Kwame Anthony Appiah is a leading philosopher, public intellectual, British-Ghanaian cultural theorist and novelist. He is also a celebrated author and speaker on political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. He delivered the BBC Reith Lectures in 2016, was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2012 and is the recipient of the 1992 Herskovitz Prize for African Studies and the Gittler Prize for Contributions to Racial, Ethnic and Religious Relations.

Appiah will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Skidmore President Marc C. Conner, speak about his work, read some of his recent writing and respond to audience questions.

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2021 | 7 P.M. online | skidmo.re/steloff

IDENTITY & INDIVIDUALITY

THE ANNUAL FRANCES STELOFF LECTURE

The New York Times Magazine “Ethicist” columnist

KWAME ANTHONY APP IAH