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 taster event on 23 July 2021.

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 -Prof Josh Davis, University of Greenwich
• Race and Forensic Genetics -Dr David Skinner, Anglia Ruskin University

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.