9/11

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“In the media climate now, where fact and opinion are hopelessly intertwined, people gravitate to where they feel comfortable. And there’s no question in my mind that this has deepened the partisan chasm in our country and has added to the dysfunction in Congress," said Ann Compton, former ABC News journalist and member of the White House Press Corps, at the Lowell Lecture.

Reporting live from the front lines of history

Ann Compton reflects on a career at the intersection of media and politics

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DateApril 6, 2017April 6, 2017

“A lot of the most important public health aspects of 9/11 were completely buried and overlooked, and continue to be even today,” writer and journalist Laurie Garrett told the crowd in a talk at the Harvard School of Public Health.

After 9/11, health lessons ignored

Author says nations remain unprepared for various threats to public

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DateSeptember 10, 2012July 25, 2019

Benjamin Studevent-Hickman, a lecturer on Assyriology in Harvard’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, spent months translating 4,000-year-old clay tablets, which are inscribed with cuneiform characters, that were looted from Iraq and stored in a basement at the World Trade Center when it collapsed on 9/11.

From Iraq and back, via 9/11 and Harvard

Researcher translates, restores clay tablets recording everyday life 4,000 years ago

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DateMay 3, 2012

Poetry in the Yard

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DateOctober 11, 2011February 13, 2018

The increase in “ungoverned space,” where there is no true rule of law, has enabled terrorists to recruit, plan, and train unhindered, said Michael Chertoff at a Harvard Law School talk. That reality requires a policy-driven security solution, one that addresses concerns about the consequences, the constraints, and the “art of the possible” in combating terrorism, he said.

The law before and after 9/11

Onetime Homeland Security chief says changing world requires fresh strategies for safety

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DateSeptember 14, 2011July 25, 2019

A "Moment of Interfaith Prayer and Reflection” was held on the steps of the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard at 8:46 a.m., the exact time that American Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center.

Mourning 10, and 3,000

Harvard remembers 9/11, when everything changed

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DateSeptember 11, 2011July 25, 2019

Harvard Remembers 9/11

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DateSeptember 9, 2011September 11, 2018

Director of the Islam in the West Program Jocelyne Cesari said the 9/11 attacks deeply affected America’s Muslims, who are now working to overcome ill will and to “re-Americanize,” re-integrating into the nation’s mainstream. Charlie Clements (left), executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, also spoke at the Sept. 8 panel.

‘Why do they hate us?’

9/11 attacks prompted soul-searching, and some responses that history may question

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DateSeptember 9, 2011March 13, 2019

Panelists said that a broad cultural and religious literacy, a historical context, and a focus on empathy are all important elements of teaching 9/11 in the classroom. Meira Levinson (from left) moderated panelists Diane L. Moore, Christopher Ougheltree, Beverly Gage, Thea Abu El-Haj, and Ali Asani.

Teaching a tragedy

Panel ponders how to discuss 9/11 in the classroom effectively

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DateSeptember 8, 2011June 18, 2019

Graham Allison (from left), director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, was moderator of the Harvard Kennedy School Forum “9/11: Ten Years On.” Panelists Juliette Kayyem, Michael Leiter, and R. Nicholas Burns agreed that the U.S. needed to shift from a military-driven “global war on terror." “What we need is to see the return of diplomacy as the major way that we interact with the rest of the world. The military was asked to do too much,” Burns said.

It’s time for diplomacy

A decade after 9/11, analysts say U.S. should shift military focus

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DateSeptember 7, 2011June 18, 2019

“Disaster Response: A Decade of Lessons Learned Post 9/11” was presented as part of the Forum at Harvard School of Public Health. Moderated by Reuters correspondent Aaron Pressman (from left), it included Stefanos Kales, Jennifer Leaning, Stephanie Kayden, and Isaac Ashkenazi.

In praise of ordinary people

They are sometimes overlooked assets during disaster response

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DateSeptember 7, 2011March 15, 2019

Finding meaning in loss

Harvard counselor helps students and 9/11 victims’ families cope with grief

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DateSeptember 1, 2011July 25, 2019

“In just a few weeks, the world will mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a fitting time to come together as a community to reflect, to mourn, and to consider the ramifications for the survivors, the nation, and the world,” wrote Homi Bhabha, the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, in a letter to the Harvard community.

Remembering 9/11

Harvard schedules services, panels to draw meaning from tragedy

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DateAugust 30, 2011July 25, 2019

“People are often surprised when I tell them I’m writing my dissertation on one song. But I’m using ‘God Bless America’ as a lens through which I can look at American history, and the role and function of communal singing in American culture,” says ethnomusicology graduate student Sheryl Kaskowitz.

American tune

Musicology student investigates cultural life of Irving Berlin classic

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DateJanuary 27, 2011April 18, 2019

Ari Fleischer (second from left), Camille Johnston, and Dee Dee Myers reprised their roles as media go-betweens during a panel discussion at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. The three took questions from the audience and from David Gergen (far left), the moderator and director of the Center for Public Leadership.

Telling it like it was

Former White House press aides recall being caught in the middle

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DateSeptember 16, 2010June 26, 2019

“My mother … told me at age 10, ‘If you’re going to die, you’re going to die. There’s no sense worrying about it,’” historian and author Alice George said, recalling her experiences in October 1962, when for two weeks the world stood on the brink of nuclear annihilation. George was one of several speakers at a three-day workshop for secondary school teachers concerning the Cuban Missile Crisis.

When fear took control

Teacher workshop examines lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis

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DateAugust 12, 2010June 19, 2019

Fighting modern slave trade

Katherine Chon's HKS degree will provide new strategies

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DateMay 27, 2010July 19, 2019

‘Jazz’ diplomacy

Richard Holbrooke explains the art of negotiating

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DateMarch 9, 2010June 4, 2019