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Panel on Economic Justice
Monday, February 7, 7:30 p.m. Carrick Auditorium, Mitchell Fine Arts, Transylvania University

• Alan Bartley, Assistant Professor of Economics and Director of Transylvania’s economics program
• Eugene Gholz, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky; Research Associate, MIT Security Studies Program; Member Council on Foreign Relations
• James P. Ziliak, Professor and C. M. Gatton Endowed Chair in Microeconomics, Director University of Kentucky Center for Poverty.

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Cyber Crime and Cyber Ethics
James Harris, FBI Agent specializing in Internet crime
Tuesday, February 8, Open Hour - 12:15 p. m., Brown Science 108, Transylvania University

Cosponsored by LSJ and the Mathematics program.

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Craig Werner
Co-sponsored by LSJ and the Fine Arts program

Professor of Afro-American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Werner is the author of several books and articles on African-American culture and music, including A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race, and the Soul of America and Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Arethea Franklin, Curtis Mayfield and the Rise and Fall of American Soul.

Thursday, February 10:
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.“We Gotta Get Out of This Place: A Vet-Centered View of the Vietnam Soundtrack,” Cowgill 102, Transylvania University

Big Event: 7:00 p.m.: “Sampling the Ancestors: Hip-hop and the African American Musical Tradition” Cowgill 102, Transylvania University -- Food and drink reception begins at 6:30 p.m.

Friday, February 11:
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. “Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do: Black Female Singers as Movement Leaders” Faculty/Staff Lounge, Mitchell Fine Arts, Transylvania University

1:30 – 2:30 p.m. "Beyond Identity: The Jazz Impulse in the 21st Century" Mitchell Fine Arts 204, Transylvania University

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Druids, Macabees, and Syncretistic Empire
Frank Russell, history professor
Thursday, March 3, 3:30 p.m. Carrick Auditorium, Mitchell Fine Arts

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A View of the 2004 U. S. Election from Abroad
Panel Discussion
Transylvania Students: Jon Hall, Ann Sterrett, MacKenzie Crigger
Moderator: Alan Goren, chemistry professor and president of the United Nations of the Bluegrass Association
Tuesday, March 8, 12:30-1:15, Faculty Staff Lounge, Mitchell Fine Arts

Panel discussion by three Transylvania students who studies abroad during the 2004 election.

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Nonviolent Resistance in Palestine
Presentation by
Pat Geier, Louisville Committee for Peace in the Middle East and
Sharon Wallace, International Solidarity Movement and Louisville Committee for Peace in the Middle East
Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 12:20-1:30, Faculty Staff Lounge, Mitchell Fine Arts

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Faith
Panel Discussion
Paul Jones, Moderator; Kenneth D. Slepyan, Associate Professor of History; Sakah Mahmud, Associate Professor of Political Science; Michael Pepper, Professor of Hospitality Management; Kathy Egner, Assistant Professor of Education
Thursday March 31, 2005, 7:00 p. m. Carrick Auditorium, Mitchell Fine Arts

Presentations by panel members will be followed by open dialog with audience. Free and open to the public.

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Decline of the Washington Consensus in Latin America
Faculty Lecture by Gregg Bocketti, Assistant Professor of History
Wednesday May 11, 2005, 4:15 p. m. Carrick Auditorium, Mitchell Fine Arts

Open to students, faculty, staff and the public.

Carol J. Adams

The Sexual Politics of Meat
Monday May 16, 2005, 3:30 p. m. Carrick Auditorium, Mitchell Fine Arts
Slide show and presentation

War on Compassion
Tuesday May 17, 2005, 12:30 p. m. Carrick Auditorium, Mitchell Fine Arts
Rick O'Neill Undergraduate Philosophy Lecture

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USA PATRIOT Act: A Debate
Thursday May 19, 2005, 7:30 p. m. Carrick Auditorium, Mitchell Fine Arts
Gregory T. Nojeim, Acting Director of the ACLU Washington Office
Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, US Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky

"Resolved: The USA Patriot Act and related legislation are consistent with principles and spirit of the U. S. Constitution and serve the best interests of the United States of America"

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