In "Let Them Drown," the 2016 London Edward W. Said lecture, Naomi Klein called attention, as Rob Nixon's Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor had done, to the nexus of climate change, (colonial) racism and poverty. But she shifted the spotlight onto the oft-overlooked low-lying island nations. And their current day situation is dire.
The idea of resilience is everywhere, and it has many different meanings. This discussion will explore resilience from multiple perspectives with a panel of academics and practitioners. We will discuss issues like how cities are working on resilience, current resilience research, and the how the what is happening from individual to national scales impacts resilience.
Machine learning models are becoming increasingly opaque to human examination, even to their designers. Yet these models are also increasingly used to make high-stakes decisions; who goes to jail, what neighborhoods police deploy to, and who should be hired for a job. But how can we practically achieve accountability and transparency in the face of increasingly complex models? And how do we know if the algorithmic decisions are fair or discriminatory - what does it mean for an algorithm to be fair? In this talk, we’ll discuss recent work from the new and growing field of Fairness, Accou
