When: Thursday, November 10, 2022, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PMWhere: Online
Does your physical appearance affect your daily life? Do you make assumptions about others based on how they look? What should we, as a society, do about this, if anything?
This online café is open to everyone age 18+ and will explore the issue of appearance discrimination and asks what you – a parliament for the people, by the people – would do about it if you could. During the session, you will be given the chance individually to complete an online Implicit Attitudes Test to measure appearance bias but you will not be asked to share your results. We will then hold a series of votes on whether, and how, different types of appearance discrimination should be addressed. No knowledge of the law is needed – just a willingness to take part.
This event is part of the Being Human festival, the UK’s national festival of the humanities, taking place 10–19 November 2022. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with generous support from Research England, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. For further information please see beinghumanfestival.org.
Accessibility: Fonts used will be a minimum size for those with visual impairments wherever possible. Participants can join the discussion in writing or verbally, and can choose to have their cameras on or off (presenter cameras will be on). There will be a brief comfort break during the session. Participants are asked to be respectful to the views and sensitivities of others.