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Selected Events On Workplace Flexibility In The Federal Government, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Selected events on Workplace Flexibility in the federal government from the event: Senate Special Committee on Aging Hearing held April 30, 2008 for Workplace Flexibility 2010.

Appendix F: "A Sampling Of Government Reports On Workplace Flexibility", Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

A Sampling of Government Reports on Workplace Flexibility from the event: Senate Special Committee on Aging Hearing held April 30, 2008 for Workplace Flexibility 2010.

Appendix E: "Telecommuting: A Case Study In Public Policy Approaches", Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Telecommuting: A Case Study in Public Policy Approaches from the event: Senate Special Committee on Aging Hearing held April 30, 2008 for Workplace Flexibility 2010.

Appendix D: "Some Background Information On Workplace Flexibility In Federal Agencies", Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Some background information on Workplace Flexibility in federal agencies from the event: Senate Special Committee on Aging Hearing held April 30, 2008 for Workplace Flexibility 2010.

Appendix C: "The Federal Employees Flexible And Compressed Work Schedules Act (Fefcwa)", Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

The Federal Employees Flexible and Compressed Work Schedules Act (FEFCWA) from the event: Senate Special Committee on Aging Hearing held April 30, 2008 for Workplace Flexibility 2010.

'Dear Colleague' Letter, Mike Dewine, Christopher J. Dodd

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

'Dear Colleague' letter for the September 2006 briefing on "Children's Well-Being and the Role of Workplace Flexibility for Parents" event.

Prepared on behalf of Workplace Flexibility 2010 by Senator Mike DeWine and Senator Christopher J. Dodd.

Letter Of Invitation To A Briefing On Meeting The Needs Of Today's Families: The Role Of Workplace Flexibility, Lamar Alexander, Hillary Rodham Clinton

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Letter of Invitation to a briefing on Meeting the Needs of Today's Families: The Role of Workplace Flexibility, held April 25, 2006.

So, What Is Terrorism? Framing The 9/11 Attacks In African Editorial Cartoons, Duncan Mainye Omanga

Re-visioning Terrorism

As artifacts of political culture, editorial cartoons reveal prevalent public opinion on a particular issue with direct or indirect effects to members of society. The central question addressed in this paper is how editorial cartoons in Kenya’s press framed the 9/11 event and the extent to which such framing accorded or denied terrorists, government agencies and other stakeholders legitimacy. Specifically, the section probes the extent to which the dominant frames careered, and whether framing tilted away or towards legitimizing or delegitimizing terrorism. From these, conclusions are drawn on the extent to which particular aspects of knowledge, opinion or ideologies were …

Tele-Visioning Terror, Caroline Zekri

Re-visioning Terrorism

This paper is devoted to the relationship between terrorism and media, with a special focus on the theoretical notions of “icon”, “mass” and “distance”. It aims to show how the phenomenon of modern terrorism calls into question the essence of modern democracies and their systems of information, based on the distance between vision and event.

Symbolic Violence As Subtle Virulence: The Philosophy Of Terrorism, Jonathan Beever

Re-visioning Terrorism

Jean Baudrillard’s semiotic analysis of violence leads us to understand the form of violence as three-fold: aggressive, historical, and semiotically virulent. Violence of the third form is the violence endemic to terrorism. If violence has been typically understood as of the first two types, terrorism should be understood as the virulence of simulacra. The conflation of these types of violence explains the failure of militaristic responses to terrorism. This paper will explore Baudrillard’s conception of symbolic violence as the virulence of signs and help us come to terms with the semiotic foundation of terrorism.

Marco Bellocchio's Buongiorno Notte And The Language Of Terrorists, Cosetta Gaudenzi

Re-visioning Terrorism

This essay investigates Marco Bellocchio’s Buongiorno, notte (2003), a movie which exploits language and soundtrack to fictionalize and revisit the historical 1978 kidnapping and murder of the Christian Democrat President Aldo Moro by the 1970s Italian left terrorist group Brigate Rosse. As I demonstrate, Bellocchio relies greatly on the language and soundtrack of Buongiorno, notte to convey his negative response to the BR’s kidnapping and murder of Moro, as well as to come to terms with his own political and cinematic past.

The Cultural Politics Of Wmd Terrorism In Post-Cold War America, Harold Williford

Re-visioning Terrorism

Terrorism’s definition is hotly debated and notoriously problematic. The resulting instability of counterterrorism and counterterrorist identity, however, is less often explored. This paper analyzes the prehistory of the War on Terror to explore how the meaning and associations attributed to terrorism by counterterrorists in the 1990s reflect the latter’s priorities, agenda, and anxieties. Prevalent ahistorical post-Cold War representations of terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as a “new” threat indicate that WMD-wielding terrorists functioned to justify the continued existence of the American national security state after the Soviet Union collapsed. Close readings of Rainbow Six, a Tom Clancy …

The Privilege Of Ambivalence: Saturday’S Henry Perowne On The ‘War On Terror’, Jax Lee Gardner

Re-visioning Terrorism

This essay considers the relation between personal privilege (class, race, nationality, sex) and political ambivalence toward the Iraq war as it manifests in the protagonist of Ian McEwan’s Saturday. Henry Perowne “feels culpable somehow, but helpless too” in his shifting opinions of the coming invasion. Throughout the text we are shown Henry’s multiple perspectives regarding Iraq. Such ambivalence is, in itself, a form of complicity in war. Henry neither tangibly opposes the actions of the government (as the protesters do), nor does he consider sacrificing any of his creature comforts in support of the war (as the soldiers do). I …

Writing Victims: Post-Terrorist Fiction(S) In The Basque Country And Spain, Roland Vazquez

Re-visioning Terrorism

This paper examines the recent evolution of fiction in and about the Basque Country. I focus on depictions of the victims of ETA’s violence, and literature that documents their plight in the genres of the novel and short story. One trend is the movement away from “terrorist” and toward “victim” as the narrative focus. Another is an art increasingly in service to a political agenda. Although much of this corpus focuses on everyday details richer than those found in the mass media, social-scientific literature, or victim testimony, these forms often blur in their rhetorical styles.

The Invention Of Modern State Terrorism During The French Revolution, Guillaume Ansart

Re-visioning Terrorism

This essay discusses three aspects of the Terror (September 1793–July 1794): (1) The Institutions of the Terror: The Committee of General Security, the Committee of Public Safety, and the Revolutionary Tribunal; (2) the Theory of Terror: The unity and indivisibility of the people, the category of enemy of the people, and the concept of Revolution as a state of war against aristocratic/foreign conspiracies; (3) the Language of Terror: The Terror is also a performative language, a language which embodies terror by aiming to silence all debate. In this sense, the language of Terror is Terror itself.

Knights Of Justice: Blockbuster Terrorism In Code Geass: Lelouch Of The Revolution, Aaron Choo, Wilson Koh

Re-visioning Terrorism

Jihadis And The Use Of The Terms Terrorism And Terrorist, Aaron Zelin

Re-visioning Terrorism

Previous studies on the usage of the terms terror, terrorist, and terrorism have taken a Western perspective on how these terms should be defined and then deployed, but the viewpoint of the “terrorist” (in this case jihadis) has yet to be examined. This study analyzes how jihadis understand these terms and critically assesses their interpretation based on classical Islamic doctrine. The basis and “proof” for jihadis’ legitimization of using terror is based upon the Qur’anic verse 8:60, but when taken into context and traditional understanding, jihadis miss the mark. Yet, at the same time, when exploring the linguistic root for …

Testimony Of Chai R. Feldblum, Chai R. Feldblum

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Testimony of Chai R. Feldblum, for What An Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility July 18, 2005.

Beyond Mystiques And Mismatches: Unpacking Retirement And Work, Phyllis Moen Phd

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Beyond Mystiques and Mismatches: Unpacking Retirement and Work, An Issue Brief Prepared by Phyllis Moen for What An Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility July 18, 2005.

Remarks On What An Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility, Robert Hutchens Phd

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Remarks on What an Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility, An Issue Brief Prepared by Robert B. Hudson, PhD, for What An Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility July 18, 2005.

Perspectives: Aligning Business Needs With Older Workers' Preferences And Priorities, Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes Phd, Michael A. Smyer Phd

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Perspectives: Aligning Business Needs with Older Workers’ Preferences and Priorities An Issue Brief Prepared by Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes and Michael A. Smyer for What An Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility July 18, 2005.

Perspectives: Older Workers' Priorities And Preferences, Michael A. Smyer Phd, Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes Phd

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Perspectives: Older Workers’ Priorities and Preferences An Issue Brief Prepared by Michael A. Smyer and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes for What An Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility July 18, 2005.

Labor Force Participation Rates Of Women Age 55 And Over, Annual Averages, 1963-2003, Robert Hutchens Phd

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

A chart of labor force participation rates of women age 55 and over, by age group, annual averages, 1963–2003 by Robert Hutchens, PhD, School of Industrial and Labor Relations Cornell University, on behalf of the event: What an Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility held on July 18, 2005 by Workplace Flexibility 2010.

Labor Force Participation Rates Of Men Age 55 And Over, Annual Averages, 1963-2003, Robert Hutchens Phd

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

A chart of labor force participation rates of men age 55 and over, by age group, annual averages, 1963–2003 by Robert Hutchens, PhD, School of Industrial and Labor Relations Cornell University, on behalf of the event: What an Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility held on July 18, 2005 by Workplace Flexibility 2010.

Population Pyramids For The United States, Robert Hutchens Phd

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

A chart of Population Pyramids for the United States by Robert Hutchens, PhD, School of Industrial and Labor Relations Cornell University, on behalf of the event: What an Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility held on July 18, 2005 by Workplace Flexibility 2010.

Issue Brief: Flexible Work Options And Older Workers, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

An Issue Brief: Flexible Work Options and Older Workers, presented at the event: What an Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility held on July 18, 2005 by Workplace Flexibility 2010.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's National Initiative On Workplace Flexibility, Kathleen Christensen Phd

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

A brief overview of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s National Initiative on Workplace Flexibility, by Kathleen Christensen, PhD presented at the event: What an Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility held on July 18, 2005 by Workplace Flexibility 2010.

Older Workers And The Need For Workplace Flexibility, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

A fact sheet: Older Workers and the Need for Workplace Flexibility, from the event: What an Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility held on July 18, 2005 by Workplace Flexibility 2010.

Workplace Flexibility 2010 Staff & Consultants, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Staff and consultants biographies for the event: What an Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility held on July 18, 2005 by Workplace Flexibility 2010.

Professor Feldblum's Comments, Chai R. Feldblum

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Comments by Chai R. Feldblum, J.D for the event: What an Aging Workforce Can Teach Us About Workplace Flexibility held on July 18, 2005 by Workplace Flexibility 2010.