Events

Past Events

The Crisis of Expertise, Revisited: How Lay Experts are Transforming the Politics of Knowledge and Authority

Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm PDT

Spilker
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

Book Launch with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff: "Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed"

Thursday, April 30, 2026 | 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT

Green Library
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

John Durham Peters: On the Mortality of Minds

Thursday, March 12, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm PDT

Building 120, McClatchy Hall, Main Quad
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

Book Event with Matt Wisnioski: Beyond the Buzzword, a Critical History of “Innovation”

Thursday, February 26, 2026 | 4:30pm - 6:00pm PST

Green Library
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

Resilient Platform Democracy: Towards Pro-Democratic Social Media Policies

Thursday, February 5, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST

Building 120, McClatchy Hall, Main Quad
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

Technology, Culture, and Power Speaker Series: Lynn Spigel

Thursday, January 8, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST

Building 120, McClatchy Hall, Main Quad
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

Running through Life: An Interview with Nicholas Thompson

Friday, November 21, 2025 | 3:30pm - 4:30pm PST

Building 120, McClatchy Hall, Main Quad
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

Who Are We? A Conversation with Michele Norris about Race and Identity in America

Monday, November 17, 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST

Humanities Center
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

The DREAM WORLDS of Arthur Tress: A Journey in Film and Photography

Thursday, November 13, 2025

Hewlett Teaching Center
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

Technology, Culture, and Power Speaker Series: Courtney Cox

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST

William F. Durand Building
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

Technology, Culture, and Power Speaker Series: Lucy Suchman

Thursday, October 9, 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm PDT

Spilker
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

Data Work as Care Work with Kalindi Vora

Monday, May 12, 2025 | 4:30pm - 6:00pm PDT

Building 160, Wallenberg Hall
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

Being Jewish Today: A Spring Speaker Series

Monday, May 12, 2025 | 12:00pm PDT
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

Being Jewish Today: A Spring Speaker Series

Monday, May 5, 2025 | 5:00pm PDT
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

Data Work as Care Work with Kalindi Vora

Monday, May 5, 2025 | 4:30pm - 6:00pm PDT

Encina Commons
Rebele Symposium

2025 Rebele Symposium: The New(s) Influencers -- What Legacy Media and Online News Content Creators Can Learn from Each Other

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 | 5:30pm - 6:45pm PDT

Encina Hall
Technology, Culture, and Power Speaker Series

Healthy Users: The Governance of Well-being on Social Media

Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

George Steinmetz | Feed the Planet: A Photographic Journey to the World’s Food

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | 7:30pm - 9:30pm PDT

Hewlett Teaching Center
Symposium

The 58th Carlos Kelly McClatchy Symposium “Lawsuits, Licenses and Subpoenas: Who Will Protect the Free Press?”

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 | 4:30pm - 5:45pm PST

William Blount Hall, Hoover Institution
Lecture/Presentation/Talk

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter--A Conversation with Ryan Mac and Kate Conger

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm PDT

Green Library