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Events

Upcoming events

Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 9:00 pm PDT, – Thursday, March 13, 2025, 9:00 pm PDT

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

Friday, March 14, 2025, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm

Deirdre Mulligan explains how AI policies that centered the public’s rights and safety can build a digital future that supports democratic values and democratic institutions.

Friday, March 14, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

David S. H. Rosenthal was the chief scientist and founder of Stanford’s LOCKSS program, aimed at long-term preservation of the web published materials.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

A panel of recent public servants provides a behind-the-scenes look at their work in Washington.

Friday, March 21, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Rob Sanderson is senior director for digital cultural heritage at Yale University, where he works to harmonize and provide access to research quality data, in a human-oriented way.

Friday, April 4, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
Monday, April 7, 2025, 2:40 pm - 4:30 pm

Ph.D. students present their dissertation research on technology ethics in rural Togo and climate change and migration

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.

Friday, April 11, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 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.

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.

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 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.

Friday, May 2, 2025, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Michael Buckland and Clifford Lynch are retiring from the Friday afternoon Information Access Seminar after leading it for 69 consecutive semesters. In their final Information Access Seminar, the two look back over thirty-five years of the seminar.

Monday, May 19, 2025, 7:00 pm

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

Previous events

Friday, October 21, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm
"Design is sexy; craft is frumpy." It's time to kill that particular trope, and it's time to bring them together, says Regina Connell, the founder and editor-in-chief of Handful of Salt, an online magazine devoted to the craft of modern design.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Ramesh Srinivasan reports on his fieldwork on technology, culture, and community-driven design from Egypt's Tahrir Square, the Zuni Nation of New Mexico, the Kyrgyz Steppe, and Rural India.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 9:00 am - 6:30 pm
Prospective students are invited to visit classes during the day, or attend the information session at 5:30 pm. RSVP required.
Friday, October 14, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
A report on "Editorial Practices and the Web", a two-year Mellon Foundation–supported project to move the editors' notes into digital form and make them openly accessible.
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 9:00 am - 10:00 am
A "virtual open house", for prospective students to chat with current I School students and admissions staff and learn more about life at the I School.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Reception during the during the ASIS&T annual meeting, for alumni and friends of the I School, SIMS, the School of Library & Information Studies, and the School of Librarianship.
Friday, October 7, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Lada Adamic is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Information and an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and Center for the Study of Complex Systems.
Monday, October 3, 2011, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Why do people create, interact, and collaborate online? What are the deep motivations that drive so many to invest significant time and energy on Facebook, Flickr, StackExchange, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Groups, YouTube, and countless other sites?
Friday, September 30, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Thursday, September 22, 2011, 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm

How can breakthrough solutions be found for lingering problems and saturated marketplaces, simply by engaging stakeholders in co-imagining the future?

Uday Dandavate of SonicRim speaks at the semester's first Design Futures Lecture.

Friday, September 16, 2011, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm
Information Access Seminar, with Clifford Lynch & Michael Buckland
Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A "virtual open house", for prospective students to chat with current I School students and admissions staff and learn more about life at the I School.
Friday, September 9, 2011, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Information Access Seminar, with Dave Lester, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)
Friday, August 5, 2011, 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
An unconference for researchers, teachers, learners, and education technology developers, to improve the use of technology to increase student engagement and bring about deeper learning.
Monday, July 25, 2011, 10:10 am - 11:30 am
Jonathan Spira explores how today’s tidal wave of information has dulled our senses and hampered innovation and productivity.
Saturday, May 14, 2011, 2:00 pm
Honor the class of 2011 with student speakers, keynote speaker Reid Hoffman, and presentation of the James R. Chen Awards.
Thursday, May 12, 2011, 4:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Graduating master's students present their intriguing research projects and innovative new information systems. An panel of judges will select one outstanding project from each track for the James R. Chen Award.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Try out students' interactive inventions: whimsical and improbable devices designed to teach, solve problems, provoke thought, or create fun.