52 research outputs found
Oral History Interview with Ilene Seidman (SOH-076 video recording and transcript)
No full textIlene Seidman, a professor emerita and former associate dean of Suffolk University Law School, discusses her early law career, including her time at Harvard University Law School. Seidman provides details about her advocacy work on behalf of low-income clients, domestic violence and sexual assault victims, and her involvement with Harvard University’s AIDS clinic. She describes her career at Suffolk University including her roles as a clinical professor and associate dean, her involvement with Suffolk University’s Accelerator-to-Practice Program, and the overall development of Suffolk’s clinical law program. Throughout the interview, she reflects upon her overwhelmingly positive memories of Suffolk University, especially her relationships with colleagues and students.https://dc.suffolk.edu/soh/1061/thumbnail.jp
The relationship between author and audience: case study of a young-adult author and a student audience
No full textHow does author relate to audience? This overarching question guided a case study focused on author Rick Norman and his novel Fielder’s Choice. Specific questions were (1) What was, and is, this author’s conception of his audience for the book? (2) How do members of the audience—specifically five high school students—respond to the novel? (3) How do the audience’s responses relate to the author’s stated intentions? Data came from the following sources: interviews with the author, the student readers, and the editor of the book; students’ written responses to the book and the author’s written reactions to those responses; an interactive dialogue between the author and the students; records and documents provided by the author; and reviews of the book. Data analysis employed Glaser and Strauss’s (1967) comparative method and Spradley’s (1979) developmental research sequence. Findings include the following: (1) This author saw his audience, which he portrayed as multi-faceted and dynamic, through the lens of self. He attributed to his audience his own characteristics when he originally planned and wrote the book and also when he talked about it ten years later. Self was at the center of his generic audience as well as his defined audience. (2) The audience of readers in this study varied in the extent to which they connected with the author. Most of them did, however, speculate about his intentions relative to the content as well as to text features. (3) Author intention and audience response did not always match. When mismatches were revealed in written and oral exchanges, subsequent dialogue between author and audience was directed to mutual understanding. The author wanted to learn what there was in his writing that led the readers to unintended meanings, and the readers wanted to learn why the author wrote as he did. This study, focused on author-audience relationship, fits into a growing body of work examining connections between reading and writing. Its uniqueness lies in its dual focus on both author intention and audience response and in the opportunities provided for author and audience to meet to discuss intentions and responses
Lawyers for the Abused and Lawyers for the Accused: An Interfaith Marriage
No full textIn this article, we will explore what unites lawyers for the abused and lawyers for the accused. In Part II, we will discuss our connection as poverty lawyers concerned about the dignity of individual clients. In Part III, we will discuss our shared commitment to the adversarial system, legal process, and access to justice. In Part IV, we will address the challenge of teaching students who represent victims or perpetrators to be zealous and devoted advocates - but also to care about social and legal injustice on both sides
The telomere binding protein TRF2 induces chromatin compaction.
No full textMammalian telomeres are specialized chromatin structures that require the telomere binding protein, TRF2, for maintaining chromosome stability. In addition to its ability to modulate DNA repair activities, TRF2 also has direct effects on DNA structure and topology. Given that mammalian telomeric chromatin includes nucleosomes, we investigated the effect of this protein on chromatin structure. TRF2 bound to reconstituted telomeric nucleosomal fibers through both its basic N-terminus and its C-terminal DNA binding domain. Analytical agarose gel electrophoresis (AAGE) studies showed that TRF2 promoted the folding of nucleosomal arrays into more compact structures by neutralizing negative surface charge. A construct containing the N-terminal and TRFH domains together altered the charge and radius of nucleosomal arrays similarly to full-length TRF2 suggesting that TRF2-driven changes in global chromatin structure were largely due to these regions. However, the most compact chromatin structures were induced by the isolated basic N-terminal region, as judged by both AAGE and atomic force microscopy. Although the N-terminal region condensed nucleosomal array fibers, the TRFH domain, known to alter DNA topology, was required for stimulation of a strand invasion-like reaction with nucleosomal arrays. Optimal strand invasion also required the C-terminal DNA binding domain. Furthermore, the reaction was not stimulated on linear histone-free DNA. Our data suggest that nucleosomal chromatin has the ability to facilitate this activity of TRF2 which is thought to be involved in stabilizing looped telomere structures
The late gothic abbey church of Saint-Riquier: An investigation of historical consciousness.
No full textInterest in the Carolingian churches at the abbey of Saint-Riquier, as described by the monk Hariulf, has overwhelmed study of the late gothic building that stands today. The existing building, constructed in the late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century, rises from the foundations of a Carolingian church funded by Charlemagne, itself enlarged and reinforced by Romanesque additions and restorations, and envelopes the core of a church built during the high gothic period. Did the history incorporated in this layering of stone interest the late medieval mason and patron, and did it affect the late gothic construction? The possibility of architecture reflecting an interest in history has been established. Richard Krautheimer has shown that the medieval architect deliberately reused plan types to connect the present with the past. The late gothic architectural style is one of quotation; buildings of the past, especially the high gothic past, provided a rich source for the late medieval mason. The author investigates whether the patrons and masons of late gothic Saint-Riquier were particularly influenced by the illustrious history of the abbey. On-site study of the church and archival research supply the basis for the description and analysis and for the proposed course of construction of the late gothic building. Using existing and new plans, the author traces the construction history of Saint-Riquier from its Carolingian apogee to the late gothic period, including an analysis of the reconstruction proposals offered by Wilhelm Effmann and Honore Bernard. Lively interior sculpture and a sculpture-clad west facade distinguish the building from its predecessors and provide the author means by which to look at the unique contributions of the late gothic patrons and masons. Over one hundred original photographs and archival transcriptions document the church. The author concludes that the conservatism of style and construction seen in the late gothic church is the result of the convenient and advantageous reuse of earlier elements rather than a deliberate historical consciousness.PhDArchitectureArt historyCommunication and the ArtsMedieval historySocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/130567/2/9732164.pd
Erratum to: Risky Sex and HIV Acquisition Among HIV Serodiscordant Couples in Zambia, 2002–2012: What Does Alcohol Have To Do With It?
No full textThe article Risky Sex and HIV Acquisition Among HIV Serodiscordant Couples in Zambia, 2002–2012: What Does Alcohol Have To Do With It?, written by Dvora Joseph Davey, William Kilembe, Kristin M. Wall, Naw Htee Khu, Ilene Brill, Bellington Vwalika, Elwyn Chomba, Joseph Mulenga, Amanda Tichacek, Marjan Javanbakht, W. Scott Comulada, Susan Allen, Pamina M. Gorbach, was originally published Online First without open access. After publication in volume 21, issue 7, pages 1892–1903, the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an open access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) [Year] and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made
The Relationship between Motion Picture Distribution and Exhibition: An Analysis of the Effects of Anti-Blind Bidding Legislation
No full textThe struggle between motion picture exhibitors and distributors has resulted in continually changing business practices within the film industry. In particular, state anti-blind bidding statutes have changed the way film distribution is handled in the United States. The author traces the history of film licensing and concludes that anti-blind bidding legislation was unwarranted and has damaged the smaller, independent exhibitors and distributors
The Relationship between Motion Picture Distribution and Exhibition: An Analysis of the Effects of Anti-Blind Bidding Legislation
No full textThe struggle between motion picture exhibitors and distributors has resulted in continually changing business practices within the film industry. In particular, state anti-blind bidding statutes have changed the way film distribution is handled in the United States. The author traces the history of film licensing and concludes that anti-blind bidding legislation was unwarranted and has damaged the smaller, independent exhibitors and distributors
Departures
No full textDEPARTURES is a collection of short stories which explores the impact of gender on discourse, how meaning is constructed through language, and how the self is constructed in the making of that meaning. In an attempt to understand some of the consequences of being a woman writer I have disrupted conventional narrative strategies to expand narrative possibilities. Other guiding questions for my work include: What is the relationship of the reader to text, of texts to other texts, of author/writer to text, of text to experience? Through these narrative experiments I hope to call attention to the restrictiveness of language, the illusion of control embedded in our conventional use of it, and to question the assumptions of mastery of meaning.California State University, Northridge. Department of English
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