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-focused, fast-paced approaches, the project emphasized slow-moving, dispersed, and structural temporalities of memory. Organized into five working groups, it explored industrial decline, welfare transformations, right-wing memory politics, conflict transformation, and environmental memory. The Action produced publications, teaching resources, policy briefs, and a virtual exhibition, while fostering collaborations across disciplines. As it concludes, Slow Memory endures as a conceptual and methodological framework shaping future scholarship and collective practice. In this episode, hosts Annemarie Majlund Jensen, Vjollca Krasniqi and Hanna Teichler look back and take stock.

We would like to thank our colleagues:

Natalie Braber

Vicky Karaiskou

Libora Oates Indruchova

Sara Dybris McQuaid

Tea Sindbaek Andersen

Rose Smith

Chris Reynolds

Yuliya Yurchuk

Tanja Petrovic

Gruia Badescu

Deniz Gündogan Ibrisim

Jenny Wüstenberg

Joanna Wawrzyniak

Alice Semedo

Mariana Cerveira Lima

Music: Sleep comes, by Oleksii Kalyna from Pixabay

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