The Business, Faith and Common Good Speaker Series brings a variety of speakers to campus each fall to help the Creighton Community consider the relationship between business, faith and the common good. The 2021 BFCGI Fall Speaker Series includes academics, business leaders and individuals in ministry with interesting and challenging things to share about the relationship between business, faith and the common good.
This year’s speaker lineup includes:
- Sept. 16, 6 p.m., Room H3048: Charles Camosy, author of Resisting Throwaway Culture: How a Consistent Life Ethic can Unify a Fractured People, Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University, will present, “Resisting Throwaway Culture.”
- Sept. 23, 6 p.m., Room H3048: Luke Bobo, director of resource and curriculum development for Made to Flourish, and Paige Wiley, engagement coordinator at Made to Flourish, coauthors of Worked Up: Navigating Calling after College, will speak about how to bridge the “Sunday-to-Monday gap.”
- Sept. 30, 6 p.m., Room H3048: Leonard Greenspoon, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Creighton University, will present, “From Precept to Practice: Jewish Perspectives on Ethics in Business.”
- Oct. 7, 6 p.m., Room H3048: Jim Anderson, special projects manager, will discuss the tensions one faces when considering stockholder and company interests, as well as other stakeholders and the common good.
- Oct. 21, 6 p.m., Room H3048: Luke Carlson, chief of staff and ventures director at Refined Technologies, Inc., will present.
The series will conclude with a program on Nov. 11, “Private Enterprise in Maoist China: How Private Enterprise Flourished Under Communism,” from Adam Frost, a PhD student at Harvard University who researches the history of entrepreneurship in modern China. His dissertation, “Speculators and Profiteers: Entrepreneurship in Socialist China (1957-1980),” uses unconventional historical sources and methods to explore the entrepreneurial origins of China’s economic transformation. The event is 4 to 5 p.m. in Room H3048 and is co-sponsored by the Institute for Economic Inquiry.
The Business, Faith, and the Common Good Institute exists to promote discussion, collaboration, and research which help understand the relationship between business and faith, and how business can contribute to the common good. Read more on the BFCG website.
