The Siegel Institute created the Lunch and a Book or Movie Series to bring faculty and students together from different disciplines on campus to discuss ethics and leadership in a collaborative fashion, informally, over lunch. The Siegel Institute announces the event opportunity to faculty asking for their paricipation, and asks them to invite a student of their choice to participate with them. The first six 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 in advance, 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 doubled the number of events to six in 2009-2010 and six in 2010-2011. Additional events increased the discussions to seven in 2011-2012, and now eight in 2012-2013.

The 2012-2013 Lunch and a Book or Movie Series has been a great success. The series began in August with a discussion of the book The Hunger Games. This event, facilitated by Dr. Amy Woszczynski, was followed by a discussion of the movie The Ides of March facilitated by Dr. Kerwin Swint. The October event, facilitated by Dr. Nancy Hoalst Pullen, will discuss the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, and the final event in the series for 2012 will be a discussion facilitated by Dr. Elizabeth Giddens of the book Lost Mountain.

Coming soon:

1/15/2013, Lunch and a Book: My Own Country: A Doctor's Story, facilitated by Dr. Linda Treiber, KSU Associate Professor of Sociology.

2/6/2013, Lunch and a Book: The Grapes of Wrath, facilitated by Dr. Laura Dabundo, KSU Professor of English.

3/14/2013, Lunch and a Movie: The Emperor's Club, facilitated by Dr. Lee Digiovanni, Associate Professor of KSU's Early Childhood Education Program.

4/4/2013, Lunch and a Movie: Lorenzo's Oil, facilitated by Dr. Marilyn King, Associate Director of KSU's Graduate Nursing Program and Associate Professor of Nursing.