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Our memory mediates our interaction with the world. It is one of the most fundamental human activities, but it is only when it fails us that we even think about it at all. Experiences are had, memories are made, memories are remembered and memories fade. This paper takes a close…

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a prevalence of approximately 1% children worldwide. ASD is characterized by deficits in social communication and interaction and the presence of restricted interests and repetitive behaviours. Genetic alterati…

Introduction: Persons with preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD) show impairments in semantic and associative memory years before the onset of clinical symptoms. However, many tasks used to assess these deficits make use of previously learned stimuli, often within well-establishe…

Zugunruhe is a German word for migratory restlessness used in ornithology that I found applicable to the ideas I am investigating through printmaking and textile-based techniques. In my art I am exploring landscapes both physical and mental, exterior and interior. I am looking a…

El propósito principal de este estudio es explicar tres trilogías de las escritoras Josefina R. Aldecoa, Esther Tusquets, y Ana María Matute. La primera, Trilogía de memoria, de Josefina R. Aldecoa, Historia de una maestra (1990), Mujeres de negro (1994), La fuerza del destino (…

Since the 1990s, a growing heritage tourism industry built around celebrations and commemorations of local blues music history has occupied a prominent economic position in the state of Mississippi. The blues tourism industry has produced museums, historical trails, and a dense …

The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the role of collective memory in the European 'postnational' constellation. In nation-building processes, the construction of a common past has played a well documented role in fostering notions of a collective political actor. If Europ…

Fifty years after the cessation of hostilities, the memory of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) remains an open wound in French society. From the time of the war itself, French veterans of Algeria sought to find their voice in a society largely indifferent to them and…

This dissertation examines the long neglected archaeological and ethnographic museums in the provinces of Turkey that were built between early 1960s and early 1980s, with respect to the troublesome relationship of the Turkish state with its past. Challenging the common conceptio…

This dissertation is concerned with the cognitive mechanisms that are used to encode and navigate linguistic structure. Successful language understanding requires mechanisms for efficiently encoding and navigating linguistic structure in memory. The timing and accuracy of lingui…

In order to enhance performance and to support highly integrated functions, on-chip memory area has increased every technology generation. However, increased effect of parametric variations, susceptibility to soft errors, and increased leakage current in scaled technologies pose…

Over the last three decades, many women and men who were political prisoners in the Middle East have come to Canada as immigrants and refugees. In their countries of origin, they resisted oppressive social policies, ideologies, and various forms of state violence. Their journeys…

Paul Fussell has remarked that our understanding of modernity throughout the last century; “is essentially ironic; and that it originates largely in the application of mind and memory to the events of the Great War.” What this dissertation demonstrates is that World War I, while…

This dissertation analyzes changes in social identity from the distant past to the early colonial years in the western Serengeti, Mara Region, Tanzania, through an interpretation of oral tradition. My analysis of the core spatial images of oral tradition demonstrates the link be…

Headlong he runs into Circe's snares: Representation and the Restoration Royal Mistress is an interdisciplinary study of the Restoration royal mistress. During the Restoration and for generations thereafter, the mistresses of Charles II (reigned 1660-1685) came to symbolize the …

This dissertation examines the conflict in Eastern Anatolia in the early 20th century and the memory politics around it. It shows how discourses of victimhood have been engines of grievance that power the politics of fear, hatred and competing, exclusionary claims to statehood a…

Rivers play a symbolic role in the story of Israel's formation as a people found within the Hebrew Bible. From the primeval period to the return from exile, Israel's history and understanding of themselves as a people with shared identity and collective memory is tied to their i…

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Iraqi diasporic community in the UK. It is based on two years of fieldwork research I conducted there between 2006–2008. I approach the formation of the diasporic community in light of utopian visions of a past colored by colonia…

Quels sont les processus mémoriels (analogues à une mémoire sélective) par lesquels une collectivité assure les assises de la transmission identitaire à travers plusieurs générations? Alors que certains sociologues définissent la société postmoderne comme résultant de la fin des…

The dissertation examines the transmission of cultural values in a selection of African women's texts, written in English and published between 1966 and 1986. Focusing on a range of works by Kenyan, Nigerian and South African women, the study explores modes of memory and examine…