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The First Insight Into Mitochondrial Dna Haplogroup Prediction For The Population Originating From Medieval Bosnia, Abdurahim Kalajdzic, Naris Pojskic, Adisa Ahmic, Merima Miralem, Lejla Lasic, Mirela Dzehverovic, Belma Jusic, Amela Pilav, Lejla Pojskic, Edin Bujak, Tarik Corbo, Rifat Hadziselimovic

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Population genetic studies have shown that the Bosnian-Herzegovinian (B&H) population is a part of the European gene pool, but until now there is limited information about the genetic structure of ancient B&H populations. In this regard, the aim of our study was to determine the frequency and distribution of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups for medieval Bosnian population. Thirty-four samples, excavated from medieval necropolises located in the B&H according to the borders of medieval Bosnia, were subjected to analysis in this study. Sequencing of the mtDNA HVS1 region and RFLP analysis were performed for haplogroup determination. In our study, all 32 …

Conservation Co-Governance As A Cure: Investigating Aotearoa New Zealand's Conservation Co-Governance Model As A Blueprint For Restoring Navajo Sovereignty In Managing Canyon De Chelly, Shana R. Herman

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

No abstract provided.

The Mysterious Case Of The Attacks Against The Halifax Public Gardens: The Enclosure Of "Common" Property , Public Access To Nature, And Sustainability In The City, Dr. Sara Gwendolyn Ross

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Workplace Racial Discrimination On The Health Of Black Men, Denise Richardson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the lived racially discriminatory experiences of Black men in the workplace in New York City and how those incidents affected their overall health. The study used Critical Race Theory as the theoretical framework and analyzed data gathered through semi-structured interviews with 10 participants. Findings from coding analysis indicated that Black men routinely engaged in acts of John Henryism to receive positive recognition as they navigated negative societal stereotyping, namely proving that they, as individuals, were not negative stereotypes. Additionally, the study revealed that exposure to racial discrimination in the workplace …

Seventy-Two Words For Potato: Irish Language Sources For Food History, Mairtin Macconiomaire, Dónall Ó Braonáin

Books/Book Chapters

The Irish word for generous is flaithiúil, which stems from the word ‘flaith’ or prince, so in Irish to be generous is to be princely. The Irish for the Department of Justice is An Roinn Dlí agus Cirt—literally, the department of the law and what is right: the Irish language separates the law from what is right or just. The Irish saying ‘Fáílte Uí Cheallaigh’—the welcome of the O’Kellys—carries memories of an exceptional hospitality event that happened seven centuries ago in east Galway/ south Roscommon but is still preserved in today’s speech.10 This chapter seeks to discuss the wealth of …

Between Memory And History: Irish Pubs As Sites Of Memory And Invention, Perry Share, Moonyoung Hong

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

The pub has been at the centre of Irish culture and identity for at least two centuries, has become a pillar of the Irish tourism “product,” and an export commodity as thousands of themed “Irish pubs” have been established across the world in the last number of decades, supplementing existing establishments that have served the global Irish community. This paper draws on key themes from the diverse material in our upcoming academic volume on the Irish pub, to be published by Cork University Press, later in 2024. The book brings together contributions from scholars of history, sociology, design, literature, culinary …

Forbidden Fruit: Mary Cassatt’S Mural Of “Modern Woman” At The World’S Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893, Tricia Cusack

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

This paper considers a large mural of “The Modern Woman” painted in France by the American artist Mary Cassatt for the Woman’s Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. It focuses in particular on the large central panel of the mural titled Young Women Plucking the Fruits of Knowledge or Science that depicts women and girls apple-picking. Cassatt’s mural drew on various traditions and myths. Apple harvesting was a common sight in America. Cassatt’s title though points to the story of Eve and forbidden fruit, in which Eve seeks knowledge, but is severely punished for it. Cassatt …

Chicken Soup And Chopped Liver: Sharing Ashkenazic Jewish Recipes Across Generations, Sascha Goluboff

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

This paper investigates how my grandmother’s recipes for chicken soup and chopped liver, two Ashkenazic Jewish staples, can be seen as part of a genre of writing in which women “creatively record and inscribe individual lives and situations” (Floyd and Forster 2003, 5). The vernacular details in my grandmother’s culinary instructions reveal how she channelled her self-expression and need for independence into her cooking. The paper explores the premise that the requesting and sharing of recipes is an act of trust between women and discusses what happens to family culinary ties and identity when that trust breaks down.

Bittersweet Spirits: Transnational Food Memory And The Persistent Production Of Non-Mainstream Alcohol In Trinidad, Shrinagar Indra Francis

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Whether we perceive the process of food leaving its mark on our culture as a function of genetic or collective memory, or a combination, informs the ways we interrogate the continued existence of these foods and their practices across time and landscapes. Within the postcolonial context, the process of re-embodiment is an inherently bittersweet one in that it comes as a consequence of loss and rupture and is motivated by a desire to be remade. Prior to colonialism, the production of alcohol was a profound aspect of the lives of the many peoples of West and West-Central Africa. Descendants of …

Trace, Trauma And Tradition In The Sopranos, Lisa Davies

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

This paper uses gastrocriticism – literary criticism that draws on disciplines such as sociology, anthropology and cultural studies – as a lens to establish the use of food as a symbolic marker of traces, trauma and traditions in the HBO series, The Sopranos. The Sopranos is a story of an Italian-American crime family in which food is uniquely central to the plot: a mob-boss is in therapy due to food-related panic attacks. Food is used in a variety of ways; as a narrative device; as a symbol of greed, power and status; and as a token of ethnic and …

Traces Of Tradition: Exploring The “Food In Olden Times” Theme Within The Irish Folklore Commission Schools’ Collection 1937–39, Caitríona Nic Philibín

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Ireland’s rich folklore archives provide a wealth of insight into the memories of her people. The importance of recording oral history across Ireland in the late 1930’s spurred the Folklore Commission to establish the Schools’ Collection (SC). Essentially, the commission enlisted national school children, within the Irish Free State, to collect the memories of the their relatives and older people within their communities. The culmination of these efforts resulted in over 700,000 documents illuminating Ireland’s traditions, customs and practices. Analysis of the children’s findings reveals exciting local and regional traditions through the words of curious pupils discovering the food memories …

The Revival Of Heritage Beers: The Case Of Farmhouse Beers From Northern Europe, Clark Danderson

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

As the craft beer revolution continues to grow, both commercial brewers and homebrewers have shown considerable interest in rediscovering the beer of the past. Many of these beer styles faced near extinction due to various factors. Some involve changes to brewing, such as the industrialization of the brewing process, the widespread availability of pure commercial yeast cultures, and the popularity of closed fermentation in cylindroconical fermentors. Other societal factors include changes in consumer preference, generational shifts, and urbanization. Lastly, environmental factors, such as climate change and pollution, present persistent challenges. The beer styles that were most endangered often held a …

Caesar’S Cervisia, Travis Rupp

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Examinations of Roman cuisine often downplay the role of beer in the ancient Roman diet seeing it as a symbol of barbarity. This essay examines the plausibility of beer as a standard component of the Roman soldier’s diet and seeks to highlight when it may have become necessary for military advancement. Julius Caesar’s reliance on auxiliary forces to campaign in the North from 58-51 BCE ensured that cultures known for producing beer influenced legionary forces reliant on local resources to survive. This essay also asserts the implausibility of wine consumption amongst Caesar’s men and concludes that the acceptance of beer …

Food As Hidden Resistance: Traumatic Memory And Food Criticism From A Revolutionary's Prison Diary In Colonial Taiwan, Yu-Yin Hsu, Fong-Ming Yang

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

The aim of this study is to analyze the critical writings and traumatic memories recorded in a diary kept by Jian Ji (1903-1951) while in prison. As a first-generation leader of the peasant movement in colonial Taiwan in the 1920s, Jian Ji knew more about the types of grain and the fundamental interaction between food and the human body. However, he was imprisoned for his social activism and continued to write a journal, expressing his feelings and grievances. He showed his concern about the agricultural policy in Taiwan. Most notably, he commented on eating in prison. Through these food criticisms, …

Nudging Ninkasi’S Memory: Recreating Ancient Sumerian Brewing And Drinking, Marie Hopwood

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

When archaeological interpretations are grounded in biased translations from early researchers, faulty knowledge is created and then taught or picked up through research by future generations. The way that we think about the past and engage with our own knowledge-memories is affected, leaving us to see the past through half-dark glasses. False information colours our understanding of the ancient world and the descendants of those societies. Archaeological studies of Mesopotamian women and their roles related to beer have suffered from poor translations, been set aside as footnoted moments, or ignored entirely. Often hidden in archaeological literature is the fact that …

Collecting Ireland’S Food Memories As A Resource For Food Tourism, John D. Mulcahy

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

An inventory by Teagasc’s National Food Centre, prepared for the Euroterroirs project in 1997, is a rare, if not the only, example of an attempt to recognise, document, and catalogue Irish traditional food and beverages. Even at that, given the brief provided by Euroterroirs, the inventory was limited to 100 local traditional products. But we know from Lucas (1960) that Irish food presents a remarkable continuity of traditions from the time of the earliest documentary evidence to the present. Food and beverages are such an integral part of Ireland’s cultural fabric that the threads, traces, and fragments are not only …

Memories Of Food And (Be)Longing: Secularised Jewish Recipes In Hungary Before 1945, Lili Zách

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Although the first Hungarian-language Holocaust cookbook, entitled Recipes for Survival (ed. Szilvia Czingel), was only published in 2013, it brought thus far unknown Hungarian primary sources (secretly hand-written recipe scraps from the Lichtenwörth concentration camp, 1944-1945) and issues (such as fantasising about cooking and recipe writing as survival strategies) into the foreground of Holocaust research as well as food history scholarship. Among others, Louise O. Vasvári (2014 and 2016) and András Koerner (2018) have explored the socio-cultural significance of these Jewish women’s reminiscences within the context of Holocaust Life Writing and Jewish Cuisine, respectively. And while they both highlighted that …

Life, Death, Salt: Salty Memories, Anne Meneley

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

I explore how some of my childhood memories were inspired by salt and preserved by it, from Star Trek to salt and vinegar potato chips. Once so valued as to be considered “white gold”, in the era of the ultra-processed industrial food that dominates contemporary North American food, salt has become more like “white death.” (“Pass the white death” is a joking request for the salt shaker.) A road salt shortage during Toronto’s icy winter of 2018-2019 inspired a joke about how the mayor will be forced to use Toronto’s expensive, Himalayan table salts to ice the roads! In a …

Memories Of Recipes In Twentieth-Century Irish Cookbooks, Gary Thompson

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

This paper analyses and categorises the ways in which authors and their publishers have chosen to include the author’s culinary, food and personal memories within the texts of twenty twentieth century Irish Cookbooks. Cookbooks are subjects of culinary nostalgia with the reading of a recipe capable of triggering in the reader a memory of a meal enjoyed, a dish cooked in times past by a loved one, or recollections of the disgust felt for a food hated in childhood. Independent from the reader, the culinary memories of the author can be captured at the time of publication in the text …

The Memory Landscapes Of Food: The Sense Of Nostalgia And The Traces Of The Past In The Arbëreshë Microcosm Of Food And Feast, Elisa Pastorelli

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Referring to an ethnographic study of the arbëreshë community of Molise, this article explores the interplays between food, senses, and nostalgia to explain how food activates the involuntary memory of the eater and resists corrosion over time. On one hand, the evocative power of food allows the community to reproduce and pass on the culinary “landscape of memory” (Turri, 1998, 156). On the other side, bringing abundance industrialization has profoundly changed the value of food, generating a shift in sociability and ways of being together. So, the memory of past eating practices of commensality and conviviality cause a feeling of …

In Defense Of The Anchovy: Creating New Culinary Memories Through Applied Cultural Context, Marcela T. Garcès

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

La Centralita Culinary Studio, a small business in Albany, New York I opened in December 2021 with my creative partner Yuri Morejón (from Bilbao, Spain), is dedicated to teaching small groups of people about the cuisines of Spain through private cooking classes, pedagogical tasting experiences, and themed events. As a complement to our respective careers as consultant and professor, we bring our expertise in these areas to each unique event. We started the business after observing a need for contextualized pedagogy about Spain’s diverse cuisines in the US. Specifically, our guests often have negative memories of anchovies and are hesitant …

“My Mother’S Bolivian Kitchen”: Latin American Cookery Books, Tradition And Ideology, Igor Cusack

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Cookery books that claim to provide national recipes, as well as anthropological accounts of national cuisines, tend to promote particular ideologies. This paper examines a sample of Latin American cookery books with two such ideologies in mind: domesticity, with the woman firmly located in the home, and nationalism with appeals to the marvellous cuisine of the relevant nation. The books often see women as being fully responsible for food preparation and providing a well-run and comfortable home for the family. They are frequently also dedicated to the author’s mother or grandmother. José Sánchez-H’s My Mother’s Bolivian Kitchen highlights women as …

Dgs 2024 Full Programme, Dgs Committee

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

This is the Programme for the DGS 2024 - Food and Memory: Traces, Trauma and Tradition, as well as the Map of Producers who furnished the delicious food and drink we serve at lunch over the two days of the event.

Crisis Management: Unveiling Information And Communication Technologies’ Revamped Role Through The Lens Of Sub-Saharan African Countries During Covid-19, Ruthbetha Kateule, Egidius Kamanyi, Mahadia Tunga

The African Journal of Information Systems

The management of COVID-19 pandemic has revealed inefficiencies in coordinating global response, particularly in African countries. Therefore, creating an urgent need to examine the literature on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in crisis management to appreciate its contextual role. Employing a systematic review, using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA), this paper critically assessed the extent of the use of ICT in crisis management in Africa’s response to COVID-19 to reconstruct its resilience against future crises. Findings indicate that while countries with limited ICT infrastructure faced considerable challenges in utilizing ICT solutions in COVID-19 management, countries …

The Elusive Endonym, Thomas Eccardt

Publications and Research

The term ‘exonym’ was coined in 1957 by Marcel Aurousseau, an Australian geographer, to denote a place name used in a non-native language. ‘Endonym’ was later coined analogously as its counterpart, meaning the native name for a place. An example exonym would be the English word Germany, referring to the country whose inhabitants know it as its endonym Deutschland. These terms are useful to cartographers and also the United Nations, since it publishes documents in its six official languages, referring to places all over the world.

The topic of endonyms and exonyms would seem to fall into the …

Discovering Ina Jane Doe, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Oberlin College Commencement 2024, Oberlin College

Commencement Programs

Program for Commencement Exercises, 191st Anniversary.

Consciousness And The Reality Of Monsters In Horror Movies: Dehumanization And What Monsters In Horror Films Say About Us, Leila Kincaid

Journal of Conscious Evolution

This essay responds to Carroll’s The Nature of Horror from the perspective of transdisciplinary phenomenological film theory, largely developed by Edgar Morin in the 1950s. It argues that Carrolls’s reduction of the phenomenological value of horror films to an unreal category minimizes and even dismisses the inherent value of horror films. Morin, Allan Combs, and others offer more integral and transdisciplinary methods for art interpretation and functionality. They help us understand how monsters in horror films can stand as mirrors and reflections of the monstrous in ourselves and society. Thus, the transformational function and value of film is revealed and …

A Rising Tide That Lifts All Boats: Long-Term Effects Of The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend On Poverty, Matthew Berman

ISER Articles

Although not designed as a social program to redistribute income, the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) has been reducing poverty by providing equal annual payments to nearly all state residents for over 40 years. We examine direct effects of the PFD on Alaska poverty rates since 1990, using US Census and American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample records to adjust for under-reporting of children's PFD income in official statistics. We estimate that the PFD reduced the number of Alaskans with incomes below the US poverty threshold by 20%–40%. We measure only a small effect on income distribution: a 0.02 …

Structural Barrier In The Process Of Regeneration Of The Pkb Islamic Political Party In Direct Presidential Elections 2004-2019, M Nastain, Irwan Abdullah, Zuly Qodir, Hasse Jubba

Jurnal Wacana Politik

The purpose of this research is to identify the structural barriers faced by the PKB political party in promoting its members as presidential and vice-presidential candidates from 2004 to 2019. Additionally, the research aims to explore the political strategies employed by the PKB that resulted in the absence of its members in the highest democratic contests. Structural policies play a crucial role in determining political steps, taking into consideration both internal and external conditions. This research employs a qualitative descriptive method, combining data from interviews and documents, supported by field observations. Interview data serves as preliminary findings guiding the discovery …