[MOURNING] Memory of Prof. Kenji Kono

Socially shared mourning: construction and consumption of collective memory

Social media, such as YouTube, is increasingly a site of collective remembering where personal tributes to celebrity figures become sites of public mourning. YouTube, especially, is rife with celebrity commemorations. Examining fans’ online mourning practices on YouTube, this article examines video tributes dedicated to the late Steve Jobs, with a focus on collective remembering and collective ...

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In memory of Prof. Dr. Holger Schmid-Schönbein.

Professor Holger Schmid-Schönbein, born on April 6, 1937 in Tübingen, Germany, passed away on December 12, 2017 after a full and creative life. He was an internationally appreciated physiologist and had gained particular merits in the dissemination of Clinical Hemorheology not only in Germany. His perpetual efforts to link clinical physiology with clinical practice significantly improved our un...

In memory of Prof. Helena Rašková, MD., DSc., Dr.h.c.

“Old-timers, like me (born 1913) fortunately often do not lose the long-term memory of past events. I witnessed how world pharmacology stepped out of shadow of physiology into a generally recognized branch of science, and its international organization International Union of Pharmacology (IUPHAR) became an established member of the International Committee of Scientific Union (ICSU)”. My friends...

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" shows many features associated with seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry in general, and with Donne's work in particular. Donne's contemporary, the English writer Izaak Walton, tells us the poem dates from 1611, when Donne, about to travel to France and Germany, wrote for his wife this valediction, or farewell speech. Like most poetry of Donne's time, it ...