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dr. Cira Palli-Aspero

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I am a senior researcher at the Human Rights Centre, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University, and co-coordinator of RedressHub, an ERC-funded valorisation project that maps redress efforts for colonial harms across Belgium. Trained as a historian with a specialisation in contemporary political history, my work sits at the intersection of historiography and transitional justice. A core thread of my research examines the politics of history within the field of transitional justice – interrogating how historical narratives are mobilised, legitimised, or contested in efforts to address past harms. I critically engage with public history and the construction of historical discourse, focusing in particular on state-sanctioned historical commissions as mechanisms for reckoning with the legacies of violence and injustice. I am especially interested in the role of historians in public reckonings with contested pasts, as well as in broader questions of memory politics and historical responsibility.
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