Speaker(s): Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah | Kwame Anthony Appiah delivers the 2016 BBC Reith Lectures, focusing on four themes: colour, country, culture and creed. In this first lecture he will challenge conventional thinking about religion and identity. Kwame Anthony Appiah (@KAnthonyAppiah) is a British-born, Ghanaian-American philosopher, cultural theorist and novelist. He specialises in moral and political philosophy, as well as issues of personal and political identity, cosmopolitanism and nationalism. Professor Appiah has taught at Yale, Cornell, Duke, and Harvard universities and lectured at many other institutions in the United States, Germany, Ghana and South Africa, as well as at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris; and from 2002 to 2013 he was a member of the Princeton University faculty, where he had appointments in the Philosophy Department and the University Center for Human Values, as well as being associated with the Center for African American S
