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Owners value heritage goods, items that connect them to a shared past, whether through their alma mater or their family history. This research considers the impact of heritage on owners who wish to sell such goods. In five studies, the authors demonstrate that sellers have a lower willingness to accept when selling heritage goods to buyers with a shared heritage connection relative to buyers without this connection (i.e., a heritage discount). This heritage discount cannot be explained by ingroup favoritism, sentimental value, or appropriateness of buyer usage and persists even when sellers perceive that the buyer has a higher willingness to pay. The authors provide process evidence that the effect of the buyer's identity on the seller's willingness to accept is driven by concerns about heritage loss. The findings contribute to literatures on sharing, sentimental goods, psychological ownership, and the endowment effect and have marketing implications for consumer goods (e.g., collectibles) that derive product value by connecting consumers to meaningful history and traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the campaign by Italian military and civilian authorities following the 8 September 1943 armistice to whitewash the war crimes committed by Italian units from 1940 to 1943 in occupied Europe. This campaign followed a two-pronged strategy: first, the transformation of the Italians from perpetrators to victims by distinguishing the Italians from their former German allies and highlighting war crimes against them; and second, the use of fictitious trials to whitewash the records of military commanders. This concerted effort was finally sanctioned by the Western Allies in the increasingly confrontational climate of the Cold War to bolster one of their main partners, whom they needed to contain the spread of communism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an analysis of the soundscape of the permanent exhibition at the Second World War Museum in Gdansk, an aspect that has received less attention in the scholarship. The exhibition and its soundscape are considered here as memory apparatuses, whose function is to disseminate and co-create national and transnational memory of the Second World War, while also relating visitors to the past and situating them within a remembering community. Highlighting 'sonic icons' and sound mnemotopoi as constituent components of the exhibition, the article examines the role of the exhibition's sound layer in constructing its visitors' affective recipient experience. Keywords: Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk; memory apparatus; museum soundscape; sonic icon; sound mnemotopos, The Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk is one of Poland's most modern and important narrative history museums. The decision on the museum's location was made by the [...]

Since the precolonial era, the practice of oral storytelling has greatly shaped Rwandan society. Ranging in style, form, and content, stories, particularly elite-driven ones, have served as a means to record and pass down histories, memorialize particular figures and events, and widely disseminate collective values, sentiments and/or ideals. This continues to be apparent in post-genocide Rwanda. As scholarship has widely shown, Rwanda’s post-genocide government has actively constructed and imposed a singular hegemonic narrative that promotes a selective memory of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsis. Yet, as with all stories, the power of this narrative is neither total nor stable. Instead, other vernacular forms of remembering and narrating the past exist alongside of and in contention to “official” ones. As such, in order to more comprehensively understand Rwanda’s post-genocide society, we must turn to these more illegible but still influential stories and practices of storytelling. This article seeks to do so with a multispecies story – Mutware’s story. Detailing the life of Rwanda’s infamous elephant, the story describes Mutware’s experiences with genocidal violence, familial separation, trauma, and, eventually, imperfect recovery. The following argues that Mutware’s story serves as a vehicle of vernacular remembering that complicates Rwanda’s hegemonic narrative of the 1994 Genocide. By situating the more-than-human other as a social actor within human relationality, Mutware’s story obscures notions of collective memory/identity, alternatively centreing relationality in Rwanda’s post-genocide processes of reconciliation and recovery. Drawing on African humanism and multispecies ethnography, I will argue that constructing, relating, and sharing the story of Mutware not only challenges Rwanda’s hegemonic narrative, but highlights and even helps realize a more inclusive, holistic, and productive journey towards post-genocide societal healing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current research on the Second Indochina War, or the ‘Vietnam War’, largely focuses on memory narratives of prominent figures and institutions while overlooking lived experiences of Vietnamese people. Drawing primarily on cultural geographical knowledge of memory and home, this paper explores how Vietnamese people – in Việt Nam and abroad – live through memories of the War across places and times. Specifically, this paper adopts autoethnography and storytelling to tell candid stories of how my Vietnamese Australian family experiences, feels, and constructs war memories within our homes in Việt Nam and Australia. These stories provide evocative insights into the domestic geographies of intergenerational and transnational war memories, and the emotional complexities related to place-based pasts and presents. Overall, this paper contributes to understanding of the cultural geographies of memory, place, emotion, and home, as well as enhances the shift towards storytelling, personal and family histories, and (auto)ethnography as potent conceptual and methodological frameworks to study micro-political memories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper analyses the public debates in Estonia related to the Soviet-era monuments in the aftermath of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of the 'mnemonic security'. The latter concept implies a policy that makes certain historical memories 'secure by delegitimizing or outright criminalizing others' (Mälksoo 2015:221). In this context, the analytical focus is on such research questions as how a common past is remembered in a democratic society, and which groups adopt contrarian collective memories, including one that potentially endangers the identity of the titular nation. What makes it possible is a strategy that Mälksoo attributes to the Ukrainian society that is seeking self-emancipation. If applied to Estonia, this self-emancipation refers primarily to the domestic issues, aiming to erase the references to the Soviet (Russia-style) meanings in the collective identity of Russian-speakers in Estonia and to re-invent the new ones, grounded in pre-Soviet times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Collective memories refer to a group's shared representation of the past, which are slow to change over time. In this study, representative samples of American and German Younger Adults (YAs) and Older Adults (OAs) rated the emotional valence of 12 national historic events. Critically, both age groups were also asked to take on the perspective of the other: OAs imagined how YAs feel, whereas YAs imagined how OAs feel about the same events today. The results replicated previous findings that OAs and YAs hold differing opinions on numerous events. Both age groups successfully recognised these different collective perceptions between generations to some extent. Yet, OAs were more accurate in the perspective-taking task, with YAs consistently underestimating the intensity of OAs' emotional valence. Self-reported perspective-taking strategies suggest that OAs relied more on stereotypes and considered education, while knowledge from specific people was universally used to rate the other age group's perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking the Castel National Heritage site in Israel as an empirical case study, this paper explores how experiential pedagogies at cultural heritage sites can facilitate militarization processes. The 1948 War is a pivotal moment in Israel's history and collective memory. The war has been commemorated in the Israeli landscape for decades, notably at the Castel National Heritage Site. This article provides a critical analysis of the educational strategies at the Castel site, using a multi-method ethnographic approach. Three main results are presented. First, the memorialization of the Castel battle has shifted, from a commemoration-oriented heritage site to an experiential-educational heritage site. Second, cultural heritage is used to evoke emotions among learners that, in turn, facilitate militaristic values. Third, the Castel site contributes to characterizing Israeli society as upholding prominent ethical standards in the context of a 'just war' against a continual existential threat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on how the anti-Jewish pogroms of 1919–1920 affected Jewish children through the lens of family history. It explores demographic data and factors that influenced children and families in Southern Ukraine during that period. The article attempts to reconstruct the children's experience through their parents' testimonies and the memories of individuals who endured the anti-Jewish pogroms during childhood. It also analyzes how the experience of the anti-Jewish pogroms has transformed in historical memory and its current influence on public opinion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digital infrastructures, such as editorial management systems (EMS), play a crucial role in academic publishing. However, despite their ubiquity, they have received surprisingly little analytical attention. Here, we investigate how EMSs are employed in practice and contribute to editorial evaluations. Conducting a case study of a biomedical publisher, we investigate the selection of peer reviewers by editors, using both qualitative and quantitative data. When looking at how interactions between editors and the digital infrastructures unfold, we observed three analytically different types of interaction: (1) editors and infrastructure jointly accomplish the acceleration of peer review, (2) editors mitigate the infrastructure when establishing a collective memory, and (3) editors disengage from the infrastructure when they evaluate potential reviewers. Through strategic disengagement from and mitigation of the infrastructures, editors create interpretative spaces for themselves. This way, most of the interpretative and evaluative work still remains in the domain of the human editorial staff. Our results furthermore highlight the importance of the specific spatial, social, organizational, and cultural conditions of the editorial office for editors' ability to modulate their engagement with the infrastructures, create interpretative spaces, and shape infrastructural effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the 1948 dramatic work published in Mûvelõdési Útmutató and its adaptations, focusing on the state’s role in shaping theatrical memory through stateapproved texts. During this period, amateur theater in Romania flourished, with nearly 4,000 cultural centers producing over 20,000 performances by 1949, reflecting the ideological goals of the regime. Unlike prewar amateur theater, post-war cultural houses disseminated Party ideology, transforming theater into a tool for shaping cultural memory. By examining texts and performances from 1948 to 1953, this research highlights how the state canonized a new pantheon of heroes to align historical narratives with its ideological agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes the post-war documentaries 'The Train Stop', 'Landscape', and 'Portrait', which reflect the aftermath of the Post-Soviet revolution, through the lens of Brecht's Aesthetics of Alienation. Combining elements of poetic cinema and Brechtian aesthetics, these films engage the viewer intellectually while depicting the societal and human impact of post-Soviet destruction. Loznitsa's documentaries invite critical reflection, highlighting the legacies of the Soviet era and prompting a reconsideration of historical and contemporary issues. Through visual storytelling, they offer a critical perspective on resilience and societal transformation following political upheaval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the present paper is to explore the role monuments and monumentality play in the creation of collective identities in early Greece by focusing on two case studies, Lefkandi and Eretria. Equal emphasis will be given to the study of both the burials and the buildings that were subsequently created in honour of the deceased, transforming both sites from individual monuments to collective ones. People's perceptions of the monuments changed over time affecting their monumentality hence influencing the emergence of collective identities centred around the Toumba cemetery and the West Gate cemetery at Lefkandi and Eretria respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background Aims Methods Results Conclusions Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) are small brain haemorrhages, identified by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). They indicate potential for cognitive decline and mortality in memory clinic attendees. The presence of more than four CMBs is exclusionary for some clinical trials of disease‐modifying therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD). The prevalence and clinical relevance of CMBs in Australian memory clinic populations has not been reported.To highlight the prevalence of CMBs in an Australian memory clinic cohort and explore associations with diagnoses, topography and cognitive performance.We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 393 patients who attended a memory clinic (CDAMS) in Melbourne, Australia from January 2014 to December 2016 who underwent brain MRI. Data collected included age, gender, clinical diagnosis and cognitive scores. Univariable and multivariable regression analyses were performed to identify associations of CMBs with clinical and cognitive findings.The prevalence of CMBs was 27% (n=107) with good inter‐rater reliability (κ=0.75). CMBs were significantly associated with increasing age. Prevalence of CMBs was higher in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) (32%) and dementia (39%) compared with other diagnostic groups (p<0.001). Lobar‐predominant CMB distribution was associated with AD diagnosis. Presence of multiple CMBs was associated with poorer cognitive performance overall.CMBs are common in an Australian memory clinic population and are associated with poorer cognitive performance. “Real world” prevalence of CMBs may limit accessibility to disease‐modifying therapies for many people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractIn this study, we explore food as a vital cultural artifact to gain a glimpse into its pervasive fertility in the world of music. By conducting a qualitative textual analysis, we examine the potency of food in the quotidian practices of commensality that characterize the eccentric ways in which Hindustani music practitioners organize and transmit musical knowledge. We emphasize the analogies drawn by musicians of the Hindustani tradition featured in Sheila Dhar’s autobiographical Raga’n Josh and Namita Devidayal’s memoirs The Sixth String of Vilayat Khan and The Music Room. Exploring the analogical richness of food, we uncover the entanglements between the musical and the culinary, highlighting how food serves as a mnemonic vehicle, shaping the lifeworlds of these musicians. While Western music has seen extensive scholarship on food-related interventions, South Asian perspectives, particularly in the realm of Hindustani music, remain largely underexplored. In this study, we address that gap, demonstrating how food operates not just as sustenance but as a medium of cultural memory, identity, and transmission. By foregrounding intersections of identity-based experience, we utilize an interdisciplinary lens to illuminate the deeply intertwined roles of food and music in constructing and preserving the collective ways of seeing developed over time by Hindustani music performers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that the object of the campaign medal can deepen our understanding of British Second World War veterans’ sense of veteran identity and indicate how far they, as individuals, have related to their wartime experiences over time. Unlike First World War veterans, this generation were required to claim their medals themselves, making them a useful marker to understand veterans’ connections to the conflict. Using interviews with Second World War veterans, newspaper reports and archival evidence, the experiences of individual veterans are traced over time. Situating this study within the fields of veteran identity and embodiment, veterans’ narratives with a focus on medals, uncovers how decisions whether to claim, use and wear their awards can be viewed as symbolic of veterans’ changing identity. These shifts were fuelled by the post-war climate, recollection and comradeship and the changing status of the veteran at the end of the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the years 1845-48 Belgium and the Netherlands suffered from famine as a result from potato blight. This article explores the question why this famine became a building block of Flemish identity leading to its inclusion in the Flemish canon, while the Dutch potato crisis still largeley remains forgotten. It is argued that the famine in Flanders was intrinsically linked with the ninenteenth-century Flemish movement, thereby contributing to the self-image of ‘’poor Flanders’’. By contrast, the emergence of Dutch identity goes further back in history and is mainly connected to prototypical disasters, such as floods. Famine did not suit this storyline and the ‘’superior’’ ability of the Dutch to manage the water. This article also stresses the need for transnational approaches in the study of famine memories. A comparative approach makes it possible to understand why the same type of traumatic event was forgotten relatively quickly in one case, and became part of the collective memory in the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers a feminist analysis of the food–gender relationship in war within feminist food and military scholarship. It is argued that looking at war through gendered lenses allows introducing multiple analytical categories of human experiences in war that are usually overlooked, food being one of them. Accordingly, the article offers the discussion of the gendered practices of cooking, procuring and experiencing food on the backdrop of war. Based on the interviews conducted with the women in Ukraine, it aims to show how food becomes a central arena for performing belonging, negotiating individual and collective memory of the Soviet past and Holodomor, and envisioning the future after the war. It takes a closer look at the contextual conditions of the ways in which food is gendered during war and investigates what individual gendered food experiences represent for the military and food feminist studies scholarship beyond its current focus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article delves into the perspectives of the 1990s leftist generation in Georgia, examining their memories and visions of justice in the aftermath of the 2012 prison abuse scandal and political transitions. It highlights the formation of leftist student groups like Laboratoria1918 advocating for a more just future, exploring diverse ideological beliefs and reflections on post-Soviet political injustices. Various leftist groups, including Marxist socialists, social democrats, socialist feminists, and liberal leftists, express skepticism about the government's ability to implement justice mechanisms, calling for further research on evolving left-wing movements in Georgia. [Extracted from the article]

The article examines the impact of Over-The-Top (OTT) video streaming platforms on Indian television culture, attributing their rise to factors like affordable internet access and low-cost smartphones. It discusses how OTT platforms have disrupted traditional television channels, leading to changes in viewer behavior and preferences. The text also delves into the history of Indian television culture, highlighting significant moments and shows that have shaped the medium. Furthermore, it addresses the influence of OTT platforms on cultural norms, values, and societal perceptions, underscoring the importance of regulation and managing controversial content. [Extracted from the article]

Among the waves of new popular music disseminated via live music tours globally, a distinct pattern of live touring based primarily on back catalogue material is increasingly evident. This article takes a closer look at recent practices of music reissue and revival, which point to a movement beyond the traditional processes of popular music ‘heritagisation’ at a time when pop music’s recent past now plays a significant role in production and consumption. This article reflects on artist perspectives in theorizing the popularity of back catalogue touring with its nostalgic effects. Drawing on concepts from music heritage and memory studies, the article first makes a case for an original concept of the ‘ephemeral archive’: the flood of personal memories that can occur during live music performance, contributing to ‘lifetime soundtracks’ for both artists and audiences. To elaborate on manifestations of the ephemeral archive, the authors present a case study on the Australian band Regurgitator, who have a tour history of over 30 years, including recently completed anniversary tours of their widely successful albums Tu Plang (1996) and Unit (1997). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This perspective article addresses six key themes, starting from the need to overcome the unilinear model of communication, by recognising the circular dynamics between social representations and multi-channel communication. In particular, the 'modelling approach' to social representations (SR), beyond the purely cumulative logic of traditional multi-methods, asserts as essential the need to articulate various theories, multiple constructs, different methods and techniques, ad hoc designed, based on oral, textual, iconic, behavioural communicative multi-channels, recurring to qualitative-quantitative data strategy analyses, justified on the basis of selected theories/constructs and driven by specific hypotheses about their role in shaping research outcomes. Multi-years research background—documented by rich bibliography—includes diversified societal topics: madness and mental illness; the relationship between myth, science and SR; traumatic collective events, media communication and social memory; SR, and multi-dimensional identities; controversial societal issues and polemical SR and/of commercial fashion advertising; SR of beauty and aesthetic surgery in three EU countries, Brazil and China; SR and economically relevant issues in national-supranational institutional contexts; social movements and active minorities on environmental and economic polemical SR objects in local–global scenarios; polarised S.R. of (im)migrants through field and multimedia studies; SR of/ within Covid-19 pandemic; evolving communicative ecosystem and SR in the social networks and artificial intelligence era. This article illustrates the model of circular dynamics between social representations and multi-channel communication by multi-agents in the tourism sector. This crucial economic-cultural sector deserves further longitudinal investigations in the pre/post-pandemic world with persistent global challenges including (im/e)migration, environmental crises, peace-wars, machine learning applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractIn June 2014, after a prolonged sub-national movement, the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated, and the new state of Telangana was carved out of it. Soon after, the freshly constituted government of Telangana state accorded two regional festivals – Bathukamma and Bonalu – the status of ‘state festivals’, emphasising their importance in the newly formed state’s cultural repertoire. This article locates the antecedents of the government’s move within three different sites of political mobilisation: (a) the diasporic mobilisation in the US where the festivals became (at times intense) sites for cultural contestation between Andhra and Telangana migrants, (b) the local revitalisation of the festivals through a regional political party’s cultural interventions in the last leg of the movement, and (c) the prolonged agitation among left-affiliated members of the marginalised castes for whom the festival became a symbol of resistance against caste atrocities. In this article, I argue that while these differing points of mobilisations clashed over the politics of representation, they also converged in their strategic use of festivals as cultural scripts to create (competing) public memories of the movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Against the backdrop of the Russian–Ukrainian war, Ukrainian comics have emerged as a potent medium for depicting the ongoing conflict. They blend informational, political, cultural, and artistic elements, contributing to a multi-dimensional media discourse. They also serve as a means of documenting the war’s reality, becoming an integral part of cultural memory. The Ukrainian documentary comic series Kiborhy (Cyborgs) and the comic magazine INKER play a significant role in this regard. When comparing the earlier Kiborhy to the more recent INKER comics, a discernible shift in narrative focus can be observed: whereas Kiborhy portray heroic Ukrainian soldiers, INKER’s narratives centre around the everyday heroism of ordinary civilians. As opposed to Kiborhy, INKER utilizes intimate storytelling, often employing first-person narratives and personal reflections to convey the emotional impact of war without presenting any explicit violence. This shift also marks a departure from dehumanizing portrayals of the enemy as seen in Kiborhy, to a more nuanced approach where the adversaries are not explicitly named in the storytelling. This transition has diversified the range of narratives and characters, enabling social commentary and transforming Ukrainian comics into a more inclusive and diverse medium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on flashbulb memories (FBMs) has primarily focused on cognitive aspects. However, recent studies indicate that FBMs are closely associated with social and cultural dynamics. This descriptive study explored the structural aspects and psychosocial functions of negative FBMs within the context of intergroup theories, mainly focusing on negative public (coup attempt in Türkiye on July 15, 2016) and private (bad news of a loved one) FBMs. Participants in the main study (N = 233) were selected and grouped based on their social dominance orientations (SDO; high and low groups) and system justification tendencies (SJT; high and low groups), using data from a preliminary survey (N = 1,113). In the main study, participants' responses to items on canonical categories, phenomenological aspects, and psychosocial functions of FBMs and their involvement in different protest actions against the coup attempt were compared considering SDO, SJT, and gender. The results show that private FBMs were generally rated higher by participants than public FBMs in all aspects. Although the canonical quality of private FBM did not differ between gender groups, public FBM quality was better in men. Participants in the high-SJT group had higher-quality public FBMs and rated these memories as more functional than participants in the low-SJT group, along with their high levels of protest participation. No differences were observed between the SDO groups for either type of FBM. The findings are discussed in terms of their relevance to group hierarchies and system justification motives. As the first attempt to place the FBM phenomenon in the context of SDO and SJT at the individual level, this study is intended to encourage others to adopt multi-level intergroup theories for integrating bottom-up and top-down processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThis article critically examines the complexities of internationalism within German radical Left movements, especially in the face of war, humanitarian crises, and the global reach of late-stage capitalism. Germany’s failed response to the Genocide in Gaza and its carceral turn is shaped by the State’s approach to national memory, which is deeply rooted in its ideas of liberalism in approximation with Zionism. This narrows the radical Left’s engagement with global violence and divides movements into fractions. To address this issue, the article turns to internationalist feminist movements that actively challenge this culture of guilt and complicity. It explores how these collectives seek to forge broader alliances and initiate decolonial connections through solidarity with one another. By drawing on decolonial feminist practices from Palestine, these movements illustrate the potential for new feminist kinships and anticolonial solidarities. This urges us to redefine what we really mean by internationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThis study explores the phenomenon of memorial stickers commemorating victims of the October 7, 2023, massacre and subsequent Israel-Hamas war. Analyzing 600 stickers collected across Israel, we examine how these artifacts shape personal and collective memory of these tragic events. Using content analysis, visual data analysis, and ethnography of texts, we investigate the stickers’ distribution, textual content, and visual elements. Three key findings emerged: (1) The widespread distribution of stickers expands commemoration beyond cemeteries, creating a larger community of remembrance; (2) Diverse textual content, from personal traits to universal messages, aims to keep the deceased’s values alive in social awareness; (3) Visual elements balance public recognition with private mourning through strategic use of photographs, colors, and barcodes. Drawing on theories of collective memory and continuing bonds, we argue that these stickers symbolically bring the deceased into daily life and public spaces, contributing to the processing of personal and national trauma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary Children and adults have been shown to benefit from sleep with regard to the consolidation of declarative memories. Especially during childhood, the generalisation of information from social and non‐social contexts is important for adaptable behaviour in new situations and might show specific features in children. Here, we investigated whether adults (n = 18) and children (n = 19) differ in their generalisation of features assessed in wake and sleep conditions. In a social paradigm, certain face features were associated with different types of offers (fair, unfair, friendly). While children tended to better recognise these faces, adults were better than children at associating the type of offer to unknown faces sharing these features with the previously encoded faces in the sleep condition. To assess generalisation of features in a non‐social context, a probabilistic evaluative conditioning paradigm was used, where stimuli were associated with positive or negative values. We found no difference between children and adults or between the sleep and wake condition in the change in evaluation of the conditioned stimuli when paired congruently with a predefined value (positive/negative). Together, our results suggest a differential feature generalisation from mainly social contexts in children compared with adults. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Spatial Mapping, History, and the Witch in Winterson’s The Daylight Gate" explores the evolving representation of witches in literature, focusing on gender, power, and identity. It discusses how the novel uses liminal identities to critique historical power dynamics and societal norms. By blending historical events with Gothic fiction, the author challenges readers to reconsider societal structures and power dynamics. The article also delves into themes of monstrosity, resistance, illness, and queerness in the novel, highlighting how space is used as a narrative tool to critique historical memory and societal oppression. [Extracted from the article]

This study, involving 34 Malaysian adults, investigated if the memory of cultural life script congruent and incongruent events was better than life script neutral events. We created a 1500-word hypothetical life story of a Malaysian girl comprising six life script congruent, six life script incongruent, and six life script neutral events. Half of those events were high-frequent, and half were low-frequent life script events. Participants first read the story on a computer screen and then completed a free recall test ten minutes later and again one week later. They recalled as many details as they could from the 18 events presented in the story. The results revealed that participants retrieved more information from the life script incongruent events than from life script congruent events at both recall points. The memory for high-frequent life script events was better than for low-frequent and life script-neutral events. Overall, the recall rate was higher in the immediate than in the late phase. The results confirm the isolation effects or Von Restorff effect, which predicts that unusual and distinctive events are more memorable than typical, commonly expected events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the specifics of the far-right COVID-denying QAnon movement may remain cloudy within popular consciousness, in contrast, many can easily conjure the image of Jacob Chansley, the so-called "QAnon Shaman," when evoking the January 6th US Capitol riot. Chansley, face-painted in the American flag and draped in faux regalia—a virtual menagerie of animals: coyote, buffalo, and eagle—appears clearly, spear in hand, as if parting the fog of war. Photos of Chansley howling or brazenly posing on the Senate dais are indelibly sketched into our collective memory. Some may conjure him simply as a buffoon, but his trespassing and seditious antics are interwoven with a costume that pulls at the long thread of European and American colonialism. This article posits that Chansley's animalized insurrectionist attire and his ability to play at the borderlands between human and animal, civilized and uncivilized, was an enactment of white supremacy. Insulated by conjoined racist and speciesist legacies, his ensemble placed him closer not only to Western constructions of nature, but also to animality, all without threatening his human status. Working at the intersections of critical race theory and critical animal studies, and illustrated with mainstream news accounts, this article considers broader cultural contexts that reveal Chansley's sartorial representation as anything but benign. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Pseudo Methodios Syriac Apocalyptic Text, composed in the 7th century, constitutes a foundational work in the corpus of Syriac eschatological and apocalyptic literature. This text, which offers a series of prophecies concerning the dynamics that lead humanity toward the apocalypse and the actualization of the end times, reflects the responses of the Syriac community to the incorporation of new elements into their symbolic and holistic universe as a consequence of Islamic conquests. Among these responses, the concept of the Last Emperor--envisioned as the ruler who will unite complacent Christians under a single authority just before the advent of the Messiah--emerges as particularly significant. This article seeks to elucidate the reasons for the creation of this topos and its position within the collective memory of Syriac Christians by analyzing the sacred attributes ascribed to this figure and the roles assigned to him in the period immediately preceding the Messiah's arrival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Oxytocin receptor (OXTR) is expressed in a distinct population of neurons in the lateral septum (LS), among other brain regions, and is responsible for regulating various social and nonsocial behaviors, including reward processing, feeding, social memory, anxiety, and fear. The LS serves as a key link between the cortical and subcortical regions, yet the synaptic inputs that drive the OXTR-expressing LS neurons have not been characterized. Here, we established retrograde and anterograde viral tracing in the mouse brain to map the input connections of the intermediate part of the LS where OXTR neurons are concentrated. Utilizing pathway-specific optogenetic activation, we identified that the strongest cortical inputs to LS OXTR neurons are from the posteromedial amygdala cortex (PMCo) and the ventral hippocampus (vHipp). We further determined that these excitatory inputs exhibit distinct presynaptic and postsynaptic properties, with PMCo synapses displaying a lower release probability and smaller α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptor-to-N-methyl- d -aspartate (NMDA) receptor-mediated excitatory postsynaptic current (EPSC) ratio compared to vHipp synapses. Our results also demonstrated that both vHipp and PMCo inputs establish a direct excitatory and a disynaptic inhibitory circuit on LS OXTR neurons. These findings deepen our understanding of the synaptic control of LS OXTR neurons by cortical regions, carrying significant implications for the affective behaviors in which these neurons are involved. NEW & NOTEWORTHY: This is the first identification and characterization of the cortical synaptic inputs that drive the oxytocin receptor (OXTR)-expressing neurons in the lateral septum (LS), which are involved in diverse affective behavior. The strongest cortical inputs to LS OXTR neurons are from the posteromedial amygdala cortex, an understudied cortical region that is beginning to gain prominence for its role in social behavior. The synapses from these projections show differences in properties compared to inputs from the ventral hippocampus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The document explores the intersection of Indigenous genealogies and decolonial interventions, focusing on the clash between expansive Indigenous concepts of genealogy and imposed Western notions. It highlights the importance of memory, Indigenous reclamation, and resistance in decolonizing genealogy, with a specific emphasis on the Māori concept of whakapapa. The authors, mostly Indigenous early-career researchers, offer new perspectives on genealogy, challenging colonial narratives and advocating for Indigenous futurities and lifeways. The text also delves into the autonomy and reclamation of Indigenous genealogies, emphasizing the need to break ties with colonial violence and assert full Indigenous humanity. [Extracted from the article]

The Cairo Genizah collections provide scholars with a profound insight into Jewish culture, history, and the deeply intertwined relationships between Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Among these treasures are often overlooked Arabic poetic fragments from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries, which illuminate the shared Abrahamic legacy. This paper explores mainly two unpublished poetic fragments written in Judaeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script), analyzing how they reflect a shared Jewish–Muslim cultural memory and history, particularly through the reverence for Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and other key figures central to both traditions across the medieval Mediterranean and Middle East. By situating these poetic voices within broader historical and cultural contexts, this study underscores the role of poetry in reflecting sociocultural and historical dimensions while fostering cross-cultural and religious coexistence. It demonstrates how poetry acts as a bridge between religion, history, and culture by revealing the shared Abrahamic heritage of Jews and Muslims within two Arabic poetic fragments from the Cairo Genizah. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the scholarly discourse on the divinity of the emperor in postwar Japan to better understand Japanese conservative nationalism, which has been regaining momentum since the 1990s. Viewing the idea of the divinity of the emperor as ideologically fundamental to Japanese conservative nationalism, this paper looks at how conservative scholars from the 1970s developed a culturalist argument for the divinity of the emperor, first to negate the "humanity declaration", i.e., the New Year's greeting by the Showa emperor on 1 January 1946 renouncing his divinity, and then to reconfigure conservative ideology into a popular discourse on Japanese identity (i.e., the Nihonjin-ron), thereby making it more easily accepted by postwar society. Key to this culturalist argument is an essentialized dichotomy between Japanese culture and Western culture, more specifically a binary between Shinto kami and the Christian God—that the Japanese concept of kami is qualitatively different from that of the Christian God, so the emperor is not God but is kami; therefore, the emperor's divinity is not really denied and he remains the spiritual pillar of the Japanese nation even under the postwar constitutional regime. Refashioning itself as part of the increasingly popular but depoliticized Nihonjin-ron discourse, the culturalist argument on the divinity of the emperor helped make the imperial house a popular topic of the discourse on Japanese identities, even while it completely circumvented the very issues of war responsibility and historical memory which gave rise to the "humanity declaration" in 1946 in the first place. In its depoliticized, popularly appealing form, the culturalist argument played a role in legitimating the regressive conservative nationalism that seeks to revive the pre-1945 divine emperor-centered political regime. Exploring the scholarly discourse on the divinity of the emperor, then, helps shed light on how and why conservative nationalism could persist and gain momentum in the 21st century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article from the Australian Journal of Anthropology explores how tourism in Timor-Leste influences the nation's post-independence identity, development priorities, and nation-building processes. It delves into the complexities of balancing tradition and modernity while contending with the legacies of conflict and colonization. The papers in the collection highlight tourism's sociocultural and political dimensions, emphasizing its role in shaping national, cultural, and historical identities. The special issue offers insights into the challenges and opportunities of tourism in Timor-Leste's post-independence era, shedding light on the industry's potential to transform the nation's narrative and community identities within a changing global landscape. [Extracted from the article]

This paper examines wine drinking among English and Australian women to discover and analyse the connection between their consumption of wine and their experiences, thoughts and imaginings. Comparing the experiences of women from the English town of Halifax with women from the southern suburbs of Adelaide and McLaren Vale (South Australia), I show how imbibing wine enables both groups of women to consume place, space and time, thus extending a liminal experience. Importantly, both groups of women engage with notions of national or regional identity. However, whereas English women typically experience wine drinking as a temporal engagement of social imagination involving a form of armchair alco‐tourism, Australian women mostly engage their social memory, and experience wine drinking as embedded within imagined communities of belonging. As such, this study demonstrates that wine drinking is not just gendered, but a complex, culturally situated practice and experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our study, we will try to give information about fairy tales and legends that are important in the context of social memory and culture. We will give some examples by touching on the discussion of the ban in fairy tales and mythological legends, and especially mentioning that the gender that violates the ban is female. In this study, we will give brief information about the Brothers Grimm and examine the fairy tale Cinderella in their work titled Children's and Household Tales which they wrote by collecting and compiling the fairy tales told orally during the period in which they lived, that is, during the Romanticism period. We will also discuss the myth of Amor and Psyche (Love and Spirit), which was discussed by the Roman poet Lucius Apuleius in his work Metamorphosis. While revealing that the common denominators of the Amor and Psyche myth and the Cinderella tale are intensely similar, we will determine what they are. In both the tales and myths we have given as examples, we will determine how the heroes have to face the consequences of their own decisions and disobedience, and how they face difficult tests and journeys in the process of coping with the negativities brought about by their own choices and actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the memory politics in Poland, focusing on the personal experiences of the author, Mikhal Dekel, and her interactions with Magda Gawin, Poland's former Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage. It explores the complexities of historical revisionism, government projects, and the impact on Polish-Jewish relations. Dekel's research sheds light on the challenges of reconciling different narratives and the need to understand the nuances of Poland's wartime history. The narrative highlights the struggle to navigate personal and collective memories in a politically charged environment. [Extracted from the article]

The confrontation with the recent past has been a central component of the Colombian transitional panorama for almost 20 years. Since the Colombian state recognized its duty of remembrance, the National Center for Historical Memory has published more than 100 reports that contribute to an understanding of the causes of the Colombian armed conflict and a recognition of the crimes against humanity that occurred in this context. These reports, however, are known only to a small group of experts. At the same time, the Colombian armed conflict is an experience shared by many and producing a multiplicity of different narratives, so it is unlikely that people lack knowledge about their past or have a stance towards it. In fact, the confrontation with the recent past is a topic that gives rise to bitter disputes. This study addresses the gap that exists between institutional and academic efforts, on the one hand, and collective and individual memories on the other. To gather information on the channels and methods of learning as well as the interpretations given to historical events, we carried out an exploration of historical consciousness of secondary students, understanding school as the place where formal and non-formal channels of knowledge transmission meet. To do this, we applied a digital questionnaire and conducted interviews with students and teachers from different regions of Colombia in order to answer the questions where the knowledge about the past comes from, what are the channels through which people learn about their past and turn it to a meaningful story and what is the overall meaning of the past and, specifically, the meaning of the armed conflict for people. Drawing inspiration from works that blend academic research with graphic storytelling, and driven by the belief that university-generated knowledge should reach broader audiences through engaging formats, we created the comic The Tenses of Historical Consciousness, which accompanies this article. This comic fictionalizes real situations, characters, and spaces to depict aspects of the research process and its findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay, I discuss the transformation of Anne Frank's diary into various forms of media, particularly focusing on comics and graphic novels as transnational lieu de mémoire. The research is based on a private Anne Frank comic collection of more than 40 publications collected from all around the world. I describe how the adaptation of Anne Frank's story in comics has contributed to shaping the memory culture of the Holocaust and the Second World War on a global scale. I emphasize the significance of Anne Frank as a historical figure and the widespread dissemination of her diary, which has been translated into numerous languages and recognized as a UNESCO world heritage. By following the comic productions of the diary around the world, I explore the role of popular history in gendering victimhood and sacrifice, particularly in the context of the 1950s narrative surrounding Anne Frank and the national memory of the Netherlands. Although the diary was widely present, the comic productions as exemplary access to pop culture reveal an underrepresentation of the Jewish heritage of the Franks and the persecution of Jews as a crime beyond national borders. Furthermore, the comics represent the international success of Anne Frank's diary, portraying themes of hope, freedom, and optimism, as well as its portrayal as a coming-of-age and first-love story. The comics show how these topics, and Anne's life and suffering, play out in different popular and memory cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the concept of epistemic reparation in the context of genocide, focusing on the Armenian genocide of 1915-1917 as a case study. It argues that victims of genocide are entitled to epistemic reparation, which includes recognition of their epistemic standing and the correction of genocidal epistemologies. The article emphasizes the importance of restoring victims' epistemic contributions and addressing the systematic ignorance that enables denialism and perpetuates injustice. It suggests that the right to know should be extended to include the right to be recognized as authoritative epistemic contributors, highlighting the need for restorative epistemic justice in the aftermath of genocides. [Extracted from the article]