Please visit our conference website (http://socialdifference.org/injuredcities/) for schedule and registration details (registration required; no registration fee).

Sponsored by the Engendering Archives Project of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference, this conference is convened on the tenth anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001. In a series of presentations and conversations, an international group of artists, writers, activists and individuals directly affected by urban injury will imagine creative modes of reinvention in response to urban disaster.  Together our participants ask, 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? What enduring wounds does catastrophe leave on urban life, and how can they be mobilized and transformed in the aftermath of injury to enable the imagination of new modes of social life and to thwart impending forms of social death?  Participants include:
 
Ariella Azoulay
Nina Bernstein
Hazel V. Carby
Teddy Cruz
Ann Jones
Dinh Q. L
Shirin Neshat
Walid Ra'ad
Saskia Sassen
Karen Till
Clive van den Berg
Eyal Weizman

Mapa Teatro from Bogota, Colombia will do a Lecture-Performance of their work "Testimony to the Ruins" on the Friday evening, and a coordinated exhibition, "Encounters in the Aftermath: Works by Lorie Novak," will accompany the conference.

Moderators include Gerry Albarelli, Carol Becker, Mary Marshall Clark, Saidiya Hartman, Anne McClintock, Rosalind Morris, Diana Taylor, and Mabel Wilson.  Tina Campt, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, and Laura Wexler are co-organizers of the conference.

The conference is being sponsored by The Columbia University Engendering Archives Project of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference.  It is being co-sponsored by the Columbia University President's Office, Columbia University School of the Arts, Oral History Research Office, Friends of Columbia University Libraries, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Society of Fellows, Dart Center, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life, Barnard Center for Research on Women, Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, Yale University Public Humanities Program.
 
We hope that you will be able to attend.  Please contact Kate Trebuss <kat2133@columbia.edu> with any questions.

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FRIDAY: Miller Theater

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Panel 1: "Injured Cities/Threshold Catastrophes"
Ariella Azoulay, Bar Ilan University, Israel, Program for Culture and Interpretation
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, Department of Sociology

Karen Till, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland, Geography
Moderator: Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University

12:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Lunch Break

2 p.m. 3:30 p.m. September 11, 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project: Life in the
Political Aftermath
Living with Terror at Home
Narrators: Talat Hamdani
Zorah Saed
Moderator: Mary Marshall Clark, CU Oral History Program

3:45 p.m. 5:15 p.m. September 11, 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project: The Legacy
of Colonialism and Invisibility
Stories Before and Beyond the Event
Narrators: Somi Roy
Roberta Galler
Moderator: Gerry Albarelli, CU Oral History Program

5:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Reception Dodge Caf


Welcoming Remarks
7:30pm Evening Event: Witness to the Ruins: A Lecture-Performance with Mapa Teatro, Bogot
Colombia. Followed by a panel discussion with the artists
Discussion moderated by Diana Taylor
Miller Theater



SATURDAY: Wood Auditorium

9:00 a.m. 9:45 a.m. Light Breakfast

9:45 a.m. 11:45 a.m. Panel 2: "Bodies and Borders in the Aftermath"
Nina Bernstein, Journalist, New York Times
Hazel V. Carby, Yale University, African American Studies, American Studies,
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Ann Jones, Author/Journalist
Moderator: Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin, Madison

11:45 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Lunch Break

1:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. Panel 3: "Spatializing Afterlife"
Eyal Weizman, Architect/Author, member of the Decolonizing Architecture Project
(Bethlehem/Palestine)
Clive van den Berg, Artist, Curator and Author (South Africa)
Teddy Cruz, Architect (Los Angeles)
Moderators: Mabel Wilson (CU Architecture) and Rosalind Morris (CU Anthropology)

3:00 3:30 Coffee Break

3:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Panel 4: "Art and Archive After Catastrophe"
Walid Ra'ad, Artist and Professor of Art, Cooper Union
Dinh Q. Le, Artist
Shirin Neshat, Artist
Moderator: Carol Becker, CU Dean of the School of the Arts
 

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