A presentation by Dr. John Knapp and Azalea Hulbert for faculty in the Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing (Homewood, AL).
Courageous Conversations: Culture Shock Samford focused on ways Samford's American and Chinese students can build stronger relationships and learn from each other. Facilitators included Professor Angela Ferguson, Director of International Initiatives at Samford, as well as students Monica Longoria, Darren Gray, Rebecca Liang, and Kirby Xu (Homewood, AL). See photos.
A Better World Theatre performance, featuring students from the Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing (Homewood, AL). See photos.
A luncheon with the Right Reverend Doctor Laurent Mbanda, Bishop of the Shyira Diocese in Rwanda (Homewood, AL). See photos.
A presentation by Dr. John Knapp for the Birmingham Women's Committee of 100 (Birmingham, AL).
A presentation by Dr. John Knapp for the Blaze Leadership Academy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL).
The annual J. Roderick Davis Lecture, presented by Taylor Branch, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his work on Martin Luther King, Jr. The event was co-sponsored by the Mann Center (Homewood, AL).
A lecture by Dr. Mark Douglas, author and associate professor of Christian ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary (Homewood, AL). See photos.
A presentation by Dr. John Knapp and student Mallory James on the work of the Mann Center in South Africa (Homewood, AL).
A presentation by Dr. John Knapp at the University of Notre Dame's annual Conference on Corporate Communication (Notre Dame, IN).
Courageous Conversations: When Winning is Losing was a forum for freshmen on academic integrity. Panelists were members of the Mann Center's Academic Integrity Advocates, including Lydia Nace, Jane Marie Hutcheson, Cassie Black, and Demi Eckhoff (Homewood, AL). See photos.
A unique experience for Samford students that allowed them to explore the rich legacy of leadership in higher education at the University of Oxford (Oxford University, UK). See photos.
A presentation by Dr. John Knapp to the Huntsville Rotary Club (Huntsville, AL).
A three-week service practicum at the Living Way microenterprise center in Cape Town, where students developed curriculum for an agricultural academy (South Africa). See photos.
A presentation by Dr. John Knapp at the annual conference of the Center for Christian Business Ethics Today (Philadelphia, PA).
Courageous Conversations: Invasion or Opportunity? focused on immigration in Alabama, and the Christian response to laws like Alabama House Bill 56. Panelists included Dr. Fred Shepherd, Dr. Mike Floyd, Azalea Hulbert, Taylor Bell, and Austin Davis. Zayne Smith, Immigrant Policy Fellow at Alabama Appleseed, was a guest panelist, with Dr. Mark Bateman as moderator (Homewood, AL). See photos.
A presentation by Dr. John Knapp for the Birmingham Businessmen's Club (Birmingham, AL).
A session by Dr. John Knapp for Energen employees on ethics, one of the company's twelve Core Leadership Competencies (Birmingham, AL).
A program by Dr. John Knapp for participants in the faculty and staff leadership academy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL).
A presentation by Dr. John Knapp to employees of local insurance companies, as part of CPCU's Ethics Awareness Month programming (Hoover, AL).
The Mann Center served as a co-sponsor of the 2012 annual symposium of the Center for Biotechnology, Law and Ethics at Cumberland School of Law. Panelists included legal experts Kathy Cerminara, Nova Southeastern University, and Leonard (Jack) Nelson, Cumberland School of law; physicians Elizabeth Kvale and Ryan Nash, University of Alabama at Birmingham; and bioethicist H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Rice University. Cumberland professor David Smolin served as moderator (Homewood, AL). See photos.
Dr. John Knapp served as chair of the Ethics, Legal & Public Policy track of the annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Marketing Educators, a division of the Federation of Business Disciplines (New Orleans, LA).
A forum with sociologist and author Dr. Michael Lindsay (Homewood, AL). See photos.
An A. Gerow Hodges Lecture in Ethics & Leadership by Dr. Michael Lindsay, directed to Samford undergraduates (Homewood, AL). See photos.
A presentation by Dr. John Knapp, with insights from his book, How the Church Fails Businesspeople (and what can be done about it) (Mountain Brook, AL).