SlowMemo

Join the online workshop Slow Curating: Time, Memory and Representation, on Friday 10 November 2023, on ZOOM, 2-4 p.m. (CET). The workshop investigates ways in which slow curating forms can activate ‘social time’ and re-articulate knowledge during times of acceleration. Presentations by Susana Gomes da Silva, CAM – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), Blerta Hoçia, Humanitarian...

The second conference for the COST action “Slow Memory – Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerated Change” took place in Aarhus, Denmark from June 12th-16th, 2023. We had 34 participants in the training school and 60 for the conference with 35 countries represented in all. The focus of the conference was on methodologies:...

The “Transformation of the Environment” working group (WG5) met three times in the course of the Aarhus conference, twice to reflect on input received during plenary “Key Insights” sessions and to relate it to members’ own research on slow environmental memory, once to discuss educational materials and a special issue proposal. Hamid Foroughi and Ayse...

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Aarhus Report from Working Group 4 The training school was organized into two tracks under the broad categories of “storytelling” and “ethnography” – with a uniting focus on “moving methodologies” (i.e. walks and talks). Over the course of the training school, we were introduced to different kinds of methodologies and sense-making, which we tried to...

Aarhus, Denmark, June 12-13, 2023Marileen La Haije (University of Cologne) During the second in-person meeting of the Slow Memory network in Aarhus, members of Working Group 2: Transformation of Welfare participated in a series of workshops as part of the training school. These workshops addressed methodological possibilities and challenges for the study of slow memory...

Slowmemo general conference (Aarhus), June 12-16 Working Group 3 aims to explore the influence of slow memories on political action and decision-making. The working group met four times during the conference to discuss emerging themes across the group (Continuity, City, and Speed/Acceleration), consider how the key insights presented in the plenaries connect to our work,...

Slowmemo general conference (Aarhus) – June 12-16 2023 One of the cross-cutting themes of the Slow Memory project is language. This theme is applicable to all working groups and was discussed in an all-group meeting in Aarhus. We discussed how this can be applied on different levels:  from a multilingual perspective – across the working...

Halfway through the MSA and need a bit of downtime? Join us to make your own fabric bag and learn something about the Slow Memory COST Action. July 05, 14:00 – 15:30, Room USB G.003 In the Slow Memory project, we consider how we may grasp the meaning of “slow” processes, remember slowly, and study...

The third international, interdisciplinary conference in gender research 25-26 March 2024, University of Graz, Austria. Organized by: The third Creative Bodies—Creative Minds Conference 2024 will explore the gendered and political aspects of current, historical or everyday creative practices. DIY-making, as a form of everyday creativity, carries a different meaning in different political regimes (such as...

In the mainstream of cultural and collective memory studies, linguists seem absent. No linguists have been elected to the executive committee of the Memory Studies Association, and the flagship journal Memory Studies caters for other disciplines in the humanities (literature, cultural studies, history) and for some qualitative social sciences (sociology, media studies). This conference aims...