Inamori Ethics Prize Academic Symposium

by Office of Events and Programs

Lecture/Speaker Admission: Free Leadership Topic: Arts and Culture Topic: Discussion and Lecture

Fri, Sep 20, 2019

12:45 PM – 2 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Tinkham Veale University Center

11038 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, OH 44106, United States

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Each year the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence honors an international exemplar of ethical leadership with the Inamori Ethics Prize. 

Case Western Reserve will present the 2019 Inamori Ethics Prize to LeVar Burton, renowned actor and advocate for children's literacy and AIDS research. Burton will join distinguished faculty panelists for an academic symposium on September 20, 2019 on the topic of Ethical Leadership in the Arts:The Power of Storytelling and Representation. 

The symposium features LeVar Burton and panelists:
  • Joy R. Bostic, PhD, Interim Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity & Equal Opportunity and Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Case Western Reserve University
     
  • Cara Byrne, PhD, Lecturer in English/SAGES Teaching Fellow and the Research Advisor on Diverse Children's Literature for the Schubert Center for Child Studies, Case Western Reserve University
     
  • Moderated by Shannon E. French, Inamori Professor in Ethics
The event is free and open to all. Online registration available via the link above. 

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LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton is the first Inamori Ethics Prize recipient to be honored for ethical leadership in the Arts. His work for children's literacy through PBS's Reading Rainbow and his nonprofit RRKidz has had a profound impact around the world, as has his support for more funding for AIDS research. As an actor, he is best known for his powerful performance as Kunta Kinte in the mini-series "Roots" (based on the book by Alex Haley on slavery in America) and his role as engineer Geordi La Forge on the TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and related films, which portray a positive and just future for humanity.

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