The UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Working Group is a research community founded to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations in the digital humanities and cultural analytics. Our gatherings are participant driven and provide a place for sharing research ideas (including brainstorming new ideas and receiving feedback from others), learning about the intersection of computational methods and humanistic inquiry, and connecting with others working in this space at Berkeley. We encourage everyone to participate, regardless of your experience level. The DH Working Group is a welcoming and supportive community for all things digital humanities.
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If you're interested in how data and technology drive public health solutions, check out the California Consortium of Public Health Informatics and Technology (CCPHIT) program! They're recruiting undergraduate and graduate students from ALL disciplines—public health, engineering, computer science, data science, social sciences, and beyond—to train in public health informatics and secure fully paid internships with public health organizations.
Why Apply?
Gain hands-on experience with real-world public health projects
Get paid while interning with public health organizations
Open to DACA recipients and international students
This is a great opportunity for students who may not traditionally see themselves in public health but have the skills and curiosity to make an impact! You can learn more by registering to attend the info session.
The Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) is seeking Predoctoral Researchers to participate in our 2025-2026 cohort. The Predoctoral Researchers will work under general supervision of individual faculty in one of the following social science departments: communication, political science, psychology, or sociology. Predoctoral Researchers may assist at any stage of the research cycle, including conducting literature reviews, developing experiments or models, designing & implementing studies, cleaning, coding, and analyzing data, and/or preparing results for presentation or publication. Depending on the research project, Predoctoral Fellows may work with qualitative or quantitative data.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and must be submitted by March 10, 2025. The position's start date is July 9, 2025.
We are looking for an undergraduate student who can commit on average eight (8) hours per week next academic year with a pay rate of $19 per hour. Start date is expected in late summer, before the start of the semester. This position is mostly remote with a few expected in-person engagements. Work hours are flexible from week-to-week.
To apply, send a brief statement describing your interest and qualifications for this position along with your resume or curriculum vitae (CV) to teaching@berkeley.edu by March 31st.
Berkeley IT will launch a pilot program in February to evaluate QuestionPro, a potential addition to our suite of survey tools. We are exploring this solution as a cost-effective alternative to help lower the overall expense of our survey services for the campus community, as the costs of Qualtrics continue to increase. We have 100 licenses available for the pilot and are looking for participants who currently use Qualtrics and are willing to provide feedback. If you or anyone in your department/college is interested in participating, please complete the interest form.
Why QuestionPro?
Its features are highly comparable to those of Qualtrics.
The cost for campus is significantly lower than Qualtrics.
It offers both a manual and an API-based migration tool for seamlessly transferring surveys and data from Qualtrics.
Participants will be expected to:
Use QuestionPro for their survey needs.
Provide feedback on the user experience, functionality, and any issues encountered.
Participate in brief QuestionPro surveys throughout the pilot period.
Training/Support: QuestionPro will offer an initial training webinar, which we will record for those unable to attend live. Our goal is to ensure everyone is comfortable using the platform. A support team will be available to assist during the pilot phase.
Pilot Duration: 16 Weeks, starting in late February 2025
The Latinx Social Science Research Workshop Series, sponsored by the Latinx Social Science Pipeline Initiative, link mentorship among faculty, postdocs, and graduate students. During the sessions, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty share research in progress and receive feedback from a community of engaged scholars in the Latinx Social Sciences.
We invite you to attend our upcoming session on Wednesday, March 5 at the Latinx Research Center. Laura Ramirez will present her research material titled "Not to Acquire More Territory: U.S. Expansionism After the Civil War," and Jeremy Peschard will present a chapter titled "The Talk of Spirits: Hospitalization, Eugenics, and Deportation in the 1910s." Professor Michael Rodriguez-Muñiz and Lorraine Torres-Colón will be the discussants.
We will share the research materials with the participants who submit their RSVPs so they can review them and provide feedback during the workshop. Light refreshments will be served.
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 5 @ 12pm Location: Latinx Research Center (2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720)
Hannes Bajohr will be giving a 25-minute presentation on Artificial and Post-Artificial Texts: The Reader’s Expectation after AI, and leading a 25-minute Q&A. Join us for lunch in person or join us on Zoom!
With the advent of large language models, the number of artificial texts we encounter on a daily basis is about to increase substantially. This talk asks how this new textual situation may influence what one can call the “standard expectation of unknown texts,” which has always included the assumption that any text is the work of a human being. As more and more artificial writing begins to circulate, the talk argues, this standard expectation will shift – first, from the immediate assumption of human authorship to, second, a creeping doubt: did a machine write this? In the wake of what Matthew Kirschenbaum has called the “textpocalypse,” however, this state cannot be permanent. Bajohr suggest that after this second transitional period, one may suspend the question of origins and, third, take on a post-artificial stance. One would then focus only on what a text says, not on who wrote it; post-artificial writing would be read with an agnostic attitude about its origins.
Date/Time: Monday, March 10 @ 12pm Location: Sutardja Dai Hall, Suite 621
For the Inaugural Sunrise Lecture on Media and Technology, hosted by the Department of German, we welcome Dr. Fabian Offert, Assistant Professor of the History and Theory of Digital Humanities at UC Santa Barbara.
Following a trail of newly uncovered ideas about neural representation in the technical literature, from early attempts to model the human visual cortex to contemporary multimodal foundation models, Vector Media reconstructs how the subcutaneous ideology of the vector space came to dominate artificial intelligence research, how it informs the expansion of artificial intelligence into all areas of everyday life (as well as the natural sciences), and how it ultimately must be understood as a tool for the creation of neural exchange value: value that specific cultural objects obtain once they become part of a vector space, and that exists exclusively as a function of their neural commensurability.
Date: Thursday, March 13 @ 5pm-7pm Location: Dwinelle Hall 188
Clancy Wilmott will be giving a 25-minute presentation on Data Practice as Theoretical Inquiry: Machine Learning, Polygons and other notebook adventures in Cartography and GIS, and leading a 25-minute Q&A. Join us for lunch in person or join us on Zoom!
This talk discusses how the practice of data analysis, computation and wrangling can serve as a mode of critical theoretical inquiry into the operation of systems of power based on abstraction, classification and calculation. Specifically, Wilmott discusses two ongoing projects - her next book, Cartotopia, which uses generative adversarial networks to investigate the long history of cartographic homogenization of space and place, and its translation into computational logics; and a Sea of Islands, an ongoing collaboration with the Critical Pacific Islands Studies Collective, which is rebuilding pacific island datasets fractured by legacies of colonialism, extraction and militarisation.
Date/Time: Monday, March 17 @ 12pm Location: Sutardja Dai Hall, Suite 621
Learn the basics of how to use ArcGIS Storymaps to create online exhibits! Great for exhibits (shocker, given the title), online storytelling, showing off personal research, developing class projects, and more. For amusing examples see The Dance of Death or The Journey of Ham Mukasa from Uganda to England in 1902.
Session will be broken into a tech demo using ArcGIS Online (AGOL) and then a 20 minute workshop to play with the technology.
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 18 @ 3pm Location: Remote via Zoom
COSSA’s Social Science Advocacy Day is back! Advocacy Day brings together social and behavioral scientists and science advocates from across the country to engage with policymakers. The stakes for research funding have never been higher as we enter a particularly challenging political and budgetary environment. Social Science Advocacy Day is a must for all stakeholders who care about the fate of federal funding for social and behavioral science research and who believe this research should be used to inform sound public policy.
This opportunity is available to individuals affiliated with a COSSA member organization. You can check your organization/institution's membership status here. Participants are responsible for making their own travel arrangements and accommodations.
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