BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5511-4cb74d1125a0a2f2d68fb3b7a973badf@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260416T051724Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201001T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201001T180000 SUMMARY:Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics: “Automating Inequality” by Virgini a Eubanks DESCRIPTION:\nThe Rock Ethics Institute&rsquo\;s \;2020 Richard B. L ippin Lecture in Ethics \;will feature \;Virginia Eubanks\, auth or of the award-winning book \;Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile\, Police\, and Punish the Poor. The virtual lecture\, whic h is free and open to the public\, will take place Thursday\, October 1 at 6:00 p.m. \; \;\n\nEubanks is an associate professor of polit ical science at the University at Albany &ndash\; SUNY\, whose work on s ocial justice and technology has been featured in \;The New York Tim es\, \;The Atlantic\, as well as on NPR\, BBC\, and other outlets. H er lecture will discuss themes from \;Automating Inequality&mdash\;t he impacts of data mining\, policy algorithms\, and predictive risk mode ls on poor and working-class people in America&mdash\;and how they relat e to the current pandemic. \;\n\nThe co-sponsors for this year&rsquo \;s Lippin Lecture are the Center for Humanities and Information\, Donal d P. Bellisario College of Communications\, McCourtney Institute for Dem ocracy\, and University Libraries. As part of its weekly \;Democracy Works \;podcast produced with WPSU Penn State\, the McCourtney Inst itute for Democracy released an \;interview with Eubanks \;previ ewing themes in her upcoming lecture. \;\n\nThere will be a discussi on with Eubanks immediately following her lecture led by \;Sarah Raj tmajer \;and \;Pamela VanHaitsma\, both Rock Ethics Institute fa culty. You can \;submit potential questions for Eubanks by emailing them to Betsy VanNoy at bmv111@psu.edu by Monday\, September 28. \;& nbsp\;\n\nThe lecture will take place as a Zoom webinar. Advance registr ation is required by clicking \;here. After registering\, you will r eceive a link to watch the lecture\, which you should click on shortly b efore 6:00 p.m. on Thursday\, October 1. \; \;\n\nFor more detai ls: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/automating_inequality_7722/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Rock Ethics Institute’s 2020 Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics will feature Virginia Eubanks, author of the award-winnin g book Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Polic e, and Punish the Poor. The virtual lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place Thursday, October 1 at 6:00 p.m. &nb sp;

Eubanks is an associate professor of political science at the University at Albany – SUNY, whose work on social justice and tech nology has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, as well as on NPR, BBC, and other outlets. Her lecture wil l discuss themes from Automating Inequality—the impact s of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America—and how they relate to the cur rent pandemic. 

The co-sponsors for this year’s Lippin Lecture are the Center for Humanities and Information, Donald P. Bellisa rio College of Communications, McCourtney Institute for Democracy, and U niversity Libraries. As part of its weekly Democracy Works&n bsp;podcast produced with WPSU Penn State, the McCourtney Institute for Democracy released an interview with Eubanks previewing themes in her upc oming lecture. 

There will be a discussion with Eubanks immed iately following her lecture led by Sarah Rajtmajer  and Pamela VanHaitsma, both Rock Ethic s Institute faculty. You can submit potential questions for Eubanks by emailing them to Betsy VanNoy at bmv 111@psu.edu by Monday, September 28.  

The lecture w ill take place as a Zoom webinar. Advance registration is required by cl icking here. After r egistering, you will receive a link to watch the lecture, which you shou ld click on shortly before 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 1.  

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/automating_inequa lity_7722/

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