THE HELLENIC ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES (HELAAS)

would like to invite you to
our next lecture in our webinar series
on October 16, 2025, 18:00 (Athens time)
Speaker: Panteleimon Tsiokos

Title: “The Past, Present and Future(s) of Transitional Justice in the USA”

The language of the event is English. The event is online and free, but
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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.