What can machine vision techniques help us discover in photographic archives? How might the code we write contribute to society? What do literature and physics have in common? To answer these questions and many more, join us for the fourth annual Beyond Boundaries, a half-day symposium organized around hybrid scholarship at Yale.

Beyond Boundaries will be hosted in the newly renovated Franke Family Digital Humanities Lab and will feature the work of Yale undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, postdoctoral associates, and staff on topics ranging from computer-generated models and text mining to maps and interactive visual representations of data.

For recorded presentations, click on lightning talks, roundtable, and poster session.

Beyond Boundaries is organized by the Yale Digital Humanities Laboratory, Yale Code4Good, and Yale STEAM and sponsored by the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning. The symposium is open to the whole campus community and public. No advance registration is required.

Schedule

1:30 - 1:50 p.m. | Coffee + Refreshments

1:50 - 2:00 p.m. | Welcome

Peter Leonard, Director of the Digital Humanities Lab

2:00 - 3:00 p.m. | Lightning Talks

Presentations by undergraduate and graduate students

• Zen Tang (Undergraduate Student, Statistics & Data Science) “Organizing Without Oppression: Building Democracies in the 21st Century”
• Frances Fagan (Undergraduate Student, Political Science) “Utilitarian Utopias: Public Libraries as Key Policy Partners for Integration and Skills-Training Programs”
• Amanda Joyce Hall (PhD Student, History and African American Studies) “Pauli Murray: A Digiography”
• Keniel Yao (Undergraduate Student, Statistics & Data Science) “Virtual Politics: A Case Study of Reddit”
• Tyler Lutz (PhD Student, Physics) “Science in Fiction: Modern Physics as Mirror and Muse”
• Lisa Qian (Undergraduate Student, Economics and Multidisciplinary Academic Program in Human Rights) “Lived Experience as a Theory of Innovation”
• Mariel Pettee (PhD Student, Physics) “Generative and Variational Choreography via Machine Learning”

3:00 - 4:00 p.m. | Roundtable Discussion

Presentations by faculty and staff on the benefits and challenges digital methods pose for research and teaching

Moderators: Barkley Dai (Statistics & Data Science) and Vivek Gopalan (Computer Science and Statistics & Data Science)

• Tiffany Li (Law) “The Power I’d Open”
• Alice Kaplan and Christophe Schuwey (French) “Mapping Postwar Networks: An Index For Combat (1944-1947)”
• Joseph Zinter (Engineering and Applied Science, Center for Engineering Innovation & Design) “Hacking the Humanities”
• Peter Leonard (Digital Humanities Lab) “Every Pixel on the Sunset Strip: Ed Ruscha between Archive and Dataset”
• Philip Corlett and Jane Garrison (Psychiatry) “Network Induced Visual Hallucinations: A Window on Reality Monitoring in the Mind and Brain”

4:00 - 4:05 p.m. | Closing Remarks

Susan Gibbons, Stephen F. Gates ’68 University Librarian and Deputy Provost for Collections & Scholarly Communication

4:05 - 5:00 p.m. | Poster Session

Showcase of projects by students, faculty, and staff

• Walid Bouchakour (PhD Student, French), Doyle Calhoun (PhD Student, French), Abigail Fields (PhD Student, French), Madison Mainwaring (PhD Student, French), Anna Salzman (PhD Student, French), Christophe Schuwey (Professor, French) “One Play, Many Interfaces: Digital Experimentations on the Comédie sans titre (1683)”
• Azza El Siddique (MFA Student, Sculpture) “Tirhaga”
• Adam G. Erickson (Undergraduate Student, Applied Mathematics) “Exploring Natural Language Time Series with D3 and React.js”
• Lindsay King (Associate Director for Access and Research Services, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library) and Alex O’Keefe (Kress Fellow in Art Librarianship, Arts Library) “Ensemble@Yale: Getting the Crowd into Crowdsourcing”
• Maya Levin (Undergraduate Student, History of Science, Medicine, & Public Health, and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) “Slave Ship Medicine: Investigating Drug Manifests of the Middle Passage”
• Jonathan Manton (Music Librarian for Digital and Access Services, Gilmore Music Library) “Crowdsourcing Metadata for Historical Sound Recordings”
• Stephen Naron (Director, Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimonies) “Aviary: A New Platform for Engaging with AV Archives”
• Nichole Nelson (PhD Student, History) “New Haven Speaks: A Digital Tour of New Haven Buildings and Neighborhoods through Story Maps”