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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 Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change” has brought together over 300 scholars and stakeholders, from over 40 countries, many disciplines and career stages....
The Memory Studies Association invites proposals for its ninth annual conference, to be held from 14 to 18 July 2025 at Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in the historic city of Prague. This on-site conference aims to carry over from earlier conferences a transdisciplinary conversation on memory and its social, cultural and public...
Workshop: Walkability between the Past and Present Organized by Diana Salahieh, Layla Zibar, Ph.D., Akshatha Ravi Kumar and doc. ing. arch. Irena Fialova In collaboration with Prof. Kateřina Králová, from the Research Center for Memory Studies (RCMS) at Charles University The event will take place in Prague from September 11-14, 2024, focusing on...
On April 25th-26th, the WG1 “Transformation of Work” met in Warsaw for a workshop titled “European Trade Unionists’ Industrial Memories.” Nicolas Arendt, Stefan Berger, Natalie Braber, Irene Diaz, Paweł Downarowicz, Zoe Konsbruck, Ruben Vega, and Joanna Wawrzyniak discussed their interviews with unionists from Germany, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Poland, and Spain. The workshop was followed...
11 June 2024, 5pm-6.30pm. NTU, NEWLT4 City Campus Also available online via Microsoft Teams Professor Robert Gildea (University of Oxford): The Miners’ Strike: their story in their voices’ The Miners’ Strike of 1984-85 was the last great industrial conflict of the twentieth century in Britain. Miners stayed out for a year in defence of...
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...
Conference report (Belgrade): Working Group 3 “Transformation of Politics” Co-authored by Sara Jones and Maija Spurina The working group on slow transformation of politics met in three sessions. This time our meetings were focused on various projects that our groups had been working on. The co-chairs of the group Sara Jones and Maija Spurina and...
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...
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...
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding organisation for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and beyond and enable researchers and innovators to grow their ideas in any science and technology field by sharing them with their peers. COST Actions are bottom-up networks with a duration of four years that boost research, innovation and careers.
The SlowMemory COST Action addresses the need for increased interdisciplinarity in our understanding of how societies confront their past to contend with environmental, economic and social changes brought on by sudden events and by slow and creeping transformations.
MoU – 045/21
CSO Approval date – 25/05/2021
Start date – 14/10/2021
End date – 13/10/2025
