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Jenny Wüstenberg

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Professor of History & Memory Studies @ Nottingham Trent University - jennywustenberg.com

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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
In a world as dark as ours these days, this video is a good antidote. www.youtube.com/watch?v=la75...
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Hungary politician dances on stage after Péter Magyar wins election
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Nottingham people, check out this brand new podcast #Nottspod, which focuses on local concerns. First, up: "Trentbelly" - what happened to the local river?! 🚰 💩 🤔Please share! open.spotify.com/show/4Xwc5xB...
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Trentbelly 1: Poo in the Water
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Cookies are baked, tree is up & decorated, Semmelknödel are prepped. Now it’s time for me to delete LinkedIn & Bluesky from my phone for 2 weeks. I hope you can also slow down for a bit. Wishing you happy holidays and a very happy start to 2026 to you and yours!!
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
After slowing down a bit & taking time to reflect, here are some key points that emerged for me from our hashtag#KnowledgeExchangeforSlowHope Kick-Off Conference for researchers in 10 humanities-led projects on crisis, funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area). A 🧵
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
So great to have you here @liminalwater.bsky.social !
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right” - no shit! Unsurprising but important study. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
And that's a wrap on the Slow Memory COST Action! We're so grateful to all our colleagues, partners, friends and collaborators who grew this Action into a blossoming network that will bear its fruit still in the years to come. We will still post about our resources in the coming weeks – stay tuned!
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Mixed emotions as I travel home from Ghent after our very final @slowmemo.bsky.social retreat. I am proud of what we’ve accomplished, excited to see how we collaborate next, a bit tired - but most of all so thankful that I got to work with this absolute dream team for 4 years. Miss you already!!
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
youtu.be/h_xwJ5u9I8o Great short way to explain why smartphones are so harmful for kids. Not that I have figured out a way to protect mine from them effectively. But changing the norm is essential.
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Smartphone Free Childhood US - "Let's Change The Norm"
YouTube video by Smartphone Free Childhood US
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Fantastic example of memory activism.
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New statue on National Mall celebrates ‘long-lasting bond’ between Trump and Epstein
Bronze statue by an anonymous creator shows the two men frolicking and holding hands with a foot kicked back in joy
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
historia.europa.eu/en/exhibitio... If you are nearby, please join us on *Oct.2 at 4 PM* at the House of European History in Brussels for discussions, refreshments & tours through the "Presence of the Past" exhibition to celebrate 4 years of research & engagement on @slowmemo.bsky.social. Register 🔽
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Slow Down How You Remember!
"New perspectives to shape our collective past and future". 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...
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Dropping off our oldest kid at uni today and feeling all the feels.
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why Trump’s attack on the Smithsonian matters | Kimberlé Crenshaw and Jason Stanley
The president’s assault on US museums, education and memory is a critical dimension of his fascist aims
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Fascinating study by @findingnature.bsky.social argues that lack of nature connectedness is “a key root of the environmental crisis” and finds around 60% decline in use of “nature words” in books between 1800 and 2020 #slowmemory
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Although we only saw each other once or twice a year at Memory Studies gatherings, I cannot imagine them without Wulf. He was always incredibly warm & engaging, even when he was provocative, which he loved being. What a catastrophe.
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Clearly something for the @slowmemo.bsky.social list.
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‘The ocean is spitting our rubbish back’: Italy’s museum of plastic pollution
Faded items dating back to 1950s have been found on Italian beaches, underscoring plastic’s problematic longevity
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The Happy Family books were a staple of both my and my kids childhood. Sad news.
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social conference in Prague is drawing to a close tonight and I can only congratulate Katerina Kralova, Rose Smith & the whole team! It was wonderful to talk to so many people about @slowmemo.bsky.social and hang out with the crew!
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Do speak to Jeff Olick or Aline Sierp or me if you have an idea for the series!
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The Memory Studies Association Conference in Prague begin tomorrow and there are stickers!!!
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
“Cesar in Egypt” last night in the little Czech town of Znojmo was a tour de force - famous counter tenor Andreas Scholl was joined by a world class cast of Czech singers. A real treat. Now en route to the @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social in Prague!
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
If you are in Dorset this or next weekend, come find out about MEMO - the visionary project aiming to commemorate biodiversity loss while revitalising a local community. So happy that Nottingham Trent University continues to support and engage with MEMO!
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
A massive thank you to Alice Semedo & Isabel Machado Alexandre & their whole team, who put on such a wonderful and reflective conference for the #SlowMemory COST Action!!
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I'm very eagerly anticipating the start of our fourth and final @slowmemo.bsky.social COST Action conference at the University of Porto tomorrow. Judging by the prep done by the stellar team led by Prof Alice Semedo, it is going to be absolutely fantastic. #slowmemory
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Our weekend was dominated by (we think successful) efforts to save this little Goldfinch after our cats attacked. Welcome distraction given world events, but thinking of Iranians & Israelis trying to stay safe.
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Honoured to be giving one of the keynotes at this conference, along with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social Submission deadline is July 31 ⬇️ cosmos.sns.it/news/call-fo...
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Call for papers: Memory and social movements in democratic crises
The Centre on Social Movement Studies
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Should really make a habit of listening to my daughter’s crocheted advice.
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... An extraordinary leader. Makes me hopeful, but also sad about where we are at.
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‘Empathy is a kind of strength’: Jacinda Ardern on kind leadership, public rage and life in Trump’s America
Young, progressive and relatable, the former prime minister of New Zealand tried to do politics differently. But six years into power, she dramatically resigned. In an exclusive interview with the Gua...
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Less than a week to go to our AIMS@NTU conference "Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization – Future Directions in Memory Studies" with a keynote by Ann Rigney and Roundtables on the most pressing issues (not just for our field)! Check out the program 👇 aimsntu.org/conference/
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Conference - Welcome to the AIMS project
THE CONFERENCE Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization – Future Directions in Memory Studies Accommodation and Travel Nottingham Sights Programme Register Accommodation and Travel The conference will take p...
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Are you coming to this year's Memory Studies Association conference in Prague? If so, have you gotten your MSA swag yet?! The MSA is trying a new way of reducing the conference's footprint by allowing only *in-advance* orders for people coming *in person*. So don't miss out!! mymerchstore.net/en/
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... As always, @hahauenstein.bsky.social provides lucid analysis of German memory politics
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Germany trumpets its reckoning with its Nazi past – except when it’s inconvenient | Hanno Hauenstein
From a media prize with a dubious pedigree to the horrors of Gaza, the establishment forgets and remembers what suits it best, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This is a question I address in this article from a little over 3 years ago: theconversation.com/climate-and-...
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Climate and extinction crises move too slowly for us to pay attention – here’s the answer
We need to develop a ‘slow memory’ of how long-term developments have impacted us.
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I’m very happy to learn about this exhibition. The story of this action is at the centre (and on the cover) of my book *Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany* www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... (also available in German)
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Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany
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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
New article from COST Action members Sara Jones and Natalia Kogut in the most recent issue of Memory Studies: "Mismatched expectations: Eastern Europeanism, the slow memory of the Cold War and life in the United Kingdom for displaced Ukrainians" Read on at journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Last week, members of the Slow Memory COST Action visited the House of European History in Brussels for a guided tour of the exhibition "The Presence of the Past: A European Album". Massive thanks to co-curators Simina Bădică and Stéphanie Gonçalves for talking us through their amazing exhibition!
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Nice article about my grandparents. Thank you to Robin Richterich for his tireless research.
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
What a fantastic first day of our #SlowMemory workshop with the House of European History! We are creating an “activity book” of sorts with which visitors can explore the “Presence of the Past” temporary exhibit through a slow lens.
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The full program for our #SlowMemory capstone conference in Porto is out - and it looks fantastic! Our local organizers Alice Semedo and Isabel Machado have outdone themselves. Check it out - you can still attend as a listener (sign-up form will be online soon) 👇 www.slowmemory.eu/events/annua...
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Porto, 2-5 July 2025 – SlowMemory – CA20105
Our next and third Annual Meeting will take place in Belgrade, Serbia, from May 27-31. The early career researcher training school runs from May 27-28, and the official annual meeting from May 29- 31.
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The Guardian reporting today - very scary
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Thanks to my two “other homes” Canada and Australia, we got some much needed good news this week.
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
On this year's Earth Day, when environmentalism seems to be under attack at every turn, it is important to consider spaces of hashtag#slowhope like museums and memorial sites that engage with ecological thinking and deep time.
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
as.nyu.edu/departments/... If you're in NYC tomorrow, join the discussion about Sarah Gensburger's and my recent volume! More salient now than when it came out! #memoryactivism
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Roundtable about De-Commemoration. Removing Statues and Renaming Places, eds. Sarah Gensburger and Jenny Wüstenberg (Berghahn, 2023).
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... A very important book that can help explain why US authorities continue to separate racialized families #familiesbelongtogether
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The devastating legacy of Native boarding schools: ‘no way people can apologize it away’
Mary Annette Pember’s expansive and shocking book Medicine River looks at the many ways that the US has tried to dehumanise and eradicate Native families
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN1o...
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The Emergency Is Here | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Very concerning, though not surprising.
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US intensifies crackdown on peaceful protest under Trump
Forty-one anti-protest bills in 22 states have been introduced since start of 2025, according to law tracker
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Important event tomorrow, featuring my brilliant friend Christina Morina.
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Another productive @slowmemo.bsky.social writing retreat in the books! Nothing stimulates collaborative thinking on slow memory like a little stroll around monuments by the seaside...
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
@slowmemo.bsky.social core group & policy meeting is a wrap! Thank you to our wonderful Albanian colleagues for making our time so special!!
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Jenny Wüstenberg @jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
placememory.net/apply-now-fo... Fantastic opportunities for PhD in Memory Studies!
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PhD Studentships 2025
We are recruiting six PhD studentships to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory, and how people navigate together in space and time.
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Slow Memory @slowmemo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
New working paper available now at www.slowmemory.eu/publi/wg4-ea...! In "Slow Memory and the Disruptive Force of Earthquakes", Tamara Banjeglav and Sara Helin-Long contend with the potential of earthquakes to address and reveal forms of political slow violence in Chile and Croatia.
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