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Events

Upcoming events

Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:10 pm

Open data infrastructures promise transparency, collaboration, and democratized access to scientific knowledge. But what happens when these same principles enable challenges to scientific consensus? 

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Support the I School during Berkeley’s annual fundraising blitz.

Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

James Abello Monedero & Haoyang Zhang present Graph Cities, a novel visualization for exploring complex large-scale networks.

Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm

Peter Broadwell explores new opportunities for using deep neural models for computational analyses of theater and other performing arts.

Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Peter Leonard itemizes three barriers that hinder analysis of film and television.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 11:00 am - 11:30 am

While multimodal large language models (LLMs) excel at dialogue, whether they can adequately parse the structure of conversation — conversational roles and threading — remains underexplored.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lauren Tilton’s research applies digital and computational methods to the study of 20th and 21st century documentary expression and visual culture.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Taylor Arnold uses large-scale computational methods to analyze how television production practices and narrative strategies intersect with industry changes and cultural contexts.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Thursday, March 19, 2026, 9:30 am - 10:00 am

Svenja Guhr’s research uses computational methods to model suspense in American and British short fiction.

Thursday, March 19, 2026, 10:00 am - 10:30 am

Ongoing work on how satire is communicated in both text and images in the satirical journal Corsaren using image and text embeddings.

Thursday, March 19, 2026, 11:00 am - 11:30 am

Ongoing work on benchmarking vision-language models and using them and object detection for art historical research into canonicity and national romanticism styles in Northern Europe.

Thursday, March 19, 2026, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Noah Askin is a computational social scientist and sociologist who studies the creative process, its outcomes, and the forces that influence it.

Thursday, March 19, 2026, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Noah Askin is a computational social scientist and sociologist who studies the creative process, its outcomes, and the forces that influence it.

Friday, March 20, 2026, 9:30 am - 10:00 am

Peter Forberg is a Ph.D. student in sociology who studies technology, political movements, governance, and ethnography. 

Friday, March 20, 2026, 10:00 am - 10:30 am

Naitian Zhou is a Ph.D. stu­dent whose re­search cen­ters on de­vel­op­ing com­pu­ta­tional meth­ods to un­der­stand mean­ing em­bed­ded in style.

Friday, March 20, 2026, 11:00 am - 11:30 am

David Bamman’s research focuses on natural language processing and cultural analytics, applying NLP and AI to empirical questions in the humanities and social sciences. 

Friday, March 20, 2026, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Miguel Escobar Varela studies changes in Southeast Asian cultural heritage, combining fieldwork with computational methods.

Friday, March 20, 2026, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Miguel Escobar Varela studies changes in Southeast Asian cultural heritage, combining fieldwork with computational methods.

Friday, April 10, 2026, 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm

Large language models can make writing mind-numbingly efficient — but the point of writing with AI should be to write what we couldn’t have written alone (without generating bland, derivative “slop”).

Friday, April 10, 2026, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Cultural Analytics speaker Kyle Booten.

Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Thursday, April 23, 2026, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Honor the class of 2026 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Wednesday, August 5, 2026, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Thursday, August 13, 2026, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm PDT

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Thursday, December 17, 2026, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm PST

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Previous events

Monday, March 9, 2026, 1:30 pm - 2:40 pm

Xiang Zheng analyzes large-scale faculty datasets to reveal connections between tenure, incentives, and innovation.

Friday, March 6, 2026, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Cultural Analytics speaker Bob L. T. Sturm.

Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm

Bob L. T. Sturm is an associate professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and the PI of the MUSAiC project.

Thursday, March 5, 2026, 11:10 am - 12:30 pm PST

Emma Lurie untangles the roots of online harms in platform design, regulatory structures, and expert discourse.

Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 11:10 am - 12:20 pm

Zackary Okun Dunivin’s work examines cultural phenomena at scale, including political discourse, mythmaking, information systems, and organizational communication.

Monday, March 2, 2026, 11:15 am - 12:25 pm

Online misinformation is a growing concern. Dr. Madeline Jalbert identifies the underlying psychological processes, the role that feelings play, and the criteria people use to assess truth. 

Monday, February 23, 2026, 11:30 am - 12:40 pm

Jerry Chai describes governmental censorship programs and their risks and outlines real-world circumvention and resistance strategies.

Thursday, February 19, 2026, 2:15 pm - 3:25 pm

Many of today’s most pervasive digital security and privacy threats come not from distant hackers, but from the individuals around us.

Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:10 pm

Sayash Kapoor is coauthor of AI Snake Oil and author of the newsletter AI as Normal Technology. He explains the stakes of misplaced optimism about AI in science, medicine, and more.

Friday, February 13, 2026, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Bellwether Lecturer Michaela Mahlberg.

Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 12:10 pm - 2:00 pm PST

Michaela Mahlberg is a corpus linguist who studies language as a social phenomenon and the ways we use language to understand and shape our world.

Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
Thursday, December 18, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm PST

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

Graduating MICS students present their cybersecurity projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Lily L. Chang MICS Capstone Award.

Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Cybersecurity Clinic students share their experiences supporting public-interest organizations vulnerable to ideologically motivated threats.

Monday, December 8, 2025, 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Try out students’ interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.

Monday, November 17, 2025, 11:40 am - 1:00 pm PST

Exploring novel methods for deepfake detection, technical methods for biometric system evaluation, and the complexity of data privacy and consent in high-stakes situations

Friday, November 14, 2025, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Cultural Analytics speaker Peter Dodds.

Friday, November 14, 2025, 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm

Data-driven, computational determination of the essence of meaning, stories, and characters, with Peter Dodds