Cosmopolitan Roots: Keynote and Q&A with Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah

Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law at NYU, will present on May 3, 2018 at 6:30 pm in Levinthal Hall at the Stanford Humanities Center. As a scholar of African and African-American studies, Dr. Appiah established himself as an intellectual with a broad reach. His book Cosmopolitanism is a manifesto for a world where identity has become a weapon and where difference has become a cause of pain and suffering. He presents answers that are grounded in a new ethics which celebrates our common humanity, while at the same time offering a practical way to manage our differences.