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A Ceremony of Remembrance
At 12:30 today, the University will come together to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the tragic events of September 11, 2001 with a selection of music and readings at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts by faculty, students, and staff. | More »
Afghan Women's Network: Women, War, and the Work Ahead, Sept. 11, 6:30 p.m.
Erica Isaac, director of advocacy for the Afghan Women's Network (AWN), will discuss her work in Kabul to further social justice for women in post-Taliban Afghanistan. To view Erica's web blog from Afghanistan, follow this link: http://ericaisaac.blogspot.com. Erica will be joined by Afifa Azim, founder and director of the Afghan Women's Network. A native Afghan, Mrs. Azim is an internationally respected speaker, facilitator, and advocate for the rights of women in Afghanistan. | More »
110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11
New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do. They began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and, even after. The work of journalists appeared immediately, in news reports, commentaries, and personal essays. But no single collection has yet recorded how New York writers of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose have responded to 9/11. Edited by Ulrich Baer, an associate professor of German literature at NYU, and published by the NYU Press. | More »
09/11 8:48 AM: Documenting America's Greatest Tragedy
In the first hours and days after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, journalism faculty, as might be expected, exhorted their students to get out and get the stories surrounding the story. The effectiveness with which those students took up the challenge was evidenced on October 1, 2001 when the Deptartment of Journalism and Mass Communications and BlueEar.com, published what is likely the first book about the terrorist attacks. Entitled 09/11 8:48 a.m.: Documenting America's Greatest Tragedy, features 85 essays by 75 authors, nearly a third of them contributed by students, faculty, and alumni of New York University. | More »
Excerpt from "When The Towers Fell" by Galway Kinnell, former Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing, NYU
From our high window we saw the towers
with their bands and blocks of light
brighten against a fading sunset,
saw them at any hour glitter and live
as if the spirits inside them sat up all night
calculating profit and loss, saw them reach up
to steep their tops in the until then invisible
yellow of sunrise, grew so used to them
often we didn't see them, and now,
not seeing them, we see them.
History Professor Examines Role of Ellis Island in Modern American Identity After September 11
From NYU Today, September 11, 2006
In the wake of September 11, Ellis Island became both a symbol of American nationalism and a reminder of heightened domestic security as a result of the attacks. President George Bush addressed the nation from Ellis Island one year after the destruction of the World Trade Center, underscoring its status as an American icon in the post-9/11 world. Meanwhile, access to the island is now prefaced by security checks rivaling, and perhaps surpassing, those at U.S. airports. | More »
NYU Wagner Graduate School Survey Finds Public Confidence in Charity Organizations Is Rebounding (PDF)
American confidence in charitable organizations is rebounding, five years after the September 11 terror attacks, according to a national survey conducted on behalf of the Organizational Performance Initiative at Wagner. [To view a pdf of the brief, please visit http://wagner.nyu.edu/performance/ ] In 2001, major controversies surrounding disbursement of the September 11th relief funds marked the low point in public confidence in charities. But according to the survey, 69 percent of Americans say they now possess "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of confidence in the nation's charitable organizations, up from 64 percent the year before. One thousand randomly selected adults were queried in the telephone survey in July 2006. | Download PDF »
NYU Launches 9/11 Memory Database
A week after the September 11 attacks, researchers across the country began surveying Americans in order to comprehend how the public understood and recalled the 2001 tragedy. Follow-up surveys were administered in two subsequent years, 2002 and 2004, leaving the consortium with recollections of hundreds of those who lived through 9/11 as they remembered it shortly after that fateful day and years later. For more information on the project and sample surveys, go to http://911memory.nyu.edu/
NYU Law School's The Center on Violence and Recovery
From the NYU Social Work Newsletter, Fall 2005/Winter 2006 issue
The Center is dedicated to advancing knowledge about the causes of violence and researching alternative interventions that galvanize people to take an active role in their recovery. The Public Safety Trauma Response (PSTR) project is evaluating the two peer support programs currently available to New York City police officers to address work-related stress and trauma in anticipation of, and following, a catastrophic event. The results of the evaluation will provide public safety workers with information on peer support and how programs can be implemented in a wide range of agencies, regardless of size or location. | More »
"What the Children Said. Professor Theresa Aiello Studies Narrative Constructions of 9/11" (PDF)
Professor Theresa Aiello of the NYU School of Social Work has created a rich qualitative database of narrative vignettes from 45 different children, aged 4 to 12, who were directly affected by the World Trade Center terrorist attacks. Aiello sought the cooperation of 20 therapistsall, like herself, experienced child practitionersin pooling descriptions and insights on client narratives related to the 9/11 disaster. | Download »
NYU's Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response (CCPR)
In response to the events of September 11, Congress and the Department of Homeland Security provided New York University with federal funding to develop a university-wide, cross-disciplinary center to improve preparedness and response capabilities to terrorist threats and catastrophic events. The center's cross-disciplinary approach generates important research-based recommendations that help shape public decision-making as the country progresses through this challenging time. NYU CCPR is a partnership with the Department of Homeland Security and its Office for Domestic Preparedness. | More »
NYU Center for Catastrophe Preparedness Research Receives $200K Grant from Norton
As reported in The New York Times, "Publisher Names 9/11 Charities," July 21, 2005
"W.W. Norton & Company, which last year won the right to publish the first authorized edition of the Sept. 11 commission's report, said yesterday that it would donate $600,000 from its profits on the book to three programs focused on emergency preparedness and international relations." | More »
NYU Law School's Center on Law and Security
Founded in 2003, the Center on Law and Security is an independent, non-partisan, global center of expertise designed to promote an informed understanding of the major legal and security issues that define the post-9/11 environment. Towards that end, the center brings together policymakers, practitioners, scholars, journalists, and other experts who might not otherwise meet to address major issues and gaps in policy discourse and to provide concrete policy recommendations. | More »
A selection of music and readings to commemorate the fifth anniversary of September 11th. (Requires Real Player)
Memories of 9/11: Surveys of Americans' memories immediately after the attacks and how they recalled those same memories years later. Elizabeth Phelps, a professor of psychology and neural science at NYU, explains her research.
These videos were originally part of the 2002 Showtime Networks showcase of nine short films Reflections from Ground Zero created by students and recent alumni of the graduate division of NYU’s Kanbar Institute that explored the effects of September 11.
“Unfurled" by Bryan Gunnar Cole: An experimental short film which stitches together images of how the flag was being used one year after 9/11.
"Breaking Bread” by Mora Stephens follows a New York City firehouse in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, as it rebuilds its family of firefighters through the meals that they cook together.