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Lawrence University Hosts Town Hall Forum with Four Black Authors
Get PDFFour distinguished writers will participate in a town hall style forum at Lawrence University Monday, Feb. 21 as part of the 2005 Black Author’s College Tour. The forum, focusing on issues that shape and impact the African-American community, will be held at 7 p.m. in Science Hall, Room 102 on the Lawrence campus.
Participating in the forum will be authors Brandon Massey, Jamise Dames, Lois Benjamin and Yasmin Shiraz. Each will give a brief talk addressing a specific issue related to the African-American community and then take part in an open discussion with audience members.
A resident of Atlanta, Ga., Massey will address issues of the black man’s challenge in America. He self-published his first novel, “Thunderland,” in 1999 and a revised edition was republished in 2002 by Kensington Publishing. His second book, “Dark Corner,” a vampire novel set in rural Mississippi, was released in January, 2004, while “Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers,” was published last August. His latest work, the supernatural thriller “Within the Shadows,” is scheduled for release in June.
Dames, a published songwriter and former recording artist, will share her insights on the importance of sustaining self esteem in the black community. She is the author of the national best seller “Momma’s Baby Daddy’s Maybe” (2003) and “Pushing Up Daisies” (2004). A graduate of the University of Connecticut with a degree in English and an emphasis in creative writing, Dames is currently pursuing graduate studies.
Benjamin, a professor of sociology at Virginia’s Hampton University, will speak on the secrets of the black elite. She is the author of “The Black Elite: Facing the Color Line in the Twilight of the Twentieth Century,” for which she interviewed 100 prominent African-Americans. She also served as editor of the 1997 book “Black Women in the Academy,” a collection of essays written by 33 black female academics and administrators from around the country who discuss their experiences of working in higher education in America. Benjamin earned a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley.
Shiraz, a journalist and empowerment speaker, will examine the impact of hip-hop culture on the African-American community. She is the author of the 2004 book “The Blueprint for My Girls” and is working on a sequel, “The Blueprint For My Girls In Love.”
As an entertainment reporter, Shiraz has written for a variety of publications, including Black Enterprise, Upscale, Impact and the Electronic Urban Report and has interviewed numerous celebrities, including Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, singers Jay-Z, Queen Latifah and Brandy, actors Jada Pinkett-Smith and Martin Lawrence and attorney Johnnie Cochran, among others.
The Black Authors Tour program is sponsored by Lawrence’s Office of Multicultural Affairs and is part of the college’s celebration of Black History Month
Postcolonial Lawrence: the mexican connection
Get PDFTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente.Este trabalho lida com a produção de D.H.Lawrence enquanto o escritor inglês residia no México em 1923 e 1924, o romance The Plumed Serpent e os ensaios da coleção Mornings in Mexico, analisados de uma perspectiva pós-colonial. O projeto parte do pressuposto de que é tarefa do crítico pós-colonial, como Edward Said argumenta, tornar visível a ideologia contida nos textos imperiais e canônicos. Seria reducionista, no entanto, alegar que o material aqui analisado, em que pesem as estruturas coloniais que Lawrence necessariamente habita, seja "uniformemente imperialista". A complexidade do romance The Plumed Serpent reside precisamente no fato de que se pode observar uma ambivalência problemática: por um lado, um esforço inegável de Lawrence para tomar o partido das vítimas da Conquista Espanhola, o que leva o escritor a assumir uma postura "anti-imperialista", ainda que platônica, quando reverte papéis de figuras do episódio histórico, quais sejam, a figura de Hernán Cortés (criando um protagonista nativo mexicano que promove a reinstalação da religião Asteca, banindo o Cristianismo do México) e a figura de Malinche (amante e intérprete de Cortés); por outro lado, como qualquer sujeito imbricado em sua cultura, ele é inexoravelmente incapaz de atravessar o abismo que o separa do outro mexicano, e a questão da incomensurabilidade cultural se apresenta de forma infinitamente mais complexa do que ele poderia ter sonhado. O resultado de sua tentativa é que quanto mais ele verbaliza suas posições anti-eurocêntricas, mais o eurocentrismo se manifesta em seu discurso. Esse fenômeno é cuidadosamente analisado no capítulo sobre a questão racial (no qual investigo a relação entre Kate e Juana), também no capítulo intitulado "Utopian politics of resistance/orientalism", e ainda no capítulo que chamei "Barbaric Mexico". O capítulo III, "Pattern of role reversals: Fickle attempt of deconstruction" apresenta uma análise sistemática dos papéis históricos que Lawrence reverte em sua ficção. Por fim, o capítulo V apresenta uma análise rigorosa do contexto social do México enquanto Lawrence lá residiu e como ele se reflete no romance. A conclusão do trabalho aponta, à luz dos capítulos anteriores, para a dupla condição de Lawrence: por um lado, seu desejo de "desaprender a Europa" e sua vontade de resgatar "histórias esquecidas", seu genuino esforço, ainda que perturbado, de explorar diferença cultural; e, por outro lado, sua intensa dependência de construções históricas da própria cultura ocidental que ele tenta desafiar, e quão pouco consciente de suas limitações, enquanto sujeito de seu tempo e de sua cultura, ele foi. Como uma pessoa não-estabelecida e dividida, ele envereda pela tentativa de resistência a aspectos da ideologia imperialista, mas simultaneamente não consegue evitar as armadilhas da retórica do colonialismo
Indicadores de desempenho para as gráficas de pequeno porte da região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte
Get PDFDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção.Este trabalho estruturou um modelo de indicadores de desempenho empresarial para as gráficas da região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte, com aplicação em uma empresa deste segmento empresarial
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Lawrence Friedman, historiador nord-americà
Get PDFL'historiador Lawrence M. Friedman (Chicago, 1930) és un dels principals experts en l'evolució del dret als Estats Units. Ha rebut diverses distincions. Entre les seves nombroses publicacions, destaquen A History of American Law (1973), The Horizontal Society (1999) o American Law in the 20th Century (2003). Els seus escrits han esdevingut textos de referència en el camp de la història legal. Ha estat professor a les facultats de Dret de la Universitat de Wisconsin (EUA) i de la Universitat de Saint Louis (EUA). Actualment, és professor de la Universitat de Stanford (EUA), on treballa a la Facultat de Dret, al Departament d'Història i al Departament de Ciència Política. Va visitar Barcelona per participar al Primer Fòrum de l'Associació Internacional de Sociologia i, el 8 de setembre, va pronunciar una conferència a la Facultat de Dret de la UAB.El historiador Lawrence M. Friedman (Chicago, 1930) es uno de los principales expertos en la evolución del derecho en los Estados Unidos. Ha recibido diversas distinciones. Entre sus numerosas publicaciones, destacan History of American Law (1973), The Horizontal Society (1999) o American Law in the 20th Century (2003). Sus escritos se han convertido en textos de referencia en el campo de la historia legal. Ha sido profesor en las facultades de Derecho de la Universidad de Wisconsin (EE.UU.) y de la Universidad de Saint Louis (EE.UU.). Actualmente, es profesor de la Universidad de Stanford (EE.UU.), donde trabaja en la Facultad de Derecho, en el Departamento de Historia y en el Departamento de Ciencia Política. Visitó Barcelona para participar en el Primer Foro de la Asociación Internacional de Sociología y, el 8 de septiembre, pronunció una conferencia en la Facultad de Derecho de la UAB.Historian Lawrence M. Friedman (Chicago, 1930) is one of the main experts in the evolution of law in the United States. He has received numerous prizes and is author of several works, including History of American Law (1973), The Horizontal Society (1999) and American Law in the 20th Century (2003). His works have become a reference in the field of legal history. He was professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and at Saint Louis University School of Law before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1968, where he is currently professor of law at the Stanford University Department of History and the Department of Political Science. During his visit to Barcelona he participated in the First ISA Forum of Sociology and gave a conference at the UAB Faculty of Law on 8 September
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
The fallen woman in twentieth-century English and Brazilian novels : a comparative analysis of D.H. Lawrence and Jorge Amado
Get PDFThis thesis offers a thematic comparison of the ways in which fallen women are depicted
by two writers: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) and Jorge Amado (1912- ). The
comparison highlights the contrasts and similarities between two cultures and how they
are reflected in literature. The focus of the thesis is on an examination of unconventional
female characters and it illuminates more generally the ways in which literary creativity
is shaped by the interaction between writers and their social milieus.
The theme of the fallen woman provokes discussion of changing patterns of sexuality
in two different societies, in two different periods of their historical development. It also
involves the question of the social, political and cultural background of both England
and Brazil, where these images of the fallen women were fabricated. The thesis argues
that both Lawrence and Amado share tremendous sympathy for these women.
The thesis is divided into eight chapters. Chapters Two through Six are divided into
two parts. The analysis in Part One involves a number of Lawrence's novels: The White
Peacock, Sons and Lovers, The Lost Girl, Aaron's Rod, Mr. Noon, `Sun', and three
versions of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Part Two looks at the fallen woman in Amado's
writing from 1934 to 1977, and the discussion focuses on Jubiabä, Terras do sem fim,
Gabriela, cravo e canela, Dona Flor e seus dois maridos, Tereza Batista cansada de
guerra and Tieta do Agreste.
Female desire and its fulfilment in an unconventional way has been a central question
in all these novels. Without a moral judgement, both Lawrence and Amado depict the
female characters who are triumphant lovers, redeemed from the sense of sin or guilt by
their passion. The depiction of these women highlights the class and gender differences.
Both writers show how patriarchy plays a dominant role in keeping female sexuality
under control in both English and Brazilian societies
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
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