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Events

Upcoming events

Michaela Mahlberg (photo by Victoria Beddoes)
Making Sense of the World through Language and Stories: A Digital Humanities Perspective
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.

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Searching for Accountability: Contested Harms, Algorithm Audits, and the Governance of Sociotechnical Systems
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.

Bob L. T. Sturm
I am Troubled
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.

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Discussion with Bob L. T. Sturm
Friday, March 6, 2026, 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

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

Big Give
Big Give 2026
Thursday, March 12, 2026

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

A group of graduating master's students at their commencement ceremony, wearing black caps and gowns with gold master's hoods.
School of Information 2026 Commencement
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

Very Large Scale Preservation; Free Speech and Access to Knowledge
Friday, November 6, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Andrew McAfee
The Revolution Will be Digitized: How IT is Affecting Business and Competition
Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology affects businesses and how computerization affects competition itself – the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry.
Isaac Mao
The Future of Sharism: Social Media's Impact in China
Friday, October 30, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Isaac Mao is a venture capitalist, social entrepreneur, and blogger and the co-founder of CNBlog.org
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Prospective Student Open House
Thursday, October 29, 2009, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
An open house and information session for prospective I School students
Hal Varian
Computer Mediated Transactions
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
What does the ubiquity of computer-mediated transactions mean for economics? Hal Varian, Google's chief economist, discusses the implications for contractual efficiency, incentive alignment, data extraction and analysis, experimentation, personalization, and customization.
Berkeley Prosopography Services and CollectionSpace
Friday, October 23, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
School of Information Career Fair
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Web Search and Information Credibility Analysis
Friday, October 16, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Alessandro Acquisti
Predicting Social Security Numbers From Public Data
Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Unexpected privacy consequences in modern information economies, novel privacy risks associated with public information revelation, and ways that well-meaning information security policies can backfire.
Play for All – All Children, All Abilities
Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Resume Workshop and Alumni Mixer
Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Design for Future Reference Service
Friday, October 2, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Reading Ahead: Considering The Book’s Future in the iPod Era
Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
No Bull, No Spin: Comparing Public Tags with other Descriptive User Metadata
Friday, September 25, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Seven Contexts for Service System Design
Thursday, September 24, 2009, 8:00 am - 9:30 am
Creativity in Feist
Friday, September 18, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Julian Warner, of Queen's University, Belfast, presents an information science perspective on the famous Feist vs. Rural ruling.
Finding Things You Can't Read: Interactive Cross-Language Search for Monolingual Users
Friday, September 11, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A discussion of new multilingual, cross-lingual, speech recognition, and machine translation applications, including a user-centered evaluation of cross-language information retrieval.
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rssCloud Meetup 2.0
Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Back to School Barbecue
Sunday, August 30, 2009, 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
All I School students, faculty, staff, alumni, and their families are invited to welcome our newest class to the I School family.
Building Computational Instruments for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Friday, August 28, 2009, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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