We meet Fridays at 15:00 on Zoom, roughly every two weeks. Email us for the Zoom link if you do not have it yet!
We will keep the information on this page up-to-date. Topics/papers for future sessions will be communicated in due time, and you can make suggestions.
Dec 19 (We're meeting at a different time slot: noon.):
Condon (2023) Climate Services: The Business of Physical Risk. Ariz. St. L.J. 55(1). Note: If the condon paper is too long (even though a lot of the pages go to footnotes), you might skip the part that describes the market actors in detail (roughly pages 167 to 177).
Ickstadt et al. (2025) Beschleunigung umweltpolitischer Entscheidungen durch verlässliche Daten und effiziente statistische Methoden. doi: 10.1007/s11943-025-00360-w. (On environmental statistics. In German.)
tbd: Embeddeding data ethics into (statistical) education: Léa Rogliano (2023): Training in digital ethics in higher education [French Original: La formation à l’éthique du numérique dans l’enseignement supérieur (ingénierie et filières scientifiques) entre injonctions politiques et pratiques de terrain à l’heure de la crise écologique et de l’essor de l’intelligence artificielle. Quelles pistes d’évolution pour les formations ?] Link. Note: We're using an English translation, but you're also welcome to read the French original. 🙂 Send an email if you would like the translation.
Sept 26: Introduction to data ethics
Hand (2018). Aspects of Data Ethics in a Changing World: Where Are We Now?, https://doi.org/10.1089/big.2018.0083
Floridi & Taddeo (2016). What is data ethics?, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0360
Oct 17: Sociology and ethics of quantification
Espeland & Stevens (2008). A Sociology of Quantification, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003975609000150
Saltelli & Di Fiore (2020). From sociology of quantification to ethics of quantification, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00557-0
Nov 7: Boenig-Liptsin, Tanweer, & Edmundson (2022). Data Science Ethos Lifecycle Interplay of Ethical Thinking and Data Science Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/26939169.2022.2089411
Dec 5:
Chapter 2 "Theorizing Risk" in Lupton (2023, 3rd edition) Risk. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003316299.
Desrosières (2001) How Real Are Statistics. Four Possible Attitudes. JStor.
Paper-specific and general questions for reading papers (just as a suggestion).