Slow Down How You Remember! New Perspectives to Shape Our Collective Past and Future

Name: Slow Down How You Remember! New Perspectives to Shape Our Collective Past and Future
Start: 2025-10-02T16:00:00+02:00
Location: House of European History (House of European History)

Schedule

Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

House of European History (House of European History) | Brussels, BU

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 and future? Join us a for a roundtable discussion and guided tours in the Presence of the Past exhibition.
📣16:00 Roundtable discussion
Join the roundtable discussion on the innovative concept of Slow Memory, a perspective that emphasizes long-term processes of remembering, forgetting, and re-engaging with history. The event will begin with a presentation of the key ideas behind this approach.
Members of the Slow Memory network will share insights from their collaborative research, exploring how slow memory shapes and is shaped by different European contexts:
• Environmental destruction and ecological memory
• Gender and capacity building
• Welfare regimes and social policy
• Murals in post-conflict societies
• Urban politics and the shaping of public space
Together, these case studies highlight how slowing down our practices of remembering can contribute to more inclusive, reflective, and sustainable memory cultures — with concrete relevance for European memory policy and practice today.
The discussion will be followed by refreshments and guided tours of the photographic exhibition Presence of the Past – A European Album, offering participants the chance to continue conversations in an engaging, informal setting.
✨18:00 Slow Memory guided tours in the Presence of the Past exhibition
Members of the Slow Memory network are given “carte blanche” to guide you in the exhibition, drawing your attention to selected works and spaces where the slow memory concept is best revealed and questioned.

Practical information

🗓2 October 2025 from 16:00 roundtable / 18:00 guided tours
📍House of European History Auditorium & Presence of the Past exhibition
🇬🇧 English
📣Participation is free.
✔Registration is mandatory via the link
https://bit.ly/SlowMemoryRT

😎Participants:
Jenny Wüstenberg (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Joanna Wawrzyniak (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Gruia Badescu (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Lucy Bond (Westminster University, UK)
Natalie Braber (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Stef Craps (Ghent University, Belgium)
Kim Groop (Abo Akademi University, Finland)
Sara Jones (University of Birmingham, UK)
Vjollca Krasniqi (University of Prishtina, Kosovo)
Katerina Kralova (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Vjeran Pavlakovic (University of Rijeka, Croatia)
Chris Reynolds (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Simina Badica (House of European History)