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Publication alert!

Action members Sara Jones and Thomas Van de Putte have just published an essay titled “Following the well-trodden paths of the past”. Check it out via this link

Abstract: The event-based focus of much memory studies scholarship appears to centre the field on ruptures, and yet theories of cultural memory also consider how those ruptures are used to foster continuities of meaning and experience. In this paper, we aim to draw out this apparent tension between rupture and continuity and connect this to the emerging concept of “slow memory” (Wüstenberg 2023). We advance a political-cultural understanding of this concept and operationalise it for the study of the role of the past in the continuities of the present. We argue that slow memory can be understood as an unvoiced and unacknowledged aspect of cultural memory, which, when embedded into cultural imaginaries can sustain the continuity of meaning in individual experience despite processes of change. Our case studies are “slow memories” of the Cold War and colonialism in the everyday sense-making processes of Ukrainian movers to the UK, and the use of the Holocaust as a referent by actors remembering mass violence in Mozambique.

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Slow Memory and the Disruptive Force of Earthquakes  Tamara Banjeglav Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), Ljubljana, Slovenia Sara Helin-Long PhD, University of College Cork, Cork, Ireland for Working Group 4 In this working paper, we contend with the potential of earthquakes, as natural...

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organized by Vjollca Krasniqi & Layla Zibar DR. ANA MILOSEVIC & UNESCO REPRESENTATIVE – INTRODUCED BY PROF. JENNY WüSTENBERG The workshop will take place online on 11-12 December , 10-12 am (CET). Register via this link.  In this workshop, participants will acquire a comprehensive understanding of “slow memory” concepts and their relevance to policy-making, while...

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