Roger Mudd, Richard Thornburg, Ellen Goodman and Jim Lovell Will Speak at Jepson Leadership Forum at University of Richmond
September 11, 2003
The History Channel's Roger Mudd, former U.S. attorney general and Pennsylvania governor Richard Thornburg, Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman and astronaut Jim Lovell will highlight the Jepson Leadership Forum for 2003-04.
Other speakers include Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway's first woman prime minister and former director-general of the World Health Organization, and Pulitzer Prize winner James MacGregor Burns.
This year's theme is "Leadership and Crisis." Tickets are free but required. Call (804) 289-8980 beginning three weeks prior to each event.
Mudd will kick off the series at 7 p.m. on Sept. 22 in the Modlin Center for the Arts. He will moderate a panel discussion called "Leadership in Times of Crisis" that includes Thornburg, who was governor during the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979, former Virginia attorney general Mary Sue Terry, and James Blight, a Brown University professor of international relations who has written on the lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War.
Goodman, who won a Pulitzer for distinguished commentary, will speak at 8 p.m. on Oct 16 in Modlin Center for the Arts. She is author of the book "Turning Points," about the effect of the changing roles of women on the family, and five collections of her columns.
In her first lecture since recently stepping down as head of WHO, Brundtland will share her insights on world health threats at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 in Jepson Alumni Center.
Lovell, captain of Apollo 13, will speak at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 28, 2004, in the Modlin Center for the Arts. When he and his men faced almost certain death when their oxygen system failed, Lovell and on-the-ground engineers and scientists managed to come up with a plan that conserved both electrical power and water that saved the astronauts' lives. The film, "Apollo 13," starring Tom Hanks as Lovell, and Lovell's book "Lost Moon" both tell the heroic story.
In "Lincoln, Douglass and Davis: Three Studies of Leadership in a Time of National Crisis," a program at 7 p.m. on Feb. 19 in Jepson Alumni Center, a panel of scholars will examine challenges faced by diverse leaders during America's most severe crisis, the Civil War. The Jepson School hosts the session, produced by the Tredegar National Civil War center. It is also a member program of Leadership Metro Richmond.
Burns, whose biography "Roosevelt: The Solder of Freedom" won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and Oxford economics professor Frances Stewart will talk on "Transforming Leadership and Global Poverty" at 7 p.m. on Feb. 25. in Jepson Alumni Center. Burns recently called for the "biggest, boldest kind of leadership [in order to] confront the largest, most intractable problem facing humanity in the 21st century: the basic wants of the world's poor." Burns is senior scholar in the Jepson School.
Also, "Facing the Future: Leadership, Collaboration and Strategic Restructuring," a conference for nonprofit leaders and philanthropists, will be held 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 7 in Jepson Alumni Center. Susan Lajoie Eagan, executive director of the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University, will give the keynote address. The $35 cost includes lunch. Call (804) 827-0246 for information.