AI and the Future of the Humanities: A Public Talk by D. Graham Burnett

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D. Graham Burnett is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and History of Science at Princeton University and co-editor of Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement (Crown, 2026) as well as Twelve Theses on Attention (Princeton University Press, 2022), both with the Friends of Attention coalition — creators of the non-profit Strother School of Radical Attention in Brooklyn, which Burnett directs. He co-curated the “Practices of Attention” program at the 33rd São Paulo Biennial, and is associated with the speculative collective ESTAR(SER). In 2023, he was a visiting artist at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland. Burnett writes widely on technology, culture, and media.

This event is sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.

Thursday, April 2, 2026 3:00pm to 5:00pm
University Capitol Centre
2520D
200 South Capitol Street, Iowa City, IA 52240
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