Sunday Scholar Series
September 13, 2009
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm (time approximate after performance)

• A free one-hour, post-show panel discussion with experts on the themes and issues of the play

You do not need to attend the performance that day to participate in this discussion. Just arrive at the theater by 4:15 pm and enter the theater after the performance ends.

The Sunday Scholars panel will be moderated by TimeLine Board member Peter Kuntz, executive director of the Arts & Business Council of Chicago.

The discussion will feature panelists:

Michael J. Allen
Michael J. Allen (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2003) is an assistant professor in the department of History at Northwestern University. He is a historian of United States political culture, particularly curious about the ways in which war and memories of war reconfigured U.S. politics in the late 20th century. His book Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War (forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press in 2009) examines the unprecedented level of concern regarding captive and missing Americans during and after the Vietnam War to interrogate the ways that official and nonstate actors constructed and contested the meaning of American defeat in Vietnam. A Kansas native, Michael returns to Northwestern after five years on the faculty at North Carolina State University.

Mollie Painter-Morland
Mollie Painter-Morland is an associate professor in the department of Philosophy at DePaul University and associate director of DePaul's Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, and also teaches at institutions in France and South Africa. Currently based in Chicago, she resides in South Africa for four months every year. In 2006, she was awarded an International Ethics Award by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) for her contributions to the ethics profession internationally. She serves on the SCCE’s Advisory Board, the Ethics Oversight Board of PwC South Africa, and on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Business Ethics and Economics (ISBEE). In her career as consultant, Mollie has assisted corporations in conducting ethics audits or assessments, developing ethics management programs, and compiling integrated sustainability reports, i.e. triple bottom-line reports. She is especially skilled in assisting multinational corporations who want to develop international codes of conduct or deal with the impact of cultural differences on ethics in their organization. In her research, Mollie has focused on understanding the emergence of a certain ethos in various organizational contexts. In 2008 she published Business Ethics as Practice: Ethics as the Everyday Business of Business (Cambridge University Press), in which she argues that we should replace ethics programs in organizations with an interactive process aimed at facilitating the emergence of an ethical corporate ethos. Her second text, Cutting-edge Issues in Business Ethics: Continental Challenges to Theory and Practice (Springer), co-edited with Patricia Werhane, is one of the first of its kind, as it indicates what Continental philosophy can contribute to the field of Business Ethics. She is also co-editor of Springer’s “Issues in Business Ethics” series and serves as reviewer for multiple ethics journals. At the moment she is working on a textbook on Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy (with co-editor René ten Bos), a volume on Leadership, Gender and Organization (with co-editor Patricia Werhane), among other projects.