Bias in Context

We are pleased to announce our full program below.

The conference (including coffee breaks, lunches, and talks - but not the conference dinner) will take place in the Humanities Research Institute, at the University of Sheffield.

Please see the accessibility page for details of the venue.

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Monday 5th Sept

11.00 – 11:30 Welcome: Themes and Aims
Dr Erin Beeghly, The University of Utah
Dr Jules Holroyd, The University of Sheffield

11.30 – 13.00
Dr Joseph Sweetman, University of Exeter
Evidence-based Social Equality: Current Problems and Future Prospects 

13.00 – 14:00 Lunch

14.00 – 15:30
Dr Robin Zheng, Yale-NUS College
Bias, Structure, and Injustice: A Reply to Haslanger

15:30 – 16:00
Coffee

16.00 – 17:30
Dr Saray Ayala, California State University, Sacramento
Structural Explanations and Agency

17:45 – 19:15
Dr Erin Beeghly, The University of Utah
Discrimination, Deliberation and Disrespect

19.30
Conference drinks and dinner (Aagrah)
                                                                                                                                           

Tuesday 6th Sept

Title TBC9.30 – 11:00
Dr Alex Madva, Cal Poly Pomona
A Plea for Anti-Anti-Individualism: How Oversimple Psychology Misleads Social Policy

11:00 – 11.30
Coffee

11.30 – 13.00
Dr Lacey Davidson & Dr Daniel Kelly, Purdue University
Informal Institutions and the Double Life of Social Norms

13.00– 14.00
Lunch

14.00-15.30
Professor Jennifer Saul, The University of Sheffield
Title TBC

15.30-16.00
Closing remarks: themes identified for future research
Dr Jules Holroyd, The University of Sheffield
Dr Erin Beeghly, The University of Utah