Slow Memory and the Disruptive Force of Earthquakes

We are living in times of deep contradictions. While our world accelerates and grows smaller through superfast digital networks, it is also marked by widening socio-economic disparities.

We are living in times of deep contradictions. While our world accelerates and grows smaller through superfast digital networks, it is also marked by widening socio-economic disparities.

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…

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We are living in times of deep contradictions. While our world accelerates and grows smaller through superfast digital networks, it is also marked by widening socio-economic disparities.

Slow memory conceptualizes practices of remembrance that are ‘multi-sited’, ‘eventless’ and refer to slow-moving phenomena. But we are hampered in our ability to study these processes by a 24-hour news cycle coupled to a 24-hour academic assembly line. To succeed in this system we are expected to work at such a breakneck speed that it seems the only options are to keep the pace at an unsustainable rate or drop out. We believe there is another way that involves slowing down our research methods, processes and thinking. To this end, we propose the Cres Manifesto.

Conceptualising Conflict Transformation as forms of Peace-building to take in Slow Memory

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This working paper presents a multifaceted examination of four innovative impact projects that address the challenge of memorializing the Anthropocene, the new geological epoch characterized by massiv...

The Slow Memory Podcast is among the most important deliverables of this COST Action. It is an ongoing project that seeks to bring together the different voices, projects, positions and methodologies we use and explore in relation to the concept of Slow Memory. It will enable us to reach audiences beyond the academic field. As a collaborative undertaking, the Podcast will be produced by Action members and stakeholders in tandem. Future episodes will feature insights in to the research of our various Working Groups, highlighting how Slow Memory can be put into action in work, conflict, politics, the environment, welfare and beyond.

MOTION AGREED: We recognise that the climate emergency means storms are becoming both more powerful and more frequent, with devastating consequences. The Assembly will join the European Commission, Pa...