the critical life of information friday, april 11, 2014 -...

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The Critical Life of Information

William L. Harkness Hall, Room 309 | 100 Wall SreetRegistration Required | wgss.yale.edu/bigdata

Friday, April 11, 2014

BIG DATA AND THE LAWMargot Kaminski, Yale Law SchoolMalavika Jayaram, Harvard Berkman Center

Respondents:Laura Wexler, WGSS and American Studies, Yale UniversityCaleb Smith, English, Yale UniversityFred Ritchin, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

BIG DATA AND THE ARTSKenneth Goldsmith, University of PennsylvaniaSumanth Gopinath, University of MinnesotaJason Stanyek, University of Oxford

Respondents:Francesco Casetti, Film Studies, Yale UniversityNatalia Cecire, English, Yale UniversityDavid Joselit, CUNY Graduate Center

BIG DATA AND GOVERNANCENishant Shah, Centre for Internet and Society, BangaloreKath Weston, Anthropology, University of Virginia

Respondents: Inderpal Grewal, WGSS, Yale UniversityAradhana Sharma, Anthropology, Wesleyan UniversityRebecca Wexler, Yale Law School

An interdisciplinary workshop that will considerquestions of scale posed by the rise of Big Data as a cultural and political force. The workshop will address how new notions of information as property, and its harvesting from people in contexts ranging from shopping to health care to social media, condition humanistic inquiry and its concepts of the individual and the collective.

10:00am–12:00pm

1:30–3:30 pm

3:45–6:00 pm

Sponsored by:Edward J. and Dorothy Kempf Memorial FundThe Photographic Memory Workshop at YaleWomen’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

South Asian Studies CouncilYale University Library