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February 2018
Big Data, Surveillance and Race: The Criminal Justice System
Simon A Cole, PhD, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, School of Social Ecology University of California, Irvine Margaret Hu, JD, Associate Professor of Law, Washington and Lee School of Law Moderated by Cecelia Klingele, JD,…
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Big Data, Surveillance & Race: A Conversation with Cathy O’Neil
Cathy O’Neil is the author of the New York Times bestselling Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, which was also a semifinalist for the National Book Award. She earned a…
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WPT Broadcast: Big Data, Surveillance and Race
The Holtz Center’s February 22 Science & the Public event will be broadcast on Wisconsin Public Television. The first broadcast will air on June 4 at 3:50 pm. Big Data, Surveillance and Race Cecelia…
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Apocalypse WOW: An Adult Swim Event
The end of the world has never been this much fun. Join us for a party for preppers and the people who ponder them, including a Brief History of the End of the World with…
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April 2020
Science & the Public Event
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November 2022
Cristina Mejia Visperas, Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Southern California
"to touch with our finger all the wounds": Knowledge in Captivity and the Problem of Freedom 5055 Vilas also on Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/95667478499 The Enlightenment tradition and its preoccupation with human progress conjoined rationality with liberation,…
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Running Deep – Understanding Water to Understand Our Future
Recording of this fantastic event available here: https://uwmadison.box.com/s/hyspqzr9nbwy3qe4lvihgqjyap0m0pis Join four leading experts on water and society to explore how water helps us understand the present moment -- and how thinking about water differently can help…
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