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Special Plenary Lecture: Prof. Safiya Noble and the 2021 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Event Type
Informational
Sponsor
iSchool and the 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference
Date
Sep 28, 2021   12:30 - 1:30 pm  
Registration
Registration
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Dr. Safiya U. Noble is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she serves as the Co-Founder and Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She holds affiliations in the School of Education & Information Studies, and is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she is a Commissioner on the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance (OxCAIGG). Dr. Noble is a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, serving those vulnerable to online harassment. She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in scholarly and popular publications.

iSchool students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend a special speaking event, co-hosted by the iSchool and the 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries featuring PhD alumna Dr. Safiya Noble on Tuesday, September 28 at 12:30pm.

Advanced Registration is required (at no cost for the talk). Follow this link to register: go.ischool.illinois.edu/safiya-noble

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