14^th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Week

Throughout Dr. MLK Celebration week, we are partnering with Indiana Mentor to collect luggage in support of children entering foster care.  Indiana Mentor serves foster kids statewide from 0-18 years old. They are most in need of luggage, any type, including gently used pieces. Duffle, backpacks, and other smaller bags are also welcome.

Donations may be dropped off at the Office of Multicultural Programs in AGAD 105 (Ag Administration Building), STNE 122 (HHS Connex Hub), HAAS 115 (Student Engagement Center), HCRS 1025 (Honors College), LYNN 2133 (Vet Med) and the Purdue Black Cultural Center.

Donations can also be made through an Amazon Wish List where you can purchase items or gift cards.  purdue.ag/luggage-donation-wish-list

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Day of Service

"Coded Bias" Documentary 
12:00-1:30PM Screening***  
1:30-2:30PM Q&A with Filmmaker 
Deans Auditorium in PFendler Hall 241 and Zoom

CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.  

The event includes a post-screening virtual Q&A with documentary filmmaker Shalini Kantayya in Pfendler Hall and via Zoom.

***Virtual participants can view the film on their own before, during or after through Netflix or a link using a watch code that can be sent after registration for the event.

Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones
FREE event
7PM, Loeb Playhouse 

This “concert excerpt” version, adapted for Terence Blanchard and his band, the E-Collective, features the intrepid Turtle Island String Quartet and guest soloists, plus visuals by Andrew F. Scott. This work reveals the depths of Blanchard’s capacity to create a new musical world filled with pathos, humanity, and resilience.

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professor Sonia Gipson Rankin
Keynote 12-1:30PM
Workshop 3:30-4:30PM
Deans Auditorium in PFendler Hall 241 and Zoom

Professor Sonia Gipson Rankin is a distinguished legal scholar and co-founder of the University of New Mexico Algorithmic Justice Project. Rankin’s keynote will focus on understanding bias in artificial intelligence and discussing how to address AI bias through law, technology and society.

Keynote (In-Person & Zoom): 
“Artificial Intelligence and the Moral Arc: Justice in the Digital Age”

Workshop (In-Person Only): 
"Incorporating Algorithmic Justice into Your Research"  

Algorithmic Justice Themed Button & Zine Making
11:00 AM - 2:00PM
Knowledge Lab - 3rd floor WALC

Come join us for drop-in workshops on creating algorithimic justice and MLK-themed buttons and zines (alternative self-made magazines)! No experience necessary. 

In addition to the button and zine making, the campus community will be able to visit drop-in stations around campus to answer questions on algorithmic justice inspired by Dr. King’s principles, write your response on a sticky note or whiteboard. 

Reflection stations will be located off at the Office of Multicultural Programs in AGAD 105 (Ag Administration Building), STNE 122 (HHS Connex Hub), HAAS 115 (Student Engagement Center), HCRS 1025 (Honors College), LYNN 2133 (Vet Med) and the Purdue Black Cultural Center. 

Algorithmic Justice at Purdue
Roundtable Discussion, 12:00-1:30 pm
Deans Auditorium in PFendler Hall 241

Interdisciplinary roundtable of Purdue researchers discussing current AI applications and how participants are integrating or plan to integrate algorithmic justice principles into their work. The College of Agriculture’s Unsung Diversity Hero Awards will be presented at the start of this event.

Roundtable Participants: 

• Anjali Bhati, Graduate Student, Purdue Polytechnic
• Bethany McGowan, Associate Professor, Libraries
• Ankita Raturi Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
• Louis Tay, Professor, Psychological Sciences