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What are the effects of catastrophe on cities, their inhabitants, and the larger world? How can we address the politics of terror with which states react to their vulnerability? In a series of presentations and conversations, an international group of artists, writers, activists and individuals directly affected by urban inquiry will imagine creative modes of reinvention in response to urban disasters. (more)

Conference attendees are invited to visit the “Remembering 9/11″ Exhibition at the International Center for Photography – http://www.icp.org/ — free of charge. Please bring a conference program or a confirmation email for the conference online registration.

Sponsored by the Columbia University Engendering Archives Project in the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference

Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference Columbia University in the City of New York

  • Speakers: Speakers Ariella Azoulay • Nina Bernstein • Teddy Cruz • Ann Jones • Dinh Q. Lê • Shirin Neshat • Walid Raad • Saskia Sassen • Diana Taylor • Karen Till • Clive van den Berg • Eyal Weizman • Narrators from the September 11, 2001 Oral History Project
  • Performance: Evening Event Testigo de las Ruinas/Witness to the Ruins: a Lecture-Performance with Mapa Teatro, Bogotá, Colombia, followed by a panel discussion with the artists, moderated by Diana Taylor
  • Exhibition: Exhibition in the Neiman Gallery, Encounters in the Aftermath: Works by Lorie Novak
  • CoSponsors: Co-Sponsors: The Office of the President, Columbia University School of the Arts, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Center for Oral History, Friends of Columbia University Libraries, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Society of Fellows, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life, Committee on Global Thought, Barnard Center for Research on Women, Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, Yale University Public Humanities Program, Center for Palestine Studies.