Derek Jarman’s allegories of spectacle: inter-artistic embodiment

ABSTRACT - Derek Jarman was a multifaceted artist whose intermedial versatility reinforces a strong authorial discourse. He constructs an immersive allegorical world of hybrid art where different layers of cinematic, theatrical and painterly materials come together to convey a lyrical form and express a powerful ideological message. In Caravaggio (1986) and Edward II (1991), Jarman approaches two european historical figures from two different but concomitant perspectives. In Caravaggio, through the use of tableaux of abstract meaning and by focusing on the detailing of the models’ poses, Jarman re-enacts the allegorical spirit of Caravaggio’s paintings through entirely cinematic resources. Edward II was a king, and as a statesman he possessed a certain dose of showmanship. In this film Jarman reconstructs the theatrical basis of Christopher Marlowe’s Elizabethan play bringing it up to date in a successfully abstract approach to the musical stage. In this article, I intend to conjoin the practice of allegory in film with certain notions of existential phenomenology as advocated by Vivian Sobchack and Laura U. Marks, in order to address the relationship between the corporeality of the film and the lived bodies of the spectators. In this context, the allegory is a means to convey intradiegetically the sense-ability at play in the cinematic experience, reinforcing the textural and sensual nature of both film and viewer, which, in turn, is also materially enhanced in the film proper, touching the spectator in a supplementary fashion. The two corporealities favour an inter-artistic immersion achieved through coenaesthesia.

Um mundo, um governo: a importância e desafios das relações entre a união europeia e o mercosul no cenário das associações inter-regionais

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais

Digital storytelling: an integrated approach to language for the 21st century student

Societal changes have, throughout history, pushed the long-established boundaries of education across all grade levels. Technology and media merge with education in a continuous complex social process with human consequences and effects. We, teachers, can aspire to understand and interpret this volatile context that is being redesigned at the same time society itself is being reshaped as a result of the technological evolution. The language- learning classroom is not impenetrable to these transformations. Rather, it can perhaps be seen as a playground where teachers and students gather to combine the past and the present in an integrated approach. We draw on the results from a previous study and argue that Digital Storytelling as a Process is capable of aggregating and fostering positive student development in general, as well as enhancing interpersonal relationships and self-knowledge while improving digital literacy. Additionally, we establish a link between the four basic language-learning skills and the Digital Storytelling process and demonstrate how these converge into what can be labeled as an integrated language learning approach.

Giardia duodenalis: INTER-STRAIN VARIABILITY OF PROTEINS, ANTIGENS, PROTEASES, ISOENZYMES AND NUCLEIC ACIDS

Giardia duodenalis isolates from asymptomatic or symptomatic patients and from animals present similarities and differences in the protein composition, antigenic profile, pattern of proteases and isoenzymes, as well as in nucleic acids analysis. In the present overview, these differences and similarities are reviewed with emphasis in the host-parasite interplay and possible mechanisms of virulence of the protozoon.

Bacterial inter-species communication mediated by the autoinducer-2 signal

Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Biology by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência.

Formal Contracts for Runtime Verification Support in the Ada Programming Language

Poster presented in The 28th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2015). 24 to 26, Mar, 2015. Porto, Portugal.

A conversa e o relato enquanto possibilidades do comum, apartir de we aim to be amateurs (Art & Language, 1997)

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Filosofia-Estética

Writing skills at secondary level. Developing an English language writing syllabus - a case study

Trabalho de projecto apresentado para o cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de mestre em Didática do Inglês

Developing writing skills in English language teaching through the use of blogs and e-mail at primary school level

Trabalho de Projeto apresentado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Teaching English as a Second / Foreign Language

A Methodology for Creating an Adapted Command Language for Driving an Intelligent Wheelchair

Intelligent wheelchairs (IW) are technologies that can increase the autonomy and independence of elderly people and patients suffering from some kind of disability. Nowadays the intelligent wheelchairs and the human-machine studies are very active research areas. This paper presents a methodology and a Data Analysis System (DAS) that provides an adapted command language to an user of the IW. This command language is a set of input sequences that can be created using inputs from an input device or a combination of the inputs available in a multimodal interface. The results show that there are statistical evidences to affirm that the mean of the evaluation of the DAS generated command language is higher than the mean of the evaluation of the command language recommended by the health specialist (p value = 0.002) with a sample of 11 cerebral palsy users. This work demonstrates that it is possible to adapt an intelligent wheelchair interface to the user even when the users present heterogeneous and severe physical constraints.

Interculturality in the Primary EFL Classroom: Increasing Tolerance through (Inter) Cultural Awareness

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Didáctica do Inglês,

Nós dizemos que eles são como nós precisamos que eles sejam para nos podermos ver como nos vemos. Vicissitudes identitárias nas relações inter-étnicas

Como Calhoun (1996) e Mennell (1996) referem, apesar da atenção acrescida dada às construções, estratégias e políticas da identidade, permanece uma evidente dificuldade de articulação entre diferentes corpora e, nomeadamente, daqueles que derivam da utilização de um nível micro de observação e análise e de um nível de macro-focalização. (í^om base num estudo de caso, tentaremos evidenciar que (a) os processos identitários articulam as duas dimensões de análise e que (b) o nível micro- familiar constitui o referente e o mediador simbôlico-identitário adequado da articulação entre as micro e as macro-perspectivas,^ (c) a partir do qual emerge toda uma gama de idiomas simbólicos (familialistas, instrumentais e morais). O papel desempenhado pela experiência arcaica familiar tem a ver com o facto de que é nesse nível que se cruzam os gêneros e as gerações, se negoceia e gere a dimensão identitária da sexualidade, a moral e a construção diferenciada de identidades categoriais, e são organizadas as primeiras fronteiras entre «nós» e «eles»^, ao mesmo tempo que se vai diferenciando a identidade pessoal, sob a forma da construção do «indivíduo» que será progressivamente confrontado com a transposição projectiva do(s) poder(es) intra-familiar(es) para o nível macro do poder transcendental e dos poderes de Estado.

Das inter-etnicidades em processos de inserção social diferenciadas às dinâmicas do sistema-mundo: uma abordagem estrutural-dinâmica

Em pesquisas anteriores, procurámos mostrar que (i) as representações identitárias possuem uma estrutura multidimensional, cujos níveis (pessoal, bio-cultural, sócio-histórico / político, ideal, «moral», etc.) estão inter-relacionados, e formam um sistema identitário pessoal, se bem que partilhado, em proporções variáveis, com os outros emissores identitários inseridos na mesma categoria sócio-histórica; (ii) sistema identitário esse detentor de potencialidades estratégicas (Kastersztein, 1990) - ideológicas, simbólicas e fantasmáticas -, derivadas da articulação inconsciente entre os diferentes níveis mobilizados. Tentámos evidenciar ainda, no nível mais abrangente das representações identitárias dos grupos sócio-históricos, (iii) como o grau de sobreposição e convergência das atribuições identitárias, tanto ao grupo.de identificação como aos grupos de comparação interactiva, é parcial, indiciando estratégias de maior ou menor distanciação / aproximação identitária inter-nacional ou inter-étnica; (iv) e como, no seu conjunto, as representações identitárias apresentam uma lógica e uma economia retórica, tendenciosa e performativa (pro domo sua), criando para os sujeitos, no interior dos seus grupos, e para os seus grupos identitários, na comparação com os outros, uma imagem de primo inter pares, na medida em que constroiem como «real» o «real identitariamente conveniente» e não aquele que «objectivamente » é «objectivado» (em termos de poder tecnológico, econômico ou militar).

Development of The Viking Speech Scale to Classify the Speech of Children with Cerebral Palsy

Surveillance registers monitor the prevalence of cerebral palsy and the severity of resulting impairments across time and place. The motor disorders of cerebral palsy can affect children’s speech production and limit their intelligibility. We describe the development of a scale to classify children’s speech performance for use in cerebral palsy surveillance registers, and its reliability across raters and across time. Speech and language therapists, other healthcare professionals and parents classified the speech of 139 children with cerebral palsy (85 boys, 54 girls; mean age 6.03 years, SD 1.09) from observation and previous knowledge of the children. Another group of health professionals rated children’s speech from information in their medical notes. With the exception of parents, raters reclassified children’s speech at least four weeks after their initial classification. Raters were asked to rate how easy the scale was to use and how well the scale described the child’s speech production using Likert scales. Inter-rater reliability was moderate to substantial (k > .58 for all comparisons). Test–retest reliability was substantial to almost perfect for all groups (k > .68). Over 74% of raters found the scale easy or very easy to use; 66% of parents and over 70% of health care professionals judged the scale to describe children’s speech well or very well. We conclude that the Viking Speech Scale is a reliable tool to describe the speech performance of children with cerebral palsy, which can be applied through direct observation of children or through case note review.