Events

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.

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Bellwether Lecturer Michaela Mahlberg.

Emma Lurie untangles the roots of online harms in platform design, regulatory structures, and expert discourse.

Bob L. T. Sturm is an associate professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and the PI of the MUSAiC project.

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

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

Peter Broadwell explores new opportunities for using deep neural models for computational analyses of theater and other performing arts.

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

Lauren Tilton’s research applies digital and computational methods to the study of 20th and 21st century documentary expression and visual culture.

Taylor Arnold uses large-scale computational methods to analyze how television production practices and narrative strategies intersect with industry changes and cultural contexts.

Noah Askin is a computational social scientist and sociologist who studies the creative process, its outcomes, and the forces that influence it.

Peter Leonard itemizes three barriers that hinder analysis of film and television.

Miguel Escobar Varela studies changes in Southeast Asian cultural heritage, combining fieldwork with computational methods.

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”).

An in-person, collaborative deep dive with Cultural Analytics speaker Kyle Booten.

Honor the class of 2026 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.