Remembering the Past in Public: A Conversation
November 4, 2014 • 6:30-8PM
National September 11 Memorial Museum Auditorium, 180 Greenwich Street
Panel discussion as part of The Politics of Memory in Global Context series on the relation between individual and collective memory, between national and global history, between commemoration and information, including the challenge of presenting such difficult pasts as September 11th and the Holocaust.
- William Hirst, psychologist, author of a 10-year study of individual memories of 9/11
- Thomas Lutz, Topography of Terror, historical museum on Nazi crimes, Berlin
- Henry Rousso, historian of French public memory of World War II
- Steven Davis, architect of the 9/11 Museum
- Bruce Shapiro (moderator), Dart Center Executive Director, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism