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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · 21d

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....

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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 22d

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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 🔽

Slow Down How You Remember!

"New perspectives to shape our collective past and future". How do we remember in an age of fast-moving change? How can slowing down our approach to memory open new ways of engaging with Europe’s past...

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · 21d

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Slow Memory in the House of European History | The Slow Memory Podcast

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · 21d

... which blurs the line between First World War history and reenactment. Reflecting on these works, the curators show how slowing down to notice details, connections, and emotions can deepen our understanding of memory as a living, complex presence.

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · 21d

Guided through powerful photographic projects that reimagine how Europe remembers, they focus on two striking case studies: Julien Sales’ Glacier, The Last Image, a haunting self-portrait of a disappearing glacier, and Hugo Passarello Luna’s Nostalgie de la Boue ...

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · 21d

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.”

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · Aug 18

The discussion highlights the methodological, ethical, and wellbeing challenges of long‑term, place‑based research, and argues for the value of slowness in producing meaningful, critically engaged scholarship.

Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · Aug 18

They explore their approach to immersive, slow ethnography—spending extended time in the region, engaging with local communities, interviewing activists, and mapping tourist experiences.

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · Aug 18

This episode of The Slow Memory Podcast features Dr Lucy Bond and Dr Jessica Rapson, co‑chairs of WG 5 (Transformation of the Environment), in conversation about their British Academy and Leverhulme Trust–funded research on heritage, industry and environmental racism in the American Gulf States.

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Memory Studies Association @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social · Aug 14

🕊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

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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · Jul 1

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

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · Jul 19

#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...

Conceptualising Conflict Transformation as forms of Peace-building to take in Slow Memory – SlowMemory – CA20105

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

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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · Aug 11

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‘The ocean is spitting our rubbish back’: Italy’s museum of plastic pollution

Faded items dating back to 1950s have been found on Italian beaches, underscoring plastic’s problematic longevity

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · May 22

You can read more about Biodiversity Day at www.un.org/en/observanc....

International Day for Biological Diversity | United Nations

Biological diversity — or biodiversity — is the term given to the variety of life on Earth and the natural patterns it forms. The biodiversity we see today is the fruit of billions of years of evoluti...

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · May 22

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.

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nataliebraber.bsky.social @nataliebraber.bsky.social · May 19

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

Podcast – SlowMemory – CA20105

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · May 20

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....

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · May 19

“The Presence of the Past” is on display at the House of European History through January 2026 and will soon appear on the Slow Memory guide. More info at historia.europa.eu/en/exhibitio....

Presence of the Past – a European Album

The first photographic exhibition organised by the House of European History reveals how Europeans engage with the past in their everyday lives. What are we searching for when we connect with history?...

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · May 19

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!

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · May 17

This episode features the stories of David Amos, Francka Četković, Mick Chewings, Jan Rulewski, Jean-Claude Reding and Carles Vallejo. We warmly acknowledge the contributions of other interviewers: Nicolas Arendt, Zoé Konsbruck, Brian Rosa, Javier Tébar and Nina Voidopevic.

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · May 17

🎧 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

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · May 17

Further, Tamara Šmidling discusses Belgrade's ‘memory walks,’ while William Blair shares how museums handle long-term memory. Activism, curation and oral history reveal that reconciliation is slow, layered and often unpredictable. #slowmemory #peacebuilding

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · May 17

🎙️ 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

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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · May 17

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 Slow Memory Podcast

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