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Message from the Director: what it's all about

In the issue that follows you receive your invitations to meet people and experience encounters and exchanges that may enrich and challenge - and even change you. This year's schedule of lectures, conversations, workshops, and conferences represent the public offerings of the Center for Ethics of Emory University.

You will meet David Whyte, British poet and advocate for bringin heart - courage, conscience, compassion - to leadership in our large corporate organizations. Tom Insel, working scientist and chief administrator of the Yerkes Primate Center, will engage you with his research on mating patterns of mammals and share what his research may tell us about human mating patterns and monogamy.

In the spring, Howard Gardner (Frames of Mind; Leading Minds; Creating Minds) will offer a lecture and workshop relating his research and thought to leadership, ethics, and spirituality. Johnetta Cole, Emory anthropologist and educator, and her fellow researcher and author, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, will share their groundbreaking work on gender and racial differences and justice.

Mark your calendars for March 21-23. From Sunday evening through Tuesday, the Sam Nunn/NationsBank Public Policy Forum, "Ethics in America: The Renewal of Civil Society," will be taking place at Emory, bringing together participants from throughout the country. In national and international perspective - as well as in the neighborhoods of Atlanta - participants will engage the struggles and conflicts of our politics and the media-saturated anomie and materialist absorptions of our societies.

What's it all about? It's about igniting the moral imagination of twenty-first-century leaders. It's about character and conscience in our private and public lives. It's about vision, values, and virtues sufficient to guide personal and public leadership on behalf of ecologically sustainable and humane societies. It's about the will to care and the nurture of practices, knowledge and skills to help mend and heal the world. Mark your calendars. Invest your presence. Grow, lead, serve, make a difference. That's what it's all about.

[ Posted by James Fowler at September 1, 1998 10:18 AM | More Opinion articles ]

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