1,486 research outputs found
Author Peter FitzSimons speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2012 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author Peter FitzSimons speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2012.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Front Matter of Combating Violence & Abuse of People with Disabilities: A Call to Action
No full textComplete Digitized Text of the Front Matter (Contents, About the Author, Contributors, Forward by Dick Sobsey, Preface, and Acknowledgments) of the book Combating Violence & Abuse of People with Disabilities: A Call to Action by Nancy M. Fitzsimons.https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/books-fitzsimons-combating-violence/1001/thumbnail.jp
Lost in translation: The power of language
No full textThis paper brings together ideas about culture, difference and the importance of translation and interpretation in educational contexts. A key component of this paper is the promotion of curriculum based on a dialogical framework.The paper developed an argument of the impossibility of perfect translation, and points towards linguistic hospitality as the ethical dimension to the inadequate representation of the ‘other’. It highlights the complex role of teacher as translator – an activity that is relational and creative - and the child in translation as a process of metamorphosis rather than reproduction. We were asked to submit this paper to a special Special Issue on Power and Language for Education Philosophy and Theory after presenting a paper on a similar theme at the Philosophy of Education Conference, Brisbane, December, 2008. This special issue is to be re-published in book form in 2012. Educational Philosophy and Theory has an ERA research journal ranking of A+ and a Q score of 19.93. This paper brings together ideas about culture, difference and the importance of translation and interpretation in educational contexts. A key component of this paper is the promotion of curriculum based on a dialogical framework.The paper developed an argument of the impossibility of perfect translation, and points towards linguistic hospitality as the ethical dimension to the inadequate representation of the ‘other’. It highlights the complex role of teacher as translator – an activity that is relational and creative - and the child in translation as a process of metamorphosis rather than reproduction. We were asked to submit this paper to a special Special Issue on Power and Language for Education Philosophy and Theory after presenting a paper on a similar theme at the Philosophy of Education Conference, Brisbane, December, 2008. This special issue is to be re-published in book form in 2012. Educational Philosophy and Theory has an ERA research journal ranking of A+ and a Q score of 19.93. My contribution Each author contributed equally to the structure, organization, development and writing of the paper. Peter Fitzsimons contributed the writing on Nietszche, and I contributed the writing on linguistic hospitality. We worked equally on the theorizing of translation in regard to Foucault and Derrida. My specific contribution develops Ricoeurean concepts in particular the writing on linguistic hospitality. This concept promotes the importance of shared understandings, the role of metaphor in creating new understandings, and the critical role of readership in interpretation
Bravo Brown!: The correspondence of Charles Henry Brown - aeronaut
No full textAs an aeronaut, Brown's lifelong obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain to Australia. While his aeronautical endeavours met with only limited success he was, however, determined to record his contribution to the science, and from an early stage established a vital correspondence with a number of leading figures in the world of ballooning. The letters provide insights into the developing field of aeronautics, and reveal the tensions, rivalries and downright underhand conduct of some of the pioneers of aviation. Brown's intention was to publish his collected correspondence, but his failure to fully realise his own lifelong ambition as an aeronaut of note led him in despair to take his life before he achieved his objective of bringing the compiled correspondence to print. The manuscript was later recovered by a relative and deposited at the State Library of Victoria where it sat receiving but scant attention until now. © Peter Lang AG 2020. All rights reserved
Empathy Is the Devil: Employing Conventions and Themes of Early Cinema in Contemporary Practice
No full textOver the last decade, the international screen has witnessed a revival of silent cinema techniques. Eighty or so years after the advent of the talkies, titles such as France's The Artist (Hazanavicius, 2011), Spain’s Blancanieves (Berger, 2012), Australia's Dr. Plonk (de Heer, 2007), Portugal’s Tabu (Gomes, 2012) and Argentina’s La Antena (Sapir, 2007) have drawn on a palette of almost forgotten techniques to great effect. While each might be read as an homage to this foundational period in cinema history, the filmmakers’ objective has not been to remake silent films or to reject modern digital modes of filmmaking, but to reinvigorate the rich and varied ways by which stories may be told on film.
Empathy Is the Devil is a 12.5-minute silent black-and-white film strongly featuring dance, the themes of which include addiction, mental health, and homelessness. The film’s protagonist, who is at odds with the modern world, suffers a curious addiction: a daily pressure to give to charity more than he can afford. He finds solace in a nostalgic past in which property is freely shared and wealth is not the ultimate goal.Thesis (Professional Doctorate)Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA)Queensland College of ArtArts, Education and LawFull Tex
Transmitting the Impulse: The Creative Treatment of Ronald McCuaig's Poetry and Actuality
No full textThe object of this research is to expand the practice of archiveology, a term coined by Joel Katz in 1991 and theorised more recently by Catherine Russell to describe the process of reusing found archival footage in expository documentary to “produce new modes of thinking about the past” (2018, 47). This research will experiment with poetry as a source of archive, adding to the more commonly deployed materials such as film, still photographs, or letters used in documentary production. The intention of the work is to illuminate the literary career of the Australian poet Ronald McCuaig (1908–1993), who was also my grandfather. Ronald McCuaig was described by Australian author Geoffrey Dutton as “Australia’s first modern poet” (1986, 49), and was widely respected for his literary contribution, which spanned from the 1930s to the 1990s. In recent years, however, his work and career had begun to fade from view. As an established documentary filmmaker, I have completed a significant practice-based study, experimenting with production methods for multiplatform outcomes. The rich archive collection that emerged throughout the study led me to question how it is possible to do justice to literature through my usual documentary practice. I have initiated a hermeneutical experiment, re-versioning McCuaig’s literary work—predominantly poetry—through the methodologies of archiveology and videopoetry.
Over the past ten years, audience screening options and spaces have changed dramatically, providing opportunities to develop work that provides for a multifaceted viewing experience, adding online spaces to traditional cinema or television viewing. These options provide an opportunity to experiment with archiveological practices for new viewing artefacts such as videopoems. I aim to demonstrate the impact of Ronald McCuaig’s original work and its potential to provide powerful social commentary, still of relevance in 2020, using Walter Benjamin’s ‘dialectical image’ as a conceptual framework. The outcome of poetry from the 1930s, reimagined into videopoetry with companion documentary sequences, results in a synthesis and an unusual and expanded outcome for a documentary filmmaker: a gallery exhibition. Rather than a single screening event, the exhibition includes multiple screening spaces, a material culture collection, furniture installations, an exhibition publication, digitised original anthologies, and an online space. The combination of these outputs and proposed future endeavours provides audiences with a more visceral connection to the poet, his life and work.Thesis (Professional Doctorate)Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA)Queensland College of ArtArts, Education and LawFull Tex
How to be a Prehistoric Weatherman: Using n-alkanes as a Proxy for Holocene Climate and Hydrology, Southwest South Island, New Zealand
No full textThe latitudinal position and strength of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds
(SHWW) plays a critical role in global CO2 air-sea flux and the distribution of
rainfall in the southern mid-latitudes. Strengthening and southward shifting
westerlies are thought to be reducing the efficiency of the Southern Ocean carbon sink, which has direct implications for modern atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Southern New Zealand intersects the northern margin of the SHWW belt,
where a direct relationship exists between annual precipitation and zonal wind
speeds. Reconstructing past hydrological variations from the southwest of the
South Island (SWSI) can provide a regional record of climatic response to changing SHWW. A 5.4 m sediment core spanning the last 10.8 ka was recovered from
South Mavora Lake, Southland. Magnetic susceptibility, bulk organic C and N
isotopes and concentrations, and lipid biomarker (C21-C33 n-alkanes) concentrations, distributions, and hydrogen isotope values (δD) serve as proxies for change
in lacustrine productivity, relative proportions of terrestrial and aquatic input,
and hydrology. Modern SWSI meteoric water isotope values (δ18O, δD) collected
over a 12-month period, and meteorlogical station data, show orographic rainout
and air temperature are the primary drivers of hydrological isotope composition
in SWSI. Downcore interpretation of data suggests a period of increased precipitation, rapid warming, and greater terrestrial input from 10.8-9.0 ka, likely corresponding to weaker westerly influence over SHWW. From 9.0-7.0 ka, decreasing
δDn-alkanes shows gradual cooling, δ13C and ACL suggest increased aquatic productivity, and stratigraphy shows an increase in storm strength. From 7.0-5.1 ka
δDn-alkanes and δ13C are characteristic of a relatively stable temperate climate,
Paq and C/N ratios suggest a relatively humid environment, and stratigraphy
showed an increase of storm events. From 5.1-3.6 ka δDn-alkanes showed a large
cold excursion followed by gradual warming, Paq and stratigraphy reflected a significant increase in storm event frequency and strength, and an increase in ACL
reflected the expansion of cool-moist Nothofagus menziesii into the region. From
3.6 ka to present δDn −alkanes showed a cooling trend to present day, likely related
to strengthening of the SHWW, and low amplitude and frequency variation in
Paq and decreased storm events signaled a gradual decrease in precipitation to
modern day conditions
Towards a Model for Autobiographical and Socially Conscious Cinematic Documentary in Australia
No full textThe Australian film and television industry is currently undergoing a major transformation, which ultimately will have significant impact on its practitioners. As an Australian filmmaker whose interest and ambition lie in more idiosyncratic and autobiographical films for cinema, I believe a close examination of these filmmaking aspirations in relation to the current codes and practices of the Australian film industry is necessary.
Apart from some festivals and media interviews, for filmmakers there is little room for self-reflection. Having the opportunity to conduct a critical and in-depth examination of my work is vital for my professional development, as it signals a necessary shift from emerging filmmaker to the platform of a more mature and established filmmaking practice.
The objective of this research work is to investigate whether socially conscious autobiographical cinematic documentary can be a viable filmmaking practice in Australia. This process of investigation is driven by a self-reflexive analysis of my studio projects, challenged, shaped and developed by the work and experience of other film practitioners and documentary theorists whose ideas relate closely to the problem at hand...Thesis (Professional Doctorate)Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA)Queensland College of ArtQueensland College of ArtFull Tex
Early identification of at-risk youth in Latin America : an application of cluster analysis
No full textA new literature on the nature of and policies for youth in Latin America is emerging, but there is still very little known about who are the most vulnerable young people. This paper aims to characterize the heterogeneity in the youth population and identify ex ante the youth that are at-risk and should be targeted with prevention programs. Using non-parametric methodologies and specialized youth surveys from Mexico and Chile, the authors quantify and characterize the different sub-groups of youth, according to the amount of risk in their lives, and find that approximately 20 percent of 18 to 24 year old Chileans and 40 percent of the same age cohort in Mexico are suffering the consequences of a range of negative behaviors. Another 8 to 20 percent demonstrate factors in their lives that pre-dispose them to becoming at-risk youth - they are the candidates for prevention programs. The analysis finds two observable variables that can be used to identify which children have a higher probability of becoming troubled youth: poverty and residing in rural areas. The analysis also finds that risky behaviors increase with age and differ by gender, thereby highlighting the need for program and policy differentiation along these two demographic dimensions.Adolescent Health,Youth and Governance,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Population Policies,Gender and Health
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