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Jenny Wüstenberg is Professor of History and Memory Studies and the Director of the Centre for Public History, Heritage and Memory at Nottingham Trent University. She is the Co- Founder and Co-President (2016–2022) of the Memory Studies Association, as well as the Chair of the COST Action CA20105 on Slow Memory (2021–2025). She is the author of Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2017, German edition in 2020) and co-editor of Agency in Transnational Memory Politics (with Aline Sierp 2020), the Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (with Yifat Gutman 2023), and of De-Commemoration: Making Sense of Contemporary Calls to Tear Down Statues and Rename Places (with Sarah Gensburger, forthcoming in English and French). She has written about the intersection of democracy, memory, and activist politics in a variety of settings. Her current book project focuses on “slow memory” as a way of responding to gradual change and violence such as biodiversity loss and family separation policies.
Website: https://jennywustenberg.com/
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