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!!

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....

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 🔽

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.”

The eighth episode of The Slow Memory Podcast is now available for streaming on all major podcast platforms! shows.acast.com/slow-memory

🕊In Memoriam: Wulf Kansteiner With great sadness, the MSA shares the news that Wulf Kansteiner passed away on 8 August. Read the full tribute on our website: bit.ly/3UZB0Lb

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

#MSA2025 had a great and timely roundtable on Memory and Peace. As part of @slowmemo.bsky.social I wrote this very basic working paper to start our discussions on the interfaces of (slow)memory/peace/conflict -might be of interest to @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social www.slowmemory.eu/publi/concep...

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

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.

The podcast about 'solidarity' that Joanna Wawrzyniak and I have been working on as part of our COST funded Slow Memory project is now available here: www.slowmemory.eu/podcast-2/ Listen to what our group on 'work' have been discussing with European trade unionists! @slowmemo.bsky.social

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!

Episodes 6 and 7 of the Slow Memory Podcast are now available on all major streaming platforms! You can listen to these and all previous episodes at shows.acast.com/slow-memory.

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...

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 ...

Exciting series of events from our partners at the Universities of Prague, Warsaw, Sorbonne, Milan, Heidelberg and Copenhagen! Register/sign on using the Teams links below.

@slowmemo.bsky.social comes to Tirana. Albania is something else!

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

@slowmemo.bsky.social -after 3 great days in Tirana, excited to see what Dürres will bring!

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...

From our partners at the University of Graz: CALL FOR PAPERS Creative Bodies—Creative Minds The fourth international, interdisciplinary conference in gender research University of Graz, 30-31 March 2026 creative-bodies.uni-graz.at/en/creative-...

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.

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.

CfP: Tourism and Islands of Memory 2-3 June, Stari Grad, Hvar, Croatia The conference/workshop “Tourism and Islands of Memory” is part of an ongoing workshop series and initiative on the historical remembrance of islands, focused on the Adriatic and Mediterranean from a comparative perspective.

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=....

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...

We took part in a special issue of the Slovenský národopis/Slovak Ethnology journal on 'slow memory' (check out @slowmemo.bsky.social). Memory studies tends to focus on how specific events/characters resonate now, while slow memory looks at past events that occurred gradually, over a long time.

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.

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.

A reminder to register for our upcoming policy-writing workshop with Dr. Ana Milošević and a representative from UNESCO next Wednesday and Thursday! Links below.

If you are one of the many researchers/practitioners who have felt inspired by the concept of "slow memory", please consider proposing a paper for our capstone conference in Porto 2025 www.slowmemory.eu/news/call-fo... @slowmemo.bsky.social

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).

Please share this fully-funded PhD opportunity with anyone interested in Memory Studies & Psychology. I am one of the supervisors, so happy to answer any questions 🔽 @memorystudies.bsky.social @slowmemo.bsky.social www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

Great starter pack on memory studies!

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.

Wow, new followers – welcome! For more information on the Slow Memory COST Action, visit slowmemory.eu and keep an eye out for exciting Action updates on Bluesky, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook... not the other place. We don't use the other place anymore.

🔥 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 the link below! www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Great opportunity for a 4.5-year postdoc at the University of Stirling (Scotland)! Six positions are opening at the new Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory. More information at www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a....

www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/o... Clear evidence that slow memory has practical consequences. @slowmemo.bsky.social

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.

New Podcast Episode available! 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”.

Call for Articles! Slow Memory: The Transformative Promptings of Literature in Post-conflict Societies for a special issue of Memory Studies Review (2026), edited by Patrick Crowley and Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir Further information at www.slowmemory.eu/news/call-fo...

🦶 Workshop on Slow Memory Methodologies! The event will take place in Prague from September 11-14, 2024, focusing on sensory walking, mapping, and digital humanities to explore urban spaces as a methodological approach for slow memory. ✒️ Contact info on the flyer

In this episode, we introduce Slow Memory in curatorial work. Against the backdrop of the times of acceleration, our guests discuss slow memory to critically explore the entanglements of material, affective and nonhuman worlds. Listen to all episodes and subscribe where you listen to podcasts.