DATE: Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008

TIME: 7 p.m.

LOCATION: Doc Rando Hall in the Lee & Thomas Beam Music Hall at UNLV

DETAILS: Free and open to the public

Princeton University Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah, a well-known and highly regarded philosopher, novelist, ethicist and theorist, will be the first speaker in this year's lecture series sponsored by the department of English and KVBC. Appiah, who has published articles and books on African and African-American literary and cultural studies, will give a talk titled "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers." He will discuss his idea that public discourse should focus on the similarities people have instead of their differences. He will take questions after the discussion.

Born in London and raised in Ghana, Appiah has taught at Harvard and Yale Universities and is currently the Laurence S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. Appiah's publications include "Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race," (co-authored with Amy Gutmann), and "The Ethics of Identity."

For more information, call the department of English, (702) 895-3533 or visit http://english.unlv.edu/upcoming_events.html.