*Apologies for cross-posting* Please join us on April 18th from 9:30am - 3:20pm for Boston University's international symposium Face-Off: Facial Recognition Technologies and Humanity in an Era of Big Data. Speakers and panels are as follows: Panel 1: Understanding Facial Recognition How Does the Face Recognition Technology Work? *Margrit Betke, Boston University* The Biology of Facial Recognition *Mark Frank, University at Buffalo* Panel 2: Ethical Concerns and Practical Benefits The Risks and Benefits of Facial Recognition? A New Direction Needed *Vanessa Nurock, Epidapo CNRS-UCLA & Université Paris 8* The Ethical Significance of the Face and AI Facial Recognition *Laura Specker Sullivan, Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics* An Industry Perspective on Facial Recognition Technology *Derek Christensen, Accenture* Panel 3: Historical and Contemporary Uses and Abuses Alphonse Bertillon: Issues in the “Scientific” Identification of Persons by Means of Facial Features at the Turn of the 20th Century *Pierre Piazza, Cergy-Pontoise University* The Perpetual Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America *Clare Garvie and Alvaro Bedoya, the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown LawJonathan Frankle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology* Panel 4: Applications and Perceptions Emotion, Classification, and Race in Facial Recognition Systems *Luke Stark, Dartmouth College* Public Perceptions and Concerns: A View from Chile *Daniel Halpern, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile* Putting a Face to a Name in Clinical Settings: Recognizing Faces in Manifestation and Outcomes of Clinician Anonymity *Lora Appel, OpenLab University Health Network, TorontoYork University, Toronto* For additional details and registration information, please visit the event website <https://www.mellonphilemerge.com/events/face-off>. Be sure to click Read More for full details. Space is limited, so please be sure to register! Contact Sarah Krongard at krongard@bu.edu with any questions. -- Sarah Krongard Doctoral Student College of Communication, Division of Emerging Media Studies Boston University 508.361.9304 | krongard@bu.edu | @sarahkrongard <https://twitter.com/sarahkrongard>