Unfortunately, we have had to cancel the Yale International Alliance Conference on Global Citizenship scheduled for March 13-14, 2020, in Rome, Italy, due to complications with the spread of the coronavirus.
We do not take this decision lightly as so many people have worked diligently to make the conference a success. However, current and projected Center for Disease Control and World Health Organization warnings dictate that we cancel the conference in the best interest of our speakers and attendees.
As global citizens move beyond nation-bound thinking towards a “whole-world” approach to the opportunities, issues, and conflicts in the world around us, how do we simultaneously embrace diversity and think beyond difference, take on positions of leadership while redefining them, and move from humanism to a new form of cosmopolitanism? What does it look like to have, in the words of Kwame Anthony Appiah, ethics in a world of strangers?
