Remembrance, History, and Justice: Coming to Terms With Traumatic Pasts in Democratic Societies
Vladimir Tismaneanu, Director, Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies, University of Maryland; Daniel Chirot, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies, University of Washington; Timothy Snyder, Professor, Department of History, Yale University
Overview
The Woodrow Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program, in cooperation with the Romanian Cultural Institute and the University of Maryland, College Park, will co-host Remembrance, History, and Justice: Coming to Terms with Traumatic Pasts in Democratic Societies a two day conference which is the fourth such event in a series that began in 2007.
The keynote speakers of the event are: Vladimir Tismaneanu, Director, Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies, University of Maryland; Daniel Chirot, Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies, University of Washington; Timothy Snyder, Professor, Department of History, Yale University.
The first day of the conference, November 11, will be held at the Embassy of Romania. Day two will be held at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
The conference will feature renowned scholars, journalists, and policy-makers from Europe and the United States.
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History and Public Policy Program
The History and Public Policy Program makes public the primary source record of 20th and 21st century international history from repositories around the world, facilitates scholarship based on those records, and uses these materials to provide context for classroom, public, and policy debates on global affairs. Read more
Cold War International History Project
The Cold War International History Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War. Through an award winning Digital Archive, the Project allows scholars, journalists, students, and the interested public to reassess the Cold War and its many contemporary legacies. It is part of the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. Read more
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