How do social identities shape our private and public lives?
Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah, world renowned philosopher, will explore
this and related questions as speaker at this year’s University of Auckland Sir
Douglas Robb Lectures.
Named one of the world’s seven most powerful thinkers by Forbes
Magazine, Professor Appiah will deliver a series of three public lectures
focusing on the importance of social identities for public life.
“As a gifted writer and
internationally admired intellectual, Professor Appiah brings a powerful
critical perspective, in particular to his discussion of ‘identity politics,’”
says Professor Nigel Haworth, convenor of the Robb Lectures.
Professor Appiah’s first lecture will explore a philosophical account of
the nature of social identities, focusing on the ways in which they are constituted
through social interactions that involve both collaboration and conflict.
The second lecture will look at the ways in which honour, both
individual and national, connects with democratic life.
In his final lecture, Professor Appiah will discuss ways in which
national honour can be mobilized in cross-national dialogues about central
questions of morality and human rights.
Since gaining a PhD in philosophy at
Cambridge University, Professor Appiah has taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke and
Harvard universities, and lectured at many other institutions in the United
States, Germany, Ghana and South Africa. He currently teaches at Princeton
University where he is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of
Philosophy.
Professor Appiah has published widely in African and African-American
literary and cultural studies. Among his works are three mystery novels
and a variety of works in philosophy and cultural studies, some relatively
technical and some addressed to a wider reading public; among the latter
are Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, Experiments
in Ethics and The Honour Code.
For full details on all three lectures please visit: http://www.auckland.ac.nz/robb
Event:
Robb Lectures 2013: Identity, Honour and Politics
Dates:
Monday 19, Wednesday 21 and Friday 23 August 2013
Time:
7.30pm
Venue:
Fisher & Paykel Appliances Auditorium (260-115), Owen G Glenn Building, The
University of Auckland, 12 Grafton Road, Central Auckland.
Admission:
Free.
Further Bio Details:
Born in London, Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up in Ghana. His mother was
Peggy Appiah – novelist and children’s writer, and daughter of Sir Stafford
Cripps, a British Chancellor of the exchequer. His Ghanaian father,
Joseph Emmanuel Appiah, was lawyer, politician, Member of Parliament, and
Ambassador.
He reviews regularly for the New York Review of
Books, and has spoken often in public lectures in Europe, Africa and the
Americas about topics in literature, philosophy, African studies and African
American Studies.
In 1996, he published Color Conscious: The Political
Morality of Race with Amy Gutmann; in
1997 the Dictionary of Global Culture, co‑edited
with Henry Louis Gates Jr. In 2004, Oxford University Press published his
introduction to contemporary philosophy entitled Thinking It Through.
In January 2005, Princeton University Press
published The Ethics of Identity and
in February 2006 Norton published Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. In
January 2008, Harvard University Press published his Experiments in Ethics. Norton
published The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions
Happen in October 2010.
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