277 research outputs found
Slobodan Simić: an appreciation
No full textSlobodan Simic had many interests and many friends. Doubtless each of his 66 co-authors has a story to tell, but here we can offer only our own personal perspectives
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Lola's War ::Rape Without Punishment /
No full text"This book is an important contribution to transitional justice scholarship. In a sensitive manner, it reminds readers of the need to listen to the everyday stories of survivors of violence. The accounts of one woman's loss and personal heartache in a search for justice, are moving." - Professor Elisabeth Porter, University of South Australia, Australia "Beautifully written, deep, reflective and thoughtful, Olivera Simic's new book takes the reader on an intimate and up-close journey for justice of a wartime sexual violence survivor in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The life story of Lola is a rich and detailed story of a woman showcasing lived experiences and consequences of searching for justice in the aftermath of atrocities, which are often inadvertent and unpredictable. It is filled with hopes, disappointments, traumas but also resilience and empowerment. It is an absolute must read for everyone engaged and interested in post-conflict transitional justice." - Associate Professor Barbora Hola, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Senior Researcher, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) "Lola's War makes me think, makes me think hard thoughts. And because Lola herself is so wonderfully portrayed here, one cannot escape the hard thinking - about gendered war, about violence against women, about personal sovereignty, about justice. Olivera Simic has done us all a great service by challenging us, while never betraying Lola's integrity." - Professor Cynthia Enloe, author of Twelve Feminist Lessons of War This longitudinal study is based on the story of Lola, who was gang raped during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. At the time, she was in a detention camp with her young children. Only one of Lola's several perpetrators was convicted but his sentence of six years of imprisonment has never been actioned by the Bosnian judiciary. Lola's rapist is still free and she lives in continual fear that he will retaliate against her and her children for her role in his trial. Olivera Simić is Associate Professor with the Griffith Law School, Australia
Reading of selected poetry
No full text2007 U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, the author of eighteen collections of poetry, is also an essayist, translator, editor, and professor emeritus of creative writing and literature at the University of New Hampshire. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for his book of prose poems The World Doesn\u27t End, and his 1996 collection, Walking the Black Cat, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. His most recent poetry volume is That Little Something (2008). Simic held a MacArthur Fellowship from 1984-1989, and has also held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. In 2007, the same day he was appointed Poet Laureate, Simic received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry
Reading of selected poetry
No full text2007 U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, the author of eighteen collections of poetry, is also an essayist, translator, editor, and professor emeritus of creative writing and literature at the University of New Hampshire. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for his book of prose poems The World Doesn\u27t End, and his 1996 collection, Walking the Black Cat, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. His most recent poetry volume is That Little Something (2008). Simic held a MacArthur Fellowship from 1984-1989, and has also held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. In 2007, the same day he was appointed Poet Laureate, Simic received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry
Assessing drive tourists' preferences and motivations: A case study of Bella Coola, British Columbia
No full textThe objectives of this research were to: 1) Gain an understanding of the drive tourism market in the Bella Coola Valley and particularly visitors’ characteristics, length of stay, and behaviour whilst in the valley. This would be done by implementing a quantitative self completed survey. 2) Trial a qualitative research tool which will seek to explore the psychographic profiles of the RV market. This research tool would consist of in-depth, open ended interviews and focus groups.Final Report of Findings. -- Prepared by Dr. Anne Hardy and Jovan Simic, Resource Recreation and Tourism Program, University of Northern British Columbia, for: BC Ferries, Central Coast Regional District, Bella Coola Valley Tourism, BC Real Estate Partnering Fun
Ivana Milojevic, 'Breathing: Violence In, Peace Out', Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2013, ISBN 9 7807 0224 9693, 296 pp., $39.95
No full textThis is a rare type of book that interweaves personal narrative with critical commentary on violent conflict and the possibilities of peace. The author, while reflective and mindful of her narrative, does not shy away from the bite of reality. As she says in the introduction:Full Tex
Myth Revisited in The World Doesn’t End, by Charles Simic
No full textEste artículo realiza un acercamiento al libro de poemas en prosa The World Doesn’t End, del poeta serbio-norteamericano Charles Simic. En el poemario se advierten dos rasgos fundamentales que contribuyen a configurar la visión del mundo que Simic desarrolla a lo largo de su extensa producción: por un lado, la creación de un universo de ribetes surrealistas y, por otro, una nostalgia por el pasado como tiempo perdido, recuperable solamente a través de la imaginación. The World Doesn’t End, publicado en Estados Unidos en 1990, fue traducido al español por Mario Lucarda en España, y ha llegado nuestro país solamente mediante versiones de algunos de los poemas en prosa en publicaciones periódicas. Es por eso que se propone, al final del artículo, una breve selección de textos traducidos al español, para contribuir a la difusión de este autor que manifiesta, con su obra, una de las múltiples voces de la poesía norteamericana contemporánea.This article analyzes Serbian-American author Charles Simic’s prose poems in The World Doesn’t End.The book shows two traits which help transmit Simic’s view of the world: on the one hand, his surrealistic imagery and, on the other, a certain nostalgia for the past as a time that can be recovered through the imagination. The World Doesn’t End was first published in the U.S.A. In 1990, and later translated into Spanish by Mario Lucarda, in Spain. The poems in this book can be found in Argentina only partially, in some journals and magazines. That is why at the end
of this article there is a brief selection with translations of our own, in order to make Simic’s poetry accessible to Argentine readers, who will gain further insight into the multiple voices of contemporary American poetry.Fil: Raggio, Marcela.
CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) - Universidad Nacional de Cuy
Eigenvalue bounds for the signless laplacian
No full textWe extend our previous survey of properties of spectra of signless Laplacians of graphs. Some new bounds for eigenvalues are given, and the main result concerns the graphs whose largest eigenvalue is maximal among the graphs with fixed numbers of vertices and edges. The results are presented in the context of a number of computer-generated conjectures
Graphs with least eigenvalue -2: ten years on
No full textThe authors' monographSpectral Generalizations of Line Graphswas published in 2004, following the successful use of star complements to complete the classification of graphs with least eigenvalue −2. Guided by citations of the book, we survey progress in this area over the past decade. Some new observations are included
Resultados espectrais relacionados com a estrutura dos grafos
No full textDoutoramento em MatemáticaNesta tese são estabelecidas novas propriedades espectrais de grafos com
estruturas específicas, como sejam os grafos separados em cliques e
independentes e grafos duplamente separados em independentes, ou ainda
grafos com conjuntos (κ,τ)-regulares. Alguns invariantes dos grafos separados
em cliques e independentes são estudados, tendo como objectivo limitar o
maior valor próprio do espectro Laplaciano sem sinal. A técnica do valor
próprio é aplicada para obter alguns majorantes e minorantes do índice do
espectro Laplaciano sem sinal dos grafos separados em cliques e
independentes bem como sobre o índice dos grafos duplamente separados em
independentes. São fornecidos alguns resultados computacionais de modo a
obter uma melhor percepção da qualidade desses mesmos extremos.
Estudamos igualmente os grafos com um conjunto (κ,τ)-regular que induz uma
estrela complementar para um valor próprio não-principal =κ-τ. Usando uma abordagem baseada nos grafos estrela
complementares construímos, em alguns casos, os respectivos grafos
maximais. Uma caracterização dos grafos separados em cliques e
independentes que envolve o índice e as entradas do vector principal é
apresentada tal como um majorante do número da estabilidade dum grafo
conexo.In this thesis new spectral properties of graphs with a specific structure (as split
graphs, nested split and double split graphs as well as graphs with (κ,τ)-regular
sets) are deduced. Some invariants of nested split graphs are studied in order
to bound the largest eigenvalue of signless Laplacian spectra. The eigenvalue
technique is applied to obtain some lower and upper bounds on the index of
signless Laplacian spectra of nested split graphs as well as on the index of
double nested graphs. Computational results are provided in order to gain a
better insight of quality of these bounds. The graphs having a (κ,τ)-regular set
which induces a star complement for a non-main eigenvalue = κ-τ. By the star complement technique, in
some cases, maximal graphs with desired properties are constructed. A
spectral characterization of families of split graphs involving its index and the
entries of the principal eigenvector is given as well as an upper bound on the
stability number of a connected graph
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