Dissertations / Theses: 'Turning Memory into History'

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Henricksen, Richard A. "Thawing the Frozen Heart: Turning to Antonio Machado to Overcome the Silence in El corazón helado by Almudena Grandes." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2849.

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In an attempt to demonstrate Spain's obligation to recover its ignored historic memory, Almudena Grandes evokes the poetry of a man whose past itself has been manipulated, misused and partially forgotten: the great poet Antonio Machado. In this study I examine the use of the famous "two Spain" imagery from Machado's "Españolito" as a tool for subverting many erroneous concepts about the war that, according to Grandes, are still prevalent in Spanish society. I also examine how this "two Spain" conflict demonstrates the crossroads that faces the third generation of Spaniards after the Civil War: that of collectively remaining in silence or turning openly to the past. To capture this conflict Grandes uses images of water and ice as symbols of the fluidity (or lack of fluidity) of time, images similarly used by Machado throughout much of his poetry. As Ãlvaro, the protagonist, progressively discovers the past his father had so desperately tried to hide, his heart breaks free of the ice that had surrounded his life. His example demonstrates the actions that Grandes desires for a society that still suffers from the effects of the prevailing historic ignorance: that of turning to the past for a foundation on which to build. By evoking Machado´s name and exploring similar imageries, Grandes not only strengthens him as a defender of the Republic but suggests that the only way for Spain to become normal again is to turn to the Republic and its ideals and build upon what they started and what has been overlooked since the Civil War.

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Otieno, Timothy. "Shape memory Alloy Actuator for cross-feed in turning operation." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1012590.

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A shape memory alloy (SMA) is an intermetallic compound able to recover, in a continuous and reversible way, a predetermined shape during a thermal cycle while generating mechanical work. In this thesis, its use in developing an actuator for a machining process is investigated. The actuator is to drive the tool cross feed into an aluminium workpiece in a finishing lathe operation. The actuator structure was designed with an output shaft to transfer the movement and force of the SMA wire outside the device. The actuator was fabricated and the experimental setup was assembled which also included a power supply control circuit, displacement sensor, temperature sensor and current sensor for feedback, and data collection and monitoring within software. PID control was implemented within the software that regulated the power supplied to the SMA, thereby providing the position control. This study covers the mechatronics system design and development of the actuator, the experiments carried out to determine performance and the results. Open loop tests were conducted to determine the maximum stroke, the effect of cooling and response to radial forces. These tests revealed the expected non-linearity of the SMA. The actuator achieved the rated maximum stroke of 3-4 percent. The forced cooling test showed a general improvement of approximately 65 percent with fans. The radial force tests showed the value of the maximum stroke remained unaffected by force. The results from the closed loop tests responses with a tuned PID controller produced a stable system for various displacement setpoints. The actuator had a feed rate of 0.25 mm/s and an accuracy of 0.0153mm, which was within the acceptable accuracy for turning operations. The system was deemed accurate for a conventional lathe machine cross feed.

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Demas, Nicholas Andrew. "Communities of Memory: The Utah History Fair and the Utilization of History and Memory." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1743.

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Utah's students, grades 4-12, create projects for the Utah History Fair, Utah's National History Day affiliate program, annually. As far as the rigors of youth academic prowess are concerned, National History Day and the Utah History Fair are amongst the top in the nation. Within the myriad of projects created by Utah's participating students is important information about what aspects of the past captures students' attention and why they choose to research their selected topics. Through a careful examination of student topics from 1981-1984 and 2009-2012, this project taps into what students comprehend about the past. Further inspection into why students choose their topics, in their own words, explains students' motives for selecting different historical events for research. On a more immediate level, the information gathered and disseminated in this thesis can be used to create stronger Utah History Fair and National History Day projects. The evidence also provides additional assistance to those seeking future utilization of the past in the grade school classroom in regards to what students are interested in studying.

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Bluhm, Amy Colwell. "Turning toward individuation| Carol Sawyer Baumann's interpretation of Jung, 1927-1932." Thesis, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3564246.

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Given an additional 10 volumes that could still be added to his Collected Works and 35,000 unpublished letters, the historical record on Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Gustav Jung, remains incomplete. An example is the unpublished letters between Jung and Carol Sawyer Baumann (1897-1958), an analysand and member of Jung's circle in Zurich for 30 years. The focus of this dissertation is the period of transition between 1927 and 1932, when, after a near-death experience, Baumann shifted her attention from her husband and two children in Cleveland to a search for individuation, first as an analysand under various Jungians, including Cary and H. G. Baynes, then under Jung himself.

Jung's place in psychology is first assessed, noting that he is either generally ignored or else cast as a mere acolyte of Freud. Alternatively, the dissertation is situated in the New Jung Scholarship, which positions Jung as the 20th century exponent of the symbolic hypothesis, but in the tradition of the late 19th century psychologies of transcendence.

Jung's emerging conceptions are chronicled using his documents on individuation from 1916 until 1931. The documents show the emergence of the concepts of the persona, the personal and collective unconscious, the anima and animus, attitudinal and functional types, the balancing mechanism of the psyche, the transcendent function, and the self. These conceptions are compared to an abundance of archival evidence available on Baumann, including papers held by her heirs and primary source material from repositories in various libraries.

The interaction of Jung's theory and Carol Sawyer Baumann's interpretation of individuation reveals to what degree and in what way each influenced the other. The process of collecting, reviewing, and presenting documentary evidence, as an alternative to a hypothesis-driven approach, raises further questions from the material. The extent to which she was successful in her quest can be gauged by Carol Sawyer Baumann's superior intellectual grasp of the principles of analytical psychology, her extensive researches into non-Western cultures, and her ability to communicate her findings on the process of individuation through her lectures and published writings.

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Weiss, Katherine. "Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2281.

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Kennedy, Seán, and Katherine Weiss. "Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://www.amzn.com/0230619444.

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This volume comprises ten essays challenging the dominant account of Samuel Beckett’s engagement with history. As the first full-length volume to address the historical debate in Beckett studies, Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive provides both ground-breaking analysis of the major works as well as a sustained interrogation of the critical assumptions that underpin Beckett studies more generally. Drawing on a range of archival materials, and situating Beckett in historical context, these essays pose a strong challenge to the prevailing critical consensus that he was a deracinated modernist who cannot be read historically.
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Tynes, Sheryl Renee. "Turning points in Social Security: Explaining legislative change, 1935-1985." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184501.

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This work is a sociological analysis of factors that led to the political success of old-age insurance in the United States from 1935-1985. Archival documents, the Congressional Record, House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committee Hearings, and secondary sources were used to piece together the social and political history of the program. The historical record was assessed in light of the pluralist, neo-Marxist and neo-Weberian theoretical frameworks typically utilized to study political change. Two key arguments are put forth. First, analyses that focus on the long-term process of social and political change are required to distinguish between the unique and the general. Other works that focus on isolated time periods cannot make these distinctions. It is also through longitudinal analysis that causality can be determined. Insights gained from a broader time-frame relate to specification of economic, political, and demographic shifts that shape the political agenda. Second, meso-level specification of organizational actors is necessary to assess the logic behind these actors' shifting positions. Organizational theory carries the analysis further than do previous theoretical perspectives, primarily because it specifies which political actors, either inside or outside the polity, attempt to influence their environment. It is through an organizational theory framework that we can determine effective strategies for instituting social change. Finally, using organizational theory and extrapolating from past events, some predictions for the future of Social Security are suggested.

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Brown, Judith Ashley. "Cultural memory in Crimea : history, memory and place in Sevastopol." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708062.

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Robbins, Dorothy. "Turning Sound into Ecstasy| Symbolist Aesthetics in Scriabin's Fantasy in B Minor." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10786243.

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Scriabin’s music is saturated with the mystical and heavily influenced by the psycho philosophical presence of his evolving thoughts throughout his life. Scriabin constructed his own self-mythology modeled on Romantic idealizations based on Nietzschean philosophy and Prometheon narrative. He combined this construction with his Symbolist aesthetics for total unity through mystical transcendence. The combining of these archetypes is seen in his Fantasy in B Minor, Op. 28. The Fantasy inhabits both psychological realities which manifests into different aesthetic characteristics. The presence of the more conservative nineteenth-century style alongside the Symbolist narrative elements are what make the Fantasy and elusive and transitory piece that represents the shifts occurring within Scriabin’s psyche during the dawn of the twentieth-century.

The Fantasy has been neglected by scholars but was written merely three years before all his pieces became drenched in the mystical. I therefore propose from my own analysis of the piece and from the evidence of Scriabin’s close associations to the Symbolist movement that the Fantasy, Op. 28 is driven by Symbolist mythological undertones within the thematic narrative. Evidence will be provided from close friends and acquaintances of Scriabin, his own writings, exploration of Romantic and Symbolist aesthetics, and evidence provided by previous scholarship on Scriabin’s theosophical beliefs.

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Costanti, Peter John. "Sustaining the memory [history] of place." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/costanti/CostantiP0509.pdf.

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Our minds have the ability to recall and sustain memories, so why can't architecture do the same? Our built environment exhibits the ability to form expectations of the future, while conducting investigations into the past. Every place has an identity, a location, and a memory that characterizes its existence. Memory is a component that, at the moment, may be vacant within the context of our forgotten sites, our terrain vague. These places are currently unseen, ignored, or forgotten, but this does not mean the history is unworthy of resurrection. There is certainly a story that exists, that can classify, identify, and categorize the historic capacity of these places. Without paying homage to, and focusing awareness on our past, we risk losing it completely. As our industrial era evolves into the technological age, we face a decision: to bury our past industrial sites along with their collective memories, or embrace them well into the future. To address this topic I will research, plan, and design an appropriate solution to the port/waterfront area of Bellingham, Washington. This 170 acre location was once the home of the thriving Georgia Pacific pulp mill that has now been terminated due to economic changes. Not only has this site been socially forgotten, it has been physically mistreated and neglected with the introduction of toxins that affect and systematically dismantle the local ecology. The importance of this site is evident because it represents industrial sites throughout our coastlines that have been closed down and/or re-programmed. Without proper recognition, we will be unable to sustain the historical relevance of this site, along with many more. Our society should always keep one foot in the past while making a simultaneous stride towards the future.

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Keenan, Catherine. "Memory, history and the contemporary novel." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249833.

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Pulvirenti, Anton. "Wartime Internment: Family, memory and history." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10057.

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This thesis investigates the wartime internment of my paternal grandfather Angelo Pulvirenti, interned in Australia during the Second World War. It investigates his internment in three ways. Firstly, Angelo’s internment is explored in the context of the ‘state of exception’ invoked at the time by the authorities. The state of exception, a legal term describing a sovereign’s ability to override public law in the interests of national security and/or public safety, is the means by which his internment is represented in the studio works. Secondly, the thesis incorporates nineteenth century pictorial Symbolism to manifest the exception in the studio works. And lastly, the thesis applies the exception to the amnesia of the Australian War Memorial regarding the wartime internments, which has become the official version of wartime internment. The studio works construct a new narrative of internment from the official version in terms of familial content and the silence regarding Angelo’s internment. The studio works occupy the space between the official version ofinternment and Angelo’s life narrative during the war. Thus, both the thesis and studio work challenge the official version of internment. The work of Rea Tajiri, Katsushige Nakahashi, Max Klinger, Kandinsky and Gerhard Richter are important on the levels of formal manipulation, myth, symbology and memory. On the theoretical level, Giorgio Agamben, Carl Schmitt, Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière are the main points of contact.

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Wilson, Kevin Arthur. "From memory to history American cultural memory of the Vietnam War /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1153500782.

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Wilson, Kevin A. "From Memory to History: American Cultural Memory of the Vietnam War." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1153500782.

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Ireland, Ryan P. "From Traditional Memory to Digital Memory Systems: A Rhetorical History of the Library as Memory Space." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1461085550.

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Bordeleau, Anne. "C.R. Cockerell : architecture, history, time and memory." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1444354/.

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The definition of what architecture means and how it signifies shifts with different conceptions of shared time (history) and personal time (memory). Turning to the nineteenth century, the thesis explores how comprehensions of architectural meaning were informed by architects' acquaintance with history. Because architects were acutely aware of the schism between a new socio-historical interpretation of architecture and its more traditional grounds, re-examination of this period offers us the opportunity to reconsider issues still relevant today - the struggle between imitation and innovation, the definition (or rejection) of aesthetic experience, the stakes behind architectural judgment (who decides and how), or fundamentally, how to act (i.e. build) when there is no longer a single grand narrative but a plurality of possible histories. The work focuses on how the English architect Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863) addressed the dilemma of history: if architecture was over-identified with the past, the dangers of an eclectic historicism loomed ahead if architecture was dissociated from all historical narratives, it risked become meaningless. Analysis of Cockerell's conception of history suggests that he attempted to avoid these consequences in two essential ways. First, a reading of Cockerell's textual and graphic representations of history (diaries, Royal Academy lecture notes and drawings) reveals how his definition of an active relation with the past inherently guarded the communicability and metaphysical significance of architecture. Second, a study of Cockerell's unfinished building for Cambridge University Library, illuminated by various drawings (Grand Tour studies and publications design development, contract and exhibition drawings), discloses how the setting of his architecture was not merely historical but deeply contextual and experiential. Questioning architecture as a trace from the past, an imprint of its time and an index requiring movement for comprehension, the work addresses the ways in which memory is drawn in architecture and architectural discourse.

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Bare, Steven A. ""'The Sinews of Memory:' The Forging of Civil War Memory and Reconciliation, 1865-1940"." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1553755702050774.

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Komol, Md Mostafizur Rahman. "C-ITS based prediction of driver red light running and turning behaviours." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227694/1/Md%20Mostafizur%20Rahman_Komol_Thesis.pdf.

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Red light running is a major traffic violation. Drivers often aggressively or unintentionally violate red signal and cause traffic collisions. Moreover, Vision impairment of turning vehicles by large vehicles and road side static structures near intersections often lead to VRU crashes during their crossing at the intersection. In this research, we have developed models to predict drivers’ red light running and turning behaviour at intersections using Long Short Term Memory and Gated Recurrent Unit algorithms. We have used vehicle kinematic dataset of the C-ITS project: Ipswich Connected Vehicle Pilot, Queensland, taken from the Department of Transport and Main Road, Queensland.

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Carden, Clarissa. "Turning Points: Christian and Secular Battlelines in the History and Present of Queensland Education." Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/380298.

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This thesis answers the question: to what extent is the history of education in Queensland, Australia, a history of secularisation? Through a Foucauldian history of the present, it explores the shifting relationship between Christian and secular ideals in Queensland education from the early twentieth century through to 2017. It focuses on a series of six case studies, each of which examines a moment during which the existing relationship between Christian and secular ideals was challenged. This thesis offers a revised definition of secularisation. This definition holds that secularisation should be understood as (1) historically, culturally, and spatially specific; (2) changing and recursive; (3) situated in power relations; (4) multi-faceted and multi-scalar and (5) existing in the context of multiple modernities. Using this definition, the thesis finds that secularisation has occurred through the history of education in Queensland, despite legislative changes which continue to privilege Christianity. The key data this thesis relies upon are archival sources including letters, reports, and cabinet minutes. Other significant forms of data include newspaper sources, Census data, legislation, and Hansard reports.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Hum, Lang & Soc Sc
Arts, Education and Law
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Grek, Ivan M. "The Chapaevization of Soviet Civil War Memory, 1922-1941." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1440544170.

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Vallance, Andrew. "Memories made in seeing : memory in film and film as memory." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2017. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/2848/.

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Memories Made in Seeing considers the relationship between memory and film through examining what is its cultural and experiential effect, how it can show and write memory and History. Four post-war films - Muriel, or the Time of a Return (Resnais, 1963), (nostalgia) (Frampton, 1971), Level Five (Marker, 1996) and Memento (Nolan, 2000) – that are complex manifestations of thought in practice, which trace and examine film’s ability to distinctly embody and produce memory, and are part of a dialogue in form and time. To contextualise and consider memory’s effect, it is charted from the advent of film (the nineteenth century’s ‘memory crisis’, the founding and understanding of modern memory, the related ideas of Proust, Bergson and Freud), through the twentieth century (the development of a more subjective reckoning, the seeming impossibility of memory (and understanding) that followed World War II’s trauma), till its millennial disposition (multi-various considerations, the inception of prosthetic memory, the seeming need for nostalgia). The case studies’ varied forms and alignments consider the tension between the demands of narrative resolution and the mutable and open-ended nature of memory, and how different film practices seek to utilize and appraise its perceived function, relevance and production. These films are also a record of viewing experiences, which influence one another and create a narrative of personal engagement that forms and substantiates recollection. To examine this conceptual process further I contend the tension between narrative (something fixed by duration and intention) and memory’s imperatives (formal and personal) form an axis of experimentation and exploration and this correspondence is central to comprehending the ways in which films represent and invoke forms of subjective and cultural recollection. I propose that film’s unique and associative account of memory’s evolving resonances becomes a series of palimpsests, which emphasize that the experience of film is an act of re-writing and recollection and misrecollection. This context tethers the subject, is the point of initiation, and explores how memories, which are made when seen, are mutable, historical and present, essential.

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Cutz, Vanessa. "Walking into History: Holocaust History and Memory on the March of the Living." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20421.

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This thesis is an ethnography of how children of Holocaust survivors interacted and connected with the March of the Living and Holocaust sites in Poland. This work explores how considering individual perspectives allows one to understand how the March works in complicated and nuanced ways to intensify connections with relatives and Jewish identity. In three chapters this work situates the experiences of four participants within theories of place-making and post-memory to consider methods they used to connect with Holocaust sites and what effect that connection had on their sense of identity.

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Bramley, Anne Frances. "Women and colonialism : archival history and oral memory." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/49aa5d75-3f4c-4485-822d-f91ceb0e6387.

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Representations of Britain's colonial history have predominantly been 'official' ones, which tend to focus on well-documented administrative accounts and imply that one 'true' account of the past exists. More recently, white women's accounts have been incorporated, highlighting their participation in Britain's imperial adventure, particularly during and after the World Wars. East Africa provides the context in which this range of narratives will be explored: Its 'racial' hierarchies; its different designation of land as colonies, protectorates and territories; and its active white settler population in Kenya, which of necessity sought a place for its women, all contribute to its interesting past. This thesis first explores the range of historical representations surrounding Britain's colonial relationship with East Africa, and subsequently focuses on the portrayal of white women. This enables an exploration of the ways these women negotiated their positions in both private spheres, as was more commonly expected; but also in public ways that challenged discourses of femininity at the time. Their challenge became increasingly prevalent as greater numbers of women sought independence, the Empire being one place that enabled white women who went there to realise their 'modern' ambitions to 'civilise' and 'develop' the colonial world. These ambitions however, existed in tension with the oppressive nature of colonialism. If traditional historical accounts have stuck to the 'grand narratives' of colonial history, then turning to white women's oral histories reveals more complex historical narratives. These personal stories emphasise the divisions the women lived within and maintained, as well as demonstrating how myth has come to exist through their memories, now sustaining a colonial image of East Africa. Furthermore, these narratives provide challenging examples of how we can interpret the legacies of 'colonialism' in contemporary, 'postcolonial' realities. The contradictions they reveal hold powerful implications for the way that colonial history is represented in Britain today.

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Logan, Kevin Robert. "Spatial History: Using Spatial Memory to Recall Information." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19211.

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Some computer users employ large displays, 6 or more monitors, in order to view a large amount of data on a single desktop at one time. This layout can be useful when the user is performing tasks in which they must view several different information sources at a time. For example, a user may be writing a paper in which they may be simultaneously typing a document, reading another paper, and view a spreadsheet. After the task is completed, the user may close all of the windows, however sometime later they may want to view a document associated with that task. A possible scenario is for the user to know that they were viewing an important document in their top left monitor, but they cannot remember which document. SpatialHistory looks to allow a user to recall which windows and documents were open at a certain time spatially. The user may query a particular region of a large display and SpatialHistory will report the windows that were open in that area. Through a user study, we conclude that i) some users organize their large displays in a spatial manner placing certain types of documents and windows in certain places and that ii) our tool has the potential to help users recall previously viewed windows based on a spatial memory of their desktop.
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Higgs, Jo. "Video, memory and identity : my body, my history." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8008.

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Bibliography: leaves 45-47.
This explication is an inquiry into familial images of the past and the relationship of these images to history, memory and the present. Because some of these relationships are problematic, alternative ways of looking at memory and familial images through the medium of video are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the idea of a more visceral filmic language that attempts to access memory through the senses. I also discuss development of both my theoretical and practical concerns through the planning, production, post-production and completion of my final video, 'The Nanny, the Granny, the Momma and Me' (2004).

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Greenwell, Joseph E. "Time, History, and Memory in James Joyce's Ulysses." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1343339298.

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Blackmer, Jessie. "Mice, Memory, and Medical history: A Personal Narrative." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1314909047.

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Hagemann, Hannah-Lena. "History and memory : Khārijism in early Islamic historiography." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11692.

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The Khārijites are usually regarded as the first faction to separate from the early Islamic community. They are viewed as rebels and heretics, constituting the first sect within early Islam. This thesis seeks to examine the narrative role and function of Khārijism in the historiographical tradition of the formative period of Islam. To that end, it looks at the major Islamic chronicles of the 3rd and 4th centuries AH/9th and 10th centuries CE and investigates their portrayal of Khārijite history. The analysis covers the period from the apparent emergence of the Khārijites at the Battle of Ṣiffīn in 37 AH/657 CE until the death of the Umayyad caliph ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān in 86 AH/705 CE. The thesis’ methodological approach is based on the premise that the historiographical works under study need to be approached as literary artefacts, as texts rather than databanks that can be mined for hard facts in order to reconstruct early Islamic and thus Khārijite history ‘as it really was’. This literary analysis of the source material on Khārijism leads to two major conclusions: first, there is hardly any narrative substance to the Khārijites as presented in the sources. Instead, the reports on Khārijite activities are mostly made up of structural components such as names and dates on the one hand, and topoi and schemata on the other. Consequently, no distinct and tangible identity, literary or otherwise, emerges from the material, pointing out the pitfalls of positivist approaches to Khārijite history and by extension early Islamic history in general. This phenomenon is directly connected to the second conclusion: the historiographical sources approach Khārijism not as an end in itself, but as a narrative tool with which to illustrate, discuss and criticize other actors and subject matters. The thesis is divided into six chapters. Chapters One and Two address those characteristics of and topoi in the representation of Khārijism that pervade the source material across the entire period investigated here. It emerges that the historiographers’ major concern in the depiction of Khārijism is the discussion of the perils of the rebels’ militant piety that threatens the unity and stability of the Islamic community. Chapters Three to Five look at the periods of ʿAlī’s caliphate, Muʿāwiya’s rule and the second fitna as well as t he reign of ʿAbd al-Malik, respectively, and identify the specific narrative purposes of Khārijism in the portrayal of each period. Chapter Six offers a number of observations on the early historiographical tradition as derived from the analysis over the preceding five chapters, addressing issues such as whether it makes sense to distinguish between proto-Sunnī and proto-Shīʿī sources. The Conclusion summarizes the main findings of this thesis and provides some suggestions regarding future research on Khārijite history and thought as well as early Islamic history in general.

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Bahn, Joshua. "Mexico misrepresented the Cristiada in history and memory /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1467742.

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Grogan, Elise Kathleen. "Thomas Hart Benton's Indiana Murals in History and Memory." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/396679.

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Art History
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Thomas Hart Benton was commissioned to paint murals depicting Indiana history for the Indiana state pavilion at the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. The completed Indiana murals were twelve feet high and over two hundred feet long, wrapping around the entire exhibition hall. Visitors to the Indiana pavilion experienced Indiana’s history through a continuous stream of narrative imitating the flow of time. After several years of storage following the fair, the panels were given to Indiana University in Bloomington in 1938, where they currently reside. While most scholarship has focused on the original message and context of the Indiana murals, the murals’ nearly seventy-five year display at IU necessitates a more thorough analysis of the murals at the university, with specific attention to the contextual changes since the time of the fair. The relocation of the murals to IU and the resultant restructuring of their historical narrative have altered perceptions of their imagery and attributed new meanings to the historical scenes Benton depicted. The aim of this study it to better understand the complex nature of Benton’s Indiana murals by exploring the ways in which changes in context result in alteration of the original message and the viewers’ reception of the murals. My research explores the murals’ role in university politics, reactions to the murals by their university audience, and recent controversies. A study of the Indiana murals in terms of the fluidity of historical construction and the effects of collective memory on their reception is significant because it leads to a greater understanding of the present’s cultural ideals, and begins to explain why the murals continue to elicit such strong reactions from viewers—whether to protest against their presence at the university or promote their preservation for the benefit of future generations.
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Knepper, Brendan Andrew. "The cost of national unity: the impact of memory on American history." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18941.

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Department of History
Charles Sanders
The power of historical memory is readily apparent in the United States of America. Ask any descendent of veterans that served in war, and a plethora of reasons behind their willingness to fight will follow. As with any conflict, the enduring legacies of the war‘s aftermath are not always clear until years after the fact. Memory of the American Civil War took several different routes before finally settling on the "spirit of reconciliation" that came to dominate American society in the post-war era. In the South, the "Lost Cause" began to take hold with former Confederates attempting to justify their defeat and change the historical record to excuse their actions. As the winner in the war, the North did not need to come up with justification as to why they fought—they had secured the Union and destroyed the divisive institution, slavery. Gradually over time, Northerners and Southerners celebrated their veterans while simultaneously promoting reconciliation between the two sections. As a result, any emancipationist legacy from the end of the Civil War was relegated to irrelevancy in American society as Jim Crow settled in within the South for the next hundred years. Memory of the American Civil War continues to have lasting impact upon modern American society, especially with the sesquicentennial celebrations of the war‘s major battles. Lesser known, and yet equally as important, is the memory of the American Revolution. As with the "Lost Cause", the American Revolution experienced its own reconstruction with equal parts forgetting and remembering. Emerging from this "reconstruction" was what became known as the American identity. Thirteen disparate colonies became a solid monolith of Americanism in the reconstructed views of the Revolution, instead of the divided thirteen colonies they truly were. This thesis argues that the "Lost Cause" and spirit of reconciliation that permeated the post-war United States after the Civil War followed a tradition of desiring unity above all else at the expense of minority groups such as African Americans and Native Americans, that began with the American Revolution.

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Christiansen, Jobadiah Truth. "Crucifix of Memory: Community and Identity in Greenville, Pennsylvania 1796-Present." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1429530820.

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Turnator, Ece Gulsum. "Turning the Economic Tables in the Medieval Mediterranean: The Latin Crusader Empire and the Transformation of the Byzantine Economy, ca. 1100-1400." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10753.

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This dissertation investigates the growth and decline of a major Mediterranean commercial economy at the crossroads of Christian Europe and the Muslim Middle East from 1100 to 1400. New and old evidence uncovers the transformation of the commercial economy of the Byzantine Empire in its relations with the Middle East, western Europe, and Crusader principalities established in Byzantium's ruins. Ultimately, this work helps identify and understand the economic roots for enduring divisions between East and West, and it is unique in observing from Byzantium's perspective the transformation of the Middle East--the economic dynamo of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean.
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Wentz, Kaleb Q. "The Reality of COMBAT!: An Analysis of Historical Memory in Broadcast Television." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/333.

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This thesis is an analysis of the World War II television drama COMBAT!, which ran from 1962 to 1967, and how this program dealt with and addressed the national memory of the Second World War. The way in which the “Good War” is remembered has changed over time. In the years of the conflict and immediately following its conclusion, there was a sense of zealous patriotism surrounding the war, but as our culture changed, a more critical approach was taken. This paper examines the way in which the show deals with its two main subjects – the American forces and the Germans which opposed them. This depiction is analyzed and deconstructed through the lens of historical or collective memory, a concept which deals with how a group of people view their past. Particularly, COMBAT! uses an air of complexity and nuance in how the combatants are treated that was not found in many earlier depictions of the war. It is important for the reader to understand the thinking behind the way in which this program deals with the memory of World War II. This thesis dissects the intended messages that arise from the show’s portrayal. The paper concludes with an examination of how this more critical view can be applied to the portions of the war outside of COMBAT’s scope. Attention is also paid to the way in which this attitude of remembrance has continued on into future works that deal with both World War II and the wars that followed.

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Bietti, Lucas Manuel. "Memory, Discourse and Interaction: Remembering in Context and History." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/48672.

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Esta tesis propone un enfoque socio-cognitivo para analizar procesos discursivos de memoria autobiográfica y colectiva. Esta nueva perspetiva interdisciplinaria en estudios de memoria integra teorías de estudios del discurso, ciencias cognitivas y ciencias sociales con el fin de examinar cómo la reconstrucción y comunicación de memorias individuales y compartidas se desarrolla en situaciones de la vida cotidiana. Se examinan procesos cognitivos y discursivos relacionados a períodos de violencia política en Argentina, en general, y en particular a la dictadura militar de 1976-1983.Investigaciones anteriores acerca de la reconstrucción y comunicación de recuerdos sobre períodos de violencia política en Argentina no se han ocupado de la dimensión cognitiva de estos procesos. Los estudios empíricos presentados en este trabajo secentran en explorar la reconstrucción y comunicación de memorias individuales y colectivas en contextos públicos y privados. De este modo, se propone examinar la intersección de discursos públicos y privados acerca del pasado traumático en Argentina. El análisis discursivo de una perspectiva socio-cognitiva de estos recuerdos individuales y colectivos nos posibilita explorar la interaccción de los mecanismos sociales, culturales, históricos y cognitivos responsables de la reconstrucción y comunicación de memorias en actividades de la vida cotidiana.

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Elayyadi, Abdeljalil. "Post-Colonial Immigration in France: History, Memory, and Space." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1082688426.

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Winfield, Ann Gibson. "Eugenics and Education: Implications of Ideology, Memory and History." NCSU, 2004. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04072004-131230/.

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Eugenics has been variously described "as an ideal, as a doctrine, as a science (applied human genetics), as a set of practices (ranging from birth control to euthanasia), and as a social movement" (Paul 1998 p. 95). "Race suicide" (Roosevelt 1905) and the ensuing national phobia regarding the "children of worm eaten stock" (Bobbitt 1909) prefaced an era of eugenic ideology whose influence on education has been largely ignored until recently. Using the concept of collective memory, I examine the eugenics movement, its progressive context, and its influence on the aims, policy and practice of education. Specifically, this study examines the ideology of eugenics as a specific category and set of distinctions, and the role of rhetoric and collective memory in providing the mechanism whereby eugenic ideology has shaped and fashioned interpretation and action in current educational practice. The formation of education as a distinct academic discipline, the eugenics movement, and the Progressive era coalesced during the first decades of the twentieth century to form what has turned out to be a lasting alliance. This alliance has had a profound impact on public perception of the role of schools, how students are classified and sorted, degrees and definitions of intelligence, attitudes and beliefs surrounding multiculturalism and a host of heretofore unexplored ramifications. My research is primarily historical and theoretical and uses those material and media cultural artifacts generated by the eugenics movement to explore the relationship between eugenic ideology and the institution of education.

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Bates, Toby Glenn. "The Reagan rhetoric : history and memory in 1980s America /." Full text available from ProQuest UM Digital Dissertations, 2006. http://0-proquest.umi.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/pqdweb?index=0&did=1273095661&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1193075944&clientId=22256.

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Musalkova, Johana. "Silesian identity : the interplay of memory, history, and borders." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:368d6e0d-f844-42e9-b4c2-0789ecb1c215.

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This dissertation provides an ethnographic account of contemporary Opavian Silesian identity (or identities) and its negotiations. In particular, it is concerned with the question of how Silesian identity is being negotiated by various social actors in and between the town of Opava and the neighbouring area of Hlučín, which together comprise the tourist region of Opavian Silesia. In focusing on Opava and the Hlučín area, inhabited by Opavians and Hlučíns respectively, I not only explore the internal constitution of a group and analyse its narrative accounts, but also pay special attention to the social organisation of the differences between these two groups. The aim of this project is not to address the question of whether Silesian identity exists objectively, which is taken for granted by the majority of scholars working on Silesian identity do, but rather to explore how various social actors negotiate and utilise the concept, including these scholars themselves. I start from the premise that identities are relational, situational, and instrumental, and throughout the dissertation I focus on the groups' external and internal contestations, exploring the ways in which various social actors try to overcome these differences. The present negotiations over Silesian identity have proved to be problematic in all their temporalities, as they relate to issues in the past, the present and possibly the future. I therefore investigate how certain versions of the past are being reconstructed and negotiated in the present, how these versions inform and reflect on the present, and the possible implications of this for the future. I consider competing representations of Silesian-ness and competing reconstructions of the past that are related to it through the theoretical framework of 'dominant v. demotic discourses' and 'difficult heritage', focusing on commemoration practices, tourism, the politics of display, and hierarchies of knowledge.

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Infanti, Elisa. "Influence of reward history on visual working memory representations." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/369031.

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Reward is a strong determinant of human and non-human behavior, influencing the exploration of the world around us and our interactions with it. Interestingly, the impact of reward and reward-associated objects is not limited to strategic changes in approach behavior or attention deployment, but also extends to situations in which prioritizing processing of such objects is not necessarily advantageous for current goals. In spite of converging evidence for the automatic influence of reward on attentional deployment, less is known about the impact of reward on other cognitive processes. In this thesis I describe a first attempt to investigate the influence of reward in encoding and maintenance of visual representations in working memory. Throughout this thesis I argue that once objects have been associated with a positive outcome in past encounters, they are preferentially encoded and maintained in visual working memory (VWM) even when reward is no longer provided or when there is no consistent pairing between reward feedback and target identity. In Chapters 2 and 3 I demonstrate that reward associated objects interfere with the visual representations of less valuable items maintained in VWM. This interference was already present starting 10 ms from the offset of the memory display suggesting that valuable objects directly affected the encoding of less valuable items. This robust phenomenon was observed at different delays, both when reward-associated objects were task-relevant and when they were not, and was independent of object salience. However, the interference disappeared when task requirements for target selection increased suggesting that items with a positive reward history can effectively capture attention and interfere with VWM representations only when cognitive resources are not exhausted by the main task (Chapter 3). In the last study presented in this thesis I explored the possibility that reward could impact VWM beyond target selection and encoding, namely influencing the active maintenance process. To investigate this hypothesis I measured reward priming effects on event-related potential (ERP) indices of selective attention â€“ the N2pc - and visual working memory maintenance â€“ the CDA (contralateral delay activity). Results indicate that reward modulated CDA only, speaking for a discrete effect of reward on VWM maintenance. While the precise nature of such modulation is still unknown, these results suggest that reward history might influence the precision or the duration of visual representations maintained in VWM. Further studies are necessary to directly test this hypothesis, but these initial results suggest an interesting direction for future research in better characterizing the nature and extent of the influence of reward history on visual cognition.

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Infanti, Elisa. "Influence of reward history on visual working memory representations." Doctoral thesis, University of Trento, 2015. http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/1585/1/PhDthesis_Elisa_Infanti_Influence_of_reward_history_on_VWM_representations.pdf.

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Reward is a strong determinant of human and non-human behavior, influencing the exploration of the world around us and our interactions with it. Interestingly, the impact of reward and reward-associated objects is not limited to strategic changes in approach behavior or attention deployment, but also extends to situations in which prioritizing processing of such objects is not necessarily advantageous for current goals. In spite of converging evidence for the automatic influence of reward on attentional deployment, less is known about the impact of reward on other cognitive processes. In this thesis I describe a first attempt to investigate the influence of reward in encoding and maintenance of visual representations in working memory. Throughout this thesis I argue that once objects have been associated with a positive outcome in past encounters, they are preferentially encoded and maintained in visual working memory (VWM) even when reward is no longer provided or when there is no consistent pairing between reward feedback and target identity. In Chapters 2 and 3 I demonstrate that reward associated objects interfere with the visual representations of less valuable items maintained in VWM. This interference was already present starting 10 ms from the offset of the memory display suggesting that valuable objects directly affected the encoding of less valuable items. This robust phenomenon was observed at different delays, both when reward-associated objects were task-relevant and when they were not, and was independent of object salience. However, the interference disappeared when task requirements for target selection increased suggesting that items with a positive reward history can effectively capture attention and interfere with VWM representations only when cognitive resources are not exhausted by the main task (Chapter 3). In the last study presented in this thesis I explored the possibility that reward could impact VWM beyond target selection and encoding, namely influencing the active maintenance process. To investigate this hypothesis I measured reward priming effects on event-related potential (ERP) indices of selective attention – the N2pc - and visual working memory maintenance – the CDA (contralateral delay activity). Results indicate that reward modulated CDA only, speaking for a discrete effect of reward on VWM maintenance. While the precise nature of such modulation is still unknown, these results suggest that reward history might influence the precision or the duration of visual representations maintained in VWM. Further studies are necessary to directly test this hypothesis, but these initial results suggest an interesting direction for future research in better characterizing the nature and extent of the influence of reward history on visual cognition.

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Craig-Norton, Jennifer. "Contesting memory : new perspectives on the Kindertransport." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/374394/.

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The Kindertransport – the government facilitated but privately funded movement that brought 10,000 unaccompanied mostly Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland to the UK by 1940 – has been celebrated as a humanitarian act of rescue by the British government and people. The existing literature on the movement has been dominated by a reductionist and redemptive narrative emphasising the children’s survival, minimising their less positive experiences and outcomes and erasing the parents from the story. The administrative details of the programme centred on the Refugee Children’s Movement have been well covered in existing academic studies that have utilised publicly available archival records, but the examination of Kindertransportees’ experiences in the UK has depended almost entirely upon the memoirs and testimonies of former child refugees, largely because of restrictions on their after-care records. Archival gaps and the extensive use of Kinder memory have resulted in a historiography that has not adequately addressed the complexity and range of the children’s experiences. This study challenges the dominant memory of the Kindertransport using newly discovered archival sources. The case files of more than 100 German-born children who were brought to England from Poland are the basis for an investigation of both the particularities of their lives and the universalities of their experiences to the Kindertransport as a whole. The perspectives of the major Kindertransport actors – the refugee organisations, the everyday carers, the children and their parents – inform this analysis, contributing new insights on their interactions, motivations, attitudes and actions. Particular attention is paid to issues of religion, agency, gender, identity and writing the parents back into the Kindertransport narrative. In addition to contesting the memory of the Kindertransport, the documentation facilitates a critical investigation of Kinder memory. Using both recorded testimony from this group of Kinder and interviews with many of the still-living Kinder and their families, Kinder memory and archival documentation are interrogated, resulting in a synthesis that challenges both sources and produces new understandings of the Kindertransport and its legacies.

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Minner, Jonathan. "The Battle of Peleliu in American Memory." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10271603.

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The paper focuses on the Battle of Peleliu and how it was interpret throughout the decades following World War 2. While doing so the paper will answer the question on why the Battle was overshadowed and forgotten through history.

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Sambumbu, Sipokazi. "Social history, public history and the politics of memory in re-making 'Ndabeni'' pasts." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/2315.

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Wetovick, Kalie Nicole. "Geodæsia: Land and Memory." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303780078.

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Clinch, Margaret Anna. "Was the arrival of the railhead at Alice Springs in 1929 the turning point in the history of Central Australia, 1919-1939?" Thesis, The Northern Territory University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/270322.

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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the proposition that the completion of the Central Australian Railway to Alice Springs was the turning point in the development of Central Australia during the period 1919-1939. It traces part of the history of Central Australia, and particularly the role of Alice Springs as the centre of the region. Concentration is on the progressive development of the region, in order to identify the most significant factors affecting that development.

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Jakes, Dhruti Paleja. "The theater as an instrument of memory." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23207.

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Solani, Noel Lungile Zwelidumile. "Memory and representation: Robben Island Museum 1997-1999." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2000. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=init_9418_1178281992.

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The notion of what constitutes a nation has been a subject of many debates. The nation, like individual is the culmination of a long past of endeavours, sacrifice and devotion. The post aprtheid project of reconciliation in South Africa is part of this desire to live together as citizens of one country irrespective of past differences. This desire transforms itself to cultural institutions like museums or rather cultural institutions represents this desire in a more systematic way in the post apartheid South Africa as they seek to transform.

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Bakshi, Anita. "Urban memory in divided Nicosia : praxis and image." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283909.

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Tadlock, Stephen Kyle. "Forging the Sword of Damocles: Memory, Mercenaries, and Monarchy on Sicily." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1522241831627667.

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