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Events

Upcoming events

Thursday, June 25, 2026, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

“Data, Power and the Ethics of Knowledge: A Digital Humanities Series” is presented by the Summer Program in Digital Humanities

Friday, July 17, 2026, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

“Data, Power and the Ethics of Knowledge: A Digital Humanities Series” is presented by the Summer Program in Digital Humanities

Monday, July 20, 2026 - Sunday, July 26, 2026

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

Friday, July 24, 2026, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

“Data, Power and the Ethics of Knowledge: A Digital Humanities Series” is presented by the Summer Program in Digital Humanities

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.

Friday, August 14, 2026, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT

“Data, Power and the Ethics of Knowledge: A Digital Humanities Series” is presented by the Summer Program in Digital Humanities

Friday, September 18, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Cultural Analytics Series highlights data-driven analysis of cultural phenomena. 

Friday, September 18, 2026, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Cultural Analytics speaker Aarthi Vadde.

Friday, October 9, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Cultural Analytics Series highlights data-driven analysis of cultural phenomena. 

Friday, October 9, 2026, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Cultural Analytics speaker Maria Antoniak.

Friday, October 30, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Cultural Analytics Series highlights data-driven analysis of cultural phenomena. 

Friday, October 30, 2026, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Cultural Analytics speaker Mads Rosendahl Thomsen.

Monday, November 9, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Cultural Analytics Series highlights data-driven analysis of cultural phenomena. 

Monday, November 9, 2026, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Cultural Analytics speakers Meredith Martin and Wouter Haverals.

Thursday, December 10, 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

Friday, January 20, 2023, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

Thursday, December 15, 2022, 5:00 pm - 8:00 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.

Thursday, December 8, 2022, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Join Cyversity and the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity for this special end-of-year event!

Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 4:00 pm - 6:00 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.

Friday, December 2, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Stewardship and preservation issues related to social media.

Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

David Rand is a leading expert in the psychology of misinformation. Rand is a systems biologist and psychologist and runs MIT’s Human Cooperation Lab.

Monday, November 28, 2022, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The international security challenges posed by emerging technologies and how to best to govern them.

Friday, November 18, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 12:00 am, – Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 10:52 pm

Your gifts to the I School and the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity will support diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice (DEIBJ) in tech.

Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm PST

Jessica Hullman is a leading expert in information visualization and uncertainty. Hullman is an information scientist and computer scientist by training, and an associate professor at Northwestern University.

Monday, November 7, 2022, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Why is there a new US Space Force, and what is the role of space in military and strategic competition with major powers?

Friday, November 4, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Thoughts on stewardship of the scholarly and cultural record from adjunct professor Clifford Lynch.

Friday, November 4, 2022, 11:10 am - 12:30 pm

Valentin Hofmann researches the intersection of NLP, linguistics, and computational social science, with specific interests in tokenization, socially and temporally aware NLP systems, and computational models of political ideology.

Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm PDT

Legal scholar Katerina Linos discusses how government and international organization actions can create information vacuums, creating space for misinformation to spread among migrants and refugees.

Friday, October 28, 2022, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 104th birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) promise radical new forms of collective organization and ownership. But can they deliver?

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Jeff Hancock is a leading expert on technology’s role in deception and trust. Hancock is a psychologist and a professor at Stanford University in Communication.

Friday, October 21, 2022, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Short reports from Arogya Koirala, Shai Dhaliwal, Calvin Lee, Alan Kyle, Sarah Barrington, Ameya Naik, and Siddharth Adelkar

Friday, October 21, 2022, 11:10 am - 12:30 pm

Jeff Wu is a research engineer at OpenAI working on language modeling (e.g. GPT-2) and alignment (InstructGPT).

Friday, October 21, 2022, 9:30 am - 11:00 am PDT

A hands-on workshop focusing on restorative justice.