Thursday, Feb.24, 17:00 GMT/18:00 CET: register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/261166896217
For this, we will always share a text to read in advance (feel free to suggest texts).
We will begin with a short one on Slow Memory by me and use some of the time to discuss plans for the next meetings. Again, the Zoom link will be shared via Eventbrite.
Dear members of the Slow Memory Community, We hope that you are enjoying spring time at the moment. This is the 5th instalment of the Slow Memory Bulletin, the newsletter to keep you in the loop regarding events, projects, publications, and more. The Action now has 295 individual members, so we do need this medium of...
8-9 June 2024 Stari Grad, Hvar, Croatia The workshop “Islands of Memory” is part of an ongoing initiative on historical remembrance on islands, focused on the Adriatic and Mediterranean from a comparative perspective. The workshop invites academics and practitioners from a multidisciplinary background to reflect on memory and historical remembrance in the context of islands....
ITC Conference Grants are aimed at supporting Early Career Investigator and PhD students from Participating ITC to attend related conferences, events or conduct activities on the topic of the Action that are not organised by the COST Action. Dissemination Conference Grants support the participation of Action participants to high-level conference to present the work...
Open Call for Applications: Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM) 2024 Purpose of a Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) under COST Action Slow Memory The main objective of the COST Action 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...
What exactly is International Women’s Day (IWD) for? What does it commemorate and how should we mark it? Read how Sara Jones and Maija Spurina (Working Group 3) tackle these questions in their essay ‘From state propaganda to populist marketing ploy: The slippery meaning of International Women’s Day’.
The field of memory studies has lost a charismatic founding figure. Jan Assmann died on Monday 19 February 2024. He was 85. Jan Assmann’s landmark study of cultural memory, Das kulturelle Gedächtnis, was published in 1992 and immediately welcomed across German academia as a new ‘paradigm’ of studying culture. The book has been translated into...
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
