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10:00 am-12:00 pm
Panel I: Big Data and the Law
Margot Kaminski, Yale Law School
Framing Big Data in the United States: A Legal Overview
Malavika Jayaram, Harvard Berkman Center
Performing Welfare Through Identity Theatre: A Tale of Big Data, Biometrics and Bias
Respondents:
Laura Wexler, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies, Yale University
Caleb Smith, English, Yale University
Fred Ritchin, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
12:00-2:00 pm
Panel II and Lunch: Visual and Quantitative Analytics
Peter Leonard, Yale University, Digital Humanities
Macroscopic Perspective: Data Visualization in Humanities Research Projects
Elena Grewal, Senior Data Scientist, Airbnb
Experimentation in the World of Big Data: Common Pitfalls and Best Practice
Group Discussion
2:00-4:00 pm
Panel III: Big Data and the Arts
Kenneth Goldsmith, University of Pennsylvania
The Cultural Artifact in the Digital Age
Sumanth Gopinath, University of Minnesota and Jason Stanyek, University of Oxford
The BPMs of Capital: Nike+, Big Sonic Data, and the Sensorization of the ‘Human Race’
Respondents:
David Joselit, CUNY Graduate Center
Francesco Casetti, Film Studies, Yale University
Natalia Cecire, English, Yale University
4:00-4:15
Coffee Break
4:15-6:15 pm
Panel IV: Big Data and Governance
Nishant Shah, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore
Writing the Subject: Intellectual Property, Big Data and the New Subject of Governance
Kath Weston, Anthropology, University of Virginia
Old MacDonald Had a Database: Lessons from America’s National Animal Identification System
Respondents:
Inderpal Grewal, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Yale University
Aradhana Sharma, Anthropology, Wesleyan University
Rebecca Wexler, Yale Law School
6:15-7:00 pm
Reception