REGISTER: Bette’s Happy Hour with David Livingstone Smith
Our guest on Tuesday at 11 am Pacific is author and philosopher David Livingstone Smith, who has dedicated much of his career to understanding dehumanization, as our three-part podcast series reveals
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Thank you to the two thousand + people who took the time to listen to my podcast series, Understanding Dehumanization, with David Livingstone Smith.
Here is Part 3 of the series, which contains links to the entire series and a print report from Part 1:
If we were able to neutralize the ability to dehumanize others, fascists projects would fail — that’s why I am dedicating so much time to presenting you with the information. Thankful to each of you who shared the series with your networks.
On Tuesday, June 30, 11 am Pacific, David will be our guest for Bette’s Happy Hour. Monique Camarra will be co-hosting, and you will find registration details below.
Please plan to be there. If you are not yet a member and would like to join our conversations, please do so here:
New members: the Happy Hour began three years ago, when I noticed many Bette members in despair. I thought a weekly wellness checkin for global newsies was in order, and it evolved into a session where our guests offer news and information from around the world. The title was always meant to be ironic, but I know I feel better when our community comes together.
A note to veteran members: our periodic Sunday Speakeasys will return as we approach Fall.
More about David here:
Described as “a philosopher seeking not just to interpret the world, but to change it” by the Times Literary Supplement, Smith is the author of 10 books. He won the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Prize for nonfiction (awarded jointly with Yale historian David Blight), the 2023 Joseph B. Gittler Prize awarded by the American Philosophical Association for outstanding contributions to philosophy of the social sciences, the 2024 Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution, awarded by Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association (awarded jointly with Cornell philosopher Kate Manne), and was shortlisted for the Nayaf Al-Rodhan Prize for Transdisciplinary Philosophy, awarded by the Royal Institute of Philosophy in the UK.
All of these awards were for his work on dehumanization. He is frequently interviewed in the national and international media on dehumanization, race, racism, national and international affairs, and related topics. He has given presentations at such venues as the 2012 G20 economic summit, where he spoke on dehumanization and mass violence.
Before transitioning to philosophy, Smith was a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Freud scholar, and director of the MA program in psychotherapy at Regent’s College in London, England. Smith is a professor of philosophy at the University of New England in Maine, and he will be spending the 2026/27 academic year as the Tage Danielsson Professor at Linköping University, in Sweden.
You can find links to his books and published works here and for his Substack, please go to Dehumanization Matters.
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