Canada's continued forgetfulness concerning slavery here, and the nation-state's attempts to record only Canada's role as a place of sanctuary for escaping African-Americans, is part of the story of absenting blackness from its history. Rinaldo Walcott The fact that people of African descent have had a presence in Canada for over four hundred years is not well known within the Canadian mainstream. The fact that slavery existed as an institution in Canada is another fact that is not well known. Within the Canadian mainstream writing of African-Canadian history, Blacks most often appear in historical narratives around the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, as American fugitives or refugees—either as escaping slaves or British Loyalists. Through the representative writing of the "the Black refugee," Canada is often constructed as a "Promised Land," a sanctuary or safe haven for Blacks, a place of refuge and redemption that does not speak to the complex history of slavery that existed well before the American exodus. Many Black Canadian writers and scholars argue that there is a price to be paid for this kind of representation. First, the absence of people of African descent in Canadian historical narratives, prior to the coming o f the American refugees, ignores the long presence of Blacks in Canada and the contributions that Blacks have made in the development of Canada. Second, in focusing on the American Loyalists and refugee slaves, Canadian writers and historians often construct Black Canadians as a homogenous, genderless group, ignoring the diversity within Canada's Black population and, in particular, the concerns of Black women. Finally, the mainstream representation of Canada as a 'safe haven' proves problematic for any critical discussion of racism in contemporary Canadian society, for notions of "Canada the good" and "America the evil" that arose from those crossings North still penetrate the Canadian mainstream today. This autobiocritical exploration examines the representation of the haven and offers alternative readings to contemporary mainstream writings of African-Canadian history. In part one, I track the appearance of Black Canadians, over the past fifty years, from 1949 to 2001, in a survey of mainstream and scholarly texts. Using the results of this survey, which does not see the appearance of Blacks in Canada until 1977, I examine how mainstream texts might use the works of Black writers to offer more critical and complex histories of Black Canadians and, in particular, Black women. In part two, I take up an analysis of George Elliott Clarke's Beatrice Chancy. Seen as a counter-narrative to mainstream writings of African-Canadian history, Clarke's work, which takes up the subject of slavery in early-nineteenth century Nova Scotia, presents an/Other kind of Loyalist story, one with a Black woman at its centre. In this discussion I examine how Clarke's poetic work subverts the national narrative, as he speaks to the diversity within blackness and the complexities in defining racial identities. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

In the domain of music education philosophy there are, at present, two foundational systems that purport to be self-contained philosophies of music education. These are music education as aesthetic education, often referred to as MEAE, espoused by Bennett Reimer, and the praxial philosophy of music education posited by David Elliott. The debate between these two philosophies has been contentious and has had the effect of fracturing the philosophical underpinning of the music profession in an irreconcilable way. It is the purpose of this dissertation to introduce a third voice, that of the Danish philosopher Knut Løgstrup, to serve as a synergy between the philosophies of Reimer and Elliott and lead toward a framework of thinking for music education philosophy. I assert that the philosophies of Reimer and Elliott represent a modern articulation of an ancient dialectic between Platonic and Aristotelian ideals. Thus, the Reimer philosophy has its foundation in Platonic thought and Elliott has embraced an Aristotelian philosophical perspective. Løgstrup's position provides a third fundamental viewpoint that includes both Platonic and Aristotelian thinking and can therefore provide a synergy for these two music education philosophies. He refers to his philosophy as an ontological ethics. As a methodological approach, I utilize a metaphilosophical analysis in which I examine the Platonic tendencies of Reimer and the Aristotelian foundation of Elliott by examining both the content and the methodology of their prospective philosophies. I then make an application of Løgstrup's philosophical system, which is an ethical system, to music education philosophy and bring the most important aspects of Reimer's and Elliott's philosophies into a synergy using Løgstrup's ideas.

[ES] En los últimos años, es habitual encontrarnos con investigaciones artísticas que, en el ámbito de la interpretación musical, tienen como última consecuencia recoger el resultado performativo en soporte digital. Sin embargo, una gran parte lo hace situando tal registro audiovisual como algo subsecuente, un fin ulterior sin conexión directa con la materia estudiada o los resultados obtenidos. Los trabajos de investigación que orientan así su enfoque, devuelven un resultado audiovisual desvinculado de los parámetros que han sido objeto del estudio, eludiendo las enormes capacidades semánticas y sintácticas que podría incluir el hecho audiovisual en sí y el consecuente fenómeno de difusión de la obra en redes digitales. Esta investigación se orienta hacia la búsqueda de mecanismos eficaces que hagan converger el estudio y el análisis de una obra contemporánea con el registro y difusión de la misma, procurando acercar al espectador a la mayor parte de las aristas que conforman la obra, al mismo tiempo y de modo que dicho procedimiento se sitúe además como eje fundamental y herramienta de futuras investigaciones, para el montaje y registro audiovisual de cualquier obra. Con nuestra investigación buscamos dar un giro de ciento ochenta grados, en donde el procedimiento del análisis y de la investigación es el fin, dejando por el camino un resultado de manera colateral o como parte del fin, pero en ningún momento es únicamente ese objetivo. Se intenta trasponer el análisis desde el punto de vista perfomativo hacia un resultado que será plasmado en un registro audiovisual, de este modo, la concepción y factura de dicho registro se extraerá a partir de un análisis profundo en materias histórico, estético y estructural (formas, etc). Además, se llevará un proceso de realización mediante la utilización de diferentes planos visuales que lo situará en una posición diferenciada respecto a aquellas otras investigaciones. Todo ello, intentando que el análisis esté estrechamente relacionado con la interacción con la cámara, mostrando aquello que el compositor quería destacar en cada momento, y llevándolo a la pantalla final de manera que el discurso musical tenga la congruencia que se merece. En definitiva, se pretende que el proceso nos acerque un poco más al punto de vista del compositor, intentando averiguar y deducir qué cuestiones se deben destacar y, además, cuándo y cómo. / [CA] En els últims anys, és habitual trobar-nos investigacions artístiques que, en l'àmbit de la interpretació musical, tenen com a última conseqüència recollir el resultat performatiu en suport digital. No obstant això, una gran part ho fa situant al registre audiovisual com una cosa subseqüent, una fi ulterior sense connexió directa amb la matèria estudiada o els resultats obtinguts. Els treballs de recerca que orienten així el seu enfocament, retornen un resultat audiovisual desvinculat dels paràmetres que han sigut objecte de l'estudi, eludint les enormes capacitats semàntiques i sintàctiques que podria incloure el fet audiovisual en si, i el conseqüent fenomen de difusió de l'obra en xarxes digitals. Aquesta investigació s'orienta cap a la cerca de mecanismes eficaços que facen convergir l'estudi i l'anàlisi d'una obra contemporània amb el registre i difusió d'aquesta, procurant acostar a l'espectador a la major part de les arestes que conformen l'obra, al mateix temps i de manera que, aquest procediment se situe a més com a eix fonamental i eina de futures investigacions, per al muntatge i registre audiovisual de qualsevol obra. Amb la nostra investigació, pretenem donar un gir de cent huitanta graus, on el procediment de l'anàlisi i de la investigació és l'objectiu, deixant pel camí un resultat de manera col·lateral o com a part del procés, però en cap moment és únicament aqueix el motiu principal. S'intenta transposar l'anàlisi des del punt de vista performatiu cap a un resultat que serà plasmat en un registre audiovisual; així, la concepció i la factura d'aquest registre s'extraurà a partir d'una anàlisi profunda en aspectes històrics, estètics i estructurals (formes, etc). A més, s'aplicarà un procés de realització mitjançant la utilització de diferents plans visuals que el situarà en una posició diferenciada respecte d'altres investigacions. Tot això, intentant que l'anàlisi estiga estretament relacionat amb la interacció amb la càmera, mostrant allò que el compositor volia destacar en cada moment, i portant-ho a la pantalla final de manera que el discurs musical tinga la congruència que es mereix. En definitiva, es pretén que el procés ens acoste una miqueta més al punt de vista del compositor, intentant esbrinar i deduir quines qüestions s'han de destacar i, a més, quan i com. / [EN] In recent years, it's common to find artistic research that, in the field of musical interpretation, has the final result to collect the music performance in digital support. However, most of them do so by placing the audiovisual record as something subsequent, an farther end without direct connection to the subject matter studied or the results obtained. The research works that thus guide their approach, return an audiovisual result unrelated to the parameters that have been the object of the study, avoiding the huge semantic and syntactic skills that the audiovisual event itself, and the consequent phenomenon of diffusion of the work in digital networks. This research is oriented towards the seek for effective mechanisms that make the study and analysis of a contemporary work converge with its recording and dissemination, trying to bring the viewer closer to most of the edges that make up the work, at the same time and so that this process is also positioned as a fundamental axis and tool for future research, for the audiovisual montage and recording of any work. With this research we seek to turn the approach around, regarding the analysis and investigation procedure as a goal, obtaining collaterally one result, but not as the only or main goal. An attempt is made to bring the analysis from the perfomative point of view to a result that will be reflected in an audiovisual record. This way, the concept of this recording will be fed from a deep analysis in historical, aesthetic and structural matters (forms , etc). Furthermore, a full process of audiovisual production will be carried out through the use of different visual shots that aim to differenciate this research from the aforementioned ones. At all times is intended that the analysis is closely related to the interaction with the camera, showing what the composer wanted to highlight at each section or moment, and taking the visual discourse to the final shot so that the combination of the musical development and the visual path have the congruence it deserves. To sum up, it is intended that the process brings us a little closer to the composer's point of view, trying to find out and deduce what issues should be highlighted, and also when and how. / Orero García, MÁ. (2021). Eight Pieces for Four Timpani de Elliott Carter: Procedimientos en la documentación y difusión en medios digitales basados en la experiencia de concierto [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/162114 / TESIS

Featuring an ethnohistory of two Coast Salish communities — the Suquamish Tribe in Washington State and the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation in British Columbia — this dissertation is a transborder study of Indigenous shellfish harvesting and foreshore rights in the Salish Sea across the twentieth century. It explores the history of the interface between land and sea within the context of treaty rights to resources and Indigenous nations’ sovereignty over marine habitats. This study also turns the ethnographic lens on the settler population. Using tools offered by recent scholarship on settler colonialism, it helps explain why the general public has resisted treaty and Aboriginal rights to fisheries and other resources. This dissertation also reveals Coast Salish nations’ responses to settler encroachment of their foreshores and state disruption of their management of the marine environment throughout the twentieth century and offers two community studies to illustrate how local Indigenous communities have re-shaped relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers on the Salish Sea. The first study examines Suquamish’s right to shellfish under the Point Elliott Treaty and affirmed by the 1994 Rafeedie decision, as well as the interrelated 1980s tidelands case for ownership of the beaches attached to the Port Madison Reservation. The second examines W̱SÁNEĆ people’s defense of Saanichton Bay from a marina development, when the SȾÁ,UTW̱ (Tsawout) community wielded its Douglas Treaty rights in Claxton v. Saanichton Marina, 1987. Utilising Karl Jacoby’s concept of a “moral ecology,” this study argues that by ignoring Indigenous Knowledge regarding marine resource management, and by creating an overly complex regulatory scheme guided by principles of capitalism, settler officials on both sides of the border missed opportunities to avoid some of the greatest challenges to marine health and resource survival in the Salish Sea. / Graduate / 2023-04-12

This master thesis deals with the price prediction on financial markets. It describes automated trading systems based on technical analysis and discusses a soft computing approach to construction of such systems. Also, this thesis combines conventional trading strategies with the fuzzy logic. The practical part of this thesis contains also a framework for composing, simulation and analysis of the automated trading strategies. The simulator contained in this framework is implemented in the Java language and based on DEVS formalism. Because of this, there is a possibility to embed real-time components into the trading model. This work contains also a database of historical financial data and tools for their automatic actualization.

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Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2004-2005 / Ce mémoire de maîtrise explore la façon par laquelle les intellectuels et figures publiques au Québec français ont abordé l'histoire constitutionnelle canadienne entre 1980 et 1995 comme un chapitre du grand récit national des Québécois. Exploitant les outils de la postmodernité, de l'analyse des discours et de l'approche constructiviste de l'identité et de la nation, le mémoire explore les significations et la fonction narrative de Pierre Elliott Trudeau comme figure archétypale du traître à la nation québécoise à travers un vaste canon de littérature politique publiée entre 1987 et 1995. / This Master's Thesis aims to examine the way by which Franco-Québec intellectuals and public figures have approached Canadian constitutional history between 1980 and 1995 as a narrative of Québec nationhood. Using the post-modernist tool-kit of discourse analysis and the constructivist approach to identity and nationhood, the essay explores the meanings and narrative function of Pierre Elliott Trudeau as an archetypal traitor figure to the Québec nation throughout a large canon of narrative, political writings published between 1987 and 1995. / Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2014

Scholarship has firmly established that the short story cycle is well-suited to representations of community. This study considers eight North American examples of the genre: four by Canadian authors Stephen Leacock, Duncan Campbell Scott, George Elliott, and Alice Munro; and four by American authors Sarah Orne Jewett, Sherwood Anderson, John Cheever, and Joyce Carol Oates. My original idea was to discover whether there were significant differences between the Canadian and American cycles, but ultimately I became far more interested in the way that all of the cycles address community formation and disintegration. The focus of each cycle is a small community, whether a small town, a village, or a suburb. In all of the examples, the authors address the small community as the focus of anxiety, concern, criticism, and praise, with special attention to the way in which, despite its manifold failings, the small community continues to inspire longings for the ideal home and source of identity. The narrative feature that ultimately provided the critical framework for the study is the recurring presence of the metropolis in all of the eight cycles. The city, set on the horizons of these small communities, consistently provides a backdrop against which author and characters seem to measure and understand their lives. Always an influence (whether for good or bad), the city’s presence is constructed as the other against which the small community’s identity is formulated and understood. The relationship between small community and city led me to an investigation into the mythology of the small community, a mythology that sets the small community in opposition to the city, portraying the former as the keeper of virtue and the latter as the disseminator of vice. The cycles themselves, as I increasingly discovered, challenge the mythology by identifying how the small community depends, in large part, on the city for self-understanding. The small community, however, as an idea, and a mythic ideal, is never dismissed as obsolete or irrelevant.

Scholarship has firmly established that the short story cycle is well-suited to representations of community. This study considers eight North American examples of the genre: four by Canadian authors Stephen Leacock, Duncan Campbell Scott, George Elliott, and Alice Munro; and four by American authors Sarah Orne Jewett, Sherwood Anderson, John Cheever, and Joyce Carol Oates. My original idea was to discover whether there were significant differences between the Canadian and American cycles, but ultimately I became far more interested in the way that all of the cycles address community formation and disintegration. The focus of each cycle is a small community, whether a small town, a village, or a suburb. In all of the examples, the authors address the small community as the focus of anxiety, concern, criticism, and praise, with special attention to the way in which, despite its manifold failings, the small community continues to inspire longings for the ideal home and source of identity. The narrative feature that ultimately provided the critical framework for the study is the recurring presence of the metropolis in all of the eight cycles. The city, set on the horizons of these small communities, consistently provides a backdrop against which author and characters seem to measure and understand their lives. Always an influence (whether for good or bad), the city’s presence is constructed as the other against which the small community’s identity is formulated and understood. The relationship between small community and city led me to an investigation into the mythology of the small community, a mythology that sets the small community in opposition to the city, portraying the former as the keeper of virtue and the latter as the disseminator of vice. The cycles themselves, as I increasingly discovered, challenge the mythology by identifying how the small community depends, in large part, on the city for self-understanding. The small community, however, as an idea, and a mythic ideal, is never dismissed as obsolete or irrelevant.