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Distinguished Speaker Series |
The Institute has a distinguished speaker program in order to provide a series of forums for discussing issues regarding capitalism and morality, business ethics, and related issues.
2012-2013
Scheduled Speakers:
| Mark Lance, Ph.D. |
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Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Justice and Peace, Georgetown University |
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"Commodification Incarnate: What capitalism has made of us and the potential for change" |
| Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013 |
| Time: 7:00pm |
| Location: National Technology Transfer Center Auditorium |
| C. Bradley Thompson |
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Executive Director, The Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism |
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"Self-Interest Rightly Understood" |
| Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013 |
| Time: 7:00pm |
| Location: National Technology Transfer Center Auditorium |
| Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. |
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Department of Philosophy and the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, Rockford College, Illinois |
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"The Virtuous Entrepreneur: Value Creation and Morality in Business" |
| Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 |
| Time: 7:00pm |
| Location: National Technology Transfer Center Auditorium | 2011-2012
Scheduled Speakers:
| Edwin A. Locke, Ph.D. |
| Dean's Professor of Leadership and Motivation (Emeritus), University of Maryland |
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"Business Heroes in Fact & Fiction" |
| Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 |
| Time: 7:00pm |
| Location: National Technology Transfer Center Auditorium |
| Patrick J. McCormick III |
| Republican Special Counsel, Committee on Energy & Natural Resources |
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"Striking the Energy – Environmental Balance" |
| Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012 |
| Time: 7:00pm |
| Location: National Technology Transfer Center Auditorium |
| Andy Gillette |
| Charles Koch Institute |
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"Principled Entrepreneurship™ in the Firm" |
| Date: Monday, December 5, 2011 |
| Time: 7:00pm |
| Location: National Technology Transfer Center Auditorium |
| William Kline, Ph.D. |
| Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies, University of Illinois at Springfield |
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"Business IS Ethics" |
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| Date: Thursday, November 3, 2011 |
| Time: 7:00pm |
| Location: National Technology Transfer Center Auditorium |
2010-2011
| Thomas A. Bausch, Ph.D. |
| Dean Emeritus of the College of Business Administration at Marquette University |
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"Mother Teresa and Jack Welch - Equally Important for the Flourishing of Humanity." |
| Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 |
| Time: 7:00pm |
| Location: National Technology Transfer Center Auditorium |
| Michael Budde, Ph.D. |
| Professor of Catholic Studies & Professor of Political Science at DePaul University |
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"Can Corporations Save the Church?" |
| Date: Monday, February 21, 2011 |
| Time: 7:00pm |
| Location: National Technology Transfer Center Auditorium |
| John A. Allison |
| Retired Chairman & CEO, BB&T Corporation |
| "Principled Leadership" |
| Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2011 |
| Time: 7:00pm |
| Location: National Technology Transfer Center Auditorium | 2009-2010
| William J. Byron, S.J., Ph.D. |
| Research Professor, Sellinger School of Business, Loyola College, Maryland |
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"Political and Economic Philosophy in the Light of Catholic Social Teaching." |
| Eric Daniels, Ph.D. |
| Research Assistant Professor, Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism |
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"The Morality of Capitalism." |
| Regina Ferreira Bento, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Associate Director, C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning |
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"Values-Driven Leadership." |
2008-2009
| Andrew Bernstein, Ph.D. |
| Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Marist College in New York and Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Purchase |
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"Atlas Shrugged as the Culmination of the Romantic Novel." |
| Russell S. Sobel, Ph.D. |
| Professor of Economics, James Clark Coffman Distinguished Chair, College of Business & Economics, West Virginia University |
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"The Rule of Law: Perspectives on Legal and Judicial Reform in West Virginia" |
| Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| Time: 7:00pm |
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| Douglas B. Rasmussen, Ph.D. |
| Professor of Philosopy, St. John's University, New York City |
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"Making Room for Business Ethics: Rights as Metanorms for Market and Moral Values." |
| Date: April 15, 2009 |
| Time: 7:00pm |
| Location: National Technology Transfer Center Auditorium |
2007-2008
| Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Ph.D. |
| Senior Fellow, Ludwig von Mises Institute |
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"Globalization and the Churches: Are We Ready to Learn from Failure?" |
| Dr. Daniel Finn, Ph.D. |
| The William E. & Virginia Clemens Professor of Economics & the Liberal Arts Department of Economics Professor of Theology in the School of Theology & the Department of Theology St. John's University |
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"Ten Libertarian Heresies that Tempt Neo-conservative Catholics to Stray from Catholic Social Thought. " |
| Doug Bandow |
| Vice-President, Policy for Citizen Outreach |
| "Politics and Religion" |
2006-2007
| Piotr Jaroszynski, Ph.D. |
| Chair, Dept. of Culture Studies, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland |
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"Poland: From Communist Rule to the Free-market and the Future of the European Economic Union" |
| Fr. Kenneth Himes, Ph.D. |
| Chair, Dept. of Theology, Boston College |
| "The Morality of Free Markets: A Catholic Perspective" |
| Yaron Brook, Ph.D. |
| Executive Director, Ayn Rand Institute |
| "In Defense of the Morality of Free Financial Markets" |
| Russel Sobel, Ph.D. |
| Professor of Economics, James Clark Coffman Distinguished Chair, West Virginia University |
| "Unleashing Capitalism in West Virginia" |
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