Louis Tay, William C. Byham Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Purdue University and co-founder of ExpiWell, will address how psychological measurement can transform the way we detect and regulate bias…

Though often seen as infallible, forensic investigations are done by humans, and humans are imperfect. Jeff Kukucka, professor of psychology at Towson University, will draw from his work as a researcher, expert witness,…

Some lives exist only in files, headlines, or accusations. How do paperwork, policing, and media narratives quietly decide who belongs? What does democracy look like from below? Drawing on her book 'The Many Lives of Sy…

When people worry about AI, they usually worry about what AI might do to us. But what about what we might do to AI? Robert Long, a philosopher who works on AI consciousness and welfare, and the Executive Director of Ele…

How big a problem is torture? Are the right things being done to prevent it? Why does the United Nations appear at times to be so impotent in the face of it? Drawing on his ten plus years of experience as Chair of the U…

Through a series of images drawn by artists from the past imagining life in the future, Ken Liu, award-winning author of speculative fiction, asks the audience to think through provocative questions about the science fi…

When does a war begin? When does it end? Start dates and end dates for wars are readily available in textbooks, but are the beginnings and endings really so obvious? Currently, the U.S. claims not to be at war with any…

David Brooks is a former opinion columnist at the New York Times, current contributor to The Atlantic and frequent contributor to media outlets nationwide. He writes about "political, social and cultural trends, the cla…