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• President's FORUM. Stephanie Golob | Post-Conflict Societies and the (Conflictual) Politics of Memory

  • When
    Friday, October 24, 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM

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  Stephanie Golob | Post-Conflict Societies and the (Conflictual) Politics of Memory

  
  

  In this talk, Stephanie Golob will discuss the temporal dimension of processes of accountability in post-conflict societies. Specifically, expanding from the limited horizon of “Transitional Justice,” she will examine cases of countries whose conflicts lie many decades in the past, and whose politics of memory remain unresolved and highly conflictual. Why do these “memory wars” emerge and re-emerge, and what kinds of politics are required to provide resolution for victims, their families, and for society overall? Drawing upon over a decade of research on the citizen-led movement exhuming mass graves from the Civil War and Franco dictatorship in Spain, she will discuss the way both national and international law play a role in generating and confronting hegemonic memory regimes that create obstacles to the process of accountability for crimes of an authoritarian past.

  The discussion will be moderated by ACR-GNY President Nick Pozek.
  

  President's FORUM. is a series of monthly discussions on timely topics in conflict resolution. All President's FORUM. events are free for ACR-GNY members. Join now!

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  Stephanie R. Golob is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Baruch College, CUNY where she teaches courses on globalization, Latin American politics, and transitional justice. She is also Faculty in the Ph.D./M.A. Program in Political Science at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the Founding Director of ISLA-The Initiative for the Study of Latin America, based at Baruch's Weissman School of Arts and Sciences. Her scholarship on the globalization of justice - with a focus on Chile and Spain - has been awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Resident Fellowship at the Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY, and the Frank Cass Prize from the journal Democratization. For the past decade, Dr. Golob has participated as a member of an international research team, based at the Spanish National Research Council (CCHS-CSIC), studying the legal and political impact of post-atrocity mass grave exhumations in comparative perspective. Her research on the role of national and international law in the contentious politics of memory in Spain has appeared recently in the volume Memory Laws and Historical Justice: The Politics of Criminalizing the Past (Palgrave, 2022).

  

  Date: Friday, October 24, 2025
  Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm (Eastern Time)
  Cost: ACR-GNY Members attend for free; Non-members attend for $20 (scholarships available)

  Location: Virtual via ZOOM

  Pre-registration is required.
  

  
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