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Events

Upcoming events

Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PST
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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Thursday, March 12, 2026

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

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

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

Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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.

Thursday, March 19, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 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, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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

Friday, March 20, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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

Friday, March 20, 2026, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
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.

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

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

Previous events

Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Preslav Nakov discusses large language models’ problems with factuality and new tools to use LLMs to fight misinformation.

Friday, October 3, 2025, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm PDT

An in-person, collaborative deep dive into Manvir Singh’s topic “Universality and Diversity in Story and Song”.

Friday, October 3, 2025, 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm PDT

Manvir Singh researches the nature and origins of ubiquitous sociocultural traditions such as shamanism, witchcraft, story, and music.

Friday, September 26, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:30 pm

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us for our annual celebration honoring the I School’s rich history, vibrant present, and bold future.

Sunday, August 17, 2025, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

A festive summer gathering for I School students, alumni, staff, faculty, and friends.

Thursday, August 14, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:00 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, August 6, 2025, 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.

Monday, July 21, 2025 - Sunday, July 27, 2025

A fun run/walk/roll for the I School community.

Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm PDT

Celebrate our student and alumni mentors.

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Honor the class of 2025 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Friday, May 16, 2025, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Elizabeth Resor and Liza Gak present their dissertation research.

Thursday, May 15, 2025, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Graduating MIMS students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. A panel of judges will select outstanding projects for the James R. Chen Award.

Friday, May 9, 2025, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Class projects in information visualization.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Student projects from the Biosensory Computing course.

Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

How reciprocal relationships between natural language processing, sociolinguistics, and education can uncover the social dynamics of language at billion-word scale and support content analyses of school curricula. 

Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

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

Monday, May 5, 2025, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Student projects from the Biosensory Computing course.

Friday, May 2, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Clifford Lynch passed away on April 10. A series of short reports by colleagues and friends illuminate his many and varied contributions.

Friday, April 25, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

The Friday afternoon Information Access Seminar is retiring after 69 consecutive semesters. Michael Buckland looks back over thirty-five years of the seminar.

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Learn more about the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic (INFO/CYBER 289), a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats.