Our final major output of the Slow Memory COST Action is the forthcoming edited volume, "Slowing Down Memory Studies: Theory and Practice of Remembering for Transformative Change", edited by Joanna Wawrzyniak and Jenny Wüstenberg and appearing in Open Access with Bloomsbury in early 2026.

Policymakers were included as key stakeholders in the Slow Memory COST Action, given their authority to translate academic outputs into public actions. To this end, our Working Groups developed a series of policy briefs ...

Our largest volume of output can be found in the Slow Memory publication archive at www.slowmemory.eu/publications/. Beyond a forthcoming edited volume, "Slowing Down Memory Studies: Theory and Practice of Remembering for Transformative Change", Slow Memory COST Action members ...

Memory has become an important field for policy intervention. Every modern state now has departments and legal frameworks to shape the public representation of the past – for better or for worse. However, policies are made in different units and levels of government in different countries ...

As part of our research outputs, members of the Slow Memory COST Action have compiled an extensive bibliography of literature that speaks to the various themes that have emerged over the four-year project period.

“More-than-representation theory” helps us integrate the senses – sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell – into our research practice, and the Slow Memory COST Action has embraced this notion to produce a variety of outputs that speak to the human experience.

Missed a few talks or want a recap of our events across Europe over the past four years? You can find all our videos on the Slow Memory COST Action YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@slowmemoryc....

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To engage your mind, you sometimes have to engage your body! Slow Memory COST Action members have developed two walking journals for Prague, Czech Republic, and Prishtina, Kosovo, that help us think through the city, spatial relations, emotion and memory.

Every revolutionary movement needs its own manifesto! By turning the tables on what it means to engage with memory in a slow and considerate way, the Slow Memory COST Action has followed a new path to allow us to engage with the past more thoroughly and meaningfully.

Action members Vjollca Krasniqi, Vicky Karaiskou, Alice Semedo and Isabel Machado Alexandre have curated and designed a virtual exhibition entitled “Imag(in)ing Slow Transformation”.

Curious about how to integrate slow memory into your teaching? Visit our educational resources page at www.slowmemory.eu/educational-... for information on the seven projects our Action members developed, from oral history guides to walking methodologies and more.

Long journey ahead? Have a listen to our Slow Memory playlist on Spotify. The playlist was compiled by Action members, each contributing one song that reminded them of the theme "slow memory". Available at open.spotify.com/playlist/3cm....

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Our COST Action journey may be over, but our resources live on! Visit our archive at slowmemory.eu for all publications, media and other outputs.

Unmissable exhibitions by Larissa Sansour and Aleksandra Domanović at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. @slowmemo.bsky.social @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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 🔽

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"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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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.

‘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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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.

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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...