PUBLIC LECTURES & PAPERS

“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 Travelling 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)

“Africa's Multicultural Lessons”: Calvin College, Michigan (March 1993)

Commentator on Professor Stanley Hoffman's Tanner Lectures: The University Center for Human Values, Princeton University (March 1993)

“Africa's Multicultural Lessons”: Center for the Humanities, University of Missouri (March 1993)

Rational Psychology: University of Missouri Philosophy Department (March 1993)

“Radio Interview”: University of Missouri NPR Station (March 1993)

“Natives in a Nervous Condition”: Conference on Postcoloniality, Yale University (April 1993)

“Africa's Multicultural Lessons”: Georgetown University (April 1993)

“In My Father's House”: Cambridge Forum Radio Talk and Discussion (April 1993)

“In My Father's House”: Discussion with Stuart Hall and Anil Ramdas on VPRO, Dutch Television (May 10 1993)

“Fallacies of Eurocentrism and Ethnocentrism”: American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC (May 1993) (C-SPAN 2, 11 May 1993)

“Power and Secrecy”: Conference on Forty Years After: The Rosenberg Case and the McCarthy Era Harvard University (May 1993)

“Many Faces of Family”: Goddard Community Center, New York (May 1993)

“African-American Philosophy?”: Conference on African-American Intellectual History, Rockefeller Center, Bellagio (May 1993)

“In My Father's House”: Jesse Ball Du Pont Seminar, National Humanities Center (June 1993)

“Fallacies of Eurocentrism and Afrocentrism”: Jesse Ball Du Pont Seminar, National Humanities Center (June 1993)

“Africa's Multicultural Lessons”: SUNY, Old Waterbury, Faculty Summer Seminar, (June 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, convenor) (August 1993)

“Dilemma's of Modernity”: Ohio State University, N.E.H. Summer Seminar, (Profs. Abiola Irele and Isaac Mowoe, convenors) (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)

“Travelling 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)

“Africa's Postcolonial Condition”: Plenary Session, African Literature Association, Columbus, Ohio (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, Michigan University (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 Guttman (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, 93^rd 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”. Rutgers University (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 7^th 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, 15^th

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)

The Cosmopolitan Scholar: Harvard University, Phi Beta Kappa Oration (June 2000)

Creating Encarta Africana: Solomon , Smith, Barney, Plaza Hotel, New York (June 2000)

Liberal Education: Montreal Conference on “Promoting Subgroup Identities in Public Education” (June 2000)

Using Encarta Africana in the Public Schools: Boston Public Schools Office of Information Technology (June 2000)

Africa Journal, Worldnet Television (August 2000)

E Pluribus Unum: Panel, Yale Law School Reunion (September 2000)

Encarta Africana: The Project of the Century Conference on African-American Literature, Salt Lake City, Utah (October 2000)

Discussion with Wole Soyinka: Langston Hughes Festival, Schomburg Library (November 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)

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VIII

Bu Me B_: The Proverbs of the Akan

Major Discussions or Reviews:

Assertion and Conditionals

For Truth in Semantics

Simon Blackburn TLS

Barry Loewer Mind

In My Father's House

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