In November 2025, researchers from 10 humanities-centric project on Crisis, funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA), gathered in Nottingham to meet for the first time and think about ways to learn from each other and collaborate. Find our more about Knowledge Exchange for Slow Hope here, or watch the video to get […]

In late February, Jenny was very excited to be hosted by the University of St Andrews’ Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute & Professors Catherine O’Leary & Dora Osborne for a Masterclass on Slow Memory. The most wonderful aspect of this was the diversity of disciplinary backgrounds of attendees – from chemistry to anthropology, from […]

The British Academy has awarded Jenny (as PI) a “Pump Priming Grant” to develop a Horizon bid with a fantastic group of academic partners (among others) from France, Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Spain, Latvia, Croatia, and Canada. Our goal is to improve the empirical and theoretical foundations for the memory-democracy nexus and to improve memory policy […]

From January 2025, Jenny will lead a three and a half year knowledge exchange programme, titled “Knowledge Exchange for Slow Hope” (KESH). Worth £650000, the project will bring together researchers, HERA funders and external stakeholders across Europe to support communication and collaboration, provide training, and nurture strong cohort relationships to create foundations for future partnerships. See […]

New article in EUROM’s European Observatory on Memory December 2023 issue:  Memory and democracy: a complex relationship

New article in European Consortium on Political Research’s The Loop (Political Science blog), No.104/2023 Mnemonic democracy: the role of memory in politics

Jenny will be discussing “Slow Memory in an Accelerating World: Remembering Species Extinction” at 16:30 on 25 January 2023. Hybrid option available and lots of other interesting talks in this series. Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/dmu-history-research-seminars-2022-23-1246779

Please join my co-editor Yifat Gutman and me for the UCLA Working Group in Memory Studies online launch of our Handbook (5 years in the making!): Tuesday, 24 January 2023. Register here: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIod-upqj4qGNKY21M8E9mN9keM8bxLhQRI

Hosted by Prof. Rosanne Kennedy, Jenny is looking forward to spending 2 weeks in November in Canberra at the Research School of Humanities at Australian National University. She will be conducting research for a current book project and collaborating with Rosanne. Among other events, a symposium on slow memory will be organised.

The Centre for Public History, Heritage and Memory at Nottingham Trent University invites participation in the International Workshop: Grassroots Activism in History and Memory, 18-20 May 2022, check out the program here: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/centres/centre-for-public-history,-heritage-and-memory2