Author: Jacques Bernier Cette recherche faite a partir dune source unique dinformation, les inventaires apres deces, cherche a cerner et la fortune et linterieur des maisons des menuisiers et charpentiers de la region de Quebec entre 1810 et 1819. Un total de 17 inventaires (8 charpentiers, 8 menuisiers et un maitre menuisier) ont ete retraces aux Archives nationales du Quebec et servent ici de base a lelaboration de cet expose.

Author: Vicki Callahan The crime serials by French filmmaker Louis Feuillade provide a unique point of departure for film studies, presenting modes rarely examined within early cinematic paradigms. Made during 1913 to 1920, the series of six films share not only a consistency of narrative structure and style but also a progressive revelation of the criminal threata dislocation of both cinematic and ideological subjectivityas it shifts realms of social, cultural, and aesthetic disturbance. Feuillades work raises significant questions of cinema authorship, film history, and film aesthetics, all of which are examined in Vicki Callahans groundbreaking work Zones of Anxiety, the first study to address the crime serials of Louis Feuillade from a feminist perspective. Zones of Anxiety merges cultural history and feminist film theory, arguing for a different kind of film history, a poetic history that is shaped by the little-examined cinematic mode of uncertainty. Often obscured by film technique and film historians, this quality of uncertainty endemic to the cinema comes in part from the formal structures of repetition and recursion found in Feuillades serials. However, Callahan argues that uncertainty is also found in the poetic body of the actress Musidora who is featured in two of the serials. It is the mobility of the Musidora figuresocially, culturally, sexually, and textuallythat makes her a powerful image and also a place to view the historical blind spots of film studies and feminist studies with regard to questions of race, class, and sexuality. Callahans substantial focus on archival research builds a foundation for a host of compelling arguments for a new feminist history of film. Other studies have touched on the issue of gender in early cinema, though until now neither Feuillades work nor French silent film have been examined in light of feminist film theory and history. Zones of Anxiety opens up the possibility of alternate readings in film studies, illuminating our understanding of subjectivity and situating a spectatorship that acknowledges social and cultural differences.

Author: William G. Bowen On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Princeton University, leading educators and commentators participated in a symposium jointly sponsored by Princeton and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Universities and Their Leadership is a collection of original essays from presenters at the Princeton Conference on Higher Education. Individually, these essays discuss aspects of contemporary higher education in the U.S. Taken together, they offer a useful perspective on issues that face American universities as they enter the twenty-first century. The opening essay, The University and Its Critics by Frank Rhodes, confronts criticisms of the American university, examines how universities have changed over recent decades, and suggests a plan of action to restore public confidence and strengthen bonds of community within universities. On the Accountability of Higher Education in the United States, by Martin Trow, deals with the critical issue of responsibility. Harold Shapiro's essay, University Presidents--Then and Now, blends personal insights with a historical account of changes over time in the roles of university presidents. In commenting on Shapiro's paper, Hanna Gray draws on her experiences as a university president and her training as a historian to demonstrate that university presidents have always operated under constraints. Henry Rosovsky and Inge-Lise Ameer collaborate in the essay A Neglected Topic: Professional Conduct of College and University Teachers, to which Amy Gutmann responds in an essay entitled How Can Universities Teach Professional Ethics? Oliver Fulton contributes a cross-cultural perspective in Unity or Fragmentation, Convergence or Diversity: The Academic Profession in Comparative Perspective in the Era of Mass Higher Education. Daniel J. Kevles's essay, A Time for Audacity: What the Past Has to Teach the Present about Science and the Federal Government, considers the historical partnership between the scientific community and the government. In reaction, Frank Press in New Policies for New Times comments on the shifting actions of major political parties in supporting research, and Maxine Singer, in her essay On the Future of America's Scientific Enterprise, surveys opportunities and problems that have been created by recent scientific advances.

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