Publications & Reports

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Transformations of Welfare in Europe Steven D. Brown (Nottingham Trent University), Kateřina Králová (Charles University), Marileen La Haije (Universität zu Köln), Isabel Machado Alexandre (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)     Introduction The post-World War II reconstruction from 1945 onwards brought with it a massive transformation in the ways in...

Fridman, Orli. Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022). reviewed by Vjollca Krasniqi  The book offers an in-depth account of memory activism and memory of activism confronting the silence, denial, and unwanted memories in a post-conflict setting. This is an important book for memory studies and civic engagement against forgetting...

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...

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 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...