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Events

Upcoming events

Friday, January 24, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

The recovery of of biographical pages webpages for a hundred North American pioneers of Information

Friday, January 31, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information and an adjunct professor at the School of Information.

Friday, February 7, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

The Chips Act subsidizes US and Taiwanese chip manufacturers to locate new facilities in the United States. What are the prospects for success?

Friday, February 14, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Paul Duguid recently retired as an adjunct professor at the School of Information.

Thursday, February 20, 2025, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm PST

As cybersecurity threats and the digital landscape evolve, secure communication has never been more critical. A panel of industry professionals, consultants, and journalists share their experiences and insights.

Friday, March 7, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - Friday, April 11, 2025

A two-day conference examining the field of new media and celebrating the work of BCNM alumni in computer vision, human-computer interaction, algorithms, race and popular media, urban space, and new media art.

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Speaker danah boyd looks behind the scenes at the data required to power today’s AI models, exploring the ecology that has emerged to gobble up data produced for other purposes and contexts.

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm

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

Previous events

Friday, April 16, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Cliff Lynch discusses cultural stewardship & “cancel culture” and Ivy Anderson of CDL discusses UC’s landmark open access contract with Elsevier.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 4:00 pm - 6:00 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.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

Tawana Petty responds to the racial bias baked into our data, digital, and technological systems

Monday, April 12, 2021, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm PDT

Understanding the recent resistance to facial recognition technologies, to put this moment in conversation and context.

Friday, April 9, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How Berkeley’s University Library rose to the challenge of providing course materials to all students in a fully virtual global environment.

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm PDT

Richmond Wong presents his dissertation researchon the relationships between design practices and social values.

Friday, April 2, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Ryan Shaw is an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm PDT

I School faculty members discuss their research and the importance of including the perspective of women and underrepresented minorities at the frontiers of information technology.

Friday, March 19, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Leslie Johnston is director of digital preservation at the U.S. National Archives.

Monday, March 15, 2021, 10:30 am - 11:30 am PDT

Ethan Zuckerman explores a model for rethinking and rebuilding social media and digital institutions as public goods.

Friday, March 12, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Friday, March 12, 2021, 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm PST

School of Information Ph.D. students share their innovative research with the community.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 9:00 pm PST, – Thursday, March 11, 2021, 9:00 pm PST

Seize the moment during Big Give, Berkeley’s annual fundraising event.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST

School of Information Ph.D. students share their innovative research with the community.

Monday, March 8, 2021, 12:00 am, – Thursday, March 11, 2021, 12:00 am

Join us for a series of events celebrating Women in Data Science at UC Berkeley.

Friday, March 5, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

An overview of the last 50 years of information science research on information seeking and transfer.

Friday, February 26, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Information access seminar, with Wayne de Fremery and Michael Buckland

Friday, February 19, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Prediction games pit players against one another as they use open data and news stories to forecast the outcome of real-world events.

Friday, February 12, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Paul Duguid discusses his new book, Information: A Historical Companion, a landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries.

Thursday, February 11, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm PST

Steven Weber puts forward a compelling new model for global organization that integrates modern developments in technology and governance.