AI and the Humanities Lunch Forum: Created Writing

Join colleagues for food, a brief panel discussion, and informal conversation about how the humanities might approach AI as a technology, social phenomenon, and presence in higher education.

Attendance is limited to members of the Yale community and requires advance registration. A short optional reading will be pre-circulated to registrants one week before the event.

Registration opens January 26, 2026, at 5 pm.

Meghan O’Rourke is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness and The Long Goodbye, as well as the poetry collections Sun in Days, Once, and Halflife. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, and more. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, and a Whiting Nonfiction Award, she resides in New Haven, where she teaches at Yale University and is the editor of The Yale Review.

Ben Glaser is Director of AI Initiatives in the Humanities at the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning and Yale Library. He is developing university-wide strategies to explore Generative AI’s impact on and integration into teaching and research. He supports faculty with course design, policies and practices for ethical AI use, and deploying and assessing AI tools. Glaser is particularly interested in increasing both AI literacy and interpretability across Yale’s scholarly community.