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Marking Time in an Artisan Community
No full textThis account of the marble carving artisans of Pietrasanta, Italy, explores familiar assumptions about artisan time through an exploration of multiple, intersecting temporalities including geologic, historical, political, cultural, and technological time. Artisan practices are often relegated to the past, are understood to coexist more or less uncomfortably with the present, and are not even imagined as existing in the future. Like all chronotopes, situated in place and time, artisan narratives are ideologically motivated, whether marked as time standing still, as outmoded relics of an earlier era, as nostalgic perpetuations of the past, or as legacies perpetuated in the present
Brain Candy: Wayne State University School of Medicine Journal of Arts and Culture, 11th Edition
Get PDFBrain Candy incorporates paintings, written pieces, and poetry from all the medical classes at Wayne State University School of Medicine to shed light on the creative process in medicine, the city of Detroit, and the experiences of health care providers. This year it is organized to reflect the growth of a medical student, and to embody the medical school community’s hopes and fears, disappointments and achievements. The first edition of Brain Candy was published online and in print in 2009, produced by a generous grant by the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS). The edition featured poetry, nonfiction, short fiction, and different types of artwork. With generous funding support from alumnus Dr. Tom Janisse, Class of 1975, the journal continues to be in print since 2009
The First Insight into Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup Prediction for a Population Originating from Medieval Bosnia
No full textPopulation genetic studies have shown that the Bosnian-Herzegovinian (B&H) population is a part of the European gene pool, but there has been limited information on the genetic structure of ancient B&H populations. This study aimed to determine the frequency and distribution of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups for a medieval Bosnian population. Thirty-four samples, excavated from medieval necropolises located within the borders of medieval Bosnia, were analyzed. Sequencing of the mtDNA hypervariable segment 1 (HVS1) region and RFLP analysis were performed for haplogroup determination. All 32 samples were identified as haplogroup H, with subhaplogroups H2a and H5 in 30 and 2 samples, respectively. The frequency of the H haplogroup was significantly different between the studied samples and previous studies of contemporary B&H populations, where the H haplogroup frequency was approximately half that of the ancient population studied here. A significant difference in H haplogroup frequency compared with other medieval populations outside of Bosnia was also observed: the ancient B&H population is most similar to ancient Italians. These results provide insight into the mitochondrial landscape of populations that inhabited the territory of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Middle Ages. Our study reveals that inhabitants of medieval Bosnia carried genetic lineages that exist today in B&H populations, suggesting continuity of mtDNA haplogroups over a long period of time, regardless of various historical demographic events that shaped the genetic structure of the modern B&H population
Youthful Platform Commemoration: TikTok as a Frontier for Holocaust Education and Memory
No full textOn February 9, 2021, shortly after his great-grandmother Lily Ebert, a Holocaust survivor from Hungary, recovered from COVID-19, 17-year-old Dov Forman shared a simple message on his Twitter account: “To relate more to of my generation, my great-Grandmother (Lily Ebert—Auschwitz survivor) and I, have created a @tiktok_uk account. We hope to keep sharing her testimony [. . .].” By June 2021, Ebert and her great-grandson emerged as prominent influencers in Holocaust remembrance and education amassing a million followers on TikTok. Surpassing the online presence of established Holocaust institutions, Ebert, leveraging the popular video-sharing platform, recounts her experiences from Hungary, Auschwitz, forced labor, and death marches through engaging short clips, designed to capture the attention and spark the curiosity of the platform’s youthful audience. Utilizing TikTok’s unique features and audio-visual appeal, Ebert’s videos engage with a range of inquiries from users, blending insights into her personal family life and messages of tolerance and solidarity. In this article, we delve into the platform-specific relationship to Holocaust commemoration and education, against the backdrop of rising antisemitism and hate speech on the platform. We critically examine both the obstacles and the opportunities TikTok presents for fostering access to and engagement with historical awareness among its youthful cohorts
Finding Refuge in Humor or Stoking the Flames of Antisemitism? Genre, Revisionist History, and the Holocaust in Contemporary American Popular Culture
No full textThis article examines the roles that genre and revisionist history play in popular culture depictions of the Holocaust, focusing on examples of contemporary films and TV series that incorporate elements of comedy, fantasy, melodrama, and revenge as cinematic devices that offer new ways of understanding the Holocaust. Genre acts as an agent of resistance—both in the sense that the existence of these films and series stake a claim for the artistic merit of unconventional approaches to Holocaust narratives and, perhaps more importantly, in the sense that the possibilities offered by these alternative genres facilitate a potentially deeper and more significant exploration of the social, cultural, and political consequences of fascism, antisemitism, Nazism, victimhood, and indifference. Yet, at the same time, given the current rise of antisemitism, the widespread decline in Holocaust education, and the proliferation of Nazi rhetoric on social media, these works prove controversial in their respective approaches. Who are these depictions of the Holocaust for, what messages do they send to their various audiences, and how does the cinematic approach to the Holocaust change as the temporal distance from the Shoah increases? This article will ultimately pose an answer to these questions using an analysis of Amazon Prime’s Hunters (2020–2023) and Taika Waititi’s 2019 film Jojo Rabbit as case studies that consider the social, pedagogical, and moral consequences of approaching the Holocaust through the lenses of revisionist history, comedy, fantasy, and other genres that encourage viewers to think about genocide, victimization, and antisemitism in transgressive and potentially transformative ways. In doing so, this article will trace the relationship between genre, popular culture, and the Holocaust, identifying patterns of narrative content, political context, authorship, and audience/critical reception, both in the contemporary case studies explored in this paper, and in classic examples (such as Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds or Brooks’s The Producers) that have claimed space for wish fulfillment, revenge, and fantasy in the canon of Holocaust cinema
