The Slow Memory Podcast

The COST Action Slow Memory (2021–2025), led by Jenny Wüstenberg and Joanna Wawrzyniak, brought together 323 scholars from 44 countries to reframe memory studies. Emerging from a critique of event-fo…

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The concept of solidarity occupies a central yet contested place in the history of Europe’s labour movements. Frequently invoked by trade unionists across ideological traditions, its meanings have ne…

In this episode, members of working group four examine slow processes of remembering after the Yugoslav wars and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Inspired by their COST Action meetings in Belgrade a…

In this episode, we introduce Slow Memory in arts-based practices of care.

The episode features three pioneering arts-based practices from Argentina that generate significant, slow-moving transformat…

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”. Slow comm…

Susana Gomes da Silva, coordinator of Education at the Modern Art Museum, from the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal; Blerta Hoçia, a curator from the Humanitarian Law Center, based in Kosovo…

In this era of rapid acceleration, scholars are subjected to unprecedented pressures to deliver at a pace that is unsustainable. The “boom” in memory studies and memory practice since the 1980s is on…