Mapping Identity – Opening Lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Mapping Identity – Opening Lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Haverford University
KINSC Sharpless Auditorium
2010-03-19 16:00 EDT (Local Time)

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy
Princeton University

Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery presents Mapping Identity, curated by Carol Solomon, Visiting Associate Professor, and Janet Yoon, HC ’10. The show will run Friday, March 19 – Friday, April 30, 2010, with an opening reception Friday, March 19, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Gallery.

Opening Lecture – Kwame Anthony Appiah
Called a post-modern Socrates, Kwame Anthony Appiah asks profound questions about identity and ethics in a world where the sands of race, ethnicity, religion and nationalism continue to realign and reform before our eyes. His seminal book Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a world where identity has become a weapon and where difference has become a cause of pain and suffering. In intellectually stimulating language, Appiah challenges you to look beyond the boundaries — real and imagined — that divide us, and to see our common humanity…

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