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The Slow Memory Podcast

The Slow Memory Podcast

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 The official podcast of the Slow Memory COST Action, funded by the European Union.

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  • Conclusion

    Conclusion
    Sep 5 2025

    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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    16 mins
  • Slow Memory in the House of European History

    Slow Memory in the House of European History
    Sep 5 2025
    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.” 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, 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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    17 mins
  • Slow Ethnography: Heritage, Industry and Environmental Racism in the American Gulf States

    Slow Ethnography: Heritage, Industry and Environmental Racism in the American Gulf States
    Aug 10 2025
    This episode of The Slow Memory Podcast features Dr Lucy Bond and Dr Jessica Rapson, co‑chairs of Working Group 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. They explore their approach to immersive, slow ethnography—spending extended time in the region, engaging with local communities, interviewing activists, and mapping tourist experiences. 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.

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    17 mins
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