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""I feel I am the wandering Jew who has no place to which she belongs. I thought I could settle down, but can't imagine staying. Whenever I bought a bar of soap and two came in the package, I thought there would be no need to buy a package of two because I would never last through the second. Why? Because I knew I was returning to Iran -- tomorrow. So too, I would buy the smallest size of toothpastes and jars of oil. Putting down roots here is an impossibility.""These are the words of one Iranian emigre, driven from Tehran by the revolution of 1979. They are echoed time and again

Comparatively little is known about the content and form of family memory among Pākehā (New Zealanders of European descent) in contrast to the centrality of whakapapa/genealogy in mātauranga Māori. To address this lacuna, the Marsden-funded research project "The Missing Link" recorded oral history interviews with sixty multigenerational families descended from European migrants who arrived in New Zealand before 1914. We asked our participants what they knew about their family past, the stories that had been passed down, and why particular ancestors interested them. The analysis of these oral history interviews is in progress. This article focuses on the decision to employ a mixed methods research methodology, including an analytical conceptual framework drawn from memory studies, and draws some preliminary conclusions regarding the Pākehā family as a mnemonic community.

How do people tell of experiences, things and events that mean a lot to them and are unforgettable? Eight Nordic folklorists here examine personal experience stories and the way they are narrated in an attempt to gain an understanding of the people behind them and to reveal how these people handle their history, their lives and their cultural memory. All the articles are based on interviews and narrator-researcher collaboration. The stories tell about birth, sickness and miraculous cures, intergenerational relations, war, and matters not normally talked about. The analyses complement one another and the work may be used as a university course book.

'Stories Through Memories: 70 Years of Friendship' is a joint exhibition of events to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Australian forces liberating Borneo from Japanese occupation in WWII hosted by the Australian High Commission to Brunei Darussalam. Comprising oral-history videos conducted by Dr Janet Marles (JCU) and colleagues Dr Maslin Jukim and Dr Frank Dhont (UBD) with unique historical photographs of the Borneo campaigns, drawn from the Australian War Memorial Archives. Opened by Australian Minister for Veteran's Affairs, Senator the Hon. Michael Ronaldson, eight Australian veterans from the Borneo campaigns and Bruneian elders from our oral-history project attended as special guests. The exhibition was held at the Art Gallery, Royal Wharf, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam. From 8-30 June 2015 approximately 1400 visitors viewed the 70th anniversary exhibit representing 30 schools, all four Bruneian districts and at least 22 nationalities. Additionally, 15 seminars and tours were held including a successful panel seminar for approximately 70 teachers, academics and government officials.

Albania is a state where political violence has been present for 45 years, 1945-1990. In our literature after the crash of communism many books were written. They are based on topic of memory of political violence. The Albanian literature includes author and works from Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, which use Albanian language. One of the most important writer of Albanian short stories is Anton Pashku (1937-1995). His short stories aims to discover the relationship between human, war, violence and life. He chose symbolic objects and situations, which describe confrontation of mind with memories. These memories are from real World War II, from occupation of Kosovo by Serbian state, from Albanian dictatorship, but are never named in the short story. The memory of war and violence influence everyday life of character. They live with fear, they are isolated from other people such as real world. They identify themselves with memory, they can not escape from memories. Element such as: smoke, machinery, fire, sound, noise, reveal memories. The short stories of Anton Pashku represent an universal relation of human and memories of violence that are present nowadays. Human and machinery, man and war, man and ethnic identity, human and freedom. The purpose of this presentation is to give aspect of artistic narration of memories. DOI:10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n4p17

Totalitarian regimes attempt to restrict and control virtually every aspect of human life. Interestingly, conscious reflection on disciplinary practises takes up only a small part of the life-stories of interviewed Lithuanians, as far as the memory of the post-Stalin era is concerned. The interviews that form the foundation for this paper were conducted during the summer of 2017 in three different districts in Lithuania. The article aims to answer the following two research questions:1) Which mechanisms of discipline did people recognize and reflect upon?2) How were disciplinary actions remembered and described?According to interviews, tangible individuals filled the role of disciplinarians in schools and workplaces. In addition, the responsibility for discipline and control lies within the imperceptible disciplinarian, supplemented by the invisible discipline of the collective. This led to overwhelming uncertainty in the society, where people invoked intuition and interpretations of who is trustworthy to adapt to uncertain situations. The greatest impact of the totalitarian discipline was that people effectively internalized it and consequently became their own most significant disciplinarians.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Off to a Flying Start -- Transition -- A Rough Beginning -- Initiation to Jailhouse Living -- Irvin-My Friend -- The Gables -- Rescue Eight -- Keys -- First Impression -- Crazy Cookin' -- D.T.'s and Alcoholics -- The County Fair -- The Grass Eater -- Canton -- It's a Boy -- A Close Call -- Mentality -- Keystone Cops -- May Baskets -- The Dead Guy -- Jesse James and Ernest Hemingway -- The Big Woods -- Humpty Dumpty -- Domestics -- A Safe Job -- A Naughty Lady -- Justices of the Peace -- Tilly -- TheWorst Day -- November 22, 1963 -- The Fraser Boys -- Ginny and Bobbi -- The NFO and the Last Man -- It's a Girl -- Violence -- Judges -- Mistaken Identity -- Kidnapped -- Afterword.