Amartya Sen, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Anthony Appiah and Amy Guttmann: Identities in the 21st Century April 9, 2006

How much do our individual racial, religious, sexual or national identities define us? What unites us? What does it mean to be ?cosmopolitan? and a citizen of the world? Are new identities on the horizon? Henry Louis Gates Jr., the W.E.B. Dubois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, moderates this discussion on a crucial issue of our time.

Panelists include Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor of philosophy at Princeton University and the author of Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, In My Father?s House and The Ethics of Identity; Amy Guttman, president of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Identity in Democracy and many other books on political philosophy and practical ethics; and Amartya Sen, a professor at Harvard who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics. Sen is the author of Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.

Gates, Appiah, and Amartya Sen, oh my! A cultural historian / critical theorist / MCMer's delight.

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