Tag / memory
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What We Keep And What We Leave Behind
As I sat against the rigid wall of my dorm the other night and read “Peron: A New Cultural History” for a Latin American history course, I read the phrase “Las penas son de nosotros, las vaquitas son ajenas.” “The sorrows our ours, the little cows are stranger’s.” The Peronist regime of Argentina was a…
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What I Have Learned About Memory From WILD
One month before WILD, a Wash U music event, my friend texted me: “Do you want to go to WILD with me?” It was a very popular event, but I only heard about it from my friend. “What is WILD?” Curiously, I asked my friend. It sounded wild, didn’t it? After being informed that Carly…
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A Photographic Recollection
If you opened my Photos application on my computer, you would see that I have 32,636 photos. And I promise you—I’ve gone through and deleted hundreds (if not thousands) of photos and these are simply the ones remaining. Reviewing and deleting photos is mostly easy—I wonder why I took most of them in the first…
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Holding His Narrative Hostage
His name was mentioned in over 12,000 journal articles. Early descriptions of his brain were the first attempts at memory research. After his autopsy, his brain was sliced into 2,401 70-slices and uploaded to create a three-dimensional model of his brain while 400,000 viewers watched on a livestream. After his brain was sliced up, there…
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Bridging The Boundary Of History
One year can pass by quickly. Five years can as well. Ten years seems a pretty substantial period of time, but still stays in recent memory. Multiply this period of time by seven and we get 70 years—the span of time between now and the Holocaust, an event that almost feels hardened into a relic…
