Agonistic Interventions into Public Commemorative Art:An Innovative Form of Counter-memorial Practice?

In light of recent controversies around the removal or modification of public commemorative art, such as memorials and monuments, this paper interrogates the value of competing approaches to counter-memorial practice using the framework of agonistic memory. It argues that much counter-memorial practice today, as it relates to historical memory, is dominated by a “cosmopolitan” mode that fails to offer a convincing response to the rise of right-wing populism and its instrumentalization of conflicts over public commemorative art. The article investigates two case studies of counter-memorial interventions that focus on the memory of fascism in Europe today and seeks to identify and assess emergent agonistic practices

Structural and Mechanistical Studies on Substrate and Stereo Selectivity of the Indole Monooxygenase VpIndA1 New Avenues for Biocatalytic Epoxidations and Sulfoxidations

Crystal structure analysis of a group E flavoprotein monooxygenase in complex with substrates and products reveals a confined hydrophobic binding pocket that controls the stereoselectivity of sulfoxidation or epoxidation reactions. Molecular mechanics force field calculations and kinetic studies allowed structure based redesign of this cavity, resulting in variants with greatly enhanced stereoselectivity or acceptance of novel substrate