20 YEARS LATER (2021-2023)

NEW YORK, NY

"20 Years Later" is about memory and how historical events are taught and remembered. This portrait project investigates how the generation born after September 11th, 2001, in the United States has been taught about terrorism, the war on terror, and the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. When we talk about war and conflict, often, the lens is placed elsewhere, far away, with little or no introspection on the US’s ongoing transgressions abroad. This project investigates personal and collective memories about 9/11, militarization, and the war on terror within the United States. “20 Years Later” is part of a multidisciplinary project with a theatre component that began in 2011 with “10 Years Later” (2011). A company of youth actors devised both theatre projects through autobiographical and verbatim interview-style techniques. Excerpts from the theatre production can be viewed under the Video/Media tab.

MEDIA

View the multidisciplinary project at Docbloc.

TEXT AND REVIEWS

“An Extended Moment of Silence: Reflections on How September 11 is Taught to the Post-9/11 Generation,” Anthropology News, Fall 2023
”20 Years Later” was supported by the 2022-2023 CUNY Graduate Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities PDIG (Provost Digital Initiatives Grant), and the 2022 CUNY Graduate Center Publics Lab Grant.