UGIS Commencement Ceremony

The 2026 UGIS Commencement Ceremony will take place on Monday, May 18th 2026 from 2-4PM in Zellerbach Auditorium.

The 2026 UGIS Commencement ceremony at Zellerbach Hall on May 18th will be live-streamed. You can use the UGIS Commencement livestream link, to be made available shortly after the ceremony, to watch the video recording of the ceremony. Please share with your friends and family!

UGIS 2026 Commencement Speaker: Ramzi Fawaz

Ramzi Fawaz is an award-winning queer cultural critic, educator, author and host of the podcast Nerd from the Future. He is a professor of English at the University Wisconsin Madison where he holds a Romnes Faculty Fellowship for advanced research in the humanities. He is the author of two books, including The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (2016) and Queer Forms (2022), both published by NYU Press. He is a proud graduate of the UC Berkeley American Studies and English departments (Class of 2006).

Congratulations to the Class of 2026!

Tickets

Tickets for the UGIS Commencement Ceremony (American Studies, ISF, Media Studies).

Program

PDF of the UGIS Ceremony program (available in May).

Graduates

Everything you need to know about registering and the day of the ceremony

Guests

Everything you need to know for the day of the event

Register for the Ceremony

You can register online for the Spring UGIS Commencement Ceremony if you graduated in prior fall semester or plan to graduate in spring, summer, or fall of the same year. For 2026, this means students who graduated in Fall 2025 or who plan to graduate in Spring 2026, Summer 2026, or Fall 2026.

To register, please click visit the For Graduates page to fill out your respective major Exit Survey and Commencement Registration Forms. Both forms are due Sunday March 8th, 2026 by 11:59PM. Please note that the exit survey portion is confidential.

Registration

Participation in this or any commencement ceremony does not guarantee that you will officially graduate and receive your Bachelor’s degree.

Please note that participating in the 2026 commencement ceremony or “walking” is not the same as graduating (the official awarding of your B.A. degree). To graduate, your Expected Graduation Term (EGT) as listed on your Cal Central dashboard will need to be Fall 2025, Spring 2026, or Summer 2026, AND you will need to have completed all graduation requirements (university, college, campus, and major). Please check your Academic Progress Report (APR) on your Cal Central Dashboard and meet with your major advisor to be sure that you will have completed ALL requirements by the time you graduate. Note that you may participate in the ceremony on May 18th, yet not officially graduate till the end of the summer or fall semesters of 2026.

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