Nottingham people, check out this brand new podcast #Nottspod, which focuses on local concerns. First, up: "Trentbelly" - what happened to the local river?! 🚰 💩 🤔Please share! open.spotify.com/show/4Xwc5xB...

Cookies are baked, tree is up & decorated, Semmelknödel are prepped. Now it’s time for me to delete LinkedIn & Bluesky from my phone for 2 weeks. I hope you can also slow down for a bit. Wishing you happy holidays and a very happy start to 2026 to you and yours!!

After slowing down a bit & taking time to reflect, here are some key points that emerged for me from our hashtag#KnowledgeExchangeforSlowHope Kick-Off Conference for researchers in 10 humanities-led projects on crisis, funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area). A 🧵

So great to have you here @liminalwater.bsky.social !

“Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right” - no shit! Unsurprising but important study. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

And that's a wrap on the Slow Memory COST Action! We're so grateful to all our colleagues, partners, friends and collaborators who grew this Action into a blossoming network that will bear its fruit still in the years to come. We will still post about our resources in the coming weeks – stay tuned!

Mixed emotions as I travel home from Ghent after our very final @slowmemo.bsky.social retreat. I am proud of what we’ve accomplished, excited to see how we collaborate next, a bit tired - but most of all so thankful that I got to work with this absolute dream team for 4 years. Miss you already!!

youtu.be/h_xwJ5u9I8o Great short way to explain why smartphones are so harmful for kids. Not that I have figured out a way to protect mine from them effectively. But changing the norm is essential.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Fantastic example of memory activism.

historia.europa.eu/en/exhibitio... If you are nearby, please join us on *Oct.2 at 4 PM* at the House of European History in Brussels for discussions, refreshments & tours through the "Presence of the Past" exhibition to celebrate 4 years of research & engagement on @slowmemo.bsky.social. Register 🔽

Dropping off our oldest kid at uni today and feeling all the feels.

Fascinating study by @findingnature.bsky.social argues that lack of nature connectedness is “a key root of the environmental crisis” and finds around 60% decline in use of “nature words” in books between 1800 and 2020 #slowmemory

Although we only saw each other once or twice a year at Memory Studies gatherings, I cannot imagine them without Wulf. He was always incredibly warm & engaging, even when he was provocative, which he loved being. What a catastrophe.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Clearly something for the @slowmemo.bsky.social list.

The Happy Family books were a staple of both my and my kids childhood. Sad news.

The @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in Prague is drawing to a close tonight and I can only congratulate Katerina Kralova, Rose Smith & the whole team! It was wonderful to talk to so many people about @slowmemo.bsky.social and hang out with the crew!

Do speak to Jeff Olick or Aline Sierp or me if you have an idea for the series!

The Memory Studies Association Conference in Prague begin tomorrow and there are stickers!!!

“Cesar in Egypt” last night in the little Czech town of Znojmo was a tour de force - famous counter tenor Andreas Scholl was joined by a world class cast of Czech singers. A real treat. Now en route to the @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social in Prague!

If you are in Dorset this or next weekend, come find out about MEMO - the visionary project aiming to commemorate biodiversity loss while revitalising a local community. So happy that Nottingham Trent University continues to support and engage with MEMO!

A massive thank you to Alice Semedo & Isabel Machado Alexandre & their whole team, who put on such a wonderful and reflective conference for the #SlowMemory COST Action!!

I'm very eagerly anticipating the start of our fourth and final @slowmemo.bsky.social COST Action conference at the University of Porto tomorrow. Judging by the prep done by the stellar team led by Prof Alice Semedo, it is going to be absolutely fantastic. #slowmemory

Our weekend was dominated by (we think successful) efforts to save this little Goldfinch after our cats attacked. Welcome distraction given world events, but thinking of Iranians & Israelis trying to stay safe.

Honoured to be giving one of the keynotes at this conference, along with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social Submission deadline is July 31 ⬇️ cosmos.sns.it/news/call-fo...

Should really make a habit of listening to my daughter’s crocheted advice.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... An extraordinary leader. Makes me hopeful, but also sad about where we are at.

Less than a week to go to our AIMS@NTU conference "Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization – Future Directions in Memory Studies" with a keynote by Ann Rigney and Roundtables on the most pressing issues (not just for our field)! Check out the program 👇 aimsntu.org/conference/

Are you coming to this year's Memory Studies Association conference in Prague? If so, have you gotten your MSA swag yet?! The MSA is trying a new way of reducing the conference's footprint by allowing only *in-advance* orders for people coming *in person*. So don't miss out!! mymerchstore.net/en/

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... As always, @hahauenstein.bsky.social provides lucid analysis of German memory politics

This is a question I address in this article from a little over 3 years ago: theconversation.com/climate-and-...

I’m very happy to learn about this exhibition. The story of this action is at the centre (and on the cover) of my book *Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany* www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... (also available in German)

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....

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!

Nice article about my grandparents. Thank you to Robin Richterich for his tireless research.

What a fantastic first day of our #SlowMemory workshop with the House of European History! We are creating an “activity book” of sorts with which visitors can explore the “Presence of the Past” temporary exhibit through a slow lens.

The full program for our #SlowMemory capstone conference in Porto is out - and it looks fantastic! Our local organizers Alice Semedo and Isabel Machado have outdone themselves. Check it out - you can still attend as a listener (sign-up form will be online soon) 👇 www.slowmemory.eu/events/annua...

The Guardian reporting today - very scary

Thanks to my two “other homes” Canada and Australia, we got some much needed good news this week.

On this year's Earth Day, when environmentalism seems to be under attack at every turn, it is important to consider spaces of hashtag#slowhope like museums and memorial sites that engage with ecological thinking and deep time.

as.nyu.edu/departments/... If you're in NYC tomorrow, join the discussion about Sarah Gensburger's and my recent volume! More salient now than when it came out! #memoryactivism

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... A very important book that can help explain why US authorities continue to separate racialized families #familiesbelongtogether

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Very concerning, though not surprising.

Important event tomorrow, featuring my brilliant friend Christina Morina.

Another productive @slowmemo.bsky.social writing retreat in the books! Nothing stimulates collaborative thinking on slow memory like a little stroll around monuments by the seaside...

@slowmemo.bsky.social core group & policy meeting is a wrap! Thank you to our wonderful Albanian colleagues for making our time so special!!

placememory.net/apply-now-fo... Fantastic opportunities for PhD in Memory Studies!

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.

Authors Alice Semedo, Chris Reynolds, Cláudia Garradas, Sofia Alexandre Carvalho and Tamara Banjeglav offer frames for thoughtful, reflective engagement with the past to make the concept of ‘slow memory’ a practical tool for promoting meaningful learning and reconciliation in post-conflict settings.