O Neo-Peplum: Hollywood e a herança do cinema popular europeu no séc. XXI

Através de uma análise histórico-formal este artigo propõe-se analisar a influência do peplum, um conjunto de filmes de aventuras produzidos na Europa mediterrânea entre 1958 e 1964, no cinema de Hollywood contemporâneo, em particular num ciclo de filmes que denominámos de neo-peplums pois, tal como o peplum europeu, estes caraterizam-se pela recriação fantasiosa do Mundo Antigo e pela hipertrofia do trabalho formal, utilizando os novos recursos tecnológicos na criação de uma mise-en-scène altamente estilizada.

Adapting Victorian Gypsies for the Screen: Ethnicity, Otherness and (In)visibility in Neo-Victorian Popular Film

This paper aims at analysing the presence of gypsy characters in two neo-Victorian popular films, namely Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman (2010) and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows (2011). The cultural construction of nineteenth-century gypsies, those “Others within Europe” (Boyarin 433) whose presence in Victorian fiction was peripheral, spectral and at times invisible (Nord 3-4), is simultaneously exploited and contested by these two neo-Victorian screen narratives to raise issues of otherness and invisibility on the screen. Setting off from the premise that screen texts, just like print texts, can also be participant in the neo-Victorian project of reimagining the underside of Victorian culture for contemporary audiences (Whelehan 273), this paper traces how the adaptation of Victorian gypsies for the screen, true to the palimpsestuous potential inherent to the process of adaptation (Hutcheon 6) and sharing the double drive between past and present which characterises the neo-Victorian genre (Arias and Pulham xiii; Shiller 539), hybridises our cultural memory of the Victorian Age on the screen while concurrently raises concerns over the persistent liminal status of gypsies in contemporary European culture. In particular, this paper illustrates how the tropes prototypically associated to gypsies (namely their nomadic lifestyle, mysticism, alienated existence or their perceived association to criminality) which can be traced back to Victorian culture are deployed on the neo-Victorian popular screen (with varyingly succesful outcomes) to comment on their (in)visibility in the European popular imagination.

La literatura de la neo-violencia en Colombia : manifestaciones thanáticas en el siglo XXI

La rédaction de ce mémoire a été possible grâce à la bourse d’études supérieures du Canada (BESC M), Joseph-Armand-Bombardier du Centre de Recherche en Sciences Humaines (CRSH) du gouvernement du Canada, 2015.

Matematica e musica grafi, tonnetz e teorie neo-riemanniane

Il primo capitolo verte su argomenti di musica e, dopo una breve premessa generale, ed alcuni cenni biografici di J. S. Bach, si passa ad una analisi strutturale di tipo aritmetico e geometrico su alcune sue famose composizioni, sottolineando in particolare la passione del grande compositore per la numerologia, esaminando l’importanza che il fattore numerologico sempre assume nelle sue opere. Il secondo capitolo verte su argomenti di matematica e tratta alcuni importanti aspetti della teoria dei grafi, del toro e dell’immersione di grafi in superfici. Il terzo capitolo, nel quale si fa riferimento agli argomenti dei primi due capitoli, è diviso in tre parti: la prima esamina alcuni principali fondamenti matematico-musicali, la seconda propone un excursus storico dalla scala pitagorica al temperamento equabile, la terza approfondisce il ciclo delle quinte, il Tonnetz e le teorie neo-riemanniane.

Historiographic Metafiction and the Neo-slave Narrative: Pastiche and Polyphony in Caryl Phillips, Toni Morrison and Sherley Anne Williams

The classic slave narrative recounted a fugitive slave’s personal story condemning slavery and hence working towards abolition. The neo-slave narrative underlines the slave’s historical legacy by unveiling the past through foregrounding African Atlantic experiences in an attempt to create a critical historiography of the Black Atlantic. The neo-slave narrative is a genre that emerged following World War II and presents us with a dialogue combining the history of 1970 - 2000. In this thesis I seek to explore how the contemporary counter-part of the classic slave narrative draws, reflects or diverges from the general conventions of its predecessor. I argue that by scrutinizing our notion of truth, the neo-slave narrative remains a relevant, important witness to the history of slavery as well as to today’s still racialized society. The historiographic metafiction of the neo-slave narrative rewrites history with the goal of digesting the past and ultimately leading to future reconciliation.

La literatura de la neo-violencia en Colombia : manifestaciones thanáticas en el siglo XXI

La rédaction de ce mémoire a été possible grâce à la bourse d’études supérieures du Canada (BESC M), Joseph-Armand-Bombardier du Centre de Recherche en Sciences Humaines (CRSH) du gouvernement du Canada, 2015.

Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 metabolises the human milk oligosaccharides lacto-N-tetraose and lacto-N-neo-tetraose through overlapping, yet distinct pathways

In this study, we demonstrate that the prototype B. breve strain UCC2003 possesses specific metabolic pathways for the utilisation of lacto-N-tetraose (LNT) and lacto-N-neotetraose (LNnT), which represent the central moieties of Type I and Type II human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), respectively. Using a combination of experimental approaches, the enzymatic machinery involved in the metabolism of LNT and LNnT was identified and characterised. Homologs of the key genetic loci involved in the utilisation of these HMO substrates were identified in B. breve, B. bifidum, B. longum subsp. infantis and B. longum subsp. longum using bioinformatic analyses, and were shown to be variably present among other members of the Bifidobacterium genus, with a distinct pattern of conservation among human-associated bifidobacterial species.

Práticas científicas e colonialismo tardio em Portugal: acerca da (in)visibilidade de género em narrativas sobre quotidianos asiáticos

Este artigo explora relações entre género, prática científica e representações do espaço entre académicos portugueses que trabalham na Ásia. O foco empírico é colocado na análise da prática científica de uma cientista social, Graciete Batalha, com vista a discutir o seu trabalho em comparação com outras narrativas académicas suas contemporâneas. No verão de 1974, a linguista Graciete Batalha viaja para a cidade de Malaca (Malásia) numa missão científica de aplicação de um inquérito linguístico a uma população local, a qual é caracterizada como tendo origem portuguesa. Argumentamos que o trabalho dessa linguista se posiciona numa transição entre dois diferentes modos de produção de conhecimento, o colonial e o pós-colonial.

TURISMO EM TERRAS INDÍGENAS: AUTO-GESTÃO E NOVO COLONIALISMO NO NORDESTE DO BRASIL

O artigo versa o uso e a apropriação do espaço pela prática turística em Terras Indígenas (TIs). Enfatizam-se os casos do turismo em terras dos povos Tremembé e Jenipapo-Kanindé, Ceará, Nordeste, Brasil. Apresentam-se leituras geográficas e antropológicas sobre o turismo e, também, depoimentos de atores sociais que demonstram este fenômeno como uma nova forma de colonialismo em TIs do litoral cearense. O turismo é uma prática espacial globalizada, criador de territorialidades. As demandas, cada vez mais, buscam segmentos turísticos que proporcionem vivências culturais e destinos distintos do turismo de massa. Nesta perspectiva os povos Jenipapo-Kanindé ofertam o turismo em suas TIs por meio de um projeto de auto-gestão em parceria com Redes de Turismo Comunitário. Para os povos Tremembé de Buriti e de Sítio São José o contexto relacionado com o turismo difere dos Jenipapo-Kanindé, pois enfrentam situação de conflito. Parte dos habitantes de Buriti e de Sítio São José recusa o turismo em suas TIs, imposto por grupos hoteleiros internacionais como um novo colonialismo. Os empreendedores espanhóis pretendem implantar o projeto ‘Nova Atlântida – Cidade Turística Internacional’ nas TIs dos citados Tremembé e ofertar aos visitantes vislumbres de um paraíso tropical construído historicamente no imaginário europeu.

CULTURA, PÓS-COLONIALISMO E AMÉRICA LATINA/CARIBE

O autor apresenta reflexões sobre a literatura latino-americana e, em especial, as investigações brasileiras sobre a literatura e seu contexto social, iniciativas que produziram uma literatura extensa a partir da qual a teoria pós-colonial latino-americana e brasileira, já sistematizada e desenvolvida, poderia ser mais elaborada. Nesse contexto, a Antropologia, a História e a Sociologia brasileiras exibem um grande número de volumes que tratam de colonialismo, violência, cultura, miscigenação, diáspora, identidade, alteridade, escravidão, memória, racismo, ou seja, temas fundamentais para os estudos literários.

Why fundamentalism?

Why Fundamentalism? was an exhibition proposal and critical writing project developed from concept phase through to detailed proposal. It included an edited video document that lay out its core ideas and presented the diverse voices of each collaborator. A number of key themes were engaged around the hot-button (and much misunderstood) concept of Fundamentalism. The proposal included an exhibition layout, developed test imagery, ideas and animations, proposed forms for future works and a process whereby design briefs would lead to subsequent commissions. Two major grant applications were submitted to the Australia Council and Arts Queensland, with the support of State Library of Queensland, the University of Adelaide and numerous others. The project remains at the developed proposal stage awaiting suitable funding----- Critically the show became an active vehicle for drawing and exploring a line of distinction between ideas of ‘what is fundamental’ and ‘fundamentalism’ as it rested in the popular imagination, as well as in political and philosophical debates. It teased out and engaged with a number of key questions that included The Problem of Ungroundedness, A Politics of Finitude, The Post-modern/Pluralist Problem, Silent Fundamentalisms (Voices of Reason and Neo-con Religions), Fundamentalism as a Media Construct, The Pre and Post Cold-war Other, The Pressing Need for Foundations in the West and Islam as Foundationalism (rather than fundamentalism).

Tangible interfaces to explain Gaudi's use of ruled-surface geometries

This paper summarises the development of a machine-readable model series for explaining Gaudi's use of ruled surface geometry in the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. The first part discusses the modeling methods underlying the columns of the cathedral and the techniques required to translate them into built structures. The second part discusses the design and development of a tangible machine-readable model to explain column-modeling methods interactively in educational contexts such as art exhibitions. It is designed to explain the principles underlying the column design by means of physical interaction without using mathematical terms or language.

The Second Life of urban planning? Using neogeography tools for community engagement

The majority of the world’s citizens now live in cities. Although urban planning can thus be thought of as a field with significant ramifications on the human condition, many practitioners feel that it has reached the crossroads in thought leadership between traditional practice and a new, more participatory and open approach. Conventional ways to engage people in participatory planning exercises are limited in reach and scope. At the same time, socio-cultural trends and technology innovation offer opportunities to re-think the status quo in urban planning. Neogeography introduces tools and services that allow non-geographers to use advanced geographical information systems. Similarly, is there potential for the emergence of a neo-planning paradigm in which urban planning is carried out through active civic engagement aided by Web 2.0 and new media technologies thus redefining the role of practicing planners? This paper traces a number of evolving links between urban planning, neogeography and information and communication technology. Two significant trends – participation and visualisation – with direct implications for urban planning are discussed. Combining advanced participation and visualisation features, the popular virtual reality environment Second Life is then introduced as a test bed to explore a planning workshop and an integrated software event framework to assist narrative generation. We discuss an approach to harness and analyse narratives using virtual reality logging to make transparent how users understand and interpret proposed urban designs.