Events

Contested memories and painful pasts regularly re-appear in the Europan public sphere on transnational, national, and regional levels. The war in Ukraine as well as the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel and Israel fighting back, but also the recent experience with global pandemics have instigated a new wave of memory themes and disputes.  Various memory narratives have...

March 13, 2024 9.30-10.30 am CET Online via Microsoft Teams Speakers: Joanna Wawrzyniak (Warsaw) and Tea Sindbaek Andersen (Copenhagen) Moderated by Kateřina Králová (Charles University) This online course is organized by Working Group 2 ‘Transformation of Welfare’.  Contested memories and painful pasts regularly re-appear in the Europan public sphere on transnational, national, and regional levels. The...

Slow Memory ECR Training School: Belgrade May 27-28, 2024 organized by Orli Fridman and Jovan Ivanovic “Theoretical approaches to Slow Memory” The Slow Memory Cost Action invites applications from junior scholars and PhD students for our 2024 training school that will focus on “Slow Memory theory”. The training school will take place at the Faculty...

Belgrade, May 27- 31, 2024 organized by Orli Fridman and Jovan Ivanovic Our next and third Annual Meeting will take place in Belgrade, Serbia, from May 27-31. The early career researcher training school runs from May 27-28, and the official annual meeting from May 29- 31.  Please stay tuned for more information. AccommodationDuring the training school and the...

WG5 meeting: Education and Palaeoecology – Friday 15 December 2023, 12.00 p.m. CET – 1.30 p.m. CET Rebecca Hamilton (University of Sydney), “Colonisation, Conservation, and the ‘Misremembering’ of High-Value Landscapes”  Conservation targets commonly focus on preserving vaguely defined ecological baselines, often conceptualized in modern settler colonial states as a pre-colonial, ‘natural’ ecosystems. However, these ‘natural’...

#SlowMemo_Talks. Minett Stories: Remembering the industrial past online Friday, 23 February, 4pm CET Register here for the Zoom event.  In this SloMemoTalk Stefan Krebs will share his experience of organizing the online exhibition Minett Stories. The exhibition tells the history of the industrial region in the south of Luxembourg. Instead of focusing on the mining...

#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...

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...

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...

Themes and Approaches in Contemporary European Memory Studies 4EU+ partner course, co-taught by researchers at the Universities of Prague, Warzaw, Sorbonne, Milan, Heidelberg, Copenhagen and CA20105 Slow Memory. Contested memories and painful pasts regularly re-appear in the Europan public sphere on transnational, national, and regional levels. Most recently, the war in Ukraine has instigated a...

Open Call 2023 for Applications for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM) for COST Action CA20105 – Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change Extended deadline: 24 March 2023! 1. Purpose of a Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) under COST Action Slow Memory The main objective of the COST Action Slow Memory (CA20105) is...

Join us for a conversation with Stefan Berger (Ruhr University, Bochum) around a comparative history of deindustrialization Friday 10 February 2023, 5pm CET. Please register here.