Leading Change
Dr. Yvette Pearson, Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of Texas, Dallas, knows a lot about change. Building on her concept of ENGINEERING CH∆NGE® Dr. Pearson will share challenges that come with change in the STEM fields and insights on navigating those challenges through intentional, iterative, people-centered strategies.
Registration opens March 13, 2024.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Office of Public Lectures at lectures@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Diversity Equity Inclusion.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Mahzarin Banaji: Hidden Biases of Good People
All humans intend to make choices and decisions that obey the virtues of accuracy and fairness. Psychological research from the last fifty years has challenged the possibility that we, in fact, do so. Specifically, we now know that our actions are often inconsistent with our values and obstruct the very goals we strive for in our work and in life. We now know that these errors are a function of our evolution as humans, the architecture of our minds, and the social contexts in which our decisions unfold. Our behavior can be inconsistent with our own values because our decisions are driven by implicit preferences and beliefs that feed into our explicit choices.
This lecture will provide insights into how our minds work, and the often surprising and even perplexing manner by which implicit bias operates. The overarching purpose of the seminar is to reveal the mental blind spots that keep us from reaching our goals, especially in decisions that involve attention to social group qualities rather than the person…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Office of Public Lectures at lectures@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Diversity Equity Inclusion.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Town Hall Seattle.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. An Evening with Margaret Cho
Comedian and five-time GRAMMY and EMMY nominee, Margaret Cho will join us for a moderated discussion about her career highs and lows as well as share her thoughts around activism in the current political climate.
Registration opens March 13, 2023.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Office of Public Lectures at lectures@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Town Hall Seattle.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Steven Pinker: Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Today, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding—and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. Why do we find ourselves flooded with fake news, medical quackery, conspiracy theorizing, and “post-truth” rhetoric? It can’t be that humans are just an irrational species — cavemen out of time saddled with biases, fallacies, and illusions. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives, and discovered the benchmarks for rationality itself. Instead, we think in ways that are sensible in the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning our best thinkers have discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, and optimal ways to update beliefs and commit to choices individually and with others. Also, the rational pursuit of self-interest, sectarian solidarity, and uplifting mythology by individuals can add up to crippling irrationality in a socie…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Office of Public Lectures at lectures@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Town Hall Seattle.
For more info visit www.washington.edu.