Program:

Welcome and Breakfast
8:30am-8:50am

Opening Remarks
8:50am-9:00am

Panel 1: On Cosmopolitanism
9:00am-10:30am

Students:
Liz Greenspan, Anthropology
Crystal Biruk, Anthropology
Mark Navin, Philosophy

Moderator:
Lydie Moudileno, Director of African Studies Center

Coffee break
10:30am-10:45am

Panel 2: On Being an Academic and a Public Intellectual
10:45am-12:15pm

Students:
Kerry Dunn, School of Social Policy/Practice and Anthropology
Nana Ackatia-Armah, Graduate School of Education
Greg Downs, History

Moderator:
Tukufu Zuberi, Director Center for Africana Studies

Lunch break
12:15pm-1:30pm

Panel 3: Conceptions of Africa in the Production of Knowledge
1:30pm-3:00pm

Students:
Josh Berson, History and Sociology of Science
Cedric R. Tolliver, Comparative Literature
Herve Tchumkam, Dept of Romance Languages (French)

Moderator:
Lee Cassanelli, History

3:00pm-3:15pm Coffee break

Dr. Appiah's talk:
"What's wrong with Slavery?"
3:15pm-4:30pm

Reception
4:30pm-6:00pm

Co-sponsors:

Center for Africana Studies
Middle East Center
Department of Philosophy
Department of Political Science
Department of Anthropology
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program

With his Ph.D. in philosophy from Cambridge University, Ghanaian-born Appiah's work covers a wide spectrum of issues including moral and political philosophy, African and African-American Studies, and issues ofidentity, multiculturalism, and nationalism. His most recent books are The Ethics of Identity (Princeton University Press: 2005) and Cosmopolitanism:
Ethics in a World of Strangers (Norton: 2006). A public intellectual, he has published in both academic and public presses. His earlier works include Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (1996) written with current Penn president Amy Gutmann, and Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience (1997) and the Encarta Africana
CD-ROM written with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Dr. Appiah has been on the faculty at Harvard, Cornell, and Duke Universities. He is currently the Laurance S.Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

more at:
http://www.appiah.net/pages/1/index.htm