This dissertation investigated how constructions of a group’s history affect members’ attitudes toward and relationships with outgroup members. Incorporating Halbwach’s (1950) concept of collective memory—defined as a shared sense of history—to Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & T…
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The study examines how idioms of human rights and global institutions that enforce human rights function as sites of national and transnational memory formation. Of central concern is how a transnational memory of human rights gets articulated in discourses about international l…
This study examined the processing speed, working memory functioning, and mental addition performance of children across different age ranges and arithmetic achievement levels. Attention was directed at two purposes. The first purpose was to examine the processing speed, working…
The rhetoric of Ronald Reagan enacted many changes throughout American culture. Many past presidents through words and actions affected the national dialogue. The acceptance of the Reagan language, however, often blurred, for many Americans, the boundary between history and memo…
This dissertation focuses on the political career of Enoch Powell. It follows Powell's trajectory from a young army officer in the British Raj to the center of British politics in the 1960s through to his return to the periphery in Ulster Unionism. It argues that Powell's notori…
This dissertation explores alternative ways of representing memory and history in novels written by four authors with connection to the Maghreb. I examine how these texts question the necessity of basing memory on an unambiguous understanding of past events and instead function …
This dissertation investigates the relation between collective memories of violence and contemporary sites of injustice. With the emergence of global memory discourses, cultural memory has become a vital new site of conflict, political contestation and potential dialogue between…
This study examines the historiography of International Refugee Law; specifically, the defining moment, 1951, when the Refugee Convention was drafted. The field of Refugee Studies, much like International Relations and International Law has been dominated by the 'classic' Westph…
This dissertation is a critical edition and study of the Penser de royal memoire (1518), the second original work of the translator Guillaume Michel, a.k.a. Michel de Tours. The thesis begins by shedding some light on Michel's mysterious career (his translations of Virgil, Apule…
Based on an interdisciplinary perspective and using qualitative methodology, this thesis analyzes the results of interviews with six immigrant authors, all originating from the Maghreb (Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco), who have published at least one work in Quebec. Two series of …
When Eritrean refugees began to return to their country from Sudan at independence in the early 1990s, they came to inhabit places that had been imagined from afar for as many as 30 years--for the younger generation, their entire lives. However, returnees shared a history of col…
Although the mass deportations and massacres of Ottoman Armenians took place in 1915, stories emanating from these traumatic events have stayed current, circulating and evolving throughout the generations. This study examines the underlying factors in the transmission and perpet…
This multi-site study examined neurocognitive functioning in Bosnian and Slovenian secondary school teachers who survived the 1991–1995 civil conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Thirty-four teachers reporting low levels of posttraumatic stress reactions and 17 teachers reporting …
This dissertation examines the life and poetry of Mustafa Zaidi, whom the poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz once called, “the greatest Urdu poet of the future.” It looks at his childhood, at how he made himself into a poet, at what he wrote, and at how he is remembered today. Born in 1930 in…
The work of Revisionist Zionist Hillel Kook, alias Peter Bergson, and his followers, known as the Bergsonites, was instrumental in alerting American public awareness to the horrors of the Holocaust. By the end of 1943 the Bergsonites generated enough congressional support for a …
Liquid Territory examines Indonesian Sama people's engagements with maritime space and their representations of maritime spatial practices toward two ends. First, to illustrate alternative ways to approach the study of insular Southeast Asia from maritime perspectives, and secon…
One special type of memory use for high speed address lookup in router or cache address lookup in a processor is Content Addressable Memory (CAM). CAM can also be used in pattern recognition applications where a unique pattern needs to be determined if a match is found. CAM has …
Enduring Memory: Metaphors of the Slave Trade in West African Literature investigates the means by which West Africans have preserved, both consciously and unconsciously, the memory of the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the postcolonial period. This study intervenes in…