Slow Memory

For more information, visit www.slowmemory.eu/edited-volume/ and keep an eye out in your university library soon.

The edited volume introduces Slow Memory as a critical intervention in memory studies, advocating for a deceleration of scholarly and commemorative practices to foster ethical, sustainable, and inclusive engagements with the past.

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.

“Caring at a Different Pace: Insights from Slow Memory”, written by Kateřina Králová (Charles University): www.slowmemory.eu/wp-content/u...

“Facing the past and future in urban planning: Tirana’s rapid transformation as a case study”, written by Gilda Hoxha (Mediterranean University of Albania): www.slowmemory.eu/wp-content/u...

“Slow Memory for a Fast-Changing Planet: Building Democratic Capacity for Environmental Change”, written by Lucy Bond (Westminster) and Jessica Rapson (King’s College London): www.slowmemory.eu/wp-content/u...

“The slow memory of work and how it might help trade unions in their struggle for industrial democracy”, written by Stefan Berger (Ruhr University Bochum): www.slowmemory.eu/wp-content/u...

“Why Memory Work Must Slow Down: Lessons for Conflict Transformation in the former Yugoslavia”, written by Jessie Barton Hronesova (University College London) and Jasna Dragovic-Soso (London School of Economics): www.slowmemory.eu/wp-content/u...

“‘Slow’ responses to Europe’s key political challenges”, written by Jenny Wüstenberg (Nottingham Trent University) and Aline Sierp (Maastricht University): www.slowmemory.eu/wp-content/u...

Briefs – SlowMemory – CA20105 We are living in times of deep contradictions. While our world accelerates and grows smaller through superfast digital networks, it is also marked by widening socio-economic disparities.

– on the EU, conflict transformation, trade unions, the environment, urban change, and care – all available on our website at www.slowmemory.eu/policy/briefs/. Share widely!

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 ...

... diligently put out dozens of research articles and eight special issues as well as various working papers. More publications are expected into 2026!

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 ...

Observatory – SlowMemory – CA20105 COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding organisation for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and beyond and enable…

... (as well as in “hybrid institutions”) and it is not always easy to figure out where and by whom. We have taken advantage of the breadth and depth of knowledge present in our Action to create a “memory policy observatory” in interactive map form, available at www.slowmemory.eu/observatory/.

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 ...

Slow Memory bibliography – SlowMemory – CA20105 The Joint Bibliography is a collaborative project of the Slow Memory COST Action. Each Working Group collects relevant literature and adds them to their Zotero specific library. You can see all entries displayed below, or search for a specific Working Group. This project will be continuously updated and refined; the items in this collection will be gradually annotated.

Each Working Group contributed its own list, and the bibliography additionally features separate sections on education and on language and memory. We encourage memory scholars and practitioners to make use of this resource, available on our website at www.slowmemory.eu/publi/biblio....

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.

Beyond our podcast and virtual exhibition, these include a cookbook complication of “slow memory” recipes from Action members, available to download at www.slowmemory.eu/wp-content/u....

“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.

Slow Memory COST Action Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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....

Walking Journals – SlowMemory – CA20105 We are living in times of deep contradictions. While our world accelerates and grows smaller through superfast digital networks, it is also marked by widening socio-economic disparities.

If you are near either city or planning a visit soon, download the walking journals at www.slowmemory.eu/walks/walkin... and take a slow stroll.

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.

The Cres Manifesto for Slow Memory Scholarship is available online at www.slowmemory.eu/news/cres-ma... in both text and podcast form.

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.

The exhibition is an interactive journey through personal stories that embrace slow memory narratives and practices. Explore the virtual exhibition at your own pace at www.slowmemory.eu/virtual-exhi....

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.

Slow Memory 2024

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....

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