PUBLICATIONS                 

 

1994      “Ecology, Economics and Ethics: Considerations for Sustainable Development                     Policy," in Business Government and Society: Caribbean Writings on Caribbean                   Issues ed. Anyadike-Danes, Eastern Caribbean Consultants, Calliope House,                     Oistins Hill, Barbados, West Indies.

 

1982      "Balancing Animals with Vegetation for Optimal and Sustained Productivity; A                       Case Study of Methodology from the AID Niger Range and Livestock Project,"                     Proceedings from the 1981 USAID Conference on Energy, Forestry and the                         Environment in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.

 

1982      "Environmental Considerations and Tools in Project Identification and Design,"                     Proceedings, 1981 USAID Conference on Energy, Forestry and the Environment                 in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.

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INVITED PAPERS, LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

 

At the invitation of diverse institutions, I delivered the following papers, lectures, and presentations at conferences in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and the United States:

 

10/2016  “Yale Ecology Infuses a Career across Diplomacy, the Arts, and Human Rights.”                  Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, invites alumni to                  speak about their careers.

 

02/2015  “The Role of the Arts in Community Building and in Human Rights,” Just                                Governance Conference, Initiatives of Change, Panchgani, Asia Plateau, India.

 

01/2014  “Developing a Visual Display of Transdisciplinary Research on Music and                              Human Rights: The Process, Benefits and Challenges of Multi-Modal and                            Applied Scholarship,” Institute of Applied Media, Zurich University of Applied                        Sciences, Winterhur, Switzerland.

 

05/2014  “The Global Music Sector, Beyoncé Knowles, and Tessanne Chin: A Political

                Economy of Human Rights Critique,” Popular Music and Radical Politics, panel                    International Communication Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.

 

05/2014   “Music and Mind for Human Rights: A Transdisciplinary Analysis,” International                    Communications Association (ICA) Annual Meeting, Interactive Poster Session,                  ICA honored this invited submission with the Best Visual Display of Scholarship                  Award, Seattle, WA.

 

40/2013  “The Neuroscience of Music and of Morality as Questions of Human Rights,”                         Institute of Communications Research Reunion and The Graduate Student                           Appreciation Lecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

 

12/2013  “Neural and Digital Networks of Hip-Hop: Considerations for Feminism, the                            Global South and the Global Order,” Conference on Gender, Sexuality and

                Hip-Hop, Tulane University and the Anna Julia Cooper Foundation, LLC,

                New Orleans, LA.

 

07/2013  “What is the Role of Music Capability and Group Music Participation in Children’s                  Emotional, Cognitive, and Moral Development?” The research question                                collaboratively pursued and presented at the International Summer School on                      Musical Understanding: Philosophical, Psychological and Neurological                                  Approaches, University of Sheffield, England.

 

06/2013  “Music, Morality and Phenomenology,” International Communications                                    Association, Panel entitled Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological                                Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication, London, England.

 

06/2013  "Music, Morality, Mind: Voices from Jamaica's Music Community, Philosophy and                 Neuroscience Intersect” International Communication Association, Panel entitled                 Communications Science: Evolution, Biology, Brains, London, England.

 

05/2013  "PEARL: A Storyboard towards Critical Autoethnographic Dance Film, Congress                  of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

 

05/2013  "What the Field of Communication is Privileged and Poised to Do:

                A Performance Beginning in Watts," Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University                    of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

 

07/2012  “Capitalism and Culture as Questions of Ethics through Jamaica's Music Industry                  as a Microcosm,” International Colloquium on The Caribbean that Unites Us,                        Casa del Caribe, Santiago, Cuba.   

 

04/2012  “The Origins of Music as a Primordial Communication Form,” University of Illinois                  Communication Collaboration Conference, University of Illinois, Springfield, IL.

 

03/2012  “Notes, Norms and Neurons: Voices from Jamaica’s Music Community, Ethics                      and Neuroscience Intersect,” Broadening Participation, Broadening Minds,                          Creating New Knowledge, Community of Scholars Program, Graduate College,                    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

 

3/2012    "Dance, Neurons and Norms," Invited lecture presentation for Dance Education                    course for dance majors, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

 

09/2010  “A Career with the U.S. Agency for International Development and Beyond:                          Towards a World that Works for 100% of Humanity,” African Studies Speakers                      Series, Department of African Studies, University of Illinois,

                Champaign/Urbana, IL.

 

03/2008  “Dr. Norman Girvan on Technological Change through the Amplifier of Jamaica’s                  Music Industry," Reinventing the Political Economy Tradition of the Caribbean,                    Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Research Conference,                              University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, Caribbean, West Indies.

 

02/2007  “Reggae Music’s Influence on Tourism and the Economy,” Bob Marley                                  Symposium, Bob Marley Foundation, Bob Marley Museum, Kingston, Jamaica,                    Caribbean, West Indies.

 

07/2007  “Digital and Mobile Technology in Jamaica’s Music Industry:  Opportunities and                    Challenges for Long Tail Gains in an Emerging Market Economy,” Presentation                    to the Boards of Directors for Jamaica Trade and Investment (JAMPRO) and                        the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMC), EMC,                            Kingston, Jamaica, Caribbean, West Indies.

 

03/1993  “The Business of the Environment,” The Private Sector and Economic                                  Development Conference Organization of Eastern Caribbean States,

                Roseau, Dominica, Caribbean, West Indies.

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01/1993  “Ecology and the Economy: The Pivotal Nexus for Restructuring the Eastern                        Caribbean,” Training module presented to participants in the Executive Masters                  of Business Administration Program for the University of the West Indies,

                Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, Caribbean, West Indies.

 

11/1990  “Economic Justice and the Environment,” Keynote Address, Princeton University                  Workshop on Environmental Action; Organizing for Racial Diversity,

                Princeton, NJ.

 

05/1990  “Ecological Economics: Questions of Class, Ethnicity and Gender,”

                Howard University Environment and Development Conference,

                Washington, DC.

 

04/1990  “Ecologically and Economically Viable Communities,” Yale University “Workshop                  on Environment and the Quality of Life: Lessons from the Third World,"

                New Haven, CT.

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01/1990  “Ecology, Economics and Ethics: Towards Alleviating Poverty,” African                                  Perspectives on Scientific Inquiry - From Chaos to Order Conference,

                University of Cincinnati, OH.

 

09/1989  “The Economic Valuation of Natural Resources for Revising National Income                        Accounts,” Seminar for the USAID mission in Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica.

 

07/1988  “Africa and the Environment,” Keynote Address, Africare Annual Board                                  Convocation, Washington, DC.

 

08/1981  “Watershed Management: A Coherent Approach for Managing Natural                                  Resources in the Tropics,” Chaing Mai, Thailand.

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07/1981  “Natural Resource Economics in African Development,” East-West Center                            Symposium on Techniques of Economic Valuation for Natural Systems,                                Honolulu, HI.

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09/1980  "The Role of Remote Sensing in Natural Resource Inventory, Planning, and                          Management," Regional, Remote Sensing Conference, Regional Remote                            Sensing Center, Ouagadougou, Upper Volta (now Burkino Faso), West Africa.

 

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