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Slow Memory COST Action (CA20105) Capstone Conference in Porto, 2-5 July 2025 Organized by Alice Semedo and Isabel Machado Alexandre From 2021 to 2025, the COST Action “Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change” has brought together over 300 scholars and stakeholders, from over 40 countries, many disciplines and career stages....
The fourth episode of our Slow Memory podcast is now available on all major streaming platforms! 8 March as Slow Commemoration In this episode, Members of Working Group 3 on the Transformation of Politics explore the history of International Women’s Day and how this date can be understood as a “slow commemoration”. Slow commemoration refers...
The fifth episode of our Slow Memory podcast is now available on all major streaming platforms! In this episode, we introduce Slow Memory in arts-based practices of care. The episode features three pioneering arts-based practices from Argentina that generate significant, slow-moving transformations in mental health care. They promote the rights of people who experience mental...
Europe’s East, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: A Transnational Education Project lead by Sara Jones and Maija Spurina As part of a larger team, members of Working Group 3 of the Slow Memory Action have been exploring the connection between memory of the Holocaust and Second World War and attitudes towards different groups. Their preliminary survey...
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
