Spaces of emergent memory: Detroit’s 8 Mile wall and public memories of civil rights injustice

This article introduces emergent memory, a conceptual extension to rhetorics of public memory, to describe memory’s genesis in sites built without commemorative commitments. Examining Detroit’s “8 Mile Wall,” a site built to reinforce segregated housing, this project argues the rhetorical tenets of emergent memory present in this space. As a relic of segregated history, the wall symbolically recalls the city’s controversial past, but has recently been the subject of a local mural project to redefine the wall’s purpose. Some consider this a step toward reclamation, as it visually repositions the disturbing remnant. For others, the murals simply cannot overwrite troubling memories of the city’s discriminatory history. This essay uses emergent memory to describe how the wall’s complicated mnemonic legacy simultaneously harkens to a difficult history and how the mural additions use that same legacy to convey an optimistic future for Detroit and those marked by this urban space.     

Worn Grooves

Drawing from visual, material and written archival sources, this article critically explores some of the functions, uses and perceived values of recorded sound during the First World War and in its aftermath. An instrument of communication as well as commemoration, the gramophone helped bridge geographical (and, in some cases, cultural) distances between the home front and the rear, providing civilians with the fleeting illusion of presence, proximity, or even sentimental communion with the front. The article analyses (a) the affective and connective, but also propagandist, values of commercial wartime recordings as they circulated between the home and the front, (b) the popular notion of gramophones as regulatory instruments of civilisation, (c) the commemorative exploitations of recorded sound in the interwar period. The article focuses on the British experience, contrasting it with examples drawn from French and German experiences.     

略论大学英语听力教学中记忆能力的培养

听力理解是一个复杂的心理语言过程和创造性的思维过程。教师可以通过影子练习,转述、联想和记笔记等方法培养学生记忆能力,尤其短时记忆能力,以提高他们听力理解水平。     

运动诱导神经发生的相关研究

成年哺乳动物神经发生仅发生在侧脑室的室管膜下层和海马齿状回的颗粒细胞下层两个区域。综述了检测神经发生的主要方法,从神经递质、生长因子、营养因子等方面探讨了运动诱发神经发生的相关机制,并分析了运动诱发的神经发生对学习记忆能力的意义。     

The advantage of mixing examples in inductive learning: a comparison of three hypotheses

Mixing examples of different categories (interleaving) has been shown to promote inductive learning as compared with presenting examples of the same category together (massing). In three studies, we tested whether the advantage of interleaving is exclusively due to the mixing of examples from different categories or to the temporal gap introduced between presentations. In addition, we also tested the role of working memory capacity (WMC). Results showed that the mixing of examples might be the key component that determines improved induction. WMC might also be involved in the interleaving effect: participants with high spans seemed to profit more than participants with low spans from interleaved presentations. Our findings have relevant implications for education. Practice schedules should be individually customised so society as a whole can profit from differences between learners.     

Do children spend too much time in schools? Evidence from a longer school year in Indonesia

I examine the effects of a longer school year in Indonesia on grade repetition, educational attainment, employability, and earnings. I exploit an arbitrary rule that assigned students to a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978–1979, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. I find the longer school year decreases the probability of grade repetition and increases educational attainment; it also increases the probability of working in formal sectors and wages later in life. These results suggest the length of school years in Indonesia is not too long.     

The rhetorical force of “global archival memory”: (Re)Situating archives along the global memoryscape

ABSTRACT

This essay engages the possibilities and pitfalls of UNESCO’s Memory of the World program for fostering “global archival memory.” Archives function as rhetorical weapons for both political control and social justice within national and regional contexts. The constitution of global archival memory shifts archives’ borders beyond nation-bound contexts, creating space for contention, deliberation, and debate within a presentist transnational arena. Approaching archives as symbols capable of marshaling cross-cultural identifications furthers memory scholars’ conceptions of transnational memories and communities. It responds to rhetorical scholars’ calls to further engage archives, while drawing on archival studies, memory studies, and rhetorical theories of memory.     

劳动者无条件预告解除权之畸形现状--对我国《劳动法》第31条规定之反思

我国《劳动法》第31条赋予单方授予劳动者以无条件的预告解除权,其中暗含了严重的法理悖论。“提前30日书面通知”仅是劳动者主观履行的程序,而非其单方预告解除权客观所需满足的条件。《劳动法》第31条由于授权不均及将无条件的单方解除权泛化于一切类型的劳动合同,以及单一僵化的预告期规定模式造成了法理悖论及诸多实体法难题。应借鉴国外先进立法例,对简陋立法下畸形发展的劳动者预告解除权作出纠正。     

迟子建小说的"记忆"呈现

在迟子建小说的想象艺术中，有关童年与历史记忆的书写是其中重要的组成。作家通过对视角择取、意象营造等记忆呈现方式的技术化处理，展现出的不仅是那个独特时代环境下带有鲜明地域和化印记的人类最为生动鲜活的生存场景，同时更多展露出的则是作家对于现实社会的凝重思索和对人性温情的热切渴望。     

口传—仪式叙事中的民间历史记忆——以广西和里三王宫庙会为个案

宗教信仰也常常在口传活动中得到表达,有时则以无声的语言——仪式行为的方式展开。然而,更为普遍的情形则是无声的语言与有声的口传同时并存。换句话来说,对宗教信仰的观照离不开口头传述与信仰实践两方面的双重分析。本文拟将着重探讨口传一仪式叙事的过程中三王父子的英雄形象与其事迹是如何被侗族民众集体想象与建构的,借此追溯社会成员共同分享的、回忆的集体记忆。