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Author Sarah Schulman provided a history of ACT UP, an activist organization founded in the late 1980s that addressed the AIDS crisis. This was a virtual event hosted by the New York Public …

New York Times Magazine contributor Thomas Chatterton Williams talked about his book, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race, in which he looked at race and identity. He was inter…

Kwame Anthony Appiah (author and New York Times columnist), Jane Ciabattari (book columnist and former president of the National Book Critics Circle), John Freeman (author and former editor …

New York Times ethicist columnist Kwame Appiah explored the role identity plays in society. He’s joined in conversation by historian Annette Gordon-Reed.

Kwame Anthony Appiah talked about his book, Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity, in which he recounts W.E.B. Du Bois' time spent as a student at the University of …

In honor of a PEN conference organized by Norman Mailer 25 years ago, writers discussed how governments can work together across national boundaries, as writers do, to improve the world’s tr…

Kwame Anthony Appiah, philosophy professor at Princeton University, argues that “moral revolutions,” from the demise of duels to solve personal arguments in Britain to the end of foot bindin…

Egyptian novelist, psychiatrist, and activist Nawal El Saadawi delivered the fourth annual PEN World Voices Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture. Topics included a subtle lack of freedom t…

Professor Appiah talked about his book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, published by W.W. Norton. He explained that “cosmopolitanism” is a philosophy derived from Greek cynic…

Portraying African-American historical figures, participants had a conversation about African-American history in order to provide an insight into the current status of African-Americans and…

Harvard University professor Kwame Anthony Appiah spoke to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute on Eurocentric and Afrocentric approaches to the teaching of history.