Hate speech and discrimination are the main themes of this year’s Equality Days taking place in Icelandic universities from 10 to 13 February. The possibilities of AI to reduce discrimination in the job market; the interplay of hate speech with AI; social media and information entropy; Women's Year 2025: the U.S. President's campaign against awareness of equality and human rights, and politicisation of the police are just a fraction of the diverse events that will be offered this year - either on-site or via streaming.
This is the seventeenth time that Equality Days are being celebrated, and over the years they have paved the way for fruitful and radical discussions on equality issues from various perspectives. The programme is very ambitious and comprises over 20 events affiliated with equality and current social issues. Events take place in either Icelandic or English, sometimes both.
Equality Days start at noon on Monday, 10 February, with an on-line event: From algorithms to equality Can AI help tackle discrimination in the job market? Speakers are Dilys Sharona Quartey, PhD student in Sociology at the University of Iceland, who has studied the impact of AI on the job market, and Sigyn Jónsdóttir, CTO and co-founder of Alda, a startup company developing software solutions and interactive training to promote diversity and inclusion.Moderator is Páll Rafnar Þorsteinsson.
Throughout the week, events will be hosted by and in collaboration with the Icelandic universities and their partners. In addition to the above-mentioned topics the events will tackle Weight-Neutral Health; students' experiences of ethnic discrimination; unconscious biases and the willingness to learn; inclusive assessment; the intersection of trans and tech issues; and love speech. There will also be equality waffles, autism meet-ups, a text and sound art exhibition, and a workshop on the theatre of the oppressed. Additionally, there will be discussions on Nordic gender equality and women on the run, colonialism, and the status of the Beijing Declaration on gender equality, which is 30 years old this year.
All Equality Days events are open to all and free of charge and the programme is posted on jafnrettisdagar.is