Hanna Teichler

The Working Papers are among the most visible deliverables of this Action, and thus hold a specific importance. The following guidelines are supposed to provide a framework for writing and publishing Working Papers. Please use MS Word or LibreOffice Writer built-in styles For an introduction to MS Word styles, please go to Microsoft’s website, that...

Dear members of the Slow Memory COST Action, We hope this Newsletter finds you in good health and spirits. As we move towards the winter break and the third grant year, we would like to inform you about recent developments within the Action. Newsletter now online! Our Newsletter Bulletin will from now on be published...

Edited by: Irene Díaz (University of Oviedo) and Natalie Braber (Nottingham Trent University) from WG1 (Transformation of Work) of the Slow Memory Cost Action. Deindustrialisation processes represent a traumatic change for the societies that experience them. The cracking of what were presumed to be well-rooted economic foundations is accompanied by profound social and cultural transformations...

Dear Action Members, This is the Third Newsletter Bulletin of the Slow Memory COST Action, and we hope that you have enjoyed an inspiring and productive academic year 2022/23. Relaunch of the Slow Memory WebpageWe have been working in the past few months to improve our Slow Memory Website, and the new version is now...

Dear members of the Slow Memory Community, We hope that you are enjoying spring time at the moment. It is time for the second instalment of the Slow Memory Bulletin, the newsletter to keep you in the loop on events, projects, publications, and more… If you would like to share your news, contact the communication...

Dear participants of the Slow Memory COST Action, We are delighted to send you this first instalment of the Slow Memory Bulletin. This Newsletter is intended to inform you about recent and upcoming events, developments and projects within and beyond the Slow Memory Cost Action. It is also meant to provide a platform for members...

The Slow Memory Podcast is among the most important deliverables of this COST Action. It is an ongoing project that seeks to bring together the different voices, projects, positions and methodologies we use and explore in relation to the concept of Slow Memory. It will enable us to reach audiences beyond the academic field. As...

#SlowMemo_Talks. Tuesday, December 12, 4 pm CETOnline via Zoom Working Group 1 is delighted to invite all COST Action members to the third event in the series of #SlowMemo_Talks. We will have a pleasure to host Auksė Petrulienė, artist and curator from Lithuania who has a long-standing experience in working with  post-industrial communities. In 2017, she founded the community platform Backup Stories (Mažosios...

Editors: Kateřina Králová and Marileen La Haije, Working Group 2 We are pleased to invite submissions for an upcoming academic publication focusing on the history and memory of care and welfare in past and present, particularly within the contexts of children’s homes, psychiatric hospitals and facilities, community spaces of care, and former or commemorative institutional...

Guest-editors: Stef Craps (Ghent University), Rick Crownshaw (Goldsmiths, University of London), and Rebecca Dolgoy (Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation) The scale, complexity, and urgency of the global ecological crisis challenge the human capacity to grasp it, particularly within the context of daily life. Mass extinction, climate catastrophe, rampant pollution – concepts and...

Jenny Wüstenberg has described “slow memory” as shifting “attention from ‘eventful’ and ‘sited’ pasts to those that are slow-moving”. This might seem contrary to the study of commemoration, which is usually associated with specific historical events: for example, the end of a war, the founding of a nation, or the start of a revolution. However,...