Post Hoc Interventions: prospects and problems

Welcome to a two-day conference with researchers from the Theme Post Hoc Interventions and invited speakers where we will discuss post hoc interventions from a legal, ethical, epistemological and statistical perspective. Comparisons will also be made between post hoc interventions and existing methods in social psychology and computer science for combatting prejudice.

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Program

During each session, there will be a presentation for about 35 minutes, a comment by an invited commentator for about 7-10 minutes, followed by Q&A.                                                                      

Wednesday Oct 5^th                                                                             

10.00              Welcome and Coffee

10.20              Martin Jönsson, Department of Philosophy, Lund University

                        “An Introduction to Post Hoc Interventions”

                        Commentator: Frej Klem Thomsen, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

11.20              Break

11.40              Una Tellhed, Department of Psychology, Lund University

                       “Challenges to Reducing Social Bias, and Predictions for the New Post Hoc Intervention GIIU”

                       Commentator: Fredrik Björklund, Department of Psychology, Lund University

12.40              Lunch at Pufendorf IAS – provided by the Institute for all participants                                

13.40              Jakob Bergman, Department of Statistics, Lund University

                       “Gender Bias in Grant Applications. Inquiry and the Potential for a Post-hoc Remedy.”

                        Commentator: Maria Stanfors, Department of Economic History, Lund University                                    

14.40              Break                                                             

15.00              Erik Girvan, University of Oregon School of Law

                       “Post Hoc Interventions in Criminal Sentencing: An Empirical Thought Experiment”

                       Commentator: Nazar Akrami, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University         

16.00              End of day one 

                                

Thursday Oct 6^th

09.00              Anna Nilsson, Faculty of Law, Lund University

                       “Post-hoc Interventions and Discrimination Law”

                           Commentator: Leila Brännström, Department of Law, Lund University

10.00              Break

10.20              Mattias Gunnemyr, Department of Philosophy, Lund University

                       “The Ethics of Post Hoc Interventions”

                       Commentator: Eric Brandstedt, Human Rights Studies, Lund University

11.20              Break

11.40              Kasper Lippert Rasmussen, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

                       “Post hoc interventions and machine bias”

                       Commentator: Jenny Magnusson, Department of Philosophy, Lund University

12.40              Lunch at Pufendorf IAS – provided by the Institute for all participants                            

13.40              Thore Husfeldt, Department of Computer Science, IT University of Copenhagen and Lund University

                       “Introduction to the Formalisation of Fairness” 

Commentator: Boel Nelson, Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen

14.40              End of Conference

 

Registration

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Researchers, professionals and other interested people are welcome to participate in the conference for free. The conference will take place in Lund at the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies.