Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change

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Slow Memory COST Action (CA20105) Capstone Conference in Porto, 2-5 July 2025 Organized by Alice Semedo and Isabel Machado Alexandre From 2021 to 2025, the COST Action “Slow Memory: Transformative

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The fifth episode of our Slow Memory podcast is now available on all major streaming platforms! In this episode, we introduce Slow Memory in arts-based practices of care. The episode

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The fourth episode of our Slow Memory podcast is now available on all major streaming platforms! 8 March as Slow Commemoration In this episode, Members of Working Group 3 on

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 Europe’s East, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: A Transnational Education Project lead by Sara Jones and Maija Spurina As part of a larger team, members of Working Group 3 of

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About the SlowMemory COST Action

Slow memory is an emergent concept that is intended to help us think from new angles about how societies and individuals remember the pasts that meaningfully affect their present and future. It begins from the premise that we are quite skilled (and have much practice) commemorating sudden or extreme events such as wars, atrocities or catastrophes. But we are less certain about how to reckon with slow-moving transformations that may be just as impactful, such as climate change, deindustrialization, or the gradual expansion of social and political rights. Thus, both negative and positive change can happen without having a clear location or timeframe. This COST Action brings together scholars and practitioners from many different disciplines (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, technologists) to consider how we may grasp the meaning slow processes, how we may remember slowly, and how we may study slow change and slow remembrance without feeling too much time pressure.

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