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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 Bellwether Lecturer Michaela Mahlberg.

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

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

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 - 2:00 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, November 10, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST

Dr. Daniel Greene explores why technology solutions aren’t solving complex social problems such as STEM education and the digital divide.

Friday, November 5, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

PhiloBiblon is a database of primary sources for the study of medieval Iberian culture, built on a Wikibase platform.

Friday, November 5, 2021, 12:10 pm - 2:00 pm

Dr. Doris Lee presents her dissertation research enabling data analysts to identify trends and patterns, generate and verify hypotheses, and detect outliers and anomalies.

Friday, November 5, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT

Dr. Latanya Sweeney pioneered the field of data privacy and launched the study of algorithmic fairness.

Friday, October 29, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

How and why the ​University of California migrated its ten campuses, two regional library facilities, ​and  California Digital Librar​y to a single centralized catalog system.

Thursday, October 28, 2021, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Vini Jaiswal explains the “data lakehouse” data paradigm, which provides all of the capabilities needed to train and deploy machine learning models.

Friday, October 22, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Alan Inouye discusses how policy-making has evolved in the library & education sectors during the pandemic and possible future directions.

Thursday, October 21, 2021, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Bill Marczak shares his experience identifying new threat actors, including Candiru, a secretive Israel-based company that sells spyware exclusively to governments

Saturday, October 16, 2021, 12:00 am, – Sunday, October 17, 2021, 12:00 am

The 12th annual InfoCamp explores conflicts in data control and policy. The two-day event, led by IMSA, features an ideathon and a speaker series. The event is free and open to everyone in the information community.

Friday, October 15, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Short reports on various topics, including JCDL, SNAC, information science history, relevance theory, and more.

Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

The Citizen Clinic (INFO 289) is a public-interest cybersecurity course that supports the capacity of politically-targeted organizations to defend themselves against online threats. Join us to learn more.

Friday, October 8, 2021, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

In 1918, UC Berkeley began a full-time program in library science. Join us to celebrate the 103rd birthday and history of the I School, SIMS, SLIS, and School of Librarianship.

Thursday, October 7, 2021, 10:00 am - 12:15 pm PDT

The UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) invites you to the fifth-annual Research Exchange.

Friday, October 1, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Leonardo Bursztyn is an economist at the University of Chicago whose research uses field experiments to understand people’s decision-making.

Friday, September 24, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

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

Friday, September 17, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Wayne de Fremery and Michael Buckland explore the idea that relevance can be understood as creative opportunity.

Friday, September 10, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Vast amounts of video are being produced by colleges and universities today. What management and preservation challenges should institutions be addressing?

Wednesday, September 1, 2021, 5:45 pm - 7:15 pm PDT

Join us as we welcome the MICS Summer and Fall 2021 cohorts. Open to all MICS students and alumni.  

Friday, August 27, 2021, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

On the web’s 30th birthday, Clifford Lynch describes how the concept of “web archiving” has outlived its usefulness.

Thursday, August 12, 2021, 5:00 pm - 8:00 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.