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Voices of Our Time

Why Work?
Business, Professions and the Common Good
March 27-28, 2008

Conference Schedule

Thursday, March 27

Session I:

Keynote Plenary: MAKING SENSE OF MODERN PROFESSIONAL LIFE
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Wait Chapel

Keynote Speaker: David Brooks, The New York Times
Respondents: Alex Sink, Chief Financial Officer, State of Florida;
Steven Reinemund, former chairman of the board and CEO of PepsiCo
Other respondents to be announced.

Friday, March 28

Session II:

THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON WORK AND THE CHALLENGES OF PLURALISM
9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312

Chair: Bill Leonard, Wake Forest University Divinity School Panelists: David Miller, Yale Divinity School; Douglas Schuurman, St. Olaf College; Mark Schwehn, Christ College, Valparaiso University; Katherine Leary, Center for Faith and Work, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York

Session III A:

REEXAMINING MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Babcock Auditorium, Bowman Gray Campus

Chair: Bill Applegate, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Panelists: Mark Siegler, University of Chicago Medical Center; Lynne Kirk, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School; Stuart Bondurant, University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Session III B:

THE LEGAL PROFESSION IN THE MARKETPLACE
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312

Chair: Blake Morant, Wake Forest University School of Law
Panelists: Barry Sullivan, Jenner & Block; Anita Allen, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Robert Grey, Hunton & Williams; Chris Whelan, University of Oxford

Lunch Break
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Session IV A:

CORPORATIONS AND HUMAN FLOURISHING
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312

Chair: Don Flow, Flow Motors
Panelists: Laura Nash, Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics; Steven Reinemund, PepsiCo, Michael Bontrager, Chatham Financial

Session IV B:

THE DEMANDS OF PUBLIC SERVICE
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Annenberg Forum, Carswell Hall

Chair: Lee Hamilton, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Panelists: William Haslam, Mayor of Knoxville, TN; Fred Upton, Congressman of Michigan, 6th District

Session V:

INTEGRATING WORK AND VALUES: THE CHALLENGES OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Worrell Professional Center, Room 1312

Chair: Jack Wilkerson, Wake Forest University Calloway School of Business and Accountancy
Panelists: Kent Syverud, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law; Darrell Kirch, Association of American Medical Schools; William Sullivan, Carnegie Foundation


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