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Return Visits: The European Background of Transcultural Life Writing
2013
In this article I read autobiographies by East Europeans who immigrated to Canada in connection with the Second World War as examples of transcultural life writing. My focus on the representation of return visits of these loyal Canadian citizens to their country of origin after 1989 reveals the underlying intention of relating the experience of life in a multicultural democratic society to the emergence of a new political consciousness in Eastern Europe. In my analysis I distinguish four types of concerns which try to bridge the past of their childhood experiences with the formation of a transcultural life in the 21st century: 1. Anna Porter’s return visit to Hungary for family reunion and …
Challenging Old and New Images Representing the Cambodian Genocide: The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh, 2013)
2018
This article focuses on the images used over four decades to represent the Cambodian genocide in photography, cinema, visual arts and the media as the basis for analyzing the documentary-memoir directed by Rithy Panh, The Missing Picture. First, there is a paucity of images which depict, evoke or allude to the crimes perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979); second, scholars raise objections about whether any image can adequately depict a catastrophic event such as genocide. This article begins by categorizing the Cambodian genocide iconography according to the modality of the visual production. After briefly classifying this visual output in four categories (perpetrator images, liberator…
Elites and Ecclesiastical Careers in Early Modern Sicily : Bishops, Abbots and Knights
2014
The most recent historiography has confirmed the importance of ecclesiastical careers within the ranks of the Catholic Church (bishops and cardinals) as well as religious orders (abbots and priors) and military orders (primarily the Order of Malta) for early modern family strategies. They were one of the main paths followed by cadet members of the nobility to build, strengthen and even enable the survival of the social prestige and political influence of their families. The role of the clergy was in fact crucial in performing a valuable function of mediation, especially with regard to political power in order to achieve increasingly prestigious awards (titles, offices, prebends). The aim of…
Rodrigo de Mendoza, I Marqués del Cenete y I Conde del Cid: paralelismos entre su biografía y su pretendida genealogía = Rodrigo de Mendoza, First Ma…
2018
El Gran Cardenal de España quiso, al legitimar a sus hijos nacidos de sendas relaciones ilícitas, consolidarlos como miembros de la nobleza castellana. Así fue, por ejemplo, con su primogénito Rodrigo, I marqués del Cenete y I conde del Cid, emparentado por voluntad paterna con Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, el Cid Campeador. Al apropiarse de esta ficticia genealogía, el prelado dotaba al mayorazgo legado a éste de un simbolismo que, a medida que el marqués fue madurando y curtiéndose en las guerras de Granada, las campañas italianas y las Germanías de Valencia, cobraba mayor verosimilitud a través de sus actos y acciones. El objeto de este trabajo es aproximarnos al perfil biográfico de Rodrigo de…
Monozygotic twins in history: enlightenment by mythology and ethnography
2020
Abstract Birth in mankind is planned in single. The birth of twins is a rare event, occurring in about 1% of pregnancies. This chapter presents different aspects of mythology, history and ethnography for the better understanding of the meaning of twins throughout times. Twins are and will always be a source of artistic inspiration, cultural inheritance and social (re)interpretation.
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz (1686–1712) – szkic biograficzny młodego magnata
2021
Artykuł stanowi próbę zaprezentowania postaci Jana Karola Chodkiewicza z linii supraskiej (1686–1712), syna starosty błudeńskiego i oboźnego wielkiego litewskiego Jerzego Karola Chodkiewicza oraz Marianny Tekli z Naruszewiczów, który do tej pory nie doczekał się żadnego szerszego opracowania naukowego. Podstawę źródłową szkicu biograficznego Chodkiewicza stanowią materiały przechowywane w Archiwum Narodowym w Krakowie, w zespole Archiwum Młynowskie Chodkiewiczów. Różnorodność znajdujących się w nim dokumentów pozwoliła na możliwie jak najdokładniejsze odtworzenie jego życiorysu. Z niego wyłania się postać Jana Karola, który osierocony przez ojca w dzieciństwie zdany był na opiekę swojej mat…
Private archives of noble families from the border Podlasie and Lublin and Lithuania in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (The collection of Z…
2016
The primary source of knowledge in the subject careers are documents and files stored in the archives of the once private. Their pieces are among others in the ECR Zygmunt Gloger. Its advantage is a large variety. We find in the genealogical material and economic, excerpts from books municipal and earthly, worldly goods inventories, inventories of movable property, correspondence, and sources resulting from the functioning of the judiciary. Here are excerpts private archives rich in genealogical material and economic. The chronological range of content „Compendium Zygmunt Gloger” includes the era of traditional Polish as well as centuries XIX and XX (l. 1515–1907). Geographically it concern…
DNA Fingerprinting as a Tool of Paternity Testing in Germany
1991
Soon after the discovery of the ABO blood groups by Landsteiner their forensic application was suggested by Max Richter at the 74. Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Arzte at Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) in 1902 [1], Landsteiner’s Nobel lecture “Uber individuelle Unterschiede des menschlichen Blutes” in 1930 [2] provided a landmark on the path towards the discovery of so-called hypervariable minisatellite regions of human DNA by Alec Jeffreys in 1985 [3]. Since the individual patterns of any human being seemed to be unique it is well understood that this achievement was immediately welcomed with great enthusiasm by the scientific community and the public opinion. Soon thereafter, however, s…
Conclusion: Transnational Histories of the ‘Royal Nation’
2017
The Conclusion summarily analyses the ‘Royal Nation’ as an autonomous historical category. It draws on arguments presented in different chapters of the book, and brings out commonalities between the viewpoints of the authors of these chapters, to demonstrate as to why the interdependence between monarchies and nation-state formation gathered momentous practical significance as well as conceptual plausibility in different parts of the modern world, from the nineteenth century onwards. The Conclusion emphasizes the intellectual, aesthetic and performative, juridical, social, and political underpinnings of this interdependency; it suggests that this mutual imbrication of the royal and the nati…
Emendation of General Consideration 5 and Rules 18a, 24a and 30 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes to resolve the status of the…
2021
Following the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes electronic discussion and vote on proposals to resolve the status of the Cyanobacteria in the prokaryotic nomenclature, we announce here the results of the ballot. We also present the emended versions of General Consideration 5 and Rules 18a, 24a and 30, based on the outcome of the ballot, to be included in the new revision of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes.