CESTA Undergraduate Research Showcase

Date
Thu August 25th 2016, 10:00am - 2:30pm
Location
CESTA Wallenberg (4th floor, Building 360)
CESTA Undergraduate Research Showcase

Join us on Thursday, August 25 as CESTA's undergraduate research assistants share their impressive summer accomplishments! This summer, a total of 24 Stanford undergrads spent time at CESTA participating in and contributing to exciting research in the field of digital humanities and social sciences. This event features the fruits of their labor: gathering and creating data, mapping, visualizing, text mining, and more. See below for the full event schedule.

 

Presentation Schedule

 
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee and pastries!
 
10:30 - 10:40
19th Century Crowdsourcing
Samuel Mignot
 
10:45 - 10:55
Poetic Media: Lacuna Stories
Ena Alvarado, Irene Hsu
 
11:00 - 11:15
Brazil Melodrama, Anna Halprin
Naomi Subotnik
 
11:15 - 11:20  Break
 
11:25 - 11:35
Writing Wrights
Alex Sherman
 
11:40 - 12:00
Grand Tour, Ancient Cyprus,
Imagined San Fransisco, CESTA Communications
Kevin Garcia
 
12:00 - 12:55  Lunch
 
1:00 - 1:20
George Moses Horton, Spiritual Networks,
Law of Antebellum Frontier
Samuel Mignot
 
1:25 - 1:45
Mexican Migration, Deportation Trains,
Traveling Fredericksburg Road, Geographies of Capital
Yesid Castro
 
1:50 - 2:00
Chinese Grave Relocation, Kindred London
Michael Carter
 
2:00 - 2:30
Questions/Discussion