The Philosophy Department’s Equity Committee invites you to another session in our ‘Equity in a Pandemic’ series: ‘Work During COVID: Frontline, Remote, Precarious’, a panel with Stephanie Premji (McMaster) and Lesley Jamieson (Queen’s). The panel is scheduled for 4pm, Thursday, April 1, on Zoom. Further details will be provided closer to the event, over email. Contact Christine Sypnowich for more information at: christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca

Equity in a Pandemic: ‘Work During COVID: Frontline, Remote, Precarious' (Poster PDF 479KB)

The Animals in Philosophy, Politics, Law, and Ethics (APPLE) group at Queen's welcomes all to the third talk in its winter speaker series on Friday March 12, 2021, over Zoom, with Margaret Robinson (Dalhousie University).

Please note that Professor Robinson has pre-circulated a paper over email. For more information, the Zoom link, or to receive a copy of Professor Robinson's paper, please contact Jishnu Guha-Majumdar (jgm12@queensu.ca).

APPLE Speaker Series: Margaret Robinson (Poster PNG 254KB)

Faculty and graduate students are welcome to join, over Zoom, the upcoming meeting of the Political Philosophy Reading Group, to discuss a paper by Margaret Moore (Queen's): "Limits and Loss of Territorial Rights: biodiversity, climate justice and territorial rights-forfeiture".

Further details, as well as Margaret's paper, have been circulated via email. For more information, contact Christine Sypnowich (christine.sypnowich@queensu.ca).

Join us for a discussion, chaired by Philosophy's Catherine Stinson, about the film "Coded Bias", which can be streamed in advance of the discussion through the Queen’s University Library. About the film, Stephanie Bunbury (The Age) writes: "In Coded Bias, an American documentary, Shalini Kantayya takes a deep dive into the ways algorithms repeat and reinforce the unconscious prejudices of their original programmers".

About the speakers:

LLana James is the AI, Medicine and Data Justice Post-Doctoral Fellow at Queen's University. She is also wrapping up her doctoral studies at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine. Her research  is focused on the intersection of AI applications in, clinical care, population health, public health data science and the law, and its particular implications for BlackLife. LLana’s recent thinking and research can be found in the Conversation, the Toronto Star, the AI health podcast and the web series COVID  conversations, which is the first and longest running pan-Canadian series on race-based data collection, AI, Big Data, privacy, ethics and equity in health. You can find more at @REDE4BlackLives on Twitter.

Bretton Fosbrook (he/they) is Senior UX Researcher at Wealthsimple, where he creates organizational and institutional change in the service of more just futures. Building from nearly 10 years of experience in knowledge integration and environmental scanning, Bretton works as an advisor to organizations that are ready to respond with purpose to emerging culture, economic, and technology trends. Previously, Bretton was a research fellow at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, where he developed and led the Working Beyond the Binary project, an initiative seeking to improve the workplace conditions for trans and gender non-conforming people in Canada by helping businesses to understand the changing landscape of gender diversity. Bretton received a PhD (2017) in science and technology studies from York University.

Discussion of Bias in AI (Poster, JPEG 70KB)