INVITATION to the International Association of Craniofacial Identification (IACI)

One-day Symposium – 23 July 2021

The IACI conference in Liverpool has been postponed to July 2022 due to the continued pandemic. However, we will be hosting a one-day online symposium as an IACI free taster event on 23 July 2021, 10am – 15:30pm BST.

The theme of the event will be:

‘Race and Face: bias in forensic and archaeological investigation’

Keynote speakers will be:

• Race and Forensic Investigation - Prof Amade M’Charek, University of Amsterdam
• Race and Facial Recognition Algorithms - Dr Jonathon Phillips, National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Technology Laboratory
• Race and Super-recognisers - Dr Josh Davis, University of Greenwich
• Race and Forensic Genetics - Dr David Skinner, Anglia Ruskin University
• Historical ethnographic craniofacial collections - Dr Tobias Houlton, University of Dundee

 

There will be an online poster event and the opportunity for some short presentations on any of the following topics:

Facial identification of the dead

• Facial reconstruction/approximation
• Craniofacial anatomy
• Craniofacial superimposition
• Depiction of preserved remains for museum exhibition
• Ethical issues relating to the presentation of faces of the dead
• DNA analysis for facial depiction of skeletal remains
• Migrant disaster victim identification
• CGI and animation

Facial identification of the living

• Age progression
• Eyewitness composites
• DNA-to-face
• Facial recognition
• CCTV analysis
• Facial morphing and deep fakes

If you would like to present a short paper or poster at this symposium, please submit an abstract with your name and affiliation to facelab@ljmu.ac.uk by 1 July 2021.

Details of how to access the symposium will be sent out at a later date.

Please forward this to any interested parties.

 

 

Dr Sarah Shrimpton BA (Hons), MSc, AFHEA, PhD

Research Assistant, Face Lab

IC1 Liverpool Science Park, 131 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5TF

tel: 0151 482 9609 (Direct) or 0151 482 9605 (Lab) 

email:s.l.shrimpton@ljmu.ac.uk<mailto:s.l.shrimpton@ljmu.ac.uk>

 

 

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