Call for Papers
The Canadian Jacques Maritain
Association is pleased to announce
the following Conference:
Sustaining Ethical Leadership : An Interdisciplinary Conversation
To be held under the auspices
of the 2009 Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ottawa (May
26-27, 2009)
According to Kilburg1
(2007), leadership wisdom is an emergent feature of a complex set of structures,
processes and social, economic, political and psychological contents that
every leader is faced with.
Leaders are expected to
demonstrate wisdom; they believe they should be wise and they need to connect
and make use of their wisdom to rapidly set new directions and resolved crisis,
while maintaining their credibility and inspiring others. It is not sufficient
for leaders to rely on their knowledge alone as new, unexpected and challenging
situations emerge regularly. Cognitive development of leaders is not enough
for them to be wise.
How can leadership wisdom
be cultivated, supported and sustained in a world of rapid commercial growth,
increase in political tensions and conflict among countries, environmental
disasters, aggressive competitiveness for resources and increasing militant
human behavior?
The following themes are
suggested (but not mandatory) :
? Ethical reasoning &
leadership
? Teaching ethics
? Ethics and politics
? Virtue ethics theories
? Military and peacekeeping
ethics
? Learning of ethics
? New emerging leadership
paradigms: research and practices ? New directions
for leadership transformation
Proposals by undergraduate
students are welcome!
Submissions by graduate
students are encouraged!
Please send an abstract,
maximum length of 250 words, not later than October 10,
2008 to:
Dr. Chantal Beauvais, Associate
Professor,
Faculty of Philosophy St.
Paul University
223 Main Street, Ottawa,
Ontario,
K1S 1C4 Telephone: 236-1393,
ext. 3020
cbeauvais@ustpaul.ca
1 Cf. Heard, M. Elaine (2007)
'Reflections on Leadership: Conversations with Warren Bennis and Richard Kilburg',
The Psychologist-Manager Journal,10:2,157 - 170.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10887150701451395