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HOST:
MIT Joint Program in City Design and Development

SERIES:
The Resilient City: Trauma, Recovery and Remembrance




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The Predicament of Aftermath: Reflections on 9-11 and Oklahoma City
Edward T. Linenthal
April 29, 2002
5:30PM

LOCATION:
Room 10-485

EVENT SPONSORS:
MIT Joint Program in City Design and Development
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
School of Architecture and Planning






   
The Predicament of Aftermath: Reflections on 9-11 and Oklahoma City

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SPEAKER:
Edward T. Linenthal
Edward M. Penson Professor of Religion and American Culture
Chancellor's Public Scholar at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh


ABOUT THE LECTURE:
In this talk, Edward Linenthal discusses the similarities and differences in cultural reactions to the events of September 11, 2001, and the aftermath of the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing of April 19, 1995. He explores the co-construction of narrative and memorial process in light of considerations for the World Trade Center and a memorial at the site.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Edward T. Linenthal is the Edward M. Penson Professor of Religion and American Culture and the Chancellor's Public Scholar at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. His books include Sacred Ground: Americans and their Battlefields (University of Illinois Press, 1993), Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum (Viking Press, 1995), and co-edited with Tom Engelhardt, History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past (Henry Holt, 1996). His latest book, The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory, was released by Oxford University Press in November 2001.

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