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Turning memory development inside out

Developmental Review, 2004
These papers provide a useful progress report on how the mature and successful field of memory development is transcending traditional boundaries of populations, content, context, and design. Examining children’s memory for distant as well as recent occurrences, for social interactions as well as individual experiences, for meaningful as well as ...
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Enacting Remembrance: Turning Toward Memorializing September 11th

Journal of Religion and Health, 2011
The memorial at the site of the former World Trade Center will open on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 to help us commemorate, honor, educate, and mourn. Memorializing is an act that involves shared memory and collective grieving-aiming also to restore severed communal bonds and dismantled cultural ideals.
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Memorial Tourism - a Turn toward Locality

2017
This paper presents the phenomenon of travelling to places of memory, with particular emphasis on their local naturę. Examples discussed include places of memory directly related to the miners’profession, in particular those that are devoted to the victims of tragic events that took place in mines.
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False Memories Turned Against the Self

Psychological Inquiry, 1997
Memory construction is a phenomenon that has become intuitive to the experimental psychologist. In recent years, researchers have found that misleading postevent information can alter actual or reported memories of observed visual events (Loftus, Miller, & Burns, 1978; McCloskey & Zaragoza, 1985), particularly among young children (Ceci & Bruck, 1993 ...
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Benjamin's Mimetic Re-Turn: Language, Body, Memory

MLN, 2023
Abstract: Walter Benjamin is a crucial figure in modernist mimesis. He was highly receptive to mimetic influences and at the same time a prolific and sensitive theoretician of those experiences. He moved far beyond the traditional aesthetics of a realistic and representational mimesis and must be located within the post-Nietzschean, modernist 'mimetic
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Memory, Mediality, and the “Performative Turn”: Recontextualizing Remembering in Medieval Scandinavia

Scandinavian Studies, 2013
This chapter looks into the key concepts of memory, mediality, and performative turn in line with recontextualizing remembering in medieval Scandinavia. Throughout the Viking and the Middle Ages, Scandinavians were acutely aware of runic mediality so the relationship between the self-conscious written text and its narrative was much more diverse and ...
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Temporary made permanent: Turning temporary exhibitions into fixed memories

2012 18th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, 2012
The museum institution deals with the study, the storage and the fruition of cultural heritage. To fulfill these functions the museum uses, as well as the opinion of experts, even the most modern technologies. In this article we present some cases in which the use of digital and virtual reality effectively contributes to increase the knowledge on ...
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Turning Memories into Memoirs - The Australian Experience

TEXT, 1999
Eighteen months ago I began to teach a hybrid course of “creative writing/writing lifestories” through Kiama Adult & Community Education. I searched the Internet for resources and happened upon a web page “Turning Memories into Memoirs” which promoted lifewriting and had a network of teaching affiliates. The author of the program, Denis Ledoux, has
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Is the Tide of German Memory Turning?

Index on Censorship, 2005
No one in Germany is attempting to rewrite the past, but in the run‐up to the sixtieth anniversary of the end of WWII there are attempts to initiate a more ‘normal’ discourse in the ...
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The Turns of Time: Memory, Prediction, Prophecy

2010
The Harry Potter books are filled with magical objects: wands and brooms, Portkeys and portraits, potions and plants, Vanishing Cabinets, the Marauder’s Map, Dumbledore’s Deluminator, and Hagrid’s Mokeskin pouch. Each book presents magical objects that are central not only to the plot, but also to the symbolic meanings of that book.
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