The Siegel Institute created the "Lunch & a Movie or a Book" series of events to bring faculty and students together from the different disciplines on campus to discuss ethics and leadership in a collaborative fashion, informally over lunch. The Siegel Institute announces the event opportunities to faculty asking for their paricipation, and asks them to invite a student of their choice to participate with them. The first ten faculty respondents and their selected students then become the participants for each event. The Institute provides the faculty member and the student with a complimentary DVD of the movie or copy of the book, and provides a lunch for the entire group on the meeting date.
This series began with three events in 2008 and, based on positive feedback from faculty and students, the Institute has doubled the number of events to six in 2009-2010.
All events will be held at the Siegel Institute, House #55 on the KSU campus. Time: 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
September 16, 2009 Lunch & A Movie
Disclosure An intellectual thriller about sex used as a tool for power: A computer specialist (Michael Douglas) is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss (Demi Moore) who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life. Directed by Barry Levinson; screenplay written by Paul Attanasio, based on the novel written by Michael Cricton.
Facilitator: Dr. Birgit Wassmuth, Chair of the KSU Communication Department.
Snow Falling on Cedars In 1954 a local fisherman on San Piedro Island is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched. Snow Falling on Cedars is a masterpiece of suspense that leaves us shaken and changed. Author: David Guterson.
Facilitator: Dr. Catherine Lewis, Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies and Director, KSU Museum of History and Holocaust Education.
November 11, 2009 Lunch & A Movie
And the Band Played On Is a movie based on the book by Randy Shilts with teleplay by Arnold Shulman. This film presents a story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic when AIDS was a word no one wanted to speak. It exposes political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it, and heroes who took it up as a fight for many that was fought by few.
Facilitator: Dr. Linda Johnston, Director of Master of Science in Conflict Management program and Center for Conflict Management, KSU.
Eight Men Out
Author Eliot Asinof enables the reader to see into a world of professional baseball, and the workings of power, crime, and legal maneuvering. He portrays a cautionary tale of the corruption of the American dream and the twisting of justice by powerful interests. (Henry Holt & Company, 2000)
Facilitator: Dr. Linda Johnston, Director of Master of Science in Conflict Management program and Center for Conflict Management, KSU.
State of Play
A team of investigative reporters (Russell Crowe and Rachel McAdams) works alongside a police detective (Harry Lennix) to try to solve the murder of a congressman's (Ben Affleck) mistress. Directed by Kevin Macdonald; screenplay written by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Tony Gilroy.
Facilitator: Mr. Tom Pynn, Instructor of Philosophy, KSU.
The Firm
Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) is a rookie lawyer with assets of a first-class mind and a Harvard law degree. When a Memphis law firm makes him an offer he can't refuse, he changes his lifestyle and displays brilliance in finding tax shelters for his mafia-staffed law firm who'd rather pay a lawyer than the IRS. Author: John Grisham.
Facilitator: Ms. Ann Moceyunas, Esq., Assistant Professor of Leadership & Ethics, Siegel Institute, KSU.
