The Northern Plains Ethics Institute at NDSU and the YWCA Cass Clay have announced Kwame Anthony Appiah will be the Learning the Language of Diversity and Meaningful Inclusion program’s October speaker.
Appiah is scheduled to participate in the conversation series on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at noon via Zoom. His presentation, “Understanding ‘Racisms’ and Racialism,” will begin the program, followed by a moderated conversation and audience questions.
The free event is sponsored by the Northern Plains Ethics Institute; NDSU College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; YWCA Cass Clay; and Humanities ND.
All NDSU stakeholders and the public are invited. Registration is required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Appiah was named one of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 public intellectuals, one of Carnegie Corporation’s “Great Immigrants” and was awarded a National Humanities Medal by The White House.
Appiah currently teaches at New York University, and previously taught at Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Duke and the University of Ghana. He also writes a weekly column as “The Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine. From 2009 to 2012, he was president of the PEN American Center, the world’s oldest human rights organization. He is currently chair of The Man Booker Prize.
His book, “Cosmopolitanism,” won the Arthur Ross Book Award, the most significant prize given to a book on international affairs. Some of his other books include “The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen,” “As If: Idealization and Ideals,” “Mistaken Identities” and “The Lies That Bind.”
In 2009, he was featured in Astra Taylor’s documentary “Examined Life,” alongside Martha Nussbaum, Slavoj Zizek and other leading contemporary philosophers.
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