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WALLACH TALKS | REFLECTIONS ON 9/11 MEMORY, 20 YEARS ON

September 23, 2021
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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9/11 has been the subject of a proliferation of memorialization, with numerous memorials, museums, and memory projects.  This talk addresses this excess of memory and how it came to define the post-9/11 era, which has now come to a close twenty years later. It will focus in particular on the memorial, museum, and architectural rebuilding at Ground Zero in New York.  

Marita Sturken is Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her work focuses on the relationship of cultural memory to national identity and issues of visual culture. The author of numerous publications, she has a forthcoming book Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era that examines the role of memory in shaping the post-9/11 era, and how the nationalistic project of 9/11 memory has given way to the challenging memory activism of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice at the end of this era. It will be published in January 2022 by New York University Press.

 

Please note that this event is taking place on Zoom. Registration is required. The event link will only be released to registrants.

 

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