PEEC Presents Ethics Lecture Series & Hidden
Curriculum Luncheon Featuring Dr. Joanne Ciulla

The Program for Ethics in Education and Community (PEEC) will present an Ethics Lecture Series and Hidden Curriculum Luncheon featuring Dr. Joanne Ciulla, the Costen Family Chair in Ethics and Leadership at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond.

On Oct. 8, noon, Ciulla presents a Hidden Curriculum Luncheon: The Promise and Betrayal of Work in FCT 118S. She will trace the meaning of work from curse to calling to modern obsession. She will discuss the difference between working to live and living to work, and explore the idea that technology has not freed us from work. Furthermore, she will elaborate on what it might take to change the way we think about work in the future. Lunch will be available for purchase at $2.75.

Also on Oct. 8, 7 p.m., Campus Activities Center, Ciulla will present a lecture discussing leaders as fallible human beings and examines the moral challenges that are distinctive to leaders and leadership.

Ciulla’s research interests are ethics and leadership, business ethics, and international leadership. She has published over 80 academic and popular articles. Her books include Ethics, The Heart of Leadership (Praeger 1998), The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work (Crown Business Books, 2000) and The Ethics(Wadsworth, 2002).

Her book The Working Life was named one of the top two business books in 2000 by the book critics at Amazon.com. She is currently co-authoring a business ethics text called Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader, which will be published by Oxford University Press.

Ciulla is also researching a book on the history of the idea of leadership. Professor Ciulla edits a series of books called New Horizons of Leadership for Edgar Elgar, Ltd. She is on the editorial boards of the Business Ethics Quarterly, and the Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies. Ciulla also serves on the board of directors of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation.

She has lectured all over the world and consults on ethics and leader-ship programs with universities, business and government agencies in the U.S. and overseas. Ciulla has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs and was featured in Bill Moyer’s World of Ideas II series.

Attention Faculty:

Dr. Ciulla is available for classroom presentations. Faculty should contact Stave Ritch at 3-4985 in order to schedule her for a class visit.