Ergebnis für "Memory" in Sozialwissenschaften

Acclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy. In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover just how...

A deft mixture of memoir and history, modern biology and behavior, In Search of Memory brings listeners from Kandel's childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna to the forefront of one of the great scientific endeavors of the 20th century: the search for the biological basis of memory. Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel intertwines the intellectual history of the powerful new science of the mind - a combination of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and molecular biology - with his own personal quest to understand memory.

“Sparkles with insight.”—Daniel Pink A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2023 A New Scientist Best Science Book A Publishers Weekly Summer Read 2023 Recommendation One of Next Big Idea Club’s "7 Books that Reveal the Wonders of Writing and Language" One of Inc.’s “13...

Refugees Walls of Memory, is a living platform that consist of podcast, interview series, dialogue forum, and refugees historical archive built to secure refugee memory and amplify refugee voice. It treats testimony not as content but as inheritance. Stories aren’t headlines here; they are kept with dignity, preserved for learning, policy, and posterity. Where others bury trauma, we lay it as a foundation stone. Where reports flatten lives into numbers, we build oral histories with names, faces, and breath. This platform turns a symbolic room into a bridge and refugees museum.

When Remembering Becomes Optional examines a structural change introduced by artificial intelligence that extends beyond automation or employment. As AI systems increasingly store, retrieve, and interpret information on demand, the conditions that once made memory, knowledge, and historical understanding necessary begin to change. For most of human history, memory functioned as a practical requirement. Knowledge was carried forward because forgetting had consequences. Skills, histories, and frameworks were transmitted through lived experience, repetition, and necessity.

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year A Quill & Quire Book of the Year A CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the Year A Maclean’s 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter “An instant classic that demands to be read with your heart open and with a perspective widened to allow in a whole new...

If you'd like to improve your ability to learn and memorize legal terminology by as much as 100%, 200%, even 300% (or more)…using simple memory techniques that you can learn in 15-20 minutes (or less), then this may be the most important audiobook that you will ever listen to. Believe it or not, it really doesn't matter if you think you have a good memory or not. Don't worry! Frankly, if you can memorize a short email address or the name of a movie, then you can use this system to memorize legal terminology and precedents.

In the wake of white nationalist attacks, the ongoing debate over reparations, and the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments and the contested memories they evoke, Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman is a white woman who came of age in the civil rights-era South and a Jewish woman who has spent much of her adult life in Berlin.

Beyond preserving the firsthand testimonies of participants and witnesses, individuals and societies must continually take responsibility for learning the painful lessons of the past in order to offer hope for the future. Survivor Café offers a clear-eyed sense of the enormity of our 21st-century human inheritance - not only among direct descendants of the Holocaust, but also in the shape of our collective responsibility to learn from tragedy.

An open-hearted interrogation of our digital selves, braiding cultural criticism, memoir, and narrative musings into an exploration of identity, girlhood, media, tech, nature and "finding the depth and beauty in the fucked-up world we live in" from a writer, artist, and influencer (Phoebe...

In a trio of popular gender rituals—sorority rush, beauty pageants, and the Confederate Pageant of the Natchez (Mississippi) Pilgrimage—young white southern women have readily ditched contemporary modes of dress and comportment for performances of purity, gentility, and deference. Clearly, the ability to "do" white southern womanhood, convincingly and on cue, has remained a valued performance. Based on ethnographic research and taped interviews, Southern Beauty goes behind the scenes of the three rituals to explore the motivations and rewards associated with participation.

Meredith Maran lived a daughter's nightmare: she accused her father of sexual abuse, then realized, nearly too late, that he was innocent. During the 1980s and 1990s, tens of thousands of Americans became convinced that they had repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, and then, decades later, recovered those memories in therapy. Journalist, mother, and daughter Meredith Maran was one of them.

Welcome to The Ki Memory Chronicles, the podcast dedicated to unlocking the pivotal moments that shape who we are. In every episode, we dive deep into the defining memories and hard-won wisdom of our guests to uncover the universal lessons hidden within their personal stories. Every life is built on a foundation of unforgettable moments. On The Ki Memory Chronicles, we sit down with individuals from all walks of life to dissect their "Key" memories & experiences that provided them with their greatest life lessons. Join us as we look back at the past to find clarity and inspiration for the ...

Welcome to Memory. Evidence. Change., a podcast that engages a wide range of guests whose lives and work intersect with the fields of Holocaust and genocide studies. Episodes in this podcast take one of three different formats: “Memory” episodes feature individuals with lived experience related to genocide or mass atrocity. “Evidence” episodes feature academic experts with emerging or establish research projects. And “Change” episodes feature individuals who have worked to implement change in our world. The Cohen Institute is a nonpartisan entity that aims to advance public ...

Longlisted for the National Book Award Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Shortlisted for the 2025 Housatonic Book Award for Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in Memoir A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music...

Ticket to the World is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of it all. New Year’s Eve, 1979. My family and I stand arm in arm around our Formica kitchen table, counting down to the new decade with each televised chime of Big Ben. We have no idea what is...

In a desperate search for a way to Miami, Legion finds himself homeless and hungry until he encounters Foster. Foster enlists Legions help to confront the enigmatic light-beings known as Hunters, who have been relentlessly pursuing him, and to recover his fragmented memories. Armed with a centuries-old journal filled with cryptic entries, Foster holds the key to unraveling his true identity. Their thrilling journey takes them from the ancient stones of Stonehenge to alien spacecraft, distant planets, and extraordinary methods of navigating the complexities of age and memory. - Summary by Nick ...

"The Memory Parlor" is where we pull up a chair with people in their 80s, 90s, and beyond to hear the moments that shaped their lives. From first loves to hilarious mishaps, these conversations are warm, funny, and deeply human—reminding us we all have a story worth telling!

As a child, Julie Sedivy left Czechoslovakia for Canada, and English soon took over her life. By early adulthood she spoke Czech rarely and badly, and when her father died unexpectedly, she lost not only a beloved parent but also her firmest point of connection to her native language. Memory Speaks combines a rich body of psychological research with a moving story at once personal and universally resonant. As citizens debate the merits of bilingual education, as the world's less dominant languages are driven to extinction, this is badly needed wisdom.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long...