FEATURED STUDENT EVENT
Powered with Purpose:
How to Leverage Technology for the Public Interest
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DECEMBER 1, 2020 | 1-2p PT
Join Cardinal Careers, Stanford Career Services, for a panel with leaders in public interest technology.
Moderated by Mehran Sahami (Computer Science) and featuring three national leaders in public interest technology:
Keven Barenblat '97, Co-Founder & President, Fast Forward
Amanda Renteria '96, CEO, Code for America
Dan Getelman, Co-Founder and CTO, Remix.
The event is co-sponsored by Code the Change, CS+Social Good, PIT Lab, SBSE, SENSA, SOLE, and WICS and will be followed by a public interest technology student organizations fair from 2:00-3:00 pm.
Sponsored by the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the McCoy Center for Ethics in Society, and the Haas Center for Public Service
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THE FEMINIST PRESENT PODCAST
Departmentalize NOW!:
The Imperative for African and African American Studies
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Since 1968, Black Studies departments have been established across the country, contributing to the intellectual life of the university and informing larger conversations about race beyond the academy. However, departmentalization eludes many universities, including Stanford.
In this Clayman Conversations event held on September 23rd and presented by the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, panelists Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Kimberly Thomas McNair, Aileen K. Robinson, and Fabio Rojas, discuss how departmentalization is both a political and feminist issue, and how the university legitimates certain knowledge and establishes on-going commitment and stability through departmentalization. Additionally, the panelists consider the symbiotic relationship between social movements and institutions of higher education.
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CCSRE Annual Report
2019/2020
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Explore the Latest from CCSRE
The Center's Annual Report provides an overview of key programs, events, and initiatives for the 2019-2020 academic year as well as feature stories and photos.
Click on the image for the full report.
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Image credit: Charlie Curnin,
The Stanford Daily
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BY TAMMER BAGDASARIAN
Stanford joined an amicus brief supporting a legal challenge to a Trump executive order on diversity training on Tuesday.
The brief, which was submitted by Stanford in conjunction with seven other colleges and universities, contends that the order is an unconstitutional violation of First Amendment rights. The order threatens to revoke federal grant funding from federal contractors who offer diversity training on “divisive concepts” about racial and gender biases.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
PRISONS, POLICING & RACIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS
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ARTS + JUSTICE STUDENT GRANT
DUE NOVEMBER 30, 2020
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The Arts + Justice Student Grant will fund undergraduate and graduate students as they investigate urgent matters around justice issues and the arts. Grants up to $1,000 are available to Stanford undergraduate, co-terminal, and graduate students.
Students may apply for the grant with a year-long creative project related to any number of justice issues including, but not limited to: Race Equity; Environmentalism; Mass Incarceration; Mental Health; LGBTQ+ Equity; Affordable Healthcare.
Awards range from $200-$1,000. In addition to the award, grantees will meet monthly (via Zoom) to workshop their projects and discuss the successes and struggles of their work. Visit the program page for additional eligibility criteria. Applications are due November 30, 2020 @ 11:59pm (Pacific). Funding decisions will be announced by December 11, 2020. Contact Devin Garnick.
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WHITE PAPER
Evaluating Facial Recognition Technology:
A Protocol for Performance Assessment in New Domains
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BY DANIEL E. HO, EMILY BLACK, MANEESH AGRAWALA, LI FEI-FEI (Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
EXCERPT FROM PAGE 9
Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) vendors report stunning accuracies of their products: SAFR, Kairos, Face++, and others report accuracies above 99% on National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tests and other benchmark datasets, such as Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW). Given these reports of performance, it may seem natural to assume that FRT can take on any facial recognition challenge.
That view is wrong. Although FRT may be deployed in diverse contexts, the model is not necessarily trained to work specifically in these domains. Moreover, users may have limited understanding of model output. As a result, reported performance does not necessarily reflect model behavior and usage in a wide array of application areas.
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Artists on the Future, the Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg Artist Conversation Series, pairs world-famous artists with cultural thought leaders to talk about issues vital to our society.
One of the most acclaimed painters working today and recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby creates densely layered figurative compositions that, precise in style, nonetheless conjure the complexity of contemporary experience.
Thelma Golden is the Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem and a fierce advocate for diversity and equity in the art world. Her work has been recognized by the Ford Foundation, the Obama Foundation, and the Aspen Institute, among others.
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RISING INEQUALITIES:
A Conversation on College Access, Diversity,
and Social Mobility in the U.S.
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December 7 | 5p PT
Join the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society for a conversation with Harvard Sociologist Anthony Jack, author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students, and Paul Tough, author of The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us. This event will be moderated by Jennifer Morton, author of Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
ELEVEN: The Undergraduate Journal of Sociology
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“The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
Karl Marx’s “Eleventh Thesis”
Theses on Feuerbach
Eleven, an undergraduate journal of sociology at UCB, is now accepting submissions from students around the world and from various disciplines in the social sciences.
To find out more about Eleven or the opportunity to publish work with a scholarly journal as an undergraduate, please visit http://eleven.berkeley.edu.
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