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, artists, writers, activists and individuals directly affected by urban inquiry will imagine creative modes of reinvention in response to urban disasters. Convened on the occasion of tenth anniversary of September 11th.

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, and Narrators from the 9/11 Oral History Project.

To register: socialdifference.org/injuredcities

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.