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Post Hoc Interventions: prospects and problems
How can we combat discrimination based on sexism, racism and other forms of prejudice? At the Pufendorf IAS at Lund University, researchers from different disciplines are investigating methods for addressing prejudiced behavior after it has occurred but before it results in discrimination, through so-called "post hoc interventions".
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.
Read more about the Theme Post Hoc Interventions
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 5th
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 6th
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
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.
Om evenemanget
Plats:
Pufendorf IAS, Biskopsgatan 3, Lund
Kontakt:
mattias [dot] gunnemyr [at] fil [dot] lu [dot] se