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The Holy Land In Paris. Embroidering, Depicting, And Stamping The Passion In A Fifteenth-Century Book Of Hours (Paris, Bibliothèque De L’Arsenal, Ms 1176 A Rés.), Loretta Vandi

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.

Kenyon Collegian - November 21, 2019

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Kenyon Collegian - November 14, 2019

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Kenyon Collegian - November 7, 2019

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Kenyon Collegian - October 31, 2019

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Kenyon Collegian - October 24, 2019

The Kenyon Collegian

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Kenyon Collegian - October 17, 2019

The Kenyon Collegian

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Kenyon Collegian - October 3, 2019

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Nlp Modeling And Analysis Of Popular Vloggers, Zhaofang (Zach) Wang

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

Vlog, or video blog, is the chicest form of personal production on YouTube First appearing at the beginning of the 21 st century, vlogs saw an enormous rise in popularity around 2005 Differing from other forms of production, vlogs allow their producers more freedom in expressing themselves without the limitation of content, word count, and forms of expression The absence of censorship and early stage marketing allows an almost free market effect in the sense that the most popular vloggers and videos are purely the choice of people Therefore, analyzing viral vlogs and vloggers can offer a more accurate representation …

Hika - Fall 2019

HIKA Literary Magazine

No abstract provided.

Image Generation Through Stylegans: Is It Art?, Sophie Dodd

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

I wanted to explore how the role of artificial intelligence is developing within the art world and how current attitudes surrounding AI as a creative tool are changing. I want to experiment with AI generated images using GANs and then seek feedback on them from art and non-art students alike before telling them that they had been generated by an AI. I focused my research on examining the emotional responses people had to AI generated art and the overall question of “can an AI make art?”

Topic Modeling Analysis Of Supreme Court Opinions Focusing On Privacy Rights In The Context Of Abortion Law, Ellen Morrissey

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

No abstract provided.

Doubles And Reflections: Sentiment Analysis And Vladimir Nabokov’S Pale Fire, Catherine Perloff

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

In his novel, Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov uses a non-linear narrative composed in three parts: Foreword, Poem, and Commentary, apparently written by two distinct authors, John Shade and Charles Kinbote. Storylines appear to be separate at surface level yet work in interconnected ways at a deeper level. The novel deals with life after death, the story arc of a disguised, exiled king, and provides meta commentary on the art of commentary. The text was tricky to analyze without sentiment analysis principally because of its seemingly disjointed structure. Thus, there’s a bit of irony in that we found a repeated structure …

Analyzing Popular Music Using Spotify’S Machine Learning Audio Features, Noah Amsterdam

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

The modern ability to stream music using services such as Spotify, Pandora, and Apple music has revolutionized how it is consumed. There is now more music accessible at our fingertips than ever before in history. As someone who has played an instrument their whole life and with some music theory knowledge, I always strive to better understand what I’m listening to. This motivated me to dive into finding out how music is quantified, specifically on Spotify, and what makes up people’s musical taste. I will be approaching music tastes from 3 angles: Spotify, music critics, and my own analysis and …

Can Gpt-2 Replace A Sex And The City Writers’ Room?, Alasia Destine-Defreece, Samara Handelsman, Talia Light Rake, Ally Merkel, Gracie Moses

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

Someday, in the not-so-distant future, will the writers’ room be replaced by artificial intelligence? This poster was created by a group of actors and writers who were curious about the role artificial intelligence could play in the future of television writing. In the first stage of this project, we prompted GPT-2 with the opening lines of a scene from the television show Sex and the City, and had GPT-2 finish the scene. We filmed the three best GPT-2 generated scenes, and screened these scenes for our “AI for the Humanities” class, along with a filmed version of the original Sex …

Lost In Translation: Using Sentiment Analysis To Analyze Translations Of Homer’S Odyssey, Erin Shaheen

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

For my final project in AI for the Humanities, I knew that I wanted to examine the creative role of translators in classic literature. I ran three different translations of Homer’s The Odyssey through Syuzhet.R, a sentiment analysis tool that has grown increasingly popular in the Digital Humanities field. Syuzhet tracks the emotional arc (also called “emotional valence”) of a text by giving each word a different score. For example, on a scale of -1 to 1, “terrible” might score -1 and “amazing” might score 1. A more neutral word like “okay” would score closer to 0. I chose translations …

Using Machine Learning To Predict Mlb Success Based On Milb Performance, Alexander Gow

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

In 2017 alone Major League Baseball organizations spent a combined 492 million dollars on acquiring new, young, talented players through the draft or signing international free agents. The effectiveness of an MLB organization’s scouting department is pertinent to ensuring future success. Due to the highly volatile nature of professional sports, identifying a predictive and measurable statistic(s) associated with success among players would be valuable. Furthermore, a team’s ability to quickly and correctly identify players on their Minor League affiliates that will have a positive impact at the Major League level can give them an advantage over other teams. For this …

Guns In D.C. Appellate Court: Sentiment Analysis On Opinions From The Court Of Appeals For The D.C. Circuit, Grace Peterson, Jon Chun, Katherine Elkins

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

No abstract provided.

Generating 3d Sculptures Using A Recurrent Neural Network With Long Short-Term Memory, Nick Downey

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

Sophisticated generative models have been some of the most obviously impressive achievements of AI in the past decade. Indeed, AI has approached or achieved human-level performance in a variety of domains, with a particular focus placed on artistic disciplines. Because writing a value function for this kind of model is effectively impossible, these models are notoriously difficult to evaluate. My aim was to create such a model, and in doing so elucidate the characteristics of successful generative AI and explore how generative models can be adapted successfully to new domains. And more broadly, I hoped to create a model capable …

Creating Art Using Generative Adversarial Networks, Henry Abbott

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

I set out to explore how artificial intelligence generated artwork compares to human created artwork. Using CycleGANs, my goal was to create art, and then conduct a Turing Test in order to determine whether or not one could distinguish between A.I. and human art. Using this test, as well as my own observations, I planned to analyze where CycleGANs succeeds in creating art, as well as where it struggles. Following this analysis, I thought more about what the results mean for art moving forward, and if artificial intelligence can truly create art.

Analyzing Visual Sentiment In Photojournalism, Eryn Powell

IPHS 300: AI for Humanity

Like any other branch of journalism, a photojournalist’s intent is to capture an image that conveys the the events represented in the image while evoking an emotional response that allows the viewer to connect with the content of the photo or news report to which the photo is attached. Under the umbrella of photojournalism, political photography is unique in that it is heavily swayed by public opinion. This project intends to introduce a duel perspective on visual sentiment in political photojournalism.

Kenyon Collegian - September 26, 2019

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Kenyon Collegiate - September 23, 2019

Kenyon Collegiate

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Kenyon Collegian - September 19, 2019

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Kenyon Collegian - September 12, 2019

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Kenyon Collegian - September 5, 2019

The Kenyon Collegian

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Kenyon Collegian - August 28, 2019

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Cast Metal Plaque, Rescued From Berlin's Fasanenstrasse Synagogue During Kristallnacht

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Metal plaque with scene of men seated at table

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

The Fasanenstrasse Synagogue was Berlin’s liberal Synagogue and the largest Synagogue in Berlin. It was opened in 1912, and during its years of operation had been for a time the spiritual home to Rabbi Leo Baeck. During the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9 and 10, 1938, along with many other synagogues in Germany and Austria, the Fasanenstrasse Synagogue had been set on fire - under Joseph Goebbels orders - and destroyed by SA thugs. This plaque, depicting a Seder scene with a group of Rabbis …

Et Derrière: Le Juif' [And In The Back: The Jew] By Bruno Hanich

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Poster with illustration of a man wearing a Star of David necklace peering through a U.S. flag, a U.S.S.R. flag, and a British flag, “Et derrière: Le Jui” printed in yellow banner in lower left corner.

Handbill By Baroness Jane Birdwood Of The English Solidarity Movement

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Document marked “THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATIONS RACIAL MIX A.D. 2000” with two flags in the upper right corner surrounded by red banner labelled “ENGLISH SOLIDARITY AGAINST MULTIRACISM,” dated 1989.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:Birdwood rails against the BBC efforts to increase the number of ethnic minorities on its staff and the “evil nonsense” of Jewish “one-worldism” or, in her view, “the enforced togetherness of the races.” A rabid antisemite, Birdwood even advocated for revisiting the 700-year-old Edict of Expulsion against British Jews.