September 6, 2006
Eno Washington
Discussing: James Brown and the Evolution of F.U.N.K.
This will be an overview of Black dance from Africa through the Diaspora to the United States vis-à-vis dance and music languages. There will be a brief demonstration by the speaker utilizing traditional African-American music augmented by the drumming of Michael J. Olson.

September 13, 2006
Praise Zenenga
Discussing: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Africana Dance
This will be an overview of Black dance from Africa through the Diaspora to the United States vis-à-vis dance and music languages. There will be a brief demonstration by the speaker utilizing contemporary African music.

September 27, 2006
Marcel Nzeukou
Discussing: Beyond Discrimination: Detecting Ssutle Discrimination in Faculty Salaries
This lecture will discuss the importance of quantitative methods in detecting salary inequities. Recognizing that classical analytical methods are powerful statistical tools that can fail to address subtle salary inequities along gender or racial lines, he introduced the Two-Stage Classification Regression model as a new econometrics technique that changes the analytical paradigm of the equal pay for equal work principle. The mathematical content is not of interest as are the policy implications.

October 11, 2006
Julian Kunnie
Discussing: Decolonizing Educational Curricula in the Age of Globalization and Imperial Capitalism
This lecture will discuss the manner that students and academics alike around the world could begin to sharpen their knowledge and critical thinking skills, so that both teachers and students become more functionally literate and historically, socially, politically, and economically conscious thinkers, and are consequently empowered to engage in liberation paradigms in the classroom and in their respective institutions and societies.  It will illuminate the profound levels of curricular dysfunction experienced in schools systems in late capitalist societies and ways to redress this anomaly.

October 25, 2006
Julian Kunnie

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