Slow Memory Study Group

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The slow memory study group reads texts related to history, memory and time that are suggested by members of the COST group. Our goal is to foster conversation among the working groups and develop a conceptual framework in slow memory. During the academic year, we meet online the second Monday of every month. The study group is open to all members of the COST action. Previous attendance is not required. All are welcome to suggest readings and attend when they can.

The list of previous readings can be found here.

Latest Updates

Call for Papers: Memory Studies Association Conference 2025 in Prague

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...

Call for Articles: Slow Memory. The Transformative Promptings of Literature in Post-conflict Societies

Call for Articles Slow Memory: The Transformative Promptings of Literature in Post-conflict Societies for a special issue of Memory Studies Review (2026)edited by Patrick Crowley and Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir ‘I feel something quiver in me, shift, try to rise, something that seems to have been unanchored at a great depth; I do not know what it...

Workshop: Walkability between the Past and Present

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...

Conference report (Belgrade): general

The second training school & third annual meeting for the “Slow Memory – Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerated Change” COST action took place in Belgrade, Serbia during the last week of May 2024, at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK). We had 34 participants in the training school and 60 for...

Call for Papers: Slow Memory after Conflict

Call for articles for the Special Issue Slow Memory After Conflict: Fragments From the Post- Yugoslav Space Editors: Orli Fridman and Vjeran Pavlakovic Rationale Inspired by the COST Action on Slow Memory, we are pleased to announce a call for papers to a special issue of the journal Southeastern Europe that will critically engage with...

Call for Papers: Memory and the City

Editors: Gruia Badescu, University of KonstanzMaija Spurina, Latvian Academy of CultureChristian Wicke, Utrecht University Cities have been studied as arenas of diverse memory politics, as well as palimpsests where long-term political and social changes can be uncovered through the purposeful illumination of multiple layers of memory (Huyssen 2003). Urban life has been long associated with...