The Politics of Memory in Global Context
Critics and Analytics: Presentation of the Past in the 9/11 Museum
918 International Affairs Building, Columbia University
November 5, 2014
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.
Charles Strozier, historian, psychoanalyst, author of “Until the Fires Stop Burning”;
Jeffrey Alexander, sociologist, author of “Trauma: A Social Theory”;
Daphna Shohamy, cognitive neuroscientist on learning, memory and the brain;
Thomas Lutz, Topography of Terror, historical museum on Nazi crimes, Berlin;
Henry Rousso, historian of French public memory of World War II.
Moderator: Carol Gluck, historian, Columbia University.