Injured Cities: Urban Afterlives Conference
Friday, Oct 14-15, 2011
See the
conference website (http://socialdifference.org/injuredcities/)
for the schedule and registration details (registration
required, no
registration fee).
Organized
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
Teddy
Cruz
Hazel
V. Carby
Ann
Jones
Dinh Q.
Lê
Shirin
Neshat
Walid
Ra’ad
Saskia
Sassen
Karen
Till
Clive
van den Berg
Eyal
Weizman
Narrators
from the 9/11 Oral History Project
Mapa
Teatro from Bogota, Colombia will do a Lecture-Performance
of their work "Testimony to the Ruins."
A coordinated
exhibition, "Photographic Interference: 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, 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.
Please contact Kate Trebuss
<[email protected]> with
any questions.
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ICLS Undergraduate Meet and Greet
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm at the Deutsches Haus
Current and prospective undergraduate majors in Comparative Literature and Society are invited to attend this informational and social meeting. Professors Stathis Gourgouris, our Director, and Joseph Slaughter, our DUS, will be available to answer your questions and discuss our major and the Institute. Please RSVP with Sarah Monks, our Administrative Assistant.
