“What AI means for Creativity and Culture”

Harvard Professor Martin Puchner PhD '98

Wednesday, 15 April 2026

Please join us for a virtual talk on the human implications of AI for creativity and culture by Harvard Professor Martin Puchner PhD '98.

Hosted jointly by

Harvard Club of Victoria

Harvard Club of Singapore

Havard Club of Korea

Harvard Club of Australia

​Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor at Harvard University, is a prize-winning author, educator, public speaker and institution builder in the arts and humanities. His writings range from philosophy and theater to culture and technology and have been translated into many languages. Through his best-selling Norton Anthology of World Literature and his HarvardX MOOC Masterpieces of World Literature, he has brought four thousand years of literature to audiences across the globe.

His most recent book, Culture: The Story of Us, tells a global history of culture that raises fundamental questions about how culture works, and how different cultures should relate to one another. In hundreds of lectures and workshops from the Arctic Circle to Brazil and from the Middle East to China, he has advocated for the arts and humanities in a changing world.

Event details

Date:  Wednesday 15 April

Time

Singapore 9-10am

Tokyo/Seoul 10-11am

Melbourne/Sydney 11am-12noon

This event is FREE, please register HERE.  

The Zoom link will be sent prior to the event.