David Livingstone Smith contributed a short video on the neuromyth that information storage occurs in specific areas and zones of the brain specialized in memorization, for the Neuroeducate initiative hosted by the University of Grenada, https://neuroeducate.ugr.es/
David Livingstone Smith gave presentations on How Dehumanization Works and Resisting Dehumanization at the How the Light gets In festival in Wales, gave a research talk on Seven Questions for a Theory of Dehumanization and participated in a panel on race and racism at the University of Linkoping in Sweden, and spoke on Dehumanization and the Problem of Killing at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
David Livingstone Smith gave a Presentation on Dehumanization and Practices of Resistance at the Department of Philosophy, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India.
David Livingstone Smith gave an address at Temple Israel in Portsmouth for Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), focusing on his research into the dehumanization of Jews during the Holocaust.
David Livingstone Smith gave a paper titled “The politics of Salvation: Devotion to Authoritarianism Leaders” at a conference on The Moral Psychology of Devotion at Boston University.
David Livingstone Smith gave a public lecture on How Dehumanization Works at East Tennessee State University.
David Livingstone Smith gave two presentations, on Race and Dehumanization , forthe Carolina Seminar for Philosophy, Ethics, and Mental Health at the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
A symposium on David Livingstone Smith’s Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization (Harvard, 2021) has been published in the journal Analysis. It includes smith’s precis of the book, comments by Eric Schwitzgebel and Amalie Green (University of California, Riverside), Tommy J. Curry (Edinburgh University), and Audrey Yap (University of Victoria), followed by Smith’s replies to his interlocutors.
David Livingstone Smith has received the 2023 Gittler Prize, awarded by the American Philosophical Association, for my book Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization (Harvard, 2021)
David Livingstone Smith gave a talk on his work to PhD students in philosophy at the University of Quebec at Montreal, for a seminar partially devoted to Smith’s book Making Monsters.
David Livingstone Smith discussed his research on Jay Shapiro’s Dilemma Podcast.
David Livingstone Smith’s work was the subject of South Korea’s Great Minds TV series. David was also the focus of an episode of Prairie Public Radio’s Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life.
David Livingstone Smith was interviewed about the relevance of his research on dehumanization to recent events in Israel and Gaza on the Voices of War podcast.
David Livingstone Smith gave a talk on “Racism and dehumanization” at the University of Puget Sound
David Livingstone Smith and his spouse, the philosopher of science Subrena E. Smith were guests on the Reconstructing Inclusion podcast, where they spoke about their joint research into race and racialization. The episode is titled “What is race abolition?”
David Livingstone Smith gave a talk on “The apportionment of human (in)security” at the annual meeting on Security and Human Behavior, at Carnegie Mellon University.
David Livingstone Smith was filmed for an episode of the Korean TV program Great Minds. The hour-long episode will focus on Smith’s research into dehumanization. https://www.thegreatminds.com/
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David Livingstone Smith joined Yale University historian Marci Shore and Mexican Ambassador Roberta Lajous to discuss “The War in Ukraine: How Can We Understand Evil in a Postmodern World?” Sponsored by the Council for Global Cooperation.
David Livingston Smith was a panelist in a webinar on the situation in Ukraine sponsored by the Council for Global Cooperation, along with diplomat Roberta Lajous, Yale historian Jay Winter, commenting on a talk by Yale historian Marci Shore titled “The war in Ukraine: how can we understand evil in a postmodern world?”
David Livingstone Smith gave a presentation for the Lynching Sites Project of Memphis titled “The dehumanization of lynching victims.” David has was also interviewed for an article on the Ukraine war titled “What Analysts Didn’t Know Before the War Started and What May Still Surprise: From China to the Narrative of Mass Extermination (published in the Portuguese newspaper Expresso), and has also accepted an invitation to be filmed for the Great Minds television series (South Korea).
David Livingstone Smith’s most recent book Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization is now covered on the Rorotoko website, which is devoted to “in-depth interview features on some of the most fascinating scholarship at the cutting edge of the social sciences and the humanities.”
David Livingstone Smith has accepted an invitation to be an advisor for the Council for Global Cooperation (CGC). The CGC is an India-based independent student-led international forum aimed to promote the study of world affairs through independent research, timely analysis and open dialogue.
On January 26, David Livingstone Smith will be giving a presentation on his research at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. The presentation will be live-streamed.
David Livingstone Smith gave a presentation on his research into dehumanization at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the Sorbonne, University of Paris
David Livingstone Smith was interviewed about his research for an article on dehumanization and the Holocaust, published in the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
David Livingstone Smith was interviewed about his research into dehumanization on the Fireside podcast. https://www.firesidepod.org/episodes/smith
David Livingstone Smith’s essay “Dehumanization, genocide, and the psychology of indifference” will be included in Greenhaven Publishing’s Opposing Viewpoints: Genocide.
Opposing Viewpoints is a series targeted for the upper high school audience. It provides broad coverage of a controversial topic, featuring published articles from diverse sources organized in a point-counterpoint format. This volume examines opinions from governments, policy makers, special interest groups, academics, and journalists on the subject of genocide.
David Livingstone Smith’s essay “Dehumanization, genocide, and the psychology of indifference” will be included in the high school textbook Opposing Viewpoints: Genocide, forthcoming from Greenhaven Publishing.
David Livingstone Smith will deliver the 2022 Hardt-Nickachos lecture in Peace Studies at Arizona State University, on November 2. His presentation is entitled Real Horror: Race, Gender, and Dehumanization and will be live streamed. https://eoss.asu.edu/content/hardt-nickachos-lectures-peace-studies-featuring-david-livingstone-smith
David Livingstone Smith was interviewed about his research by Prof. Badrinath Rao for the Detroit public access television program Ideas and Insights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nsdLtxmPZg&t=9s
David Livingstone Smith gave a presentation titled The Burden of Race at a celebration of the International Day of Peace, at Lady Keane College in Shillong, India.
David Livingstone Smith has launched a newsletter titled Dehumanization Matters with posts updating on his ongoing research into dehumanization. Subscription is free.