Unspeakable Truths wishes to highlight the reparative turn in which Basque and Balkan societies are immersed. How do communities that have turned a blind eye to processes of dehumanization, that have defaced the "you-in-me," come back to moral life? This symposium will bring together a sample of these new conversations as our speakers (direct protagonists) highlight the avenues redrawn through the delicacy of memory, responsibility towards the dead, reparation of survivors, truth commissions, processes of restorative justice, and of course, the internal movement that art provokes in the heart and mind.

Rafael was invited to present his research at the Romance Languages and Literatures 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference hosted by the University at Buffalo on April 28.