University of Glasgow To Host BBC R4 Reith Lecture

Philosopher and cultural theorist Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah will be guest speaker at the annual BBC Reith Lecturer 2016, hosted this year by the University of Glasgow. Kwame Anthony Appiah, a British-born, Ghanaian-American philosopher, cultural theorist and novelist, specialises in moral and political philosophy, as well as issues of personal and political identity, cosmopolitanism and nationalism. He will deliver four lectures, entitled 'Mistaken Identity', with each having a different focus - Colour, Country, Creed and Culture. They will be recorded in London, Glasgow, Washington DC, and in Appiah's adopted hometown of New York. The Reith Lectures will broadcast in November. The Glasgow lecture will be the second of the four lectures and will be looking at country. It will be recorded before a live audience at the Sir Charles Wilson building on October 7, and the lecture will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on October 25, and at a later date on the BBC World Service.