Tuesday Reflections presents: Drs. Monica Ciobanu and Mihaela Serban

[Kristin Short]

Tuesday Reflections presents Dr. Monica Ciobanu, Professor in the Criminal
Justice Department at SUNY Plattsburgh, and Dr. Mihaela Serban, Associate
Professor in the Law and Society Department at Ramapo College of New
Jersey, speaking on "Memory and Transitional Justice: Lessons from
Post-Communist Easter Europe" today*, March 29, 2022 starting at 4:30pm
via Zoom*.  Below is an abstract of the presentation.

How could the experiences of post-communist transitional justice inform
current controversies in the United States regarding its reckoning with the
past? We will briefly explore in this talk different facets of American
exceptionalism that have preempted any substantive reparations for the
crimes against humanity perpetrated against enslaved Africans and their
descendants, followed by a discussion of the 1989 revolutions in East and
Central Europe that overthrew communism, yet failed to promote an inclusive
and pluralistic model of the past. Instead, current representations of the
past rooted in essentialist and ethnocentric historical narratives are
weaponized by non-democratic political actors. Finally, we caution against
misguided representations of historical trauma and memory wards in the US
that could potentially reproduce white supremacist ideologies and escalate
existent political and cultural divisions.


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