Wherefore musician?: the collaborative experiences of theatre musicians at the Market Theatre, 2010-2014

A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (in Music Research). Johannesburg, March 2016The thesis entitled Wherefore Musician? is a critical engagement with the experiences of musicians who were involved in dramatic theatre productions at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg between 2010 and 2014. The study is a narrative inquiry, which uncovers the lived experiences of musicians from their narration of select collaborative encounters. The narratives speak to integrated cross-disciplinary models of theatre making, where various signifiers and performance texts contribute towards a cohesive production.MT201

Towards an Enactive Paradigm: A Cognitive Approach to Naomi Wallace's Spectator.

This thesis started as a means to illustrate the necessity of new epistemologies in spectatorship analysis of theater. Numerous studies have attempted to approach spectatorship, however, a non-textual analysis is lacking in most of them. In this research, I suggest that the study of the spectator’s mind is the gate that leads towards understanding the spectatorial phenomenon. Therefore, I propose a cognitive approach to spectatorship, in accordance with the growth of neuroscience that the humanities are experiencing in the last ten years. I focus on the works of the contemporary American dramatist Naomi Wallace as a complex model for spectatorship in the current Off-Broadway theater. Wallace’s plays intend to shock the spectator and to undermine stereotypes related to politics, social issues, race, and family. The playwright, who is considered by some critics a neo-Brechtian writer, questions the American capitalistic system and traditional values. Since Wallace pays special attention to the spectator’s emotions and the impact of theater beyond the performance, I believe that a cognitive approach to study spectatorship will not only enhance the understanding of the experience but also will help to elaborate a deep analysis of her plays. Within the cognitive approach to theater, Bruce McConachie’s recent studies on performance and evolution point towards the Enactive approach, which—more than paying attention exclusively to the mind—contemplates other concepts such as embodiment, environment, and experience. According to this breakthrough and the interdisciplinary pathways that are open nowadays in the humanities, this thesis relies on such theories, and therefore, focuses on a cognitive approach to spectatorship that progressively moves towards an Enactive analysis of Naomi Wallace’s work

Space and value in the contemporary art museum: The journey of a performance document at Tate

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Intellect via the DOI in this recordThe space of the museum, rather than being monolithic and heterogeneous, is complex, fluid and fractured. As an institution, its multiple spaces relate to a variety of activities, motivations and attitudes towards the objects it collects, conserves and displays. By using Michel Foucault’s 1967 notion of the ‘heterotopia’ to read the museum as a space of spaces, and focusing on the complex object of the performance document, this article traces the link between the placement of objects in a specific space, and how this can be read as a perspective on their value. In tracing the journey of the Joseph Beuys performance document Four Blackboards (1972) through various spaces at Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain) and Tate Modern, this article will demonstrate those acts of valuation being undertaken over a 50-year period in the institution, and explore how changing value perspectives result in a changing space, both physically and conceptually, for the performance document.Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC

Of models and metrics: the UK debate on assessing humanities research

Professor Michael Worton (UCL) is the Chair of an expert group set up in July 2006 by the Arts & Humanities Research Council to examine alternative ways to assess research. The group has developed a complex metrics-based system using quantitative information about a university department’s research activity and research outcomes to determine how to distribute billions of pounds in research funding distributed to UK Universities in the future. This paper, on the background to the group's work, was presented to a conference on Peer Review hosted by the European Science Foundation (ESF), the European Heads of Research Councils (EuroHORCs) and the Czech Science Foundation (Grantová agentura eské republiky, GA R), held in Prague on 12-13 October 2006. See also UCL News, 9 September 2006. Arts metrics plan revealed. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/inthenews/itn06091

Blockchain, Leadership And Management: Business AS Usual Or Radical Disruption?

The Internet provided the world with interconnection. However, it did not provide it with trust. Trust is lacking everywhere in our society and is the reason for the existence of powerful intermediaries aggregating power. Trust is what prevents the digital world to take over. This has consequences for organisations: they are inefficient because time, energy, money and passion are wasted on verifying everything happens as decided. Managers play the role of intermediaries in such case: they connect experts with each others and instruct them of what to do. As a result, in our expert society, people's engagement is low because no one is there to inspire and empower them. In other words, our society faces an unprecedented lack of leadership. Provided all those shortcomings, the study imagines the potential repercussions, especially in the context of management, of implementing a blockchain infrastructure in any type of organisation. Indeed, the blockchain technology seems to be able to remedy to those issues, for this distributed and immutable ledger provides security, decentralisation and transparency. In the context of a blockchain economy, the findings show that value creation will be rearranged, with experts directly collaborating with each others, and hierarchy being eliminated. This could, in turn, render managers obsolete, as a blockchain infrastructure will automate most of the tasks. As a result, only a strong, action-oriented, leadership would maintain the organisation together. This leadership-in-action would consist in igniting people to take action; coach members of the organisations so that their contribution makes sense in the greater context of life

Introduction: Future pathways for science policy and research assessment: metrics vs peer review, quality vs impact

Copyright @ 2007 Beech Tree PublishingThe idea for this special issue arose from observing contrary developments in the design of national research assessment schemes in the UK and Australia during 2006 and 2007. Alternative pathways were being forged, determined, on the one hand, by the perceived relative merits of 'metrics' (quantitative measures of research performance) and peer judgement and, on the other hand, by the value attached to scientific excellence ('quality') versus usefulness ('impact'). This special issue presents a broad range of provocative academic opinion on preferred future pathways for science policy and research assessment. It unpacks the apparent dichotomies of metrics vs peer review and quality vs impact, and considers the hazards of adopting research evaluation policies in isolation from wider developments in scientometrics (the science of research evaluation) and divorced from the practical experience of other nations (policy learning)

As humanidades e as ciências: disjunções e confluências

The present volume offers a selection of the essays presented at the XV Colóquio de Outono organized by the research unit Centro de Estudos Humanísticos (Universidade do Minho) in November 2013, under the global topic Humanities and Sciences: Disjunctions and Confluences. It has been the main objective of CEHUM, throughout the various Autumn Colloquia organized since 1998, to listen carefully to the “noise of the world” and attempt a global interpretation of the signs of the times issuing from the world around us, as vibrant echoes of many social and cultural pressing issues. This volume gathers the majority of the texts presented in the XV Colóquio de Outono, which the authors generously submitted for publication, and which will certainly testify of the important debate around the vast topic proposed for this year’s analysis and discussion. We hope that this new volume may give evidence of our concern, as a Research Centre within the Humanities which operates in a transdisciplinary structure, of the crucial role played by the Humanities in today’s world and the benefits of engaging in this challenging multidisciplinary dialogue. Throughout the three days of this XV Colóquio de Outono we had the privilege to listen to and debate the propositions of a vast number of national and international specialists in the manifold fields of inquiry here represented, engaging keynote speakers, project advisors, members of the different research teams and external researchers attached to the various research projects currently running in CEHUM in the fields of lit- erature, linguistics, philosophy, ethics, visual arts, cultural studies, music and performance. Our objective in this Colloquium was that each specific field of studies here represented never performed per se, but rather substantiated at a crossroads of disciplines, across borders, gaining form within the dialogue with researchers operating in a wide variety of fields, from Computer Science to Mathematics, Medicine and Psychology, Bioarts, Ecology and Ethics. For we believe that the Humanities is a plural territory which only achieves its maximum potential when engaging in a solid and permanent dialogue with other fields of research. Hence, it was not the disjunction between Humanities and Sciences we aimed to highlight throughout this Colloquium, but rather the confluence of research methods, queries, critical reflection and problematization pertaining both to Humanities and Sciences, despite the necessary expertise that identifies each field and the specificity of its target objects of research. For these lively and thought-provoking three days of the conference we wish to thank each and every one of the colleagues present, our distinct guests, as well as the research members of CEHUM, who so enthusiastically joined in the debate on the proposed topics of analysis. Special thanks to the Board of Directors and the research team leaders of CEHUM for the precious help provided towards the organization and the setting up of this international event. Last but not least, we wish to thank the Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, as well as the research assistants and staff of CEHUM for all the precious logistic support. Finally, our gratitude to our main sponsor, Fundação para a Ciênca e a Tecnologia (FCT), for encouraging and financially supporting this yearly event and the present publication.Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, UE, COMPETE, QRE

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRANSLATIONS PREPARED BY STUDENTS WITH AND WITHOUT LEGAL QUALIFICATIONS

In our paper, we present the results of the second phase of a study conducted in collaboration between two higher education institutions in Hungary with different types of translator training: a postgraduate (MA) course at the University of Szeged (SZTE), Faculty of Arts, and a postgraduate specialist training course at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest (PPKE JÁK), Faculty of Law and Political Sciences. At SZTE, students do not have any legal qualifications, while at PPKE JÁK, students are all qualified legal professionals. Our main research question was whether there are significant differences in the quality of legal translations carried out by students with and without legal qualifications. We analyzed and evaluated the global (holistic) quality of the translations using a five-point scale as suggested by Kiraly (1995: 83), and compared types of errors made by the two groups of students with the help of a special error typology. Our results show that students with legal qualifications perform better in terms of both global and analytic indicators, with significantly less errors made in information transfer and in legal register. W niniejszym artykule zostaną zaprezentowane wyniki drugiego etapu badania przeprowadzonego jako projekt wspólny dwóch jednostek szkolnictwa wyższego o różnych rodzajach kształcenia translatorskiego na studiach magisterskich: Uniwersytetu Szeged, Wydział Sztuki (SZTE) i specjalistyczne studia podyplomowe z zakresu przekładoznawstwa na Wydziale Prawa i Nauk Politycznych Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Pázmány Pétera w Budapeszcie (PPKE JÁK). Na SZTE studenci nie posiadają wykształcenia prawniczego, podczas gdy na PPKE JAK wszyscy uczestnicy to wykwalifikowani prawnicy. Głównym założeniem było sprawdzenie, czy istnieją znaczące różnice w jakości przekładu prawniczego przeprowadzonego przez studentów z i bez wykształcenia prawniczego. Przeanalizowano i oceniono jakość całościową (holistycznie) przy użyciu 5-stopniowej skali Kiraly’ego (1995: 83) i porównano rodzaje błędów przy użyciu określonej typologii błędów. Badanie wykazało, że studenci z wykształceniem prawniczym wypadli lepiej w kategoriach ogólnych i analitycznych, przy znacznie mniejszej liczbie błędów popełnianych przy przekazywaniu informacji i rejestrze prawnym