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Germany and the Aftermath of the Second World War

2017

‘A Hellish Nightmare’: The Swedish Press and the Construction of Early Holocaust Narratives, 1945–1950

2020

This study examines how the Swedish press responded to and portrayed the Holocaust immediately after the war. The liberation of the camps, the role and guilt of ordinary Germans, the Nuremberg trials and the ongoing problem of Jewish DPs in Europe were the most important issues on the basis of which the Swedish press had shaped the early post-war view of the Holocaust. Moreover, the fate of the Jews under Nazi Germany formed an important element of such reporting. The author argues that, contrary to the dominant Anglo-American historiography, which holds that the first post-war decades were marked by silence surrounding the German genocide, the Swedish press wrote about the Holocaust often …

Materiality and compositorial errors of a poetical incunabulum: the contribution of textual criticism

2019

L’anàlisi material dels testimonis d’una obra literària forma part de la fase de recensio en un procés de crítica textual, que ha d’anar més enllà de la mera descripció del continent. Cal atendre a la informació que donen aquestes característiques quant als continguts, quant al procés de transmissió dels textos, perquè aquestes dades tindran funcionalitat ecdòtica. Així, aquest treball estudia la materialitat i els errors d’un incunable poètic valencià, que és el primer d’una trilogía d’impresos dedicats a la Immaculada Concepció i patrocinats per Ferran Dies. The material analysis of the witnesses of a literary work is part of the phase of recension in a process of textual criticism, which…

Parliament and the Press : Forging the United Nations in Wartime Britain, 1939–45

2020

During the Second World War, not only the United States but also Great Britain played a leading role in planning and establishing the United Nations (UN) as a new international organisation to replace the League of Nations. While scholarship on post‐war planning is extensive, relatively little exists on how the planning process was discussed and depicted publicly in Britain. The purpose of this article is to fill such lacunae by examining the two most important domains for public discussion at the time, the press and parliament. It will argue, first, that the League of Nations’ experience – its inability to use collective force and its optimistically democratic structure – overwhelmingly sh…

Marriage Guidance, Women and the Problem(s) of Returning Soldiers in Finland, 1944-1946

2017

When former military chaplains began to give marital guidance to troubled couples after the end of hostilities with the Soviet Union (1941–1944) in Finland, new information about the causes and experiences of marital problems and divorces emerged during guidance sessions. Even lengthy marriages were seen to be burdened due to the stress of reunion and men’s wartime infidelity, increased inclination to drinking and aggressive behaviour. The article discusses the meaning and construction of marital expectations with respect to the development of post-war marital dissolution, and argues that wives in particular tried to adjust their marital expectations in accordance with the general developme…

The fragility of Finnish parliamentary democracy at the moment when Prussianism fell

2019

The Finnish case is in many ways illustrative of the complexities of democratisation after World War I. Finland found itself at the nexus of a Swedish constitutional tradition, legalism and ideological controversies adopted from Imperial Germany, the radicalised Russian Revolution, and Western parliamentary democracy. After having been a model for reformers demanding women’s suffrage, for instance, the country found itself in autumn 1918 going in the opposite direction to almost all other European countries. This article analyses the fragility of Finnish parliamentary democracy then, contrasting it with longer-term trends supportive of democratisation. ‘Democracy’ had been the goal for mos…

A focus on selected perspectives of the NUMEN project

2022

Abstract The use of double charge exchange reactions is discussed in view of their application to extract information that may be helpful to determinate the nuclear matrix elements entering in the expression of neutrinoless double beta decay half-life. The strategy adopted in the experimental campaigns performed at INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud and in the analysis methods within the NUMEN project is briefly described, emphasizing the advantages of the multi-channel approach to nuclear reaction data analysis. An overview on the research and development activities on the MAGNEX magnetic spectrometer is also given, with a focus on the chosen technological solutions for the focal plane de…

Anne Truelove e Baba the Turk: immagini del femminile in The Rake's Progress (1947-51) di Igor Stravinsky

2018

Il saggio ricostruisce la genesi di "The Rake's Progress" (La carriera di un libertino, 1947-51) di Igor Stravinsky, anche in relazione all'omonima serie di quadri e incisioni di William Hogarth e soffermandosi sulla contrapposizione rappresentativa e di linguaggio musicale che caratterizza i due personaggi femminili di Anne Truelove e Baba the Turk.

Narkotisko un psihotropo vielu diskurss Holivudas filmās: jauniešu realitātes konstruēšana

2016

Pētījuma problēma Bakalaura darbā „Narkotisko un psihotropo vielu diskurss Holivudas filmās: jauniešu realitātes konstruēšana” ir kā Holivudas filmās attēlotais narkotisko un psihotropo vielu saturs ietekmē jauniešu realitāti. Darba autore vēlas koncentrēties uz to, kā Holivudas filmas ietekmē tās auditorijas realitāti un viedokli, kā arī meklēt izvēlēto filmu saturā attēlotās narkotiskās un psihotropās vielas, lai noteiktu, cik bieži auditorijas ar to sakaras un vai tas ir spējīgs ietekmēt šīs auditorijas. Tas tiks veikts ar kvantitatīvās kontentanalīzes, semiotiskās analīzes un fokusa grupas palīdzību. Darba teorētiskajā daļā tiks aprakstītas teorētiskās izpratnes par to, kas ir populārā …

Inbreeding does not alter the response to an experimental heat wave in a freshwater snail

2019

Global climate change affects natural populations of many species by increasing the average temperature and the frequency of extreme weather events (e.g. summer heat waves). The ability of organisms to cope with these environmental changes can, however, depend on their genetic properties. For instance, genetic load owing to inbreeding could alter organisms’ responses to climate change-mediated environmental changes but such effects are often overlooked. We investigated the effects of an experimental heat wave (25°C versus 15°C) on life history (reproduction, size) and constitutive immune defence traits (phenoloxidase-like and antibacterial activity of haemolymph) in relation to inbreeding b…