 pm–2:20 pm		Afternoon Session: Governance Alexandra Chouldechova (Carnegie Mellon University), Zachary Lipton (Carnegie Mellon University), Martha Minow (Harvard University), Patricia Williams (Columbia University)
2:20 pm–3:10 pm		Questions and Discussion
3:10 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–5:00 pm		Small Group Strategizing

Friday, June 7th, 2019
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–10:20 am		Morning Session: Causality Y iling Chen (Harvard University), M oritz Hardt (UC Berkeley), J ay Kaufman (McGill University), I ssa Kohler-Hausmann (Yale University)
10:20 am–10:30 am		Break
10:30 am–11:10 am		Questions and Discussion
11:10 am–11:30 am		Lightning-Round Strategizing
11:30 am–1:00 pm		Lunch
1:00 pm–2:20 pm		Afternoon Session: Individuals, Groups, Pattern Recognition and Rich Data C ynthia Dwork (Harvard University), Duana Fullwiley (Stanford University) J amie Morgenstern (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sendhil Mullainathan (University of Chicago)
2:20 pm–2:50 pm		Questions and Discussion
2:50 pm–3:20 pm		Break
3:20 pm–4:30 pm		Sharing Thoughts, Mapping the Future