Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 35, No. 611.
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    [1]    From: Gabriel Bodard <000076ab495b8a66-dmarc-request@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
           Subject: Human Faces: Reconstruction, Reimagination and Representation in a Digital Landscape (Seminar) (47)

    [2]    From: Alexander Halavais <alex@halavais.net>
           Subject: "Is Algorithmic Fairness Possible?" 3/23 at 10:30AM Mountain Standard (via Zoom) (32)


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        Date: 2022-03-21 18:57:14+00:00
        From: Gabriel Bodard <000076ab495b8a66-dmarc-request@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
        Subject: Human Faces: Reconstruction, Reimagination and Representation in a Digital Landscape (Seminar)

Digital Humanities and Materiality

Online seminar: free but booking required at
https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25362

Speaker: Elysia Greenway (Liverpool John Moores University)

The human face is an area of our bodies with a huge amount of biological
and social importance, moreover, is the corporal platform for writing
and reading identity. The materiality of the human face, or its
representation, is therefore enormously complex and transcends many
disciplines. While a representation of a human face can include
effigies, impressions and artwork spanning across the human record, for
this context they will be limited to facial depictions and
approximations based on human remains. With advancements in digital
technologies and its ever-growing dominance in our lives, it is
unsurprising the reconstructed human face in digital landscapes is an
emerging field of study. This lecture, while navigating the
intersections of science, art and humanities, will focus on the
reconstruction of forensic and archaeological unidentified remains.
Additionally, the exploration of tensions involved within the
reimagination of identity and the complexities surrounding the
presentation of and responses to a reconstructed digital face will be
discussed.

This seminar is co-hosted by the Digital Humanities Research Hub,
University of London, UK, and Star-UBB Institute of Advanced Studies,
University Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj Napoca, Romania.

At the speaker's request this seminar will_not_be recorded to Youtube,
so joining us live tomorrow is the only way to hear it!



==
Dr Gabriel BODARD (he/him)
Reader in Digital Classics

Institute of Classical Studies / Digital Humanities Research Hub
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU

E: Gabriel.bodard@sas.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)20 78628752


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        Date: 2022-03-21 18:53:35+00:00
        From: Alexander Halavais <alex@halavais.net>
        Subject: "Is Algorithmic Fairness Possible?" 3/23 at 10:30AM Mountain Standard (via Zoom)

Please join us for a brief informal talk & discussion by Marcello di Bello
this Wednesday. Register (for free) here:  https://bit.ly/b2c2-di-bello
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bit.ly/b2c2-di-bello__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!MjF
kaAmQSj3Hr45VRclOUGvBDR_6sZqowE1PdoWGMAeS4XaSiPDB3EQOyJOvRbk$>

B2C2 Seminar, Wednesday, March 23, 10:30-11:30 MST
"Is Algorithmic Fairness Possible?"

The literature on algorithmic fairness in computer science is replete with
impossibility theorems. They show that no predictive algorithm can
concurrently achieve different formal criteria of fairness. So any
algorithm is necessarily unfair under one criterion or another. What has
been little appreciated is that these impossibility theorems apply to any
evidence-based decision, whether or not it is algorithmic. I offer a few
examples of this fact, drawing from medical diagnoses and trial
proceedings. So then, are all decisions inherently unfair? To avoid
despair, I will outline a possibility theorem, a way to concurrently
satisfy a restricted family of fairness criteria. This is the best our
decisions can aspire to achieve, and--perhaps--it is all they should aspire
to achieve.

Marcello Di Bello is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the School of
Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State
University. His research lies at the intersection of philosophy of law and
epistemology, with a focus on questions about risk and probability, and
evidence and quantitative information.

--
Alexander Halavais (he/him)   @halavais   alex.halavais.net
Associate Professor of Data & Society         dasprogram.org
New College, Arizona State University       theprof@asu.edu
<http://asu.edu/> five.sentenc.es


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