What is the pedagogical place of silence in the Anthropocene classroom? Should we as teachers—particularly as teachers involved in the education of aesthetic sensibilities—understood our classrooms as sites in which awareness of our Anthropocene predicament is spread, sites in which a general sense of the urgency of our times is disseminated? And i...
La question originelle de ce travail doctoral a été : comment pense-t-on son histoire de vie au seuil de sa mort ? La fin de vie amène de nombreux bouleversements psychiques et physiques, souvent inhérents à une maladie grave. Le patient est alors amené à se refaire le film de sa vie, à repenser aux événements marquants de son existence. Plusieurs ...
This thesis presents an examination of spectatorship in a performance context, concerning 0-18 month old infants and their carers. The thesis is presented in the form of a written submission and practical documentation. The practical documentation offers an encounter with the performance experiment, which sits at the core of this research sited in ...
À partir du cas particulier du génocide maya ixil au Guatemala, cet article interroge les différentes formes que revêtent les accusations et disculpations de complicité. Navigant entre les notions de responsabilité et de culpabilité, il propose d’analyser la notion de complicité comme contextuelle et soumise à des variables diverses. Ce propos est ...
En la mayor parte de la literatura social sobre el testimonio, este se trata en su dimensión narrativa o discursiva. En otras palabras, como lo dicho o lo enunciado. Tomando esto como punto de partida, el objetivo de este artículo será problematizar esta noción, reflexionando sobre el testimonio en aquellos contextos en los que, por diferentes razo...
Published in Patient education and counseling
Human connection can reduce suffering and facilitate meaningful decision-making amid the often terrifying experience of hospitalization for advanced cancer. Some conversational pauses indicate human connection, but we know little about their prevalence, distribution or association with outcomes. To describe the epidemiology of Connectional Silence ...
Published in The international tinnitus journal
The objective of this study is to investigate a possible role of the Medial Olivocochlear (MOC) efferent neural pathway and neural connections responsible for tinnitus generation in silence/sensory deprivation. By placing normal hearing participants in a sound booth for 10 minutes, silence/sensory deprivation was created. This offered assessment of...
The development of corpora inevitably involves the need for segmentation. For most of the corpora, the first segmentation to operate consist in determining silences vs Inter-Pausal Units-IPUs, i.e. sounding segments. This paper presents the "Search for IPUs" feature included in SPPAS-the automatic annotation and analysis of speech software tool dis...
Cet article s'intéresse à un cas que le discours médical a souvent placé à la lisière de l'humanité et de l'animalité : l'idiot. Décrit par les aliénistes, mais aussi par la littérature, comme un animal humain, il vient ainsi remettre en cause la frontière qui depuis Descartes sépare l'homme de la nature. À bien des égards, Silence, l'idiot de vill...
