Anisfield-Wolf Awards Ceremony honoring David Smith to air on CSPAN2 Saturday and Sunday

C-SPAN2 will be airing the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf book award ceremony at which David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ associate professor of philosophy, was honored  in Cleveland on Sept. 13 for his 2011 book Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others.

The entire award ceremony is scheduled to be aired on on Saturday, Oct. 6th at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 7th at 4 p.m.

View some photos of Smith at the ceremony with poet Rita Dove and emcee Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University.

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