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CA20105 - Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change
If you are in or near Brussels on Thursday, 2 October 2025, stop by to our joint event "Slow Down How You Remember!" with the House of European History, from 4–7pm. Registration and further information available at historia.europa.eu/en/exhibitio....
September 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Episode 9 of the Slow Memory Podcast is now available wherever you listen to podcasts!

In this episode of the Slow Memory Podcast, members of the COST action travel to Brussels to explore the House of European History’s Present Pasts exhibition through the lens of “slow witnessing.”
September 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The eighth episode of The Slow Memory Podcast is now available for streaming on all major podcast platforms! shows.acast.com/slow-memory
August 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Today, 22 May, marks the International Day for Biological Diversity, promoted by the United Nations to highlight the unique mix of life on the pale blue dot we call home. How we remember the loss of biodiversity is one of many questions addressed in the work of the Slow Memory COST Action.
May 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
New article from COST Action members Sara Jones and Natalia Kogut in the most recent issue of Memory Studies:

"Mismatched expectations: Eastern Europeanism, the slow memory of the Cold War and life in the United Kingdom for displaced Ukrainians"

Read on at journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
May 20, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Last week, members of the Slow Memory COST Action visited the House of European History in Brussels for a guided tour of the exhibition "The Presence of the Past: A European Album". Massive thanks to co-curators Simina Bădică and Stéphanie Gonçalves for talking us through their amazing exhibition!
May 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🎧 Ep. 7: Solidarity – The Slow Memory Concept

Joanna Wawrzyniak and Natalie Braber explore how retired unionists across Europe recall solidarity—not as a fixed idea, but as a lived practice shaped by industrial change. Part of WG1 “Transformation of Work.” #oralhistory
May 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
🎙️ Ep. 6: Slow Memory and the Transformation of Conflicts

WG4 explores post-conflict memory in Belfast and Belgrade. Co-chairs Orli Fridman and Chris Reynolds talk to Siobhan Kattago about how memory shapes peace processes over time. #memorystudies #podcast
May 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
In commemorating Earth Day 2025, we look at the role of the Anthropocene in the museum. In the Working Paper "Putting the Anthropocene on Display: An Inspiration Guide", Stef Craps, Rick Crownshaw, Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim, and Jenny Wüstenberg present a multifaceted examination ...
April 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
7 May, 09:30 CEST

Pietro Conte (University of Milan)
Memory through Ordinary Objects

events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fea88...
April 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
30 April, 09:30 CEST

Verusca Calabria (Nottingham Trent University)
Fostering Slow Memory Practices in a Mental Health Day Centre
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d38838...
April 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
23 April, 09:30 CEST

Paweł Dobrosielski (University of Warsaw)
"I survived the Nazis, I will survive the Rashists": Ukrainian discourse on the current war and the collective memory of the Second World War and the Holocaust

events.teams.microsoft.com/event/085a70...
April 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Our new educational resource "Slow Trails – Slow Memory – Resolution of Conflict" is now available on the Slow Memory website at www.slowmemory.eu/educational-... and can be downloaded as a PDF.
March 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
New working paper available now at www.slowmemory.eu/publi/wg4-ea...! In "Slow Memory and the Disruptive Force of Earthquakes", Tamara Banjeglav and Sara Helin-Long contend with the potential of earthquakes to address and reveal forms of political slow violence in Chile and Croatia.
March 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Happy to announce the publication of a new special issue on "Slow Memory: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe" in the journal Slovak Ethnology, available via Open Access at www.sav.sk?lang=en&doc=....
January 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Another fantastic contribution to the growing literature on slow memory from Action members Alice Semedo and Fabiana Dicuonzo! Available through Open Access at www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14...
January 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
On to greener pastures! We are leaving all Meta platforms (Facebook and Instagram) by 19 January. For updates, follow us here on Bluesky at slowmemo.bsky.social, on LinkedIn under “Slow Memory COST Action” and on Jenny Wüstenberg’s page, and on our website, slowmemory.eu.
January 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Issue 4/2024 of the translation magazine Verzia delves into the theme of places and cities, examining their connections to memory, the past, and identity in modern and contemporary Arabic literature.
December 28, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Join us for a Policy Writing Workshop (online)!
organized by Vjollca Krasniqi & Layla Zibar
DR. ANA MILOŠEVIĆ & UNESCO REPRESENTATIVE – INTRODUCED BY PROF. JENNY WÜSTENBERG
The workshop will take place online on 11-12 December, 10-12 am (CET).
November 27, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Call for Contributions: Slow Memory and Beyond

Capstone Conference in Porto, 2–5 July 2025

At our final conference in Porto, we will gather to take stock of and present what we have learned and to consider how the concept of slow memory can move beyond what we have seen and done in the Action.
November 15, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Contributors to Working Group 4's forthcoming special issue, entitled "Slow Memory after Conflict: Fragments from the Post-Yugoslav Space," met in Zagreb – on Halloween, no less! – to discuss their articles and find even more ways to integrate slow memory concepts into their work.
November 1, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Perhaps the most exhilarating part of our core group meeting in Belfast was the variety of tours we participated in, highlighting Belfast's multifaceted history, from a site of recent civil conflict to its more distant industrial past, as a hub for shipbuilding and textiles.
October 25, 2024 at 9:23 AM
As part of our visit to Belfast, we were given a private tour of the @ulstermuseum and its many collections of artwork, scientific artefacts and historical exhibitions, highlighting Northern Ireland's contributions to the world.
October 25, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Last month, the Slow Memory COST Action's core group convened in Belfast to discuss the next steps towards finalising our educational materials and disseminating our work before the Action's conclusion in 2025.
October 25, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Out now! In this episode, we introduce Slow Memory in arts-based practices of care.

The episode features pioneering arts-based practices from Argentina who promote the rights of people experiencing mental suffering: the right to play, to dream, to be listened to, to be remembered.
September 9, 2024 at 9:02 AM