Date and time: 16 October 2026, 09:45-11:45 CEST
Speaker: Graham Burnett, Princeton University
Title: Will Professional Education Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Where: Large Seminar Room, Floor 5, Division of History, Teknikringen 74D (KTH Campus)
Host: Robert Richard Gioielli <gioielli@kth.se>
Program
09:45 Arrive for coffee/tea
10:15 Talk: D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University
10:45 Graham Burnett in conversation with Sverker Sörlin and Adam Wickberg (KTH), followed by general discussion and Q&A.
11.45 Finish
Bio: D. Graham Burnett is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University, where he works as a historian of science, writer, and editor whose scholarship spans topics including cartography, exploration, environmental thought, media, and attention.
A Princeton graduate and Marshall Scholar (PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University), he has received major honors including Guggenheim and Mellon “New Directions” Fellowships, and is the author of several books including Trying Leviathan and The Sounding of the Whale.
Known for bridging the humanities, sciences, and arts, Burnett’s recent work explores questions of perception, attention, and the ways we engage with knowledge in contemporary society.
Abstract: Prof. D. Graham Burnett conducted a bold experiment asking his students in an AI-anxious environment at Princeton University to actively apply AI as a tool in their own studies. He then wrote about the sensational results in a much-read article reflecting on the question “Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?”, published last year in The New Yorker.
Join us to hear Prof. Burnett talk about how his experiment changed the AI attitudes of thirty undergraduates, and discuss his research about the importance of attention and creativity in education and life. Burnett’s talk will be followed by a panel and then open discussion.
The event is organized together with Berättarministeriet
