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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 injury will imagine creative modes of reinvention in response to urban disasters.
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 Café
Welcoming Remarks
7:30pm Evening Event: — Witness to the Ruins: A Lecture-Performance with Mapa Teatro, Bogotá Colombia.
Followed by a panel discussion with the artists
Discussion moderated by Diana Taylor
Miller Theater
SATURDAY: Wood Auditorium (breaks/receptions in Brownies Café)
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
Ann Jones, Author/Journalist
Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin, Madison, English and Women’s and Gender Studies
Moderator: Hazel V. Carby, Yale University
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
