London, South Bank University, 15-16 November 2018.
The conference seeks to explore the history of the (often forgotten) pathways and contested visions through which violent pasts have been criminalized in modern societies. Taking as its starting point the moment of an acceleration of decolonisation, globalisation and de-Stalinisation in the 1950s, the contributions explore the variety of actors, activisms and political projects that lay behind the global expansion of such ideas. The conference integrates stories of dealing with the past into broader frameworks supplied, for example, by histories of globalization, neoliberalism or postcolonialism.
Criminalization of Dictatorial Pasts in Europe and Latin America in Global Perspective 