Detailed information regarding the AME 2007 conference is available on the New York University web site.
Call for Papers: The deadline for the submission of proposals will be May 1, 2007.
The AME 2007 conference will be held at New York University in November 15 to 17, 2007. The conference chair is NYU School of Education Dean Mary Brabeck.
The theme of this upcoming conference is "Civic Education, Moral Education, and Democracy in a Global Society".
Kwame Anthony Appiah will give this year's Kohlberg Memorial Lecture entitled, Global Citizenship. Dr. Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. His books include, The Ethics of Identity (2005, Princeton University Press), Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006 Norton), Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race with Amy Gutmann; Bu Me Bé: Proverbs of the Akan (of which his mother, the writer Peggy Appiah, was the major author), an annotated edition of 7,500 proverbs in Twi, the language of Asante. He is also the author of three novels and he regularly reviews for the New York Review of Books. Along with Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., he edited the Encarta Africana CD-ROM encyclopedia, published by Microsoft, which became the Perseus Africana encyclopedia in book form. This is now available in a revised multi-volume edition from Oxford University Press.
