# LECTURES AND SYMPOSIUMS /// When is Utopia? & Injured Cities, Urban Afterlives at Columbia
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October will be a rich month of symposiums at Columbia University. In fact, on October 3rd, the French House in collaboration with GSAPP is organizing a panel entitled When is Utopia? with Jean-Louis Cohen, Sylvère Lotringer, Jean-Louis Violeau, Craig Buckley and Hubert Tonka. About two weeks later, on October 14th and 15th, Columbia will host a potentially extremely interesting symposium, Injured Cities. Urban Afterlives that will probably constitutes a good sequel to the symposium organized two years ago by Saskia Sassen, Cities and the New Wars (see previous article). Participants includes authors regularly quoted on the Funambulist such as Eyal Weizman, Teddy Cruz, Saskia Sassen and more. I attach here the program which can also be found on the symposium’s official website:
| Friday: Miller Theater | |
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| 11a.m. – 12:30p.m. | Panel 1: “Injured Cities/Threshold Catastrophes“ Ariella Azoulay Bar Ilan University, Israel, Program for Culture and Interpretation Saskia Sassen Columbia University, Department of Sociology Karen Till National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland, Geography Moderator: Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University |
| 12:30p.m. – 2:00p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 2p.m. – 3:30p.m. | September 11 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project: Life in the Political Aftermath Living with Terror at Home
Narrators: Talat Hamdani, Zorah Saed |
| 3:45p.m. – 5:15p.m. | September 11 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project: The Legacy of Colonialism and InvisibilityStories Before and Beyond the Event
Narrators: Somi Roy, Roberta Galler |
| 5:30p.m. – 6:30p.m. | Reception Dodge Café Welcoming Remarks |
| 7:30p.m. | Evening Event: Witness to the Ruins: a Lecture-Performance with Mapa Teatro, Bogotá, Colombia, followed by a panel discussion with the artists Discussion moderated by Diana Taylor Miller Theater |
| SATURDAY: Wood Auditorium (breaks/receptions in Brownies Café) | |
| 9:00a.m. – 9:45a.m. | Light Breakfast |
| 9:45a.m. – 11:45a.m. | Panel 2: “Bodies and Borders in the Aftermath” Nina Bernstein, Journalist, New York Times Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin, Madison, English and Women’s and Gender Studies Ann Jones, Author/Journalist Moderator: Hazel V. Carby, Yale University |
| 11:45p.m. – 1:00p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 1:00p.m. – 3:00p.m. | Panel 3: “Spatializing Afterlife” Eyal Weizman, Architect/Author, member of the Decolonizing Architecture Project (Bethlehem/Palestine) Clive van den Berg, Artist, Curator and Author (South Africa) Teddy Cruz, Architect (Los Angeles) Moderators: Mabel Wilson (CU Architecture) and Rosalind Morris (CU Anthropology) |
| 3:00p.m. – 3:30p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 3:30p.m. – 5:30p.m. | Panel 4: “Art and Archive After Catastrophe” Walid Ra’ad, Artist and Professor of Art, Cooper Union Dinh Q Le, Artist Shirin Neshat, Artist Moderator: Carol Becker, CU Dean of the School of the Arts |