AGHI's Annual Macksey Lecture ft. Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah, NYU

3400 N. Charles Street,Baltimore MD 21218

09 March, 2023

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Whose Heritage? Preservation, Possession, and Peoples Location: Great Hall, JHU Homewood Campus (reception to follow) Description: Museums and monument funds typically understand the works that they collect, display, and preserve through a concept of heritage. Heritage is meant to explain why various works are to be valued or disavowed, repatriated or collected, dismantled or preserved. Yet it's a concept that's interwoven with other concepts—ancestry, identity, property, memorialization—in ways that can create confusion. Gaining clarity about cultural heritage can help us understand the broader heritage of humankind. Bio: Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at NYU. Professor Appiah was born in London, where his parents met, but moved as an infant to Kumasi, Ghana, where he grew up, and where his three sisters were born. He took BA and PhD degrees in philosophy at Cambridge and has taught philosophy in Ghana, France, Britain, and the United States, with professorships at Yale, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, and Princeton. In 2012 he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama. His most recent book is The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity. Copies are available at: https://www.theivybookshop.com/ https://www.appiah.net This event is sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Must register to attend. *All JHU-affiliated staff, students, and guests are expected to be fully vaccinated and boosted unless an approved exception exists. Masks are not required by JHU policy but are highly recommended to protect the safety of our guest speakers. Masks will be provided onsite.