David Smith's presentaion at Innovative Tijuana picked up by news sites

Several Spanish online news sites picked up a summary of a talk that Associate Professor David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., of the Department of History & Philosophy, gave at the second annual Innovative Tijuana event, which was held October 11-21, 2012, in the Tijuana Cultural Center in Tijuana, Mexico.

The sites included TijuanaHoy, Frontera.info, El Mexicano.com and the official Tijuana Innovadora site.

Smith spoke on October 19th.  His talk was titled “Less than human; understanding the psychological roots of war, genocide and atrocity.”

Innovative Tijuana, or Tijuana Innovadora, is a gathering of experts in such areas as sustainable development, conservation of resources, automobile technology, medical technology, art, and philosophy to showcase work and share experiences.  More than 70 free workshops were open to the community, many of them focusing on filmmaking, marketing, ecology, technology, journalism, culinary arts, and television.

Smith is the author of Less Than Human:  Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others, as well as Why We Lie:  The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind and The Most Dangerous Animal:  Human Nature and the Origins of War.

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