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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...
#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,...
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...
1. Purpose of a Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) under SlowMemo The main objective of the COST Action SlowMemo – Slow Memory – (CA20105) is to develop the concept of slow memory as an approach to understanding and responding to grand-scale transformation. Bringing together theoretical approaches both from the field of memory studies and disciplines such...
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
