City College Downtown in association with The Frances S. Patai Program present a free screening of The Silence of Others with commentary by Stephanie R. Golob (Baruch and CUNY Grad Center) and Fernando Travesí (Executive Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ).

Stephanie R. Golob
Stephanie R. Golob is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Initiative for the Study of Latin America (ISLA) at Baruch College, CUNY. She is also Faculty in the Ph.D./M.A. Program in Political Science at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where she previously served as Associate Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.

Since 2010, Prof Golob has been a member of an interdisciplinary international research team based at the Center for Humanistic and Social Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council (CCHS-CSIC) studying the legal and political impact of post-atrocity mass grave exhumations in global and comparative perspective (http://politicasdelamemoria.org). The recipient of a Fulbright-Hays fellowship, her scholarship on the politics of memory and transitional justice in Spain and Latin America has been awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Resident Fellowship at the Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center at CUNY, and the Frank Cass Prize from the journal Democratization. Prof Golob holds a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Yale University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.

Fernando Travesí
Fernando Travesí is the Executive Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). He has over 20 years of interna- tional experience in transitional justice, human rights, and rule of law, working for both international organizations and NGOs. Prior to joining ICTJ in 2014, he was the Director of the UNDP Transitional Justice Basket Fund in Colombia. He also served as UNDP Senior Jus- tice Advisor in Tunisia after the Jasmine Revolution. In Nepal and Colombia, Travesí held regional responsibilities with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to protect civilian populations affected by the armed conflict, including documenting violations of international humanitarian law, detention visits and managing the dossier of missing and disappeared.

He also worked in Sierra Leone, as Country Director of the Spanish Red Cross, where he led Red Cross’ projects on rehabilitation of child combatants and children affected by the war. Prior to that, he worked for the NGO Movimiento por la Paz, as Regional Director for the Balkans leading a cross-border program on access to justice for refugees, displaced people, and returnees and as Country Director in Albania during the Kosovo war.

Mr. Travesí is a Lawyer who also completed post-graduate specialized courses in international public law and practiced in Spain mostly on criminal, immigration and civil issues. He also holds a master’s degree in conflict resolution and negotiation from the University Pontificia Javeriana of Colombia that awarded him with the Annual University Honor Medal for Academic Merits. He is a recognized novelist and playwright, winning awards such as the Spanish National Prize of Theater.

Free access to film and commentary on Oct 5 via Zoom ccny.zoom.us/j/99018566385

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