An initiative uniting divinity school and business students at Vanderbilt University to help address poverty will be discussed at a community breakfast this month.
Graham Reside, executive director of the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions, will speak from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24, in the refectory of Vanderbilt Divinity School. He will speak on “Project Pyramid: Religion and the Business of Alleviating Poverty” along with students involved with the project.
The breakfast costs $10 and is open to members of the public who register in advance. To register, call 615-936-8453 or go to www.vanderbilt.edu/divinity/breakfasts.html and register online. For those interested but unable to attend, the event will be recorded for podcast at VUCast, the website of Vanderbilt News Service, at www.vanderbilt.edu/news.
Reside, who earned a Ph.D. in ethics and society from Emory University in 2003, researches and teaches about the role of social institutions as schools of moral formation. His interests include ethics, sociology of culture and religion, sociology of the professions and the sociology of emotions.
The Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions is a university-wide program dedicated to the discussion and promotion of moral values relevant to the professional schools and the practice of the professions.
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