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Shot and Counter-shot: Presence, Obscurity, and the Breakdown of Discourse in Godard’s Notre Musique

"Notre Musique includes a lengthy sequence that involves a presentation by Godard on the relationship between text and image. The occasion of the lecture is a conference in Sarajevo titled European Literary Encounters, an annual event first organized in 2000. Godard gave his lecture in 2002 and the long middle-section of the film offers a "lightly fictionalized restaging" of his address and of other encounters surrounding the conference. The narrative setting of the majority of this film, then, is a space of discourse (a conference and a lecture), but I suggest that the film is conceptually sited more generally and abstractly in the "space" or “frame” of discourse itself. Because it ponders various parameters—spatial, historical, conceptual—that allow or disallow discursive connection, I regard Notre Musique as an extended meditation on the possibilities for and barriers to discourse. By siting the film in Sarajevo, Godard is clearly highlighting a frame for this meditation—a frame that includes a history of violence and reconciliation. The conference is decidedly international and takes place in a city with a rich cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic history, even as it bears the scars of violence and ethnic division.  Sarajevo, moreover, is a city with a complex relationship to the state—having been a nucleus to various formations of state and empire in the last century. In its history and in the present, Sarajevo is a site of discourse and discord; of the union and clash of influences (be they religious, political, or ethnic). Hence, Sarajevo’s relevance to the film is not merely one of documentary fidelity (because it was the host city for the conference). It is a perfect site for Godard to pursue a line of reflection on discourse and its breakdown in the frame of changing formations of power. Sarjevo as a site also calls attention to how the parties or constituencies for discourse remain in states of flux—either through processes of self-definition from within or misrecognition (or nonrecognition) from without...

Maine Migrations: Arthur and Harold Sewall in the Pacific

The Sewall family of Bath, with a long tradition in Maine shipbuilding helped shape America’s expansionist Pacific vision at the turn of the century. Arthur Sewall, a vice-presidential candidate in 1896, articulated a policy of protectionism, territorial expansion in the Pacific, and free coinage of silver. Harold Sewall, consul general to Samoa and minister to Hawaii, was equally expansionist. Father and son, one a Democrat and the other a Republican, shared an understanding that events around the world had an immediate impact on hometown life in coastal Maine

Research Note: James G. Blaine’s Effort to Have John L. Stevens Appointed Minister to Hawai’i in 1869

Paul T. Burlin is Professor of History at the University of New England. He is founding chair of the Department of History at the University where he also served as interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Among his book publications is Imperial Maine and Hawai’i (Lexington 2006)

A produção de conhecimentos no Serviço Social: uma análise no HU/UFSC

TCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Sócio Econômico, Curso de Serviço Social.O presente Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso, tem como objeto de estudo a produção de conhecimento no Serviço Social, utilizados diariamente pelas Assistentes Sociais do HU/UFSC. Pretende-se com este estudo investigar as modificações ocorridas nos conhecimentos no Serviço Social, que estiveram e estão presentes na atuação profissional do Assistente Social, bem como analisar suas influências no atendimento das demandas apresentadas neste espaço ocupacional. Para realização do trabalho, utilizamos a pesquisa bibliográfica, principalmente nas Revistas Serviço Social e Sociedade e Cadernos da ABESS/ABEPSS e ainda pesquisa documental, com intuito de coletar dados e proceder à análise de conteúdo, ambos com vistas a investigar a abordagem e compreensão dos temas usuário, família, saúde, prática profissional, metodologia e teoria. Observamos que além das transformações na própria profissão de Serviço Social, a qual passou a qualificar seu rigor teórico-metodológico a partir da década de 1990, também ocorreram mudanças na abordagem dos termos no interior do HU/UFSC o que auxiliou na inovação dos atendimentos aos usuários, destacando-se o reconhecimento do cidadão como cidadão de direitos

Book Reviews

Reviews of the following books: James G. Blaine: Architect of Empire by Edward P. Crapol; Ancient Sagadahoc by E.J. Chandler; Maine Rubicon: Downeast Settlers During the American Revolution by John Howard Ahlin; The AIDS Project: A History by William David Barr

Club work in the high school

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