Search for dissertations about: "memorial"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the word memorial.

  2. 1. The Presence of the Absent. Memorials and Places of Ritual

    Author : Anna Petersson; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; memorial; death; cemetery; space; profane; praesentia; symbol; place; private; sacred; public; ritual; body;

    Abstract : Memorials and places of ritual, such as funeral monuments, roadside memorials and cemeteries, can be said to reveal the politics of religious space as in the tension between sacred and secular and between private and public interests. At the same time they also reflect a given society’s religious structures, cultural differences and social orderings, as well as the changes in these matters over time. READ MORE

  4. 2. Representing the Absent: A Study of Memorialisation and Its Material Culture in Spontaneous and Official Memorial Places in Contemporary Sweden

    Author : Anna Petersson; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Abstract : The general aim of this thesis was to study how memorial places and objects serve as links and meeting points between the bereaved and their conceptions and memories of the departed. This has been examined in several different ways, from various viewpoints, and placed in different contexts and periods in time. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Quest for Recognition : The Holocaust and French Historical Culture, 1945–65

    Author : Johannes Heuman; Pär Frohnert; Claudia Lenz; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; France; Holocaust; remembrance; historical culture; narrative; use of history; republicanism; universalism; Jewish identity; historicisation; Europeanisation; antisemitism; Vichy; CDJC; Mémorial de la Shoah; Tombeau du Martyr Juif Inconnu; History; historia;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the development of Holocaust remembrance in France, taking the activities of the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine in Paris as its focus. By looking at the construction, function, and reception of Holocaust narratives in the twenty years following the end of the War, it shows how remembrance took shape within French historical culture, and, conversely, how representations of the genocide influenced France’s national-historical culture. READ MORE

  6. 4. The genomic signatures of adaptive evolution in Populus

    Author : Jing Wang; Pär Ingvarsson; Barbara Mable; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Populus; adaptive evolution; natural selection; genomic diversity and divergence; recombination; Next-generation sequencing; local adaptation;

    Abstract : Understanding the genetic basis of adaptive evolution, and how natural selection has shaped patterns of polymorphism and divergence within and between species are enduring goals of evolutionary genetics. In this thesis, I used whole genome re-sequencing data to characterize the genomic signatures of natural selection along different evolutionary timescales in three Populus species: Populus tremula, P. READ MORE

  7. 5. A Mention to Those not Mentioned : Yizkor Books and Holocaust Memory 1943–2008

    Author : Lior Becker; Tomislav Dulić; Lars M Andersson; Tim Cole; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Israel; USA; Holocaust memory; collective memory; Yizkor books; commemoration; remembrance; memory culture; Historia; History;

    Abstract : Yizkor books are communal memorial books commemorating Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust, produced as a result of communal activity. This study analyses the production and function of Yizkor books. READ MORE