Bibliographic record
Abstract
Family Album ↔ Moj Album is an experimental memoir that uses a multi-genre structure—poetry, prose, and photography—to examine what it means to witness atrocity. I was born in the middle of the Yugoslavian Civil War (also referred to as the Bosnian War) in 1994, and my parents and I immigrated to Canada a year later in 1995. Because both of my parents lived through this war, and I was born into it, I have memories surface that I can’t explain, memories that reveal an unknown past that demands my attention. These so-called memories engage with what Marianne Hirsch coins “postmemory”: a recent concept in the study of atrocity that investigates how people who have suffered trauma pass on “memories” of the original trauma to their children. Postmemory is primarily used throughout the thesis to explore what I have experienced as a child of survivors and to understand what these experiences mean. In fact, I complicate Hirsch’s notion of postmemory because I am both a survivor and a child of survivors. Therefore, Family Album ↔ Moj Album uses this liminal position to examine what memories of the war are my own and which ones are transferred to me by my parents. Family Album ↔ Moj Album also asks the question: what happens when a child is the primary “witness” to a father’s war-story. I use M.D. Dori Laub’s conceptualizing of the witness as a framing device for the entire thesis. Laub writes of three levels of witness: witness to oneself, witness to other’s testimonies, and witness to the act of witnessing itself. My memoir uses these levels to investigate how I fit into each level throughout my life as well as complicate Laub’s notion of the “empathetic listener.” Photographs are used and “created” in my memoir to show how postmemory, photography, and trauma are interconnected since photographs produce a material connection to the past. I manipulate photographs and include a variety within the memoir because they connect me with a past to which I do not have direct access. The memoir examines the effects of intergenerational trauma, and how memory can be recovered with the use of technology—like that of scanner photography (scannography). The memoir acts as a space for me to reconcile my past and give me room to have a voice amongst the loud events of my family’s past.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.289 | 0.087 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".