MonDay, September 14 

7:00 p.m. | McGuire Hall
Presented by Vincent Wolfington, founder and chairman of Global Ambassador Concierge LLC and Global Alliance Advisors LLC.

Today’s business leaders face competing demands spurred by globalization, technology, and an abundance of information and applications for it. Their mental capacity strained, executives may struggle to remember fundamental truths about what is most important in their personal and professional lives.

By drawing on philosophical concepts from different eras and cultures, Wolfington provides a roadmap for businesspeople eager to develop strategies for balancing their responsibilities to themselves, their families, their professional organizations, and the world in which they live. His remarks will span the Confucian concept of how to be a good servant; Adam Smith’s ideas on how to reconcile leaders’ self-interests with their commitment to others; the acknowledgment of Catholic intellectual tradition’s pressure on leaders to discern right and wrong; and the more recent concept of stewardship, which emphasizes corporate leadership guided by social conscience.

MonDay, September 28 

5:00 p.m. | Loyola/Notre Dame Library Auditorium
An internationally-recognized scholar and expert on international communication and culture, professor James Keegan, emeritus chair of communication at Bethany College and dean of communication at the University of Leads, will lecture on the situation comedy genre in British television and its influence on U.S. programmers. He will illustrate his presentation with numerous program excerpts. His analysis of British and U.S. shows will reveal essential differences between the British and American psyches, cultural values, public opinion, domestic and foreign policies.

For more information, contact Celia Goldsmith, administrative assistant of the communication department, at cjaldape@loyola.edu or 410-617-2528. Free parking is available at the Loyola/Notre Dame Library visitors lot.

Friday, October 9 

2:00 p.m. | Sellinger Hall 004
Paul Richard Blum, T.J. Higgins, S.J., Chair in Philosophy, will present "Philosophy in Poetry: Francesco Petrarca," as part of The Loyola College Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series, a sequence of events organized by holders of the four Distinguished Scholar Chairs in Loyola College (formerly College of Arts and Sciences) at Loyola University. The goal of the series is to promote conversation about scholarship among the diverse academic disciplines at Loyola College. Blum is the first presenter in the series.

Wednesday, October 14

7:30 - 10:30 a.m. | Timonium Graduate Center
The Center for Closely Held Firms will host a workshop on strategy-making titled “How Do Companies Survive and Prosper in this Tough Economic Climate?” Jeff Zarin, CFO of Alarm Tech Solutions and David Smith, an executive with Perot Systems, both recent graduates of Loyola’s Executive MBA program, will lead the discussion on what companies are doing now to respond and what is possible.

Please e-mail your confirmation to Audra Brown at anbrown@loyola.edu. The seminar is free to Members and Sponsors of the Center and their guests and students and faculty of Loyola College and $125 per person for others. The cost includes briefing materials and breakfast. As always, the seminar fee can be applied toward Membership in the Center.

Friday, November 6

2:00 p.m. | Knott Hall B03
Robert Miola, the Gerard Manley Hopkins Chair in English, will present "Shakespeare and The Book of Sir Thomas More,” as part of The Loyola College Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series, a sequence of events organized by holders of the four Distinguished Scholar Chairs in Loyola College (formerly College of Arts and Sciences) at Loyola University. The goal of the series is to promote conversation about scholarship among the diverse academic disciplines at Loyola College.