Public Culture Project

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in our lives, it has taken on roles as a therapist, a friend, even a lover. When we allow AI systems into our communities and our closest circles, what happens to our agency, our inner lives, and our ability to form...

Our online lives increasingly outlast us, leaving our likeness with loved ones grappling with challenging but eternal questions of legacy, loss, and law. How does this digital afterlife change the ways we grieve, remember, and honor the wishes of those...

On December 7, Harvard’s Public Culture Project in collaboration with the Presidential Initiative on Interfaith Engagement present Eight Approaches, an eight-piece series of paintings by Cambridge-based artist Joshua Meyer. Layered with thick...

As we mark the first quarter-millenium anniversary of our perennially young country, Americans are once again asking, with particular urgency: who are we? This is far from the first time that we have faced a moment of disunity, alienation or definitional...

Even as academic enrollments in the arts and humanities falter, there is a persistent, and even growing interest in the kinds of texts, artifacts and experiences that the arts and humanities offer. To meet this hunger, new educational initiatives are...

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, October 14 (5:30–7:00 PM) for a panel with Lisa Ruddick , Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor , and George Scialabba , moderated by Nikhil Goyal . Introduced by Daniel Wortel-London . Cosponsored by the Harvard...

The recent explosion of AI capacity, along with booming prophecies about its limitless potential, arrive at a moment of unease. Across the developed world, trust in human beings, their institutions and the future they might build is at a nadir. There is a...

America, we are reliably told, is coming apart. Individuals are drifting off into isolation, or, just as bad, clinging to toxic forms of tribalism that rely on exclusion and enmity towards the other. Why is this happening? What are the deep cultural...

Higher education has been “in crisis” for decades. Some observers have sounded the alarm about skyrocketing tuition, decreasing economic return on investment, a loss of open-ended inquiry to ideological rigidity, widening socioeconomic gaps between those...