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Events

Upcoming events

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

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

The history of corporations manipulating information to maintain clean identities after coming under attack.

Friday, February 14, 2025, 1:10 pm - 2:00 pm

Professor Hany Farid discusses how generative AI, so-called deepfakes, work and are being used and misused.

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, 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, 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

Thursday, December 19, 2024, 5:00 pm - 7:00 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.

Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm PST

Graduating 5th Year MIDS students present their data science projects.

Thursday, December 12, 2024, 2:15 pm - 3:25 pm PST

How might AI reshape the sensory norms and moral economies of discernment of American mental healthcare?

Thursday, December 12, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Cybersecurity Clinic students share their experiences supporting environmental justice, trans community support, reproductive rights, and disability justice organizations.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 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.

Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 2:15 pm - 3:25 pm PST

The death by suicide of disabled Black teen Sewell Setzer III and his family’s lawsuit against chatbot company Character.AI have opened up renewed debate and uncertainty about AI safety.

Monday, December 9, 2024, 12:15 pm - 1:25 pm PST

Algorithms and AI impact access to work and other essential resources, especially for low-income people. Lily Irani describes  the policies, practices, and algorithms of suspicion that control workers’ access to wages and work on digital platforms.

Friday, December 6, 2024, 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, December 6, 2024, 9:00 am - 11:00 am

Students from the Front-End Web Architecture class present their final group projects.

Thursday, December 5, 2024, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

A talk by Marion Fourcade celebrating the publication of her book, The Ordinal Society.

Thursday, December 5, 2024, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Nicole S. Kuhn uses community-engaged research to understand how American Indian and Alaska Native communities leverage social media to deliver health information.

Thursday, December 5, 2024, 2:15 pm - 3:25 pm PST

Venture capital investors push nascent tech firms to scale as quickly as possible to inflate the value of their asset. The gains generated by tech startups are funneled into the pockets of a small cadre of elite investors and entrepreneurs, leaving workers and users to bear many of the costs and risks.

Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 10:00 am - 11:30 am PST

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

Friday, November 22, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 2:15 pm - 3:25 pm PST

Biobanks and electronic health records systems are increasingly used to train and develop machine learning and artificial intelligence models, raising concerns for social equity and justice.