Dossier Chris Marker : the suffering image

Dossier Chris Marker: The Suffering Image is a study of a late-modern chiasmus, impersonal-personal agency, as it comes to expression in the works of French artist and filmmaker, Chris Marker, as the dynamic interplay of political and subjective agency. As chiasmus, the complementary halves of this often-apocalyptic dynamis (a semi-catastrophic, temporal or historical force-field) also – arguably – secretly agree to meet, through the work of art, in the futural. Consistent with the classical figure of concordia discors, these irreducible warring aspects of life experience are, in fact, resolved in an atemporal and ahistorical moment that inhabits the work of art from its inception. This redemptive aspect in art is also the ultimate gesture of the artwork as “mask” or “screen” for forces that reside beyond the frame of the image or work, as its proverbial Other, or within the frame, as other to that Other. A topological “knot,” or ontological “problem,” it is this very conflict that animates all of Marker’s extensive works – filmic and otherwise.

Travelling without gods: a Chris Wallace-Crabbe companion

Wide-ranging in theme and context, it explores the imaginative effects of his writing. A tribute to Chris on the occasion of this eightieth birthday, in many ways it suggests an alternative cultural history of Australia since the 1950s.

Containing biographical and critical pieces, poems (including new work by Chris) and essays that respond to his career Travelling without Gods takes account of the decades in which he has written. It illuminates, celebrates and critiques his work in its various contexts.

Perfil de maturidade de dirigentes de empresas de Porto Alegre : estudo baseado no modelo de Chris Argyris

O estudo sobre maturidade gerencial desenvolveu-se com base no modelo de Chris Argyris e foi enriquecido com reflexões, proposições e indagações de outros autores que, direta ou indiretamente, estudaram o comportamento de dirigentes em organizações de aprendizagem e de empresas excelentes. O estudo foi realizado a partir das manifestações de dirigentes de empresas de pequeno, médio e grande porte, localizadas no Município de Porto Alegre. Das sete dimensões estudadas - desdobradas em atitudes e habilidades - verificou-se que os dirigentes consideram muito importantes, a iniciativa e a perspectivas de ação; importantes, em ordem decrescente de percentual de respostas, autonomia e autocontrole; seguidas, em igualdade de condições, pela flexibilidade e auto-estima, e finalmente pela dimensão interesse. Foram constatadas diferenças significativas de respostas apresentadas pelos dirigentes do sexo feminino em relação às respostas fornecidas pelos do sexo masculino, assim como das respostas fornecidas por dirigentes que há mais tempo estão na empresa ou no exercício da função em relação aos que têm menos tempo de exercício profissional. Também foram constatados resultados surpreendentes que confirmam a interferência de aspectos culturais e educacionais nas respostas dadas. As variáveis idade, tempo na organização e no exercício da função na empresa demonstraram também sua interferência. Os resultados da pesquisa permitiram igualmente divisar caminhos, onde existem elos importantes, sendo o principal o de considerar o homem como agente de sua história e de sua empresa, na medida em que ele se conhecer mais e intencionalmente realizar vivências que o levem a um desenvolvimento pessoal – alcançar sua maturidade na empresa. São feitas reflexões que requerem alternativas diferenciadas de intervenção para as Universidades e Escolas Técnicas, para as áreas de consultoria e de Recursos Humanos das Empresas. Também se confirmou a necessidade de serem realizados novos estudos para aprofundar a temática, tanto em nível empresarial, quanto acadêmico.

Omtvedt Innovation Awards Presented to Chris Calkins, Steven Jones, Rodger Johnson, and Sheila Scheideler

It's a great pleasure to welcome you to this very first recognition ceremony for the Omtvedt Innovation Awards. We are present here to honor innovation strengths of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and certainly the four faculty members receiving today's awards are greatly deserving of this recognition. Just hearing about their work is gratifying!

Tradurre il fantasy per giovani lettori: "The Explorers' gate" di Chris Grabenstein

The purpose of this thesis is, on the one hand, to illustrate the peculiarities of children’s literature, fantasy fiction and their translation and, on the other hand, to propose a translation from English to Italian of some chapters of the e-book The Explorers’ Gate by American author Chris Grabenstein. The first chapters of this work offer an analysis of different critical studies on children’s literature and fantasy fiction and illustrate the characteristics of these two literary expressions. I will also discuss the different approaches to their translation in order to produce a translated text that is consistent with its literary genre and with translation theories. The third chapter is about the author and includes an interview on his idea of children’s literature and his opinions about translation. The second part of this thesis is represented by the actual translation of the e-book. Firstly, I will analyze the source text, dividing the analysis in extra-textual and intra- textual and focusing on sender, addressee, time and space, function of the text, plot, structure, narrator, style and language used by the author. I will also highlight those elements that probably would be challenging during the translation phase. Secondly, I will explain the macro-strategy that I adopted during the process of translation, which can be defined as child-oriented. In the last chapter I will highlight those passages that represented translation challenges and I will show how I tackled them.