2024 Conference on Discrimination in the 21st Century: Fostering Conversations Across Fields
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The third annual Conference on Discrimination in the 21st Century: Fostering Conversations Across Fields was held May 14-15, 2024, in Chicago.
This conference brought together researchers from different fields to discuss crucial themes around discrimination. Experts from economics, sociology, law, behavioral sciences, healthcare, artificial intelligence, and more interacted with each other through presentations and open panel discussions. This cross-disciplinary conference was organized around themes related to discrimination, such as freedom of expression and inclusion; artificial intelligence and disparities; and responses to perceived discrimination.
Joining the 2024 Conference on Discrimination in the 21st Century as the Keynote speaker was Melissa Thomas-Hunt, John D. Forbes Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Public Policy at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia.
Past Conference Information: 2023 | 2022
PHOTOS
Agenda
Breakfast
University Prefunction
Session 1: Artificial Intelligence and Disparities
Regulatory Arbitrage or Random Errors? Implications of Race Prediction Algorithms in Fair Lending Analysis
Emmanuel Yimfor, Columbia University (Presenter)
Agustin Hurtado, University of Maryland (Discussant)
Deep Learning-Aided Decision Support for Diagnosis of Skin Disease across Skin Tones
Matthew Groh, Northwestern University (Presenter)
Karen Drukker, University of Chicago (Discussant)
Break
Panel Discussion: Artificial Intelligence and Disparities
Stefania Druga, University of Chicago
Miles Schultz, U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission
Gabriella Waters, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Ben Y. Zhao, University of Chicago
Break
Quantifying Racial Disparities Using Consecutive Employment Spells
Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University (Presenter)
Evan Rose, University of Chicago (Discussant)
Lunch
Session 2: Responses to Perceived Discrimination
Perceived Discrimination at Work
Hannah Ruebeck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Presenter)
Ray Reagans, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Discussant)
Gendered Time Surveillance and Suspicions at Work and in Professional Roles
Chia-Jung Tsay, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Presenter)
Erika Kirgios, University of Chicago (Discussant)
Break
Marketing Toward the Desegregation of Schools
Broderick Turner, Harvard University (Presenter)
Christopher Campos, University of Chicago (Discussant)
Break
Paternalistic Discrimination
Nina Buchmann, Stanford University (Presenter)
Heather Sarsons, Harvard University (Discussant)
Conference Adjourns
Breakfast
Session 3: Knowledge and Inclusion
Panel Discussion: Freedom of Expression and Inclusion
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago
Derwyn Bunton, Southern Poverty Law Center
Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago
Ben Wizner, American Civil Liberties Union
Break
Race and Science
Gaia Dossi, London School of Economics (Presenter)
Marlène Koffi, University of Toronto (Discussant)
Disparate Teacher Effects, Comparative Advantage, and Match Quality
William Delgado, Boston University (Presenter)
Esteban Aucejo, Arizona State University (Discussant)
Break
Understanding Gender Discrimination by Managers
Christina Brown, University of Chicago (Presenter)
Tatiana Mocanu, Columbia University (Discussant)
Lunch
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