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Schedule of Presentations Monday, Sept. 20, 2010
Evolving Perspectives on Ethics
The Donchian Ethics Symposium at the University of Richmond
Location: Jepson Alumni Center
8:30 a.m. Check-in. Continental breakfast
9:00 a.m. Frans de Waal, primatologist, author, and scholar, Emory University. "Is Man a Wolf
to Man? Morality and the Social Behavior of our Fellow Primates."
10:00 a.m. BREAK
10:30 a.m. Betsy Myers, leadership expert, author, and former COO to the Obama Presidential
Campaign on "Ethics in Business and Politics: the Importance of Putting People
First."
11:30 a.m. LUNCH PROVIDED
1:00 p.m. Rachel Kranton, author and professor of economics, Duke University. "IdentityEconomics: A New Perspective on Incentives and Ethics."
2:00 p.m. BREAK
Concurrent Sessions
2:30 Sessions (choose one)
- New Media, New Ethics, New Selves? Charles Ess, Professor, Philosophy and Religion, Drury University, and Media Studies, University of Aarhus,Denmark.
- Social Entrepreneurship: Susan Harmeling, Assistant Professor of Management at Howard University; Martha Rollins, President/CEO, Boaz and Ruth; and Susan Coombes, Assistant Professor of Management, Virginia Commonwealth University.
3:45 Sessions (choose one)
- The Values-Based Firm: Shawn Boyer, founder of SnagAJob; Mark Fernandes, Chief Leadership Officer, Luck Stone Corporation; Joseph Kunkel, Senior Vice President, CarMax.
- Spilling Over: Economics and Ethics in Environmental Protection. Douglas Kysar, Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
5:00 p.m. Timothy Kaine, chair, Democratic National Committee. "Pluralism and Moral
Inquiry: How to Find the Common Good in an Increasingly Diverse Society."
6:00 p.m. RECEPTION
7:00 p.m. DINNER