THE HELLENIC ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES (HELAAS) cordially invites you to the webinar talk to be held via ZOOM on October 16, 2025 @ 18:00 (Athens time).
Title: “The Past, Present and Future(s) of Transitional Justice in the USA
Speaker: Panteleimon Tsiokos (Ph.D. candidate, Western U, Ontario, Canada)
The language of the event is English. The event is online and free.
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ABSTRACT
Deportations, international economic sanctions, geopolitical revisionism, a historic dissolution of the Federal Ministry of Education, restrictions on US citizenship and immigration laws, incremental interference with administrative and legal precedent, rampant, unapologetic, violence-inciting and dividing speech, all these barely scratch the surface of US domestic and foreign policies in the 21st century. But is it all too bleak? I remain optimistic that reflecting on transitional justice efforts in the domestic context of a settled democracy like the US is both timely and necessary. This webinar will define what transitional justice is and whether any of its methodologies have been attempted by the US, especially in relation to African Americans, Indigenous peoples, and immigrants, groups who have undergone systemic and systematic discrimination, injustice, and even outright persecution in various ways and forms nowadays collectively regarded as human rights violations. Tracing the evolution of the American grappling with such protracted injustice and (mass) violations of human rights against the above-mentioned groups, I will also try to assess whether transitional justice methods, although hitherto unacknowledged, can be applied during and/or after the unique conditions currently prevalent across the US.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Panteleimon Tsiokos is a Ph.D. Candidate (collaborative specialization) in English -Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at Western University, ON, Canada. He holds a B.A. (Honors, with Distinction) in English and an M.A. in English and American Studies from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests include issues of identity politics, (post)nationalism, migration, mass human rights violence, and transitional justice as those unfold in works of ethnic, and minority literatures and political administration. He is a member of MESEA (Multi-Ethnic Society- Europe and the Americas) and EAAS (European Association of American Studies, through HELAAS) and his research has been part of numerous international research dissemination fora.
