1976-81 PhD,
Philosophy 1982 (Thesis: Conditions for Conditionals)
LANGUAGES: Asante-Twi, English, French, German, Latin
EMPLOYMENT
Princeton
Laurance S.
Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for
Human Values July 2002-
Associated Fields:
African-American Studies (2002-), Comparative Literature (2005-), Politics
(2006-), Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication (2007-)
Bacon-Kilkenny
Visiting Professor, Fordham University
School of Law Fall 2008
Phi Beta
Kappa-Romanell Professor, 2008-2009
Harvard
Charles H. Carswell
Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy July 1999-July 2002
Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy July
1991-July 1999
Head Tutor,
Afro-American Studies July 1991-July 2001
Acting Director of
Graduate Studies, Philosophy Spring Semester 1991
Chair, Committee on
African Studies 1995-2001
Associate Director, Black
Fiction Project 1991-96
Member of the Board
of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute 1991-2002
Member of the
Faculty of Education 1997-2002
Walter Channing
Cabot Fellow, Harvard University, 1998-1999
Director of Graduate
Studies, African American Studies 2001-2002
Visiting Professor
of Philosophy, New York University School
of Law Fall 1998
Directeur d’études
invité, École des Hautes Études en
Sciences Sociales May 1999
Duke
Professor of Philosophy and Literature January 90-July
1991
Appointments:
Primary: Department of Philosophy; Secondary: Graduate Program in Literature
Associate Director, Black
Fiction Project January 90-July 91
Mellon Fellow, National
Humanities Center, September 90-June 91
Cornell
Professor, Philosophy July 89-December 89
Associate Professor, Philosophy February 89-June 89
Dual Appointment, Africana
Studies and Research Center July 88-December 89
Graduate Field,
Cognitive Studies July 87-December 89
Associate Director, Black
Fiction Project May 85-December 89
Visiting Associate
Professor, Philosophy July
86-January 89
Yale
Associate Professor, Philosophy, African & Afro-American
Studies, July 85-July 86, offered tenure June 86
Junior Fellow, Society
for the Humanities, Cornell September 85-June 86
Associate Director, Center
for Research in Education, Culture and Ethnicity January 85-July 86
Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Afro-American Studies July
81-June 85
Visiting Fellow, Clare
College, Cambridge—Morse Fellowship July 83-June 84
Consultant, International
Labor Organization, Ivory Coast “Socio-economic effects of petroleum
development” December 82
Director of
Undergraduate Studies, African Studies & Afro-American Studies July 81-June
83
Clare College,
Cambridge
Research Fellow,
Clare College, Cambridge July 79-June 81
Director of Studies
in Philosophy Fall 80
Pre-doctoral
teaching appointments
Visiting Fellow in
Yale College Spring 79
Tutor, University of Sussex Fall 77
Teaching Assistant, University of Ghana, Legon October 75-July 76
ACADEMICHONORS
Greene Cup for
General Learning, Clare, Summer 1975
Morse Fellowship,
Yale University, 1983-84
Cornell University
Society for the Humanities, Junior Fellowship, 1985-86
Woodrow Wilson
Fellow, Florida A&M University, April 1989
Andrew W. Mellon
Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1990-91
All-College
Convocation Speaker, Simpson College—George Washington Carver Centennial,
September 1990
Woodrow Wilson
Fellow, Dillard University, April 1991
Honorary A.M.,
Harvard University, October 1991
Lugard Lecturer:
International African Institute, London March 1992
Citation:
Celebration of Black Scholarship in New England: University of Massachusetts at
Boston, April 29 1992
Machette Lecturer:
Brooklyn College, April 1992
W. E. B Du Bois
Distinguished Visiting Lecture in Philosophy: CUNY Graduate Center, April 1994
Avenali Professor,
University of California at Berkeley, September 1994
Tanner Lecture,
University of California at San Diego, October 1994
Spencer-Leavitt
Visiting Professor, Union College, Schenectady, November 1994
Member,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995-
Visiting
Interdisciplinary Scholar, Humanities Center, University of Kansas, March 1996
“World of Thought”
Resident Scholar, Mankato University, May 1996
Distinguished
Lecture Series, Arts and Humanities, Columbia Teacher’s College, March 1997
Hans Maeder
Lecturer, New School for Social Research, March 1997
Member, Advisory
Council, Green Center, University of Texas, Dallas, March 1998-2002
Amnesty Lecturer,
Oxford, February 1999
Honorary Associate
Member, National Council of Negro Women, October 1999
Honorary Doctor of
Letters, University of Richmond, May 2000
Phi Beta Kappa
Speaker, Harvard Commencement, June 2000
Member, American
Philosophical Society, April 2001-
Tanner Lecturer,
Cambridge University, May 2001
Juror, Neustadt
Prize, University of Oklahoma, Fall 2001
Candle in the Dark
Award in Education, Morehouse College, Feb 2003
Honorary Doctor of
Letters, Colgate University, May 2003
Honorary Doctor of
Letters, Bard College, May 2004
Honorary Doctor of
Letters, Fairleigh Dickinson University 2006
Honorary Doctor of
Letters, Swarthmore College, 2006
Convocation Speaker,
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, 2007
Baccalaureate
Service Speaker, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
Phi Beta Kappa-Romanell
Professorship, 2008-2009
Member, American
Academy of Arts and Letters 2008-
Honorary Doctor of
Letters, Dickinson College, Commencement Speaker, 2008
Graduation Speaker,
Stuart Country Day School 2008
The first Joseph B.
and Toby Gittler Prize 2008 for “outstanding and lasting scholarly
contributions to racial, ethnic and/or religious relations”
Honorary Doctor of
Letters, Columbia University, 2009
Honorary Doctor of Letters, The New School, 2009
Princeton University, Howard T. Behrman
Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities, 2010
BOOK AWARDS
Annisfield-Wolf Book
Award for In My Father’s House, April 1993
Honorable Mention,
James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association for In My
Father’s House, December 1993
1993 Herskovits
Award of the African Studies Association “for the best work published in
English on Africa” for In My Father’s House, December 1993
Annual Book Award,
1996, North American Society for Social Philosophy, “for the book making the
most significant contribution to social philosophy” for Color Conscious,
May 1997
Ralph J. Bunche
Award, American Political Science Association, “for the best scholarly work in
political science which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural
pluralism” for Color Conscious, July 1997
Outstanding Book on
the subject of human rights in North America, Gustavo’s Myers Center for the
Study of Human Rights in North America, for Color Conscious, December 10
1997
Honorable Mention,
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of
Bigotry and Human Rights for The Ethics of Identity, December 9 2005
Editors’ Choice New
York Times Book Review, The Ethics of Identity, June 26 2005.
Amazon.com Best
Books of 2005, Top 10 Editors’ Picks: Nonfiction, The Ethics of
Identity, December 2005
Arthur Ross Book
Award of the Council on Foreign Relations, which “recognizes books that make an
outstanding contribution to the understanding of foreign policy or
international relations,” Cosmopolitanism May 2007
Finalist for Estoril
Global Ethics Book Prize, for Cosmopolitanism (2009)
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Algebra in Middle
Schools, Boston, Community Board, 1993-94
ArtStor, Board of
Directors, 2003-
Ashesi University
College, Ghana, Trustee
Facing History,
Board of Trustees, 1993-
Hellman-Hammett
Award Committee
Institute for Human
Rights and Development in Africa, The Gambia, Member, Governing Board
Martin Luther King
Jr. After-School Program
Pulitzer Price,
Non-fiction Juror, 2004
Member, Advisory
Board, United Nations Democracy fund (UNDEF)
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
Assistant Editor, Theoria
to Theory 1974-79
Editorial Board, Universitas
1976-78
Advisory Editor, Critical
Studies in Black Life and Culture (Greenwood Press) 1984
Standing Committee
on Degrees in History and Literature 1992-2001
Faculty Council
1992-93
Faculty Committee on
Race Relations, Chair 1992-93
Search Committee in
Afro-American Studies and Comparative Literature 1992
Standing Committee
on Administration of the Bowdoin Prize 1992-93
Standing Committee
on Study Out of Residence 1992-94
Selection Committee
for Harvard Mellon Fellows 1992-94
Chair, Selection
Committee for Du Bois Fellows 1993-2000
Educational Policy
Committee Subcommittee on Ethnic Studies 1993-94
Advisory Committee
on Race Relations 1993-94
Standing Committee
on the Hoopes Prize 1994, 1997, 2000
Faculty Coordinator,
Mellon Minority Undergraduate Mentorship Program 1993-
Executive Committee,
Center for Literary and Cultural Studies 1993-
Selection Committee,
Bunting Institute Fellows 1994, 1996, 2000
Advisory Committee,
Center for the Study of World Religions 1994-
Ad Hoc Committee to
Review the Core Program 1995-97
Standing Committee
on Neuroscience 1995
Standing Committee
on Degrees in Literature 1996-2001
Advisory Committee,
Children’s Studies 1997-1999
Ad Hoc Committee to
prepare Graduate Program in Afro-American Studies,
Chair 1998-2000
Standing Committee
on Degrees in Social Studies 1999-2001
Search Committee in
Afro-American Studies and Social Studies 1999
Foreign Cultures
Committee, Core Program 1999-
University Committee
on Human Rights 2000-
Curriculum
Subcommittee 2001-
University Committee
on Justice, Economics, and Human Development 2001-
Committee on Out of
School Programs 2001-
Princeton
Interdepartmental
Committee on African-American Studies2002-2006
Executive Committee,
Center for African-American Studies, 2006-2004, 2005-2008, 2009
Interdepartmental
Committee on African Studies2002-2008,
2009-
Chair, Library
Committee, Department of Philosophy 2002-2003
University Target of
Opportunity Search Committee for 2002-2003
Selection Committee,
Rockefeller Fellows, University Center for Human Values 2002-2008, 2009-
Graduate Committee,
Department of Philosophy, 2003-2004, 2005-2007
Chair, Tanner
Committee, University Center for Human Values, 2005-2008
Member, Tanner
Committee, University Center for Human Values, 2009
Humanities Council,
2005-2008
Placement Committee,
Department of Philosophy, 2005-2006
Ad Hoc Committee on
the Future of African-American Studies 2005-2006
Committee of Three,
2005-2006
Undergraduate
Curriculum Committee, Department of Philosophy, 2006-2007
Executive Committee,
LAPA, 2006-
Acting Director,
University Center for Human Values, 2006-2007
Program on
Translation and Intercultural Communication, Executive Committee, 2007-
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
SCHOLARLY
Assertion and
Conditionals (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1985; digitally printed version 2008).
For Truth in
Semantics (Oxford: Blackwell’s,
1986).
Necessary Questions:
An Introduction to Philosophy
(New York: Prentice-Hall/Calmann & King, 1989).
In My Father’s
House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (London: Methuen, 1992; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992); Na
casa de meu pai: a África na filosofia da cultura Brazilian Edition (Rio de
Janeiro: Contraponto Editora, Rio De Janeiro, 1997).
Color Conscious: The
Political Morality of Race (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1996) with Amy Gutmann. Introduction by David
Wilkins.
Bu Me Bé: The
Proverbs of the Akan with PeggyAppiah,
and with the assistance of Ivor Agyeman-Duah (Accra: The Center for
Intellectual Renewal, 2002); 2nd ed. (Banbury, Oxon.; Ayebia Clarke
Publishing, 2008).
Thinking It Through:
An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). Translations: Brazilian
Portuguese: Introdução à filosofia contemporânea, trans. Vera Lúcia
Mello Joscelyne (Petrópolis: Vozes, 2006); Italian: “Quell'x tale che ...”: Introduzione alla filosofia contemporanea
trans. S. Levi (Bari: Giuseppe Laterza, 2009).
The Ethics of
Identity (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2005). Translations: Spanish: La ética de la identidad
trans. Lilia Mosconi (Buenos Aires, Madrid: Katz Editores, 2007); Turkish:
(Istanbul: Merkez Kitaplar, forthcoming); Simplified Chinese: (Nanjing, Yilin
Press, forthcoming).
Cosmopolitanism:
Ethics in a World of Strangers
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2006; London: Allen Lane, 2006). Translations:
Brazilian Portuguese: (Rio de Janeiro: Zahar Editores, forthcoming); Chinese:
(Shanghai: Shanghai Century Publishing Company, forthcoming); Dutch: Kosmopolitisme:
Ethiek in een wereld van vreemden trans. Han van der Vegt (Amsterdam:
Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 2007); French: Pour un Nouveau Cosmopolitisme
trans. Agnès Botz (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2008); German: Der Kosmopolit:
Philosophie des Weltbürgertums trans. Michael Bischoff (Munich: C. H. Beck,
2007) & (Bonn: Lizenzausgabe für die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung,
2007); Greek: (Alexandria Publications: Athens, forthcoming); Hebrew: תויטילופומסוק trans. Idit Shorer (Tel Aviv: Xargol, 2008);
Indonesian: Kosmopolitanisme: Etika di Dunia yang Mengglobal (Serpong-Tangerang:
Marjin Kiri, forthcoming); Italian: Cosmopolitismo: L’etica in un mondo di
stranieri trans. S. Liberatore (Bari: Giuseppe Laterza, 2007); Korean: 세계시민주의 trans. The Society of Practical Philosophy (Min-Young Kim ,
Sang-Hyun Kim, Ji-Hyun Kim, Dae-Won Park, Byung-Tak Lee, and Sang-Hwan Rhie)
(Seoul: ByBooks, 2008); Polish: Kosmopolityzm. Etyka w świecie
obcych trans. Joanna Klimczyk (Warsaw: Prószynski i S-ka, 2008); Portuguese
Cosmopolitismo trans. Ana Catarina Fonseca (Mem Martins: Publicações
Europa-América, forthcoming); Romanian: Cosmopolitism: Etica intr-o lume a
strainilor trans. Andrei Mihai Pogonaru (Bucharest: Andreco Educational
Grup SA, 2007); Spanish: Cosmopolitismo: La
ética en un mundo de extraños trans. Lilia Mosconi (Buenos Aires, Madrid:
Katz Editores, 2007); Turkish: Kozmopolitizm: Yeni Küresel Ahlak trans.
Fezal Gülfidan (Istanbul: BZD, 2008).
Experiments in Ethics. The Mary
Flexner Lectures Series of Bryn Mawr College. (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2008). Translations: German: Ethische
Experimente: Übungen Zum Guten Lebentrans.
Michael Bischoff (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2009).
El meu cosmopolitisme/My cosmopolitanism. Catalan/English
parallel text: Trans. Daniel Gamper (Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporània
de Barcelona, 2008).
Mi Cosmopolitismo. Spanish:Trans. Lilia Mosconi. With an
interview with Daniel Gamper Sachse “Las culturas sólo importan si les
importa las personas.” (Buenos Aires, Madrid: Katz Editores, 2008).
Che cos’è l’Occidente? (Modena: paginette festivalfilosofia,
Fondazione San Carlo di Modena, 2008).
The Politics of Culture, the Politics of Identity, Eva Holtby
Lecture on Contemporary Culture No. 2, (Toronto: Institute for Contemporary
Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, 2008).
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen (New York:
W. W. Norton, 2010). Translations: German: C. H. Beck (2010).
OFFICIAL REPORT
Civil Paths to Peace: Report of the Commonwealth Commission on
Respect and Understanding (London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2007) Commission Members: Amartya
Sen (India) (Chair), John, Lord Alderdice (United Kingdom), Kwame Anthony
Appiah (Ghana), Adrienne Clarkson (Canada), Noeleen Heyzer (Singapore), Kamal
Hossain (Bangladesh), Elaine Sihoatani Howard (Tonga), Wangari Muta Maathai
(Kenya), Ralston Milton Nettleford (Jamaica), Joan Rwabyomere (Uganda), Lucy
Turnbull (Australia).
FICTION
Avenging Angel (London: Constable, 1990; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991).
Nobody Likes Letitia (London: Constable, 1994).
Another Death in Venice (London: Constable, 1995).
EDITED BOOKS
Early African-American Classics (edited with an introduction) (New
York: Bantam, 1990).
Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Amistad
Literary Series (New York: Amistad Press, 1993), edited with H. L. Gates
Jr.
Zora Neale Hurston: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Amistad
Literary Series (New York: Amistad Press, 1993), edited with H. L. Gates
Jr.
Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Amistad
Literary Series (New York: Amistad Press, 1993), edited with H. L. Gates
Jr.
Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Amistad
Literary Series (New York: Amistad Press, 1993), edited with H. L. Gates
Jr.
Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Amistad
Literary Series (New York: Amistad Press, 1993), edited with H. L. Gates
Jr.
Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Amistad
Literary Series (New York: Amistad Press, 1993), edited with H. L. Gates
Jr.
Ann Petry: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Amistad
Literary Series (New York: Amistad Press, 1994), edited with H. L. Gates
Jr.
Frederick Douglass: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Amistad
Literary Series (New York: Amistad Press, 1994), edited with H. L. Gates
Jr.
Chinua Achebe: Critical Perspectives Past and Present, Amistad
Literary Series (New York: Amistad Press, 1993), edited with H. L. Gates
Jr.
Identities (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), edited with H. L.
Gates Jr.
A Dictionary of Global Culture (New York: Knopf, 1996) edited with H. L. Gates
Jr.
Encarta Africana (Redmond, Washington: Microsoft, 1999) edited with H. L. Gates Jr.
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American
Experience (New York: Basic-Civitas, 1999) edited with H. L. Gates Jr.
Encarta Africana 2000 (Redmond, Washington: Microsoft, 1999) edited
with H. L. Gates Jr.
The Poetry of our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary
Poetry Edited by Jeffrey Paine with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sven Birkerts,
Joseph Brodsky, Carolyn Forché, and Helen Vendler (Edited and introduced
African section.)
Africana: The Concise Desk Reference
(Philadelphia, Running Press, 2003) edited with H. L. Gates Jr.
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American
Experience, Second Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005) edited
with H. L. Gates Jr.
Buying Freedom (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007) edited with Martin
Bunzl.
GUEST-EDITED JOURNALS
Critical Inquiry 18.4 Identities. Guest-edited with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Editors’ Introduction “Multiplying Identities.”
SHORT STORIES
“The Pool.” In Shade: An Anthology of Short Fiction By Gay Men of
African Descent Bruce Morrow and Charles Rowell (ed.) (New York: Avon
Books, 1996).
ESSAYS & ARTICLES
“Group Rights and
Racial Affirmative Action.” Submitted to The
Journal of Ethics.
“Relativism and Cross-Cultural Understanding.”
Forthcoming in Relativism: A Contemporary
Anthology Michael Krausz (ed.) (New York: Columbia University Press,
2010).
“Dignity and Global
Duty.” Forthcoming in the Boston
University Law Review.
“Cosmopolitan Ethics,” in Witnesses to History: Documents and Writings
on the Return of Cultural Objects Lyndel V. Prott (ed.) (Paris: UNESCO,
2009): 95-109.
“Whose Culture Is It,
Anyway?” in Cultural Heritage Issues: The
Legacy of Conquest, Colonization and Commerce James A. R. Nafziger and Ann
M. Nicgorski (ed.) (Leiden: Martinus Nijhof, 2009): 209-221.
“Defending the
Universal (Encylopedic) Museum,” in Beyond
the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values Selma Hol
and Mari-Tere Álvarez (ed.) (Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2009): 82-83.
“La diversidad de la identitad,” Mercedes García Bolós (trans.)
in Identitad y Cosmopolitismo: La filosofía de
Kwame Anthony AppiahAntonio
Lastra and Antonio Fernández Díez (ed.) (Valencia: Letra Capital, 2009): 25-52.
“Ciudadinia global” María Ángeles Romeo
(trans.) in Identitad y Cosmopolitismo:
La filosofía de Kwame Anthony Appiah Antonio Lastra
and Antonio Fernández Díez (ed.) (Valencia: Letra
Capital, 2009): 105-130.
“Philosophy
in and out of the Armchair:” in The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of
Timothy SmileyJonathan Lear and Alex Oliver (ed.) (London:
Routledge, 2009).
“Explaining Religion,” in Simon Levin (ed.) Groups, Games and the
Global Good (New York: Springer, 2009): 195-203.
“Experimental Philosophy,” Presidential Address to the Eastern
Division of the American Philosophical Association, 2007. Proceedings and
Addresses of the American Philosophical Association Vol. LXXXII No. 2.
2008, - .
Untitled Essay in Home is the Place You Left Michael Elmgren
and Ingar Dragset (ed.) (Berlin: Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther König, 2008): 47-50. (For the Trondheim Kunstmusem in
association with the exhibition “Home is the Place You Left.”)
“Lyle’s Images,” in Blow Up: Lyle Ashton Harris Terry Ann R.
Neff (ed.) (Scottsdale, AZ: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008):
15-22.
“Causes of Quarrel: What’s Special about Religious Disputes?” in Tom
Banchoff (ed.) Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics
(Oxford University Press, 2008): 41-64.
“Sen’s Identities” in K. Basu and R. Kanbur (ed.) Arguments
for a Better World: Essays in Honour of Amartya Sen Vol 1. Ethics,
Welfare and Measurement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008): - .
“Education for Global Citizenship,” in David L. Coulter, John R.
Wiens (ed.) Why Do We Educate? Renewing the Conversation. 107th
Yearbook of the National Soceity for the Study of Education Vol. I,
(Boston: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008): 83-99.
“‘Causas De Discordia’: ¿Qué Hay De Especial En Las Disputas
Religiosas?” Antonio Fernández Díez y Antonio Lastra trans. La Torre del
Virrey, No. 5, (Summer 2008): 11-22.
“Kosmopolitisme anno 2008,” Ny Tid, Oslo, April 4 2008, 38.
“De qui est-ce la culture?” Le débat, (January-February 2008):
158-169.
“Bending Towards Justice.” Journal of Human Development Vol.
9, No. 3, (November 2008): 343-355.
“Ser ciudadanos del mundo,” Mirta Rosenberg trans. La Nación. ADN
Cultura. Buenos Aires.February 23 2008. http://adncultura.lanacion.com.ar/Nota.asp?nota_id=988730&high=Appiah
“Llegó la hora del cosmopolitismo,” Jesús Cuéllar Menezo trans. El
Pais. Madrid. January 10 2008. Òpinion. http://www.elpais.com/articulo/opinion/Llego/hora/cosmopolitismo/elpepiopi/20080110elpepiopi_12/Tes
“The new new
philosophy,” New York Times Sunday Magazine, Idea Lab, December 9 2007,
34, 36.
“The Primacy of Practice,” The Kettering Review Vol. 26.2 Fall
2007, 43-51.
“Ethics in a World of Strangers: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Spirit of
Cosmopolitanism,” in Justice, Governance, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics
of Difference: Reconfigurations in a Transnational World (Humboldt
University Distinguished W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures, 2004-2005) with an
introduction by Günther H. Lenz and Antje Dallmann (Berlin: Präsident der
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2007).
“Immigrants and Refugees: Individualism and the
Moral Status of Strangers,” in The Philosophy of Michael Dummett,The
Library of Living Philosophers Vol. XXXI Randall E. Auxier and Lewis Edwin
Hahn (ed.) (Chicago and La Salle: Open Court, 2007): 825-840.
“Keynote Address: Global Citizenship,” in
Symposium: New Dimensions of Citizenship, Fordham University Law Review
Vol. 75, No. 5, April 2007, 2375-2391.
“What’s wrong with slavery?” in Buying
Freedom Martin Bunzl and K. Anthony Appiah (ed.) (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2007): 249-258.
“Does Truth Matter to Identity?” in Race or
Ethnicity: On Black and Latino Identity (Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2007): 19-44.
“A Slow Emancipation,” New York Times Sunday
Magazine, The Way We Live Now, March 18 2007, 15-17. Reprinted in Best
African American Essays 2009 Gerald Early, Debra J. Dickerson (ed.) (New
York: Bantam Press, 2009): 165-170.
“Language Rights,” PMLA, 121.5 October 2006, 1618-1620.
“The Politics of Identity,” Daedalus Fall 2006, 135.4, 15-22.
“Reply to Gracia,
Moody-Adams and Nussbaum,” Journal of Social Philosophy, XXXVII.2,
Summer 2006, 314-322.(Symposium on The Ethics of Identity with
papers by Jorge Gracia, Michele Moody-Adams and Martha Nussbaum.)
“How to Decide if Races Exist,” Proceedings
of the Aristotelian Society CVI (May 2006): 363-380.
“Sixth Dialogue: The Power of the Prize,” with
Marika Hedin and George Steiner, in The Power of the Word/La Puissance du
verbe The Cambridge Colloquia (Cross Cultures: Readings in Post/Colonial
Literatures in English, Volume 83) T. J. Cribb (ed.) (Amsterdam, New York:
Rodopi, 2006): 95-99.
“Introducing Maryse Condé,” in Feasting on Words: Cannibalism and
the Caribbean Text, Vera Broichhagen, Kathryn Lachman & Nicole Simek
(ed.) Cuadernos 8, (Princeton: Program in Latin American Studies, 2006).
“Whose Culture Is It?” New York Review of Books, Vol. LIII,
No. 2, February 9, 2006, 38-41.
“The Case for Contamination,” New York Times Sunday Magazine, January
1, 2006, cover story; translated as “Elogia della contaminazione,” Internazionale
10/16 March 2006, No. 632, Anno 13, 32-41); reprinted in the art catalog Brave
New Worlds Doreen Chong and Yasmil Raymond (ed.) (Minneapolis: Walker Art
Center) October 2007, 179-185.
“College Makeover: Learn Statistics, Go Abroad,” Slate Magazine
Online, November 15 2005, http://www.slate.com/id/2130328/
“Ethics in a World of Strangers: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Spirit of
Cosmopolitanism” The Berlin Journal, Number 11, Fall 2005, 23-26.
“African Studies
and the Concept of Knowledge,” in Knowledge Cultures: Comparative Western
and African Expistemology (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences
and the Humanities 88) Bert Hamminga (ed.) (Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2005):
23-56.
“Humane, All too Humane,” Profession 2005, 39-46.
“The Election and America’s Future,” New York Review of Books.
Vol. LI, No. 17 November 4, 2004, 6.
“Language, Race, and the Legacies of the British Empire,” Black
Experience and the Empire Philip D. Morgan and Sean Hawkins (ed.) (New
York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
“Comprendre les réparations: une réflexion préliminaire” Cahiers
d’études africaines, 173-174, 2004.
“The Need for Roots,” (with sculpture and commentary by Sokari
Douglas Camp) African Arts Volume XXXVII, No. 1, Spring 2004, 26-31.
“The Limits of Being Liberal,” Global Agenda (Magazine of the
World Economic Forum) January 2004.
“Akan and Euro-American Concepts of the Person.” In African
Philosophy Lee Brown (ed.) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004):
21-34.
“Liberal Education: The United States Example.” In Citizenship and
Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and
Collective Identities Kevin McDonough and Walter Feinberg (ed.) (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2003): 56-74.
“Philosophy and Literature.” In Companion to African Philosophy
Kwasi Wiredu (ed.) (New York: Blackwell, 2003).
“Race and IQ.” In History and Philosophy of Science for African
Undergraduates Helen Lauer (ed.) (Lagos: Hope Publishing, 2002.).
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“Invisible Entities.” Rev: Patterns of Thought in Africa and the
West by Robin Horton Times Literary Supplement July 2 1993, 7.
“The Art of Sympathy.” Rev: African Laughter by Doris Lessing New
Republic June 28 1993, 30-37.
“Europe Upside Down: Fallacies of the new Afrocentrism.” Rev: Behind
the Eurocentric Veils: The Search for African Realities by Clinton Jean Times
Literary Supplement February 12 1993, 24-25.
“Spiritual Realism.” Rev: The Famished Road by Ben Okri The
Nation Vol. 255, No. 4, 146-148. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary
Criticism (Chicago: Gale Research, 1995).
“Poet Laureate of Africa.” Rev: The Collected Poetry by
Léopold Sédar Senghor (translated and with an introduction by Melvin Dixon) The
Washington Post Book World Vol. XXII No. 27, 2.
“Italian Days.” Rev: The Uncle from Rome by Joseph Caldwell The
Village Voice June 30 1992, 67-68.
“Racism Today: Hard Data Versus the ‘Soft Facts’ of Culture.” Rev: Two
Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile and Unequal by Andrew Hacker, Rethinking
Social Policy: Race, Poverty and the Underclass by Christopher Jencks and Race:
How Blacks and Whites Feel about the American Obsession by Studs Terkel. Christian
Science Monitor April 10 1992, 10-11.
“Don’t Touch That Dial.” Rev: Cultural Imperialism by John
Tomlinson. Voice Literary Supplement April 1992, 20.
“Where Home Once Was.” Rev: Native Stranger by Eddy Harris. New
York Times Book Review March 22 1992, 18.
“See Spot Run.” Rev: Consciousness Explained
by Daniel Dennett. The Village Voice November 26 1991, 77.
“Title”???Rev: Kwame Nkrumah: The Conakry Years June Milne
(ed.). Times Literary Supplement. July 12-July 12 1991, 8.
Rev: Conditionals by Frank Jackson. International Studies
in Philosophy DATE, 124-5.
“South Africa’s Melting Pot.” Rev: Umfaan’s Heroes by Jon
Elkon. New York Times Book Review September 30 1990, 30.
“A Prophetic Pragmatism.” Rev: The American Evasion of Philosophy:
A Genealogy of Pragmatism by Cornel West. The Nation April 9, 1990,
496-498.
“Metaphys Ed.” Rev: Contingency, Irony and Solidarity by
Richard Rorty. The Village Voice September 19 1989, 55.
Rev: Minimal Rationality by Christopher Cherniak. Philosophical
Review, 99, January 1990, 121-123.
“Thought in a time of famine.” Rev: An Essay on African
Philosophical Thought by Kwame Gyekye, Times Literary Supplement,
July 29-August 4 1988, 837.
Rev: Calendriers d’Afrique Cahier 7 “Systèmes de Pensée en Afrique
Noir”, Michel Cartry (ed.) International Journal of African Historical
Studies, 20, No. 4 (1987): 761-762.
Rev: Thoughts: An Essay on Content, Christopher Peacocke, Philosophical
Review, 98, January 1989, 110-114.
Rev: Frege's Puzzle, Nathan Salmon. Forthcoming in History
of European Ideas..
“Making the language theirs.” Rev: African Short Stories,
Chinua Achebe & C.L. Innes (ed.); and Modern African poetry, Gerald
Moore & Ulli Beier (ed.) Third ed., New York Times Book Review,
August 18 1985.
“Modernization and the mind.” Rev: Philosophy and an African
Culture, Kwasi Wiredu, Times Literary Supplement, June 20 1980: 697.
“‘Over-bureaucracy’ a major battle.” Rev: The Economies of the
Middle East, Rodney Wilson (ed.) Voice 91, February 1980.
“What holds the Emirates together?” Rev: The United Arab Emirates:
Unity in Fragmentation, Ali Mohammed Khalifa, Voice 92, April 1979.
“Mediaeval misunderstandings explained.” Rev: The Arabs and
Mediaeval Europe, Norman Daniel, Second ed., Voice 90, No. 2, 1979.
“Compassion amidst the web of violence.” Rev: The Uprooted,
Kanty Cooper, Voice 88, September 1979.
“Bridging the gap in understanding Islam.” Rev: The Muslim
Mind, Charis Waddy, Voice 88, September 1979.
“How not to do African philosophy.” Rev: African Philosophy: An
Introduction, Richard A. Wright, Universitas 6.2, 1979.
PUBLISHED DISCUSSIONS
“Making Sense of Cosmopolitanism: A Conversation with Kwame Anthony
Appiah.” Joshua Yates The Hedgehog Review
Vol. 11.3 (Fall 2009): 42-50.
“Wer jeden Moment mit etwas füllt, reflektiert
seine Erfahrungen nicht.” Discussion with Timo Berger and Carmen Eller. In Kulturaustausch (Thema: Freie Zeit. Was
Menschen tun, wenn sie nichts zu tun haben.) 59.iv (2009): 16-18.
“Multiculturalismo: Se todo fossem iguais a
você.” Discussion with Zeca Camargo. In Novos Olhares (Rio de
Janeiro: Editora Globo, 2007): 260-271.
“Interview” in Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen (ed.) Political Questions,
(Automatic Press, Copenhagen, 2006).
“A Conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah,” Catalog for Fred Wilson’s
exhibition, Pace Wildenstein, March 2006.
“Uma ONU in Casa.” Interview with Diogo Schelp, Veja, Issue
1946, March 8 2006.
“Dialogue between Kwame Anthony Appiah and Robert S. Boynton on
philosophy, race, sex, &c.” Daedalus Vol. 132 No. 1 (Summer 2003):
104-110.
“Global Culture and its Discontents.” Discussion with Michael Malone.
In A Parliament of Minds Michael Tobias, J. Patrick Fitzgerald, and
David Rothenberg (ed.) (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000.)
“Straightening Out ‘The Bell Curve.’” Discussion with Harriet A.
Washington. Emerge December/January 1995, 28-32.
“Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism: Part I.” Discussion with Harvey
Cox, Christopher Queen, Arvind Sharma, Nur Yalman. Boston Research Center for
the Twenty-First Century: Luncheon Seminar, University Place, Suite 450 South,
124 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge MA 02138-5761. April 12, 1994.
“Race and Racism: American Dilemmas Revisited.” Salmagundi
Fall 1994-Winter 1995 (Nos. 105-5): 3-155. Conversation with Orlando Patterson,
Christopher Lasch, Dinesh D’Souza, Barbara Fields, Jim Sleeper, James Miller,
Jean Elshtain, David Rieff, Michelle Moody-Adams, Norman Birnbaum, Ron
Edsforth, Larry Nachman, Jim Adams, Gerald Early, Raymond Franklin, Terence
Diggory, Lorrie Goldensohn, Gretchen Gerzina, Barry Goldensohn, Robert Boyers,
Peggy Boyers.
“Art Beat.” A conversation with Adrian Piper. Voice Literary
Supplement October 1992, 12.
“On the Gulf War.” Society for African Philosophy in North America
Newsletter.
“An Evening with Wole Soyinka.” (Revised version of “Easing the
Transition: An Evening with Wole Soyinka.” The New Theater Review 1.2,
Summer 1987.) Black American Literature Forum 22.4, Winter 1988.
“Easing the Transition: An Evening with Wole Soyinka.” The New
Theater Review 1.2, Summer 1987.
“Interview with Achebe.” With John Ryle & D.A.N. Jones. Times
Literary Supplement, February 26 1982, 209.
“Assessing Risk.” With Tim Eiloart, Joan Miller, Claire Ryle, Isaac
Levi & Tony Webb, Theoria to Theory 14.2, 1980.
“Finding Mental Capacities in the Brain.” With Colin Blakemore &
Nick Humphrey, Theoria to Theory 11.1 & 2, 1977.
“But Where is the Fringe in Scientific Publishing?” With David Davies
& Roger Woodham (Editor and Deputy Editor of Nature) Theoria to Theory
9.3, 1975.
“Conversation in the Fog at London Airport.” With Jacques Monod &
Mark Fitzgeorge-Parker, Theoria to Theory 9.2, 1975.
“Alternative Technology.” With Fritz Schumacher, Dorothy Emmett &
Gordon Laing, Theoria to Theory 9.1, 1975.
PUBLIC LECTURES & PAPERS
“Conversation and conditionals”: Keele University, Conference on Philosophy
of Languageand Logic (Spring 1981)
“Soyinka and the philosophy of culture”: University
of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, Conference on African Philosophy—read in
absentia (Spring 1981)
“Other peoples’ gods”: Wesleyan University (October 1982)
“Symbol and ceremony in African traditional religion”: African
Studies Association Conference (November 1982)
“Closing the gap between logic and language: the case of the
indicative conditional”: Institute of Philosophy, Oslo University (February 1984)
“Modernization and the mind”: International Development Seminar, Oslo
University (February 1984)
“A causal theory of truth conditions”: Thyssen
Foundation Seminar, Evesham, England (April 1984)
“What Caesar meant”: Cambridge University, Department of
Philosophy (November 1984)
“Soyinka and the space of the self”: Departments of English and
Afro-American Studies, University of Michigan (April 1985)
“How not to do African philosophy”: Africana Studies Center,
Cornell University (October 1985)
“Anti-realist semantics: the problem of output”: Philosophy
Department Discussion Club, Cornell University (October 1985)
“Deconstruction as a philosophy of language”: Third
Colloquium on Twentieth-Century Literature in French, Louisiana State University
(March 1986)
“A critique of pragmatist theories of meaning”: Philosophy
Department, Howard University (March 1986)
“African literature, African theory”: African
Literature Association, Michigan State University (April 1986)
“Soyinka and the philosophy of culture”: African
Literature Association, Michigan State University (April 1986)
“Nation and narration—a commentary”: Cornell University, Conference on Nation
and Narration, Society for the Humanities (April 1986)
“A pragmatist’s reason for not adopting the pragmatist theory of
meaning”: Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania (November
1986)
“Local epistemology”: Departments of Philosophy and Comparative
Studies, Ohio State University (January 1987)
“Functionalism and the case against anti-realist semantics”: Department
of Philosophy, Duke University (March 1987)
“Alexander Crummell and the Invention of Africa”: Skidmore
College, Conference on Race, Religion and Nationalism (April 1987)
“Inside views: Some theories of African interpretation”: University
of Pennsylvania Faculty Seminar on Non-western Literatures (April 1987)
Reply to Thomas Donaldson “The duty to divest”: Society for
Philosophy and Public Affairs Session at A.P.A. Central Division Meeting,
Chicago (May 1987)
“Why Componentiality Fails”: Department of Philosophy, Stanford University
(May 1987)
“What? Me worry???”: Duke Critical Theory Center, Conference on Convergence
in Crisis: Narratives of the History of Theory (September 1987)
“Africa’s New Philosophies”: Department of Philosophy, Howard University
(October 1987)
“Ideals of Agency”: Joint Meeting, Departments of Philosophy,
Cornell and Syracuse Universities (October 1987)
“Ideals of Agency”: Department of Philosophy, Boston University
(November 1987)
“Social Forces, ‘Natural’ Kinds”: Science Gender and Race panel of
the Radical Philosopher’s Association, A.P.A. Eastern Division Meeting, New
York (December 1987)
“Out of Africa: Topologies of Nativism”: Yale
University, Conference on The Teaching of African Literature in the United
States (March 1988)
Roundtable on “The Appropriation of Third World Culture by the
Avant-Garde”: Columbia University (March 1988)
“Ideals of Agency”: Department of Philosophy, University of
Virginia (April 1988)
“The Making of an American Opera” A discussion of the making of “X”
with Tony, Thulani and Kip Davis: Seton Hall University (April 1988)
“Race and the Humanities: Concluding Remarks”: Society
for the Humanities, Cornell University, Conference on Race and the
Humanities (April 1988)
“Philosophy and Religion”: Ohio State University, Conference on Africa
in the 1990’s (April 1988)
“Technologies of Representation”: Louvain University, Conference on Literature
and Technology (August 1988)
“Whatever the Consequences”: English Institute (August 1988)
“Varieties of Racism”: University of Notre Dame, Program of Cultural
Diversity (September 1988)
“Functionalism and Idealization”: University of Notre Dame,
Department of Philosophy (September 1988)
“Race and the Humanities”: Yale University, Conference on Race and
Education (October 1988)
“Inventing an African Practice in Philosophy: Epistemological Issues”: African
Studies Association, Chicago (October 1988)
“Expanding the Canon and the Curriculum”:
Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York (November
1988)
“Marginalia: A Post-Colonial Inventory”: Michigan
State University, Twenty-sixth Modern Literature Conference: Third World,
Diaspora, Revolution. Panel on “Culture and Différance” with V.Y.
Mudimbe and Abena Busia (November 1988)
“Alexander Crummell and the Invention of Africa”: Amherst
College (February 1989)
“What have the humanities got to do with race?”: Colgate
University, Faculty Development Seminar (March 1989)
“Reality and Relativism”: Colgate University (March 1989)
“Thick Translation”: Institute for the Humanities, University of
Michigan, Conference on Translation (March 1989)
“Functionalism and Ideals of Agency”: University
of Michigan Department of Philosophy (March 1989)
“The Understanding of African Culture by Black Americans: Alexander
Crummell and the Invention of Africa”: Florida A&M University (March 1989)
“Human Characteristics and the Concept of Race”: Florida
A&M University (March 1989)
“Reply to Devitt”: Oberlin College, Conference on Realism and Relativism (April
1989)
“Reflections on Akan Philosophy”: Symposium: Philosophy and
Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution (April 1989)
“Racisms”: Middlebury College (April 1989)
“Idealization in Psychological Theory”: Middlebury
College (April 1989)
“Africa’s New Philosophies”: Northwestern University, Monday Night
Colloquium in African Studies (May 1989)
“The Institutionalization of Philosophy”: Bryn Mawr,
Conference of the Mellon Fellowship Program (June 1989)
“Is the ‘Post’ in ‘Postcolonial’ the ‘Post’ in ‘Postmodern?’”: Harvard,
N.E.H. Summer Seminar on “The Future of the Avant-Garde in Postmodern Culture”
(July 1989)
“The Intellectual in Contemporary Africa”: lecture
series International Summer School on African, Afro-American and Caribbean
Studies: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives, Oxford Centre for African Studies
(July 1989)
“Indigenizing Theory”: Oxford, Conference on Cross-Examinations of
African Discourse (July 1989)
“Functionalism and Ideals of Agency”: University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Colloquium in Philosophy (October 1989)
“Postmodernism and Postcoloniality”: African Studies Association
Meeting, Atlanta—SAPINA-sponsored session on The Invention of Africa
(November 1989)
“Concluding Comments” Cornell University, Workshop in Naturalized
Epistemology (December 1989)
“Tolerable Falsehoods: Structures, Agents and the Interests of
Theory” Haverford College, Department of Philosophy (March 1990)
“Social Forces, ‘Natural’ Kinds”: Conference on “Gender and
Ethnicity: Bridging the Two Cultures” at Steven’s Institute of Technology
(April 1990)
“Idealization and Agency”: Northwestern University, Department of
Philosophy (April 1990)
“The Future of African and African-American Studies”: University
of Rochester, Frederick Douglass Institute (April 1990)
“Is the ‘Post’ in ‘Postcolonial’ the ‘Post’ in ‘Postmodern’?”, Braudel
Center, SUNY Binghamton (May 1990)
“Humanity, Humanities, Humans”: Simpson College, George Washington
Carver Centennial (September 1990)
“Is the ‘Post’ in ‘Postcolonial’ the ‘Post’ in ‘Postmodern?’”, University
of Virginia (September 1990)
“Concerning V.Y. Mudimbe’s The Invention of Africa”: Conference of
the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Villanova College
(October 1990)
Respondent to Ian Baucom, Maria Bezaitis and Bogumil Jewsiewicki on “Postmodernism
and African Studies”: Society for African Philosophy in North America Panel
at African Studies Association Meeting, Baltimore (November 1990)
“Postcolonial Predicaments”: Departments of Afro-American Studies and
Philosophy, Rutgers University, Newark (November 1990)
“African Art in Postmodern America”: Newark Art Museum (November 1990)
“Race, Racism and Pan-Africanism”: Bates College (December 1990)
“Postcolonial Predicaments”: Humanities Institute, Columbia University
(December 1990)
“Natives in a Nervous Condition”: Afro-American Studies, Harvard
University (February 1991)
“Ideal Agents”: Philosophy Department, Harvard University (February 1991)
“Natives in a Nervous Condition”: English Department, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill (April 1991)
“Natives in a Nervous Condition”: Dillard University (April 1991)
“Natives in a Nervous Condition”: Afro-American Studies, Smith
College (April 1991)
“Rational Ideals”: Philosophy, Smith College (April 1991)
“The Cross-cultural Self”: Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Colloquium
(April 1991)
“Reason and Local Epistemologies”: Center for Ethnic Studies, Brown
University (April 1991)
“Ethnography and the Law”: Program for
Assessing and Revitalizing the Social Sciences, University of Pennsylvania (May
1991)
“Altered States”: Faculty Panel on “Nationalism and the Politics of Identity” on the
occasion of the inauguration of President Neil Rudenstine, Harvard University
(October 1991)
“Ancestral Voices”: Salmagundi Conference on Race and Racism, Skidmore
College (October 1991)
“What’s in a name? Changing Identities in African Cultures”:
Commonwealth Center for Cultural Change, University of Virginia (November 1991)
“African Identities: Asante, Ghana, Africa and Other Places”: African
Studies Program, Harvard University (November 1991)
“The Return of Civil Society in Africa”: National
Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park (November 1991)
“One Way to Think about Translation”: Philosophy
Colloquium, University of South Carolina (November 1991)
“What Does Philosophy have to do with Black Studies?”: Queen’s
University Public Lecture (November 1991)
“Idealization and Rationality”: Philosophy Colloquium, Queen’s
University (November 1991)
“Philosophy and African Studies”: African Studies Association, St.
Louis Missouri (November 1991)
PEN Panel on African Literature, Chair, New York (November 1991)
“Burying Papa”: Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University
(December 1991)
“Concluding Commentary”: Boston University African Studies Center,
N.E.H. Seminar on “African Interpretations of the Colonial Experience in
Literature and Film” (December 1991)
“A Burial”: Red Lion Seminar, Chicago (February 1992)
“Soyinka and the Philosophy of Culture”: Tudor and
Stuart Society, Johns Hopkins University (February 1992)
“Ancestral Voices”: Lugard Lecture, International African
Institute, London (March 1992)
“Literary Nativism”: Leeds University, Department of English (March
1992)
“A Funeral”: West African Studies Seminar, University College London (March 1992)
“Race, Canon, Curriculum”: Department of Philosophy, Long Island
University, Brooklyn Campus (April 1992)
“What is African-American Philosophy?”: Society for
Philosophy and Public Affairs, New York (April 1992)
“Thick Translation”: The Machette Lecture, Brooklyn College (April
1992)
“Free Speech and the Aims of the University”: Department
of Philosophy, University of Michigan (April 1992)
“What is African-American Philosophy?”: Center for
African and African-American Studies, University of Michigan (April 1992)
“A Funeral”: Society for the Humanities, Cornell University (April 1992)
“What is African-American Philosophy?”: Graduate
Student Colloquium, Philosophy, Cornell University (April 1992)
“Recent African Philosophy”: American Philosophical Association Central
Division Meeting, Louisville Kentucky (April 1992)
“Multiculturalism”: Black-Jewish Dialogue, Central Synagogue,
Manhattan (May 1992)
“No Bad Nigger: Blacks as the Ethical Principle
from Huckleberry Finn to Ghosts”:Dissident Spectators, Disruptive Spectacles
Conference, Harvard University (May 1992)
“How did we get to be many?”: Conference on the History of Pluralism, SUNY
Stonybrook (June 1992)
“The Uses and Misuses of Other Cultures”: Jesse Ball
Du Pont Seminar, National Humanities Center (June 1992)
Radio Interview “All Things Considered”: National
Public Radio (July 7 1992)
Radio Interview “Fresh Air with Terri Gross”: National
Public Radio (July 22 1992)
Radio Interview “On the Line”: WNYC Public Radio, New York (July 30 1992)
Radio Interview: WMUZ Radio, Detroit (August 7 1992)
“Memory and Identity in Africa”: Commonwealth Center for Cultural
Change, University of Virginia (October 1992)
“Crossing the Boundaries”: Keynote Address, Center for Critical Analysis
of Contemporary Cultures, Conference on Traveling Objects/Transnational
Exchanges (November 1992)
“Nervous Natives”: Conference on Postcolonial Culture, Scripps
College (November 1992)
“Moral Horizons: Arguments for Universalism in Some Recent African
Fiction”: Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick (November 1992)
“My Kind of Multiculturalism”: New England Teachers’ Conference, Springfield
Mass. (December 1992)
“The Limits of Pluralism”: Michigan State University (February 1993)
“Culture, Subculture, Multiculturalism”:
Multicultural Education Working Group, University of Maryland Center for Ethics
and Public Policy (January 1993)
“Secrets”: Seminar: Secrecy, Knowledge, and Art: Approaches to Epistemology
in Africa, to open the exhibition Secrecy: African Art that Conceals and
Reveals, The Museum for African Art, New York (January 1993)
“Problems of Multiculturalism”: Montclair State College (February
1993)
“In My Fathers House”: Soundings: Radio Program (February 1993)
“Africa’s Multicultural Lessons”: Sarah Lawrence College (March 1993)
“Teaching ‘Race’”: Facing History and Ourselves, Summer Seminar
(July 1993)
“Afrocentrism”: Discussion, WBAI New York, with Pleythell Benjamin (July 29 1993)
“Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism:” Summer Seminar on Multiculturalism
and Civic Education, Harvard School of Education (Prof. Sandra Stotsky,
convener) (August 1993)
“Dilemma’s of Modernity”: Ohio State University, N.E.H. Summer Seminar
(Profs. Abiola Irele and Isaac Mowoe, conveners) (August 1993)
Radio Interview “Multiculturalism”: with David Brudnoy, WBZ Boston
(September 6 1993)
“Beyond Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism”: Community
College of Philadelphia (October 1993)
“Fallacies of Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism”: Duke
University (September 1993)
Radio Interview “In My Father’s House”: with David
Brudnoy, WBZ Boston (October 27 1993)
“Africa’s Multicultural Lessons”: De Paul University, Africa Quarter
(October 1993)
“Natives in a Nervous Condition”: De Paul University, Faculty Seminar
(October 1993)
“Race: From Culture to Identity”: University of California at Irvine,
Humanities Center (October 1993)
“The Reception of African Art in America”: Giving
Birth to Brightness, M.I.T. (October 1993)
“Constructing Identities in Africa and America”: Paul
Desjardins Memorial Lecture, Haverford College (October 1993)
“Akan Philosophical Psychology”: Paul Desjardins Memorial Symposium,
Haverford College (October 1993)
“Traveling Stories”: WGBH Fellowship Program, WGBH Boston (October
1993)
“Multicultural Education”: Mount Holyoke College, Department of Philosophy
Public Lecture (November 1993)
“Realizing the Virtual Library”: Harvard Conference on the Gateway
Library (November 1993)
“Multicultural Education”: Grace Church School in New York (November 1993)
“Reading The Tempest”: ACLS seminar for High School Teachers, Harvard School
of Education (December 1993)
“Beyond Eurocentricity and Afrocentricity in the Study of African
Religion”: American Association for the Study of Religion, Annual Meeting,
Washington DC (November 1993)
“Re-conceptualizing Philosophical Practice: Is Race Relevant?”: African
Studies Association Meeting, SAPINA-sponsored panel (December 1993)
“Multiculturalism and Education”: Amherst College, Conference on
Affirmative Action (January 1994)
“African Identities”: Humanities Seminar, Northwestern University
(January 1994)
“Culture, Subculture, Multiculturalism”: Public
Lecture, Northwestern University (January 1994)
“Culture, Subculture, Multiculturalism”: Department
of Philosophy, University of Toronto (January 1994)
“African Identity at the End of the Twentieth Century”: EPIIC
Program, Tufts University (February 1994)
“Why there are no Races”: (Commonwealth School, Boston, February 1994)
“Why there are no Races”: (Black History Month Celebration, Black Medical
Students Association, Harvard Medical School, February 1994)
“Culture, Subculture, Multiculturalism”: Department
of Philosophy, Holy Cross (February 1994)
“The Challenge of Pluralism: Multiple Cultures of Multiple
Identities”: CUNY Graduate Center, W. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished
Visiting Lecture (March 1994)
“Normative Idealizations in Descriptive Theories”: CUNY
Graduate Center, Department of Philosophy (March 1994)
“Multiculturalism and Citizenship”: Bohen Foundation (March 1994)
“African Identities”: EPIIC Program, Tufts University (March 1994)
“Teaching ‘Race’”: Facing History Institute (March 1994)
“In My Father’s House”: Queens Evening Readings, New York (March 1994)
“Beyond Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism: Education in An Age of
Multiple Identities”: Fordham University, New York (April 1994)
“Culture, Subculture, Multiculturalism”: Department
of Philosophy, University of South Florida (March 1994)
“Beyond Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism”: Department
of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Boston (April 1994)
“Natives in a Nervous Condition”: The Wetmore Lecture, Department of
English, Brown University (April 1994)
“Culture and Identity in an Age of Multiculturalism”: Department
of Anthropology, Syracuse University (April 1994)
“In My Father’s House”: NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Ramapo
College (June 1994)
“Race Through History”: Facing History and Ourselves Teacher’s
Seminars: Pine Manor College, Bard College, Norwich Free Academy (July 1994)
“Group Identities and Individual Lives”: Summer
Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education (July 1994)
“Race Through History”: Summer Program, Harvard Graduate School of
Education (July 1994)
“Some Confusions About Identity”: Cultural Studies, African/Diaspora
Studies, Tulane University (September 1994)
“Identity versus Culture”: The Avenali Lecture, University of California
at Berkeley (September 1994)
“What is a Racial Identity?”: Hannah Arendt Symposium, New School for Social
Research (October 1994)
“Race, Culture, Identity: An Essay on Human Misunderstanding”: Tanner
Lecture on Human Values, University of California at San Diego (October
1994)
“Race and Identity”: Panel presentation at Union College,
Schenectady (November 1994)
“Reply to My Critics”: African Studies Association Panel on In My
Father’s House, Toronto (November 1994)
“Race and Identity”: Rutgers Conference on Race and Philosophy
(November 1994)
“Resistance Literature”: Cultural Studies Colloquium, Yale University
(November 1994)
“Relations Between Elites and the Common People
in Africa”: Columbia University, African Studies Colloquium (November 1994)
“Sustaining the Nation”: University of Maryland, College Park (November
1994)
“The Encyclopædia Africana: A Prototype”: Computer
Humanities User’s Group, Brown University (January 1995)
“Race Culture and Identity”: MillerComm Lecture, University of Illinois,
Urbana (March 1995)
Radio Interview “Race Culture and Identity”: Focus 580
WILL AM 580, Urbana (March 3 1995)
“Rational Psychology”: Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois,
Urbana (March 1995)
“Identity’s Pitfalls”:Black Nations, Queer Nations Conference,
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, New York (March 1995)
“Philosophy in Postcolonial Africa”: Panel,
African Literature Association, Columbus, Ohio (March 1995)
“Against National Culture”:Text and Nation Conference, Georgetown
University (April 1995)
“Nervous Natives”: University of Georgia, Athens, Humanities
Center Lecture (April 1995)
Commentator on Professor Amy Gutmann’s Tanner Lectures: Stanford
University (May 1995)
“Fuzzy Frontiers: African Identities as the Millennium Approaches”:
Interfaculty Seminar in African Studies, Oxford University (June 1995)
“Against National Culture”: Keynote Address, Annual Conference of the
Association of University Teachers of English in South Africa (AUETSA),
University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg (July 1995)
“African Studies in North America”: University of Namibia (July 1995)
“Against National Culture”: Public Lecture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(September 1995)
“Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections”: Department
of Philosophy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (September 1995)
“Collective Memory and Individual Histories”: Keynote
Address, “The Pasts We Tell Ourselves: Remembrance, Restoration,
Reconstruction,” University of California, Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary
Humanities Center (October 1995)
“Against Culture”: Emory University, ILA, Conference: “Race,
Identity and Public Culture” (October 1995)
“Against National Culture”: Program in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard
University (October 1995)
“How Can I Remember Who I am, If I Don’t Know Who We Are?”: Center for
Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard, Conference on The Persistence of
Memory (October 1995)
“Building a CD-ROM Encylopædia Africana”: Panel
Discussion on New Media, African Studies Association, Orlando (November 1995)
“Civic Nationalism”: Response to Sheldon Hackney, Chairman of the
National Endowment for the Humanities, Plenary Session, American Studies
Association (November 1995)
“Race, Culture, Identity”: Distinguished Speaker’s Series, University of
Texas at Austin (December 1995)
“Notes on Racial Identity”: Race, Power
and the Mind Symposium, University of Michigan (February 1996)
“African Philosophy and Concepts of the Person”: Department
of Philosophy, University of Kansas, Lawrence (March 1996)
“Against National Culture”: Visiting Humanities Lecture, University of
Kansas, Lawrence (March 1996)
“National Conversations”: Visiting Interdisciplinary Scholars Seminar,
Humanities Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence (March 1996)
“Racial Identities”: Visiting Interdisciplinary Scholars Seminar,
Humanities Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence (March 1996)
“Race Culture and Identity: Why Race Won’t Do What We Ask Of It”: Hamline
University, St. Paul’s Minnesota (April 1996)
“Race Culture and Identity: Why Culture Won’t Do Much Better”: Hamline
University, St. Paul’s Minnesota (April 1996)
“Cosmopolitan Patriotism”: Philosophy Department Discussion Group,
University of Idaho (April 1996)
“Race, Culture, Identity”: Public Lecture, University of Idaho (April
1996)
“Rational Psychology”: Department of Philosophy, Ohio University (May
1996)
“Understanding Racial Identity”: Public Lecture, Ohio University
(May 1996)
“Against National Culture”: Kane Lecture, Ohio State University (May 1996)
“Culture, Community, Citizenship”: Public Lecture, Mankato University
(May 1996)
“Rational Ideals”: Philosophy Discussion Club, Mankato University
(May 1996)
“How Do I Know Who I Am, ‘Til I Know Who We Are?”: History
Forum, Mankato University (May 1996)
Interview with HotWired for World Wide Web on “Color Conscious” (June 1996)
“Race Through History”: Facing History and Ourselves Teacher’s
Seminars: Columbia Teachers’ College (July 1996)
“The Identity of Africa”: with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West,
Guggenheim Foundation, Peter Lewis Critical Issues Forum (September 1996)
Interview with Wole Soyinka: The Beatification of Area Boy: Works and
Process, Guggenheim Museum (September 1996)
“The Global Beloved Community”: Cambridge Forum: The Beloved
Community (November 1996)
“The Scholarly Essay: Writing as a Philosopher”: The Gordon
Gray Lecture in Expository Writing, Harvard University (November 1996)
“Identité: Ni Race, Ni Culture”: “Paris--New York: Migrations of
Identities” Columbia University (November 1996)
“Some thoughts on the relations of philosophy and history”: Mellon
Seminar in History, University of Pennsylvania (November 1996)
“Narratives of Unity and Diversity”: Blackside
Productions Seminar, Sheraton Commander Hotel, Cambridge (November 1996)
Comments on “Peoples and Publics” by Ben Lee: MacArthur
Fellows Program Roundtable on Creativity, Globalism and Global Creativity,
Chicago (November 1996)
Response to Charles Taylor and Shirley Williams “Disintegrating
Democracies”: Council on Foreign Relations (December 1996)
“The History Curriculum: Modest Proposals”: Panel at
the Park School, Boston (January 1997)
“Reply to Critics”: Discussion of Color Conscious, New
School for Social Research (February 1997)
Radio Interview “The Dictionary of Global
Literacy”:, Monitor Radio (Boston) (February 1997)
Discussion of Four Films About Intellectuals of the African Diaspora:
W. E. B. Du Bois, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, John H. Clarke: Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston (February 1997)
Radio Interview “The Dictionary of Global Literacy”: WWRL Radio
(February 1997)
Radio Interview “The Dictionary of Global Literacy”: WCCO-AM
(Minneapolis) (February 1997)
Radio Interview “The Dictionary of Global Literacy”: Talk of the
Nation with Ray Suarez (March 1997)
“The Liberal Idea of Education” Distinguished Lecture Series, Arts
and Humanities, Columbia Teacher’s College (March 1997)
“In Defense of Cosmopolitanism” Hans Maeder Lecture, New School For
Social Research (March 1997)
“Liberalism and the Diversity of Identity”: Center for
Higher Educational Transformation, South Africa (March 1997)
“Liberal Cosmopolitanism”: University of Cape Town, Center for African
Studies (March 1997)
“Justice, Reparation, Truth”: Final Panel, Facing History and Ourselves
Conference (April 1997)
“Insiders and Outsiders”: Panel, African Literature Association
Conference, Michigan State University (April 1997)
“A Foucault for Liberals”: Hannah Arendt/Reiner Schürmann Symposium in
Political Philosophy, New School for Social Research (April 1997)
Panel Member “Is there such a thing as race?”: Debates! Debates! TV
Program (May 1997)
Discussion of Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race: Fulani! TV
Program (May 1997)
“Cosmopolitan Patriotism”: Seminar, Conjunto Universitário Candido Mendes,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (June 1997)
“On Writing In My Father’s House”: Department of History, Universidade Federal,
Rio de Janeiro (June 1997)
“Cosmopolitan Patriotism”: Debate Series Folha de São Paulo, São
Paulo (June 1997)
“Race and Identity”: Department of Sociology, Universidade de São
Paulo (June 1997)
“Race Through History”: Facing History and Ourselves Teacher’s
Seminars: Columbia Teachers’ College (July 1997)
“The Responsibility of Intellectuals”: Kumasi,
Ghana (September 1997)
“Du Bois as a Pan-Africanist Intellectual”: USIA
Center, Accra, Ghana (September 1997)
“What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Art?”: Yale Art
Museum, Conference on Baule Art: African Art, Western Eyes (October
1997)
“Seminar on: ‘Cosmopolitan Patriots’ and ‘Race, Culture, Identity:
Misunderstood Connections’”: NYU Law School (October 1997)
“Alain Locke As A Theorist of Multiculturalism”: Philosophy
Born of Struggle Conference, New School (October 1997)
Radio Interview “The Dictionary of Global Literacy”: WBAI with
Amy Goodman, New York (October 19 1997)
“Race in a Postmodern Society”: Case Western Reserve University,
College Scholar’s Program (October 1997)
“Response to Charles Kesler”: Conference on Immigration and Naturalization,
Duke University (October 1997)
“Race and Philosophy”: Department of Philosophy, Kent State University
(November 1997)
“The Question of African Identities”: Central
State University, Wilberforce, Ohio, African Studies Center (November 1997)
“Cosmopolitanism and Patriotism”: Conference on Africa and Extended
Security, Stockholm (November 1997)
“A Foucault for Liberals”: The Moffett Lecture, Princeton University
(November 1997)
“The ‘Amistad’ Libretto: Incorporating African Folk Culture”: The Lyric
Opera of Chicago, Symposium on the Anthony Davis and Thulani Davis Opera Amistad,
Field Museum (November 1997)
“Cosmopolitan Patriotism”: Center for African Studies, Emory University
(January 1998)
“Cultural Studies and Area Studies”: Center for
African Studies, Emory University (January 1998)
“Philosophy, Africa and the Diaspora”: Morehouse
University (January 1998)
“The Contemporary Novel in Africa”: Salzburg Seminar, Schloss
Leopoldskrohn, Salzburg, Austria (March 1998)
“What do we talk about when we talk about African Art?”: Art
Institute of Chicago (March 1998)
“Race and Culture”: SUNY Purchase (April 1998)
“The Possibilities of Afro-Liberalism”: University
of Louisville, Kentucky (April 1998)
“Cosmopolitan Patriotism”: Einstein Forum, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
(April 1998)
“Liberalism and Education”: Einstein Forum Seminar, 7 Am Neuen Markt,
Potsdam (April 1998)
“Gay Goes Global”: Final Plenary Queer Globalization/Local
Homosexualities: Citizenship, Sexuality and the Afterlife of Colonialism,
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY (April 1998)
“Reply to our Critics”: American Philosophical Association, Central
Division Meeting, Chicago: Author Meets Critics: Philip Kitcher, Michelle Moody
Adams discuss Color Consciousness by K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann
(May 1998)
“Cosmopolitan Patriots”: Department of English and American Studies,
University of Frankfurt (June 1998)
“Theories of Postcoloniality”: Postcolonial Studies Group, University of
Frankfurt (June 1998)
“Identity and Ethics”: Department of Philosophy, University of
Frankfurt (July 1998)
“Color Conscious”: Seminar in American Studies, University of
Frankfurt (July 1998)
“African Novels and Global Conversation”: African
Studies Center, University of Beyreuth (July 1998)
“How to Universalize Liberalism”: Society for Universalism in
Philosophy (August 1998) Discussion of Cosmopolitan Patriotism: Fulani!
TV Program (September 1998)
“Cosmopolitan Reading”: English Institute (September 1998)
“The Hyphen in ‘African-American Philosophy’”: Africa in
the Americas, Harvard University (October 1998)
“Liberalism in Difficulty”: Harry Howard Jr. Lecture, Vanderbilt University
(October 1998)
“An Argument Against (One Way of Thinking About)
Rationality”: Department of Philosophy Colloquium, Vanderbilt University (October
1998)
“Individuality”: New York Institute for the Humanities (December 1998)
“Encomium for Nurrudin Farah”: Presentation of Neustadt Prize, University of
Oklahoma (October 1998)
“Individuality”: New York Humanities Institute (December 1998)
“Citizens of the World?”: Amnesty Lecture, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford
(February 1999)
“Race and Individuality”: Global Studies, University of Wisconsin
(February 1999)
“Rewriting the African Past”: Black History Month Lecture, Hunter College
(February 1999)
“Discussion with Wole Soyinka on Democracy in Africa”: Africana
Studies, New York University (February 1999)
“Race and Individuality”: Center for the Study of Race and Social
Division, Boston University (March 1999)
“Cosmopolitan Reading”: Department of Comparative Literature, Brown
University (March 1999)
“Stereotypes and the shaping of identity”: Response to
Robert Post’s Brennan Lecture Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American
Anti-Discrimination Law, University of Miami (March 1999)
“Reading Race, Class and Gender in Alice Walker’s Color Purple
and Toni Morrison’s Beloved”: Lock Haven University “Major Black
Writers: Alice Walker Lecture” (March 1999)
“Defending Liberal Individualism”: Plenary Roundtable On Violence,
Money, Power & Culture: Reviewing the Internationalist Legacy, 93rd
Annual Meeting, American Society of International Law, Washington D.C. (March
1999)
“New Work in African History”, Commonwealth School, Boston (April
1999)
“Individuality, Imagination and Community”: Keynote
Speech at Conference on “Exploring the Black Atlantic”. RutgersUniversity
(April 1999)
“Writing Africa”: Hemmingway Centennial, John F. Kennedy Library (April
1999)
“African Thought, From Anthropology to Philosophy”: Columbia
University, Program in African Studies Seminar (April 1999)
“Why Individuality Matters”: Rutgers University Department of Philosophy
(April 1999)
“Children’s Moral Education”: Panel, Harvard University (April 1999)
“Culture and Foreign Policy”: Council on Foreign Relations (May 1999)
“Contre la culture’”: Musée des Arts de l’Afrique et l’Océanie (May
1999)
“The possibilities of Afro-liberalism”: École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (May 1999)
“American Multiculturalism and Gay Culture”: École
Normale Supérieure (May 1999)
“L’Afrocentrisme”: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
(May 1999)
“Individuality”: Department of Philosophy and School of Law, University College, London
(May 1999)
“Enlightenment and Cultural Dialogue: Lessons From the Novel”:Volkswagen
Stiftung, Zukunftsstreit: Debates on Issues of our Common Future 7th
Symposium: Political Philosophy Today: Rethinking the Enlightenment Hanover
(June 1999)
“Transition:Past and Future” NPR Weekend Edition, with Paul Theroux (July
1999)
Discussion of Encyclopedias, Global and Local, BBC World Service
Outlook (July1999)
“American Liberalism in a Global Conversation” Harvard
Summer School (July 1999)
“Using the Arts to Teach About Identity” Facing
History and Ourselves Institute (July 1999)
“Internationalizing Human Rights” Harvard Law School, Human Rights
Program, 15th Anniversary (September 1999)
“Some Problems for Liberalism” Sawyer Seminar, National
Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (September, 1999)
“The Ethics of Cosmopolitanism” Nexus Institute Conference: No
Place for Cosmopolitans? Tilburg, The Netherlands (October 1999)
“Race and Individuality” Florida Atlantic University, Public
Intellectuals Graduate Program, (January 2000)
Commentator on Michael Ignatieff’s Tanner Lectures: The
University Center for Human Values, Princeton University (April 2000)
How should we address the greatest evils and injustices of our time?:
Contribution to panel at Tenth Anniversary Symposium, The University Center for
Human Values, Princeton University Questioning Values, Defending Values (April
2000)
Africa’s Muses: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (May 2000)
Education and Identity: Teachers as Scholars Program (November 2000)
The Power of the Prize: The Power of the Word (Conference on African
Literature), Churchill College, Cambridge (November 2000)
Hope and Commitment: World AIDS Day Celebration, Trinity Church,
Copley Square (December 2000)
Soul Making: Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Cambridge University (April/May
2001)
Individuality, Identity and Education: University
of South Carolina (November 2001)
Identity, Individuality, and the State: University
of Basel (January 2002)
Soul Making: Paul Robeson Memorial Lecture, Columbia University, New York (February
2002)
Race, Gender and Individuality: Humanities Without Boundaries
Series, Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison (April,
2002)
The Arts of Soul-Making: Conference on Art, Philosophy and Politics,
Institute for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison (April, 2002)
Race and the Ethics of Identity: University of Maryland, College
Park, Distinguished Lecturer Series (April 2002)
The University in an age of Globalization:
Princeton-Oxford Conference on Globalization, Oxford (June 2002)
Immigrants and Refugees: Individualism and the Moral Status of
Strangers: Program in Ethics and Public Affairs, Princeton University (September
2002)
Reparations: Yale Law School Conference on
“Yale, New Haven and American Slavery,” Panel talk with Ronald Dworkin, Seanna
Schiffrin, Charles Fried (September 2002)
On Being Oneself: Distinguished Visiting Lecture, Georgetown University (October,
2002)
Immigrants and Refugees: Individualism and the Moral Status of
Strangers: Paper, Georgetown University Philosophy Department (October 2002)
Race and Individuality: Princeton Alumni Weekend (October 2002)
Why History Matters: 92nd Street Y, New York (October
2002)
Socratic Paradox? Laurance Rockefeller Fellows Seminar, University
Center for Human Values, Princeton. Response to R. Weiss. (November 2002)
Identity and Memory: Presidential Panel on “The Haunting of History,”
MLA Convention (December 2002)
Whose Life Is It Anyway: Identity and Individuality in Ethics and
Politics: Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture, Institute for the Humanities,
University of Michigan (March 2003).
Thinking It Through: What Philosophers Actually Do and Why It
Matters: Friends of Princeton University Library (April, 2003)
Race and Individuality: Benjamin E. Mays Lecture, Morehouse College
(April, 2003)
Respecting Identity: Fales Lecture in English and American
Literature, New York University (April, 2003)
The Ethics of Identity: President’s Lecture Series, Princeton University
(December 2003)
Panelist, Religion and Politics Discussion, World Economic Forum,
Davos, Switzerland (January 2004)
“Making a Life”: Center for American and World Cultures, University of Miami of Ohio
(January 2004)
“Concluding Remarks”: Princeton Workshop in the History of Science,
Science Across Cultures: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives, Session II
(February 2004)
“The Ethics of Identity”:The Hourani Lectures, Department of
Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo (September, October, 2004)
“The Ethics of Identity”:Presidential Lecture, Stanford
Humanities Center (November 2004)
“Humane, All too Humane”:Presidential Forum MLA Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia (December 2004)
“The Diversity of Identity”:Martin Luther King Lecture, Rice
University (January 2005)
“The Ethics of Identity”:Presidential Lecture, Hunter College
(February 2005)
“Does Truth Matter to Identity?”: Conference on Black and Latino
Identity, SUNY Buffalo (April 2005)
“Du Bois and the Problem of the 21st Century”: Columbia
University, Core program Humanities Lecture (April 2005)
“The Problem of the 21st Century: Dubois and
Cosmopolitanism”: British Association for American Studies, Annual Meeting, Cambridge
University. Keynote Speech (April 2005)
Radio Interview:Start the Week, BBC Radio Four (April 2005)
“The Politics of Identity”:British Academy Symposium on The
Politics of Identity, London, with Professor Ann Phillips (April 2005)
Radio Interview: Nightwaves, BBC Radio 3 on The Ethics of Identity (April
2005)
“The Trouble with Culture”: University of Chicago Law School, Legal Theory
Seminar (April 2005)
“The Politics of Identity”: Russell
Sage Seminar, New York (May 2005)
“Du Bois and the Problem of the 21st
Century”:W. E. B. Du Bois Lecture, Humboldt University, Berlin (May
2005)
Radio Interview: Philosophy Talk, KALW
Public Radio on The Ethics of Identity (June 2005)
“The Politics of Identity”: Mellon
Foundation/ITHAKA, New York (June 2005)
Odyssey, Chicago Public Radio on The Ethics of
Identity (June 2005)
“Folk Biology and the Genetics of Race”: Panel on
Genomics and Identity Politics, International Society for the History,
Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, Annual Meeting, Guelph Ontario
(July 2005)
“The Ethics of Identity”: University
of Richmond Faculty Assembly (August 2005)
“Challenges to Cosmopolitanism”: Freshman
Assembly Lecture, Princeton University (September 2005)
“The Trouble with Culture”: Mellon Seminar, Columbia
University (September 2005)
“Ethics in a World of Strangers”:Center
for Medical Law and Ethics, University College, London (October 2005)
“Whose Culture Is It Anyway?”:British
Museum, William Fagg Memorial Lecture. (October 2005)
“Shelley’s Philosophy”: Response to
Richard Rorty “Romanticism and Pragmatism,” Heyman Center Lecture, Columbia
University.
“The End of Ethics?”: Flexner Lectures, Bryn Mawr
College, October, November 2005)
“Reply to Gracia, Moody-Adams and Nussbaum”: Author
Meets Critics: The Ethics of Identity, APA Convention, New York
(December 2005)
“How to Decide if Races Exist”: Symposium
on Race and Natural Kinds, APA Convention, New York (December 2005)
Reggie Bryant on WHAT-AM, Philadelphia,
on Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (December 2005)
WWRL’s Morning Show with hosts Karen Hunters and
Steve Feuerstein, New York,on Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of
Strangers (January 2006)
The Brian Lehrer Show on Cosmopolitanism:
Ethics in a World of Strangers (January 2006)
Midmorning, Minnesota Public Radio on Cosmopolitanism:
Ethics in a World of Strangers (January 2006)
Antena Radio, Mexican Public Radio, on
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (January 2006)
“What’s Wrong with Slavery?” New York
Historical Society (January 2006)
“Addicted to Race”: Podcast on
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (January 2006)
Talk of the Nation, National
Public Radio on Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (January
2006)
Marc Steiner Show, WYPR, Baltimore,
on Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (January 2006)
Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, on
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (January 2006)
Radio Times, WHYY, Philadelphia, on
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (January 2006)
“Ethics in a World of Strangers”:Walter H.
Capps Center Public Lecture, University of California, Santa Barbara (February
2006)
“Ethics in a World of Strangers”: Missouri
Historical Society, St. Louis (February 2006)
News Now, Voice of America,on
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (February 2006)
The Tavis Smiley Show, PBS/KCET (February 2006)
“Embracing and Excluding: The Parameters of Pluralism”: Upper Main
Line Ministerium and the Metanexus Institute for Religion and Science, United
Church of Christ at Valley Forge, Wayne Pennsylvania. With commentary by Linda
Peterson, Joseph Serano, Dr. Anjum Irfan, Burt Siegel. Moderator Rabbi Alan
Iser. (March 2006)
“Who Owns Art?”: The New York Times Times Talks, discussion with James Cuno,
Phillipe de Montebello, Elizabeth C. Stone and Michael Kimmelman, New School
University (March 2006)
“Religious Cosmopolitanism”: Religious Life Council, Princeton University
(March 2006)
“Du Bois’s Cosmopolitanism”: Alain Locke Lectures, Princeton University
(March 2006)
“Du Bois’s Cosmopolitanism”:Worlding the Text: Crosscurrents in Literary
Studies, University of Virginia English Department Graduate Conference 2006
(March 2006)
“What’s Wrong with Slavery”: Scholar for a Day: Kwame Anthony Appiah,
African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania (April 2006)
“Identity”: (with Amy Gutmann and Amartya Sen, Jacob Weisberg moderator), 92nd
Street Y (April 2006)
“Introducing Wole Soyinka”: 92nd Street Y, New York City (April
2006)
“Ethics and Cosmopolitanism”: Beamer-Schneider Lecture in Ethics, Case
Western University (April 2006)
“The Limits of Tolerance? Multiculturalism Now”: A
conversation with Pascal Bruckner, Necla Kelek, Richard Rodriguez, and Dubravka
Ugresic, PEN International Festival, New York Public Library (April 2006)
“Culture, Identity, and Integration: A New Transatlantic Challenge”:Brussels Forum of the German Marshall Fund of
the United States, K. Anthony Appiah, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Rob Riemen, Loretta
Sanchez, Patrick Weil. Moderator: Roger Cohen (April 2006)
Discussing Cosmopolitanism with Ian Buruma and Akeel Bilgrami,
Philosophy Department, Princeton University.
“Ethics in a World of Strangers”: International Institute and
Humanities Public Lectures, UCLA (June 2006)
“Cosmopolitanism”: in Session on Social Dances: Networks,
Power, and Meaning (with Howard
Rheingold, PUSH Conference A New Life, Minneapolis (June 2006)
“Slavery—Some Thoughts”: Harold Medina Seminar, Princeton University
(June 2006)
“How to Decide if Races Exist”: Aristotelian Society, London (June
2006)
“The question of cultural property”:
Introductory remarks for Round Table 3, Qui possède les objets? Opening
of the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (June 2006)
“Globalizing and identity”: 16th Globalization lecture, Felix Meritis, Amsterdam
(June 2006)
“Identity, Politics and the Archive”: The Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand (July 2006)
“Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of
Strangers”: McCloskey Speaker Series, The Aspen Institute
(August 2006)
Interview with Zeca Camargo for Fantastico!,
TV Globo, Brazil (August 2006)
“Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of
Strangers”: Book One: Talk, Simon’s Rock College of Bard
(August 2006)
“Citizenship of the World?”: University of Michigan (September 2006)
“What’s Special About Religious Disputes?”: Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown
University (September 2006)
“West of What?”: Center for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University (September 2006)
“Global Citizenship?”:New Dimensions of Citizenship Conference Fordham University
School of Law (September 2006)
“Who Owns Culture?”:Cultural Heritage Conference Willamette University (October 2006)
“Cosmopolitanism: A Dangerous Idea?”: Pop!Tech, Camden, Maine (October 2006)
“Cosmopolitanism”: Knox College (October 2006)
“The Ethics of Identity”: University of North Florida (October 2006)
“Cosmopolitanism in the Arts”: Art Institute of Chicago Presidential Lecture (November 2006)
“The Cosmopolitanism of W. E. B. Du Bois”: Grinnell College (November 2006)
“Articulating the Value of the Humanities in
Graduate Education”: Council of Graduate Schools, Washington DC
(December 2006)
“The Difficulties of Religious Toleration”: The Bayle Lecture, Rotterdam (December 2006)
“Cosmopolitanism”: Alliant University
Faculty Convocation Address (January 2007)
“Identity and the Nation”: Department of Philosophy, Oberlin College (February 2007)
“Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of
Strangers”: Oakley Center for Humanities and Social
Sciences, Williams College (February 2007)
“On the Reception of ‘African Art’”: Oakley Center Faculty Seminar, Williams College (February 2007)
“Conversation with Nurrudin Farah”: New York Public Library, South Court Center Auditorium, Cullman Center,
NYPL, and Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University (February 2007)
“Cosmopolitanism”: Lewis and Clark College (February 2007)
“Museums: Towards a Culture of
Cosmopolitanism”: Getty Villa, Los Angeles, USC International
Museum Institute Lecture Series Who Owns the Past in the Future? (February
2007)
“Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of
Strangers”: President’s Speakers’ Series, California State
University, Monterey Bay (February 2007)
“Making Sense of Moral Conflict”: Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas (March 2007)
Panel on “Black Men and Mental Health”: The
State of Black Men in America: Six Faces of Being a Black Man Conference,
Princeton University (March 2007)
“Fifty Years Of Ghanaian Independence”:Forward Ever, Backward Never: A Panel Discussion on the 50th
Anniversary of Ghana’s Liberation, Princeton University (March 2007)
“West of What?”: Mellon Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, John Hope Franklin
Humanities Institute, Duke University (March 2007)
Seminar on “Experiments in Ethics”: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (March 2007)
“Understanding Moral
Conflict”: Envisioning and Creating Just Societies:
Perspectives from the Public Humanities Distinguished Speaker Series organized
by the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship (CSPS) and the Center for
Humanistic Inquiry (CHI), Emory University (April 2007)
“Black Identity Across the Atlantic: A
Historical Background”: Conference on Diversity in Black America:
Immigration and Identity in Academia and Beyond, Princeton University (May
2007)
“The Global Academy and the Humanistic
Vocation”: Panel on The Global Academy and the Geography
of Ideas, Annual Meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies,
Montreal (May 2007)
“The Identity of Education”: University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Graduation
Ceremony (May 2007)
“How the World Got Smarter”: University of Pennsylvania Baccalaureate Ceremony, University of
Pennsylvania (May 2007)
“Ethics in a World of Strangers”: Frederic Ives Carpenter Lectures, Department of English, University of
Chicago, “Global Citizenship,” “Understanding Moral Disagreement,” “The Cosmopolitanism
of W. E. B. Du Bois” (May 2007)
“Cosmopolitanism”: Princeton High School, Juniors, Social Studies (June 2007)
“Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of
Strangers”: Conversation with James F. Hoge (editor, Foreign
Affairs) at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York (June 2007)
“Principle and Prudence”: Seminar on The Police and Young People at All Stars, New York (May 2007)
“Du Bois and the Africana Encyclopedia”: Jack and Jill Regional Meeting, Orlando Florida (May 2007)
“Responsibility in a Global Age”: Lunch time talk to Henry Crown Fellows, Aspen Institute (June 2007)
“The Diversity of Identity”: 24th International Social Philosophy Conference, North
American Society for Social Philosophy, Millersville University (July 2007)
“What’s so Special about Religious Disputes?” Donald S. Brown Memorial Lecture, University of Vermont (September
2007)
“Cosmopolitanism” Honors College, University of Vermont (September 2007)
“Che cos’è l’Occidente?” Festival Filosofia, Modena Carpi, Italy (September 2007)
“Bending Towards Justice” Plenary Lecture, Human Development and Capability Association, 2007
Conference, Ideas Changing History, The New School (September 2007)
“Ethics in a World of Strangers” Prentiss M. Brown Convocation Lecture, Albion College (September 2007)
“Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of
Strangers” 2007 Celebration of Scholarship, Kent State
University (September 2007)
“Cosmopolitanism” Development School for Youth, New York, Orientation Ceremony 2007
(September 2007)
“Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of
Strangers” Conference “Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Race,
Class and the Quest for Global Justice,” Gender Studies, Notre Dame University
(September 2007)
“Cosmopolitanism,” University of Rhode Island (October 2007)
“The Politics of Culture, the Politics of
Identity” Eva Holtby Lecture at Royal Ontario Museum,
Ontario, Canada (October 2007)
“Ethics in a Global Age,” American Academy in Berlin (October 2007)
“Cosmopolitanism,” Colorado College (November 2007)
“My Cosmopolitanism,”
Senghor-Damas-Césaire Lecture in Africana Studies in conjunction
with the Villanova Center for Liberal Education, Villanova University (November
2007)
“Global Citizenship,” Kohlberg Memorial Lecture, Association for Moral Education, NYU.
Co-sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves (November 2007)
“Cosmopolitan Roots,” Humanities Institute of Stony Brook, SUNY Stony Brook (November 2007)
“My Cosmopolitanism,” Jacobs Residency
Lecture, Mercersburg Academy (December 2007)
“ExperimentalPhilosophy,”
Presidential Address to the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical
Association (December 2007)
Conversation about Experiments in Ethics with
Bob Dunning, Across the Nation, Sirius Radio (January 2008)
Conversation about experimental philosophy with
Neil Conan, Talk of the Nation, NPR “The Next Big Thing: What’s the Big
Idea?” (January 2008)
The Life of Honour Four Seeley Lectures, Faculty of History, Cambridge University (January
2008)
Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, on Experiments in Ethics (February 2008)
Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio on Experiments in Ethics (February 2008)
The Brian Lehrer Show on Experiments in Ethics (February 2008)
“Education for Global
Citizenship,” 2008 Global Education Summit, National
Association of Independent Schools, New York (February 2008)
“The Case Against
Intuition,” Yale Legal Theory Seminar (February 2008)
“How to Argue with
Strangers,” The Center for Democratic Deliberation, Rock
Ethics Center, and Africana Research Center, Penn State University (March 2008)
“My Cosmopolitanism,” Lake Forest Academy (March 2008)
“Cosmopolitan Roots,” The Selfridge Lecture, Lehigh University (March 2008)
“Understanding Moral
Disagreement,” Lehigh University (March 2008)
“Experimental Ethics,” Ethics in Society Program, Stanford University (March 2008)
“Global Citizenship,” Stanford Law School (March 2008)
“Chinua Achebe and
Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah in Conversation,” Nassau Presbyterian Church, Princeton (cosponsored by Labyrinth Books, Princeton
Public Library, Princeton University Center for African American Studies and
Program in African Studies) (March 2008)
“Experimental Philosophy,”
The American Whig-Cliosophic Society, Princeton
University (April 2008)
“My Cosmopolitanism,” Seton Hall University (April 2008)
“Expressive Neutrality,” “Colloque International: Liberal Neutrality, a Re-evaluation,” Centre de
Recherche en Ethique de L’Université de Montréal and McGill University (May
2008)
“Cosmopolitisme. L’ètica
en un món d’estranys,” Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
(May 2008)
Lección inaugural: “La
diversidad de la identidad.” Segunda lección: “Ciudadanía global.” Lección de
clausura: “Filosofía experimental.” Identidad y
Cosmopolitismo: La filosofía de Kwame Anthony Appiah, Observatorio de
Ciudadanía y Estudios Culturales, La Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo,
Valencia (May 2008)
“Privileges,” Commencement Address, Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart,
Princeton (June 2008)
“Cosmopolitismo: l’etica
in un mondo di estranei,” Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura,
Genoa, Italy (June 2008)
“Global Values Versus
Cultural Relativism,” Eckerd College (September 2008)
“Cosmopolitan Reading,” Purdue University, Program in Philosophy and Literature (September 2008)
“Cosmopolitanism: Ethics
in a World of Strangers,” Conference on “Animal Research in a Global
Environment: Meeting the Challenges,” Institute for Laboratory Animal Research,
National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C. (September 2008)
“Where is ‘The West’?” John W. Pope Lecture in Renewing the Western Tradition, UNC College of
Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (October 2008)
“The Ethics of Personal
Identity,” Symposium on“Identity and
Polarization,”Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership,
Calgary (October 2008)
“My Cosmopolitanism,” Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize Lecture, Brandeis University (October
2008)
“Cosmopolitan Education,” Council of Independent Colleges, Institute for Chief Academic Officers,
Seattle (November 2008)
“Experimental Ethics,” Conference on “The Human and the Humanities,” National Humanities Center,
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (November 2008)
Conversation with Lyle
Ashton Harris, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and
Human Development, NYU (November 2008)
“Antiquities Wars: A
conversation about loot and legitimacy” with James Cuno, Sharon
Waxman, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Daniel Shapiro, New York Institute for the
Humanities at NYU (November 2008)
“Cosmopolitanism: Ethics
in a World of Strangers,” Department of English, University of Nevada,
Las Vegas (November 2008)
Meet the Author: Amitav
Ghosh (“Sea of Poppies”) in Conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Asia
Society, New York (December 2008)
“Obama, Professor President,”
Radio Program, Presenter, BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service (January 2009)
“My Cosmopolitanism,” New York Society Library (February 2009)
“Ethics in a World of
Strangers” in the “Inequality” series organized by the Cultural and
Intellectual Climate Committee at SUNY Cortland (February 2009)
“Howto be a
Citizen of the World,” Phillips Academy, Andover (February 2009)
“Norms of Honor”
Marx Wartofsky Lecture, Philosophy Department, CUNY Graduate Center (February
2009)
“Cosmopolitanism,”
Jones Lecture, Lafayette College (February 2009)
“Cosmopolitanism,” Enduring Questions: The Mark Collier Lecture Series, Baldwin Wallace
College (March 2009)
“Race and the New
Genomics,” City College (March 2009)
“Citizens of the World?
Cosmopolitanism and the Ethics of Identity,” “Is There a Place for Religious
States in a Globalizing World?,” “Religious Identity as a Challenge for Modern
Politics,” The Leonard and Tobee Kaplan
Scholar-in-Residence Program, The Center for Ethics, Yeshiva University, (March
2009)
“Africa’s Diversity,” Princeton Adult School (March 2009)
“The Life of Honor,” Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania (March 2009)
TheLifeofHonor, The Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa
Lectures, Princeton University (March 2009)
The Life of Honor, The Page-Barbour Lectures, University of Virginia (March-April 2009)
“Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers,”
Humanities without Boundaries Lecture, University of Wisconsin at Madison
(April 2009)
“Cosmopolitanism:
Ethics in a World of Strangers,” Contemporary Issues Lecture Series,
University of Wisconsin at Whitewater (April 2009)
“Cosmopolitanism,
Translation and Literary Studies,” Lunchtime Keynote for
Translation Caucus (TRACALA) African Literature Association, Annual Conference
(April 2009)
Comment on Chapter 7, “Understanding Affirmative Action,” Workshop on Elizabeth
Anderson, The Imperative of Integration, Georgia State University (May
2009)
“The Life of Honor,” University of Leipzig, 600-Jahr Feier (June 2009)
“Revisiting The Future:
Being Cosmpolitan,” The Spirit of the Haus—Opening 20 years of the
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (September 2009)
“Ethics in a World of
Strangers,” Eastern Kentucky University (September 2009)
“Dignity and Global Duty,” Conference on Ronald Dworkin’s Justice
for Hedgehogs, Boston University Law School (September 2009)
“Social Identity as a Source of Individuality,” Alexa Fullerton Hamilton Speaker Series, Scripps College (October 2009)
Interview
with Chinua Achebe, 92nd Street Y, New York City (October 2009)
“Anglicanism
and me,” Conference on “Why Homosexuality? Religion, Globalization, and the
Anglican Schism,” LGBT Studies, Yale University (October 2009)
“The Life of Honor,” Leibniz Lecture, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (November
2009)
“Cosmopolitanism, Ethics and Politics,” Internal Justice Day, The World Bank, Washington DC (November 2009)
“Nations and Cultures,” Princeton Philosophical Society (November 2009)
“My Cosmopolitanism,” EXCEL Program
Opening Ceremony, NYU (December 2009)
“‘Group Rights’ and Racial Affirmative Action,”
American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, 2009: Session on
James Sterba Affirmative Action for the
Future organized by the Committee on Black Philosophers (December 2009)
“Cultural Property: A
Cosmopolitan Perspective,” Seminar on Issues of
Cultural Property, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU (February 2010)
“The Life of Honor,” Department of Philosophy,Brown
University (February 19 2010)
“Cosmopolitanism: Ethics
in a World of Strangers,” University of Southern
Utah, Tanner Lecture (March 9 2010)
“Cosmopolitanism in the
Museum,” Haverford College
(March 19 2010)
PLANNED LECTURES & PAPERS
Florida
International University, “Global Citizenship,” (April 2010)
The Tzedek Lecture,
University of Oregon (May 2010)
“Cosmopolitan Education,” The Lawrenceville School (June 10 2010)
Paul
and Gwen Leonard Lecture, “Researching and Writing Cosmopolitanism,” University
of Nebraska at Lincoln (October 2010)
FILMS
Great Ideas of Philosophy II: Political
Philosophy. (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2004).
“Commentary by Ronald Dworkin, of New York University, and Kwame Anthony
Appiah, of Princeton University, is featured.”
Racism: A History (BBC Television, 2007) On-Screen Contributor.
Prince Among Slaves (Sparkmedia, 2007) On-Screen Contributor.
The Examined Life: A Film by Astra Taylor (Sphinx Productions/National Film Board of Canada).
Herskovits: At The Heart Of Blackness: A Sixty
Minute Documentary. (Vital Pictures, 2009). On-Screen Contributor.
