Schedule: Friday, Sept 25, 12-6pm, and Saturday, Sept 26, 10am-6pm

A conference on the multiple meanings of the new urban wars and the limits of power and of war. Discussions will focus on asymmetric armed conflict, US Army training for the “urban enemy,” cities and urban space as a technology for war, re-appropriating the city of fear, and civil war refugees and their flight from and to cities.

Speakers include Arjun Appadurai, Elazar Barkan, Ted Byfield, Partha Chatterjee, Tony Conrad, Susan Crile, Claire Cutler, Ashley Dawson, James Der Derian, Gar Smith (Environmentalists Against War), Yasmine Ergas, Karen Jacobsen, Fiona Jeffries, Danny Kaplan, Jennifer S. Light, Peter Marcuse, Suketu Mehta, Rosalind C. Morris, Les Roberts, Saskia Sassen, Jan Schneider, Richard Sennett, Jessica Stern, Ida Susser, Gediminas Urbonas, Sudhir Venkatesh, Eyal Weizman, Florian Schneider and Susanne Lang (Dictionary of War Project).

Co-sponsored with the Committee on Global Thought; Center for the Study of Human Rights; Department of Sociology; Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; ISERP; Mailman School of Public Health; New York Theological Seminary.