Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Over the next week the Dart Center is sponsoring a series of programs marking the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

On Wednesday September 7, join us online for a webinar,  "Ten Years Later: What Have We Learned? The Psychological Impact of 9/11." The webinar is co-sponsored by Psychologists Beyond Borders and the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, and includes three pioneering researchers into the impact of 9/11 - Roxane Cohen Silver of UC Irvine; Yuval Neria of Columbia; and Patricia Watson, of the National Center for PTSD. The webinar - of interest to journalists, clinicians and anyone else interested in what we really know about the psychological aftermath of the attacks - runs from 2:30 to 4:15 p.m. US Eastern Time. You can register here.

On Friday September 9 at noon, the Dart Center will host a lunchtime discussion at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism on "The Class of 9/11" with journalist, documentarian and Dart Center Ochberg Fellow Jacques Menasche. Menasche's nuanced multimedia inquiry into the attacks' impact on his son's first-grade class was published online by our friends at the Dart Society and recently broadcast by the PBS Newshour. Join us in the j-school's Stabile Student Center.

And on Wednesday, September 14 at 6 p.m. the Dart Center will host psychologist and historian Robert Jay Lifton discussing his acclaimed new autobiography, Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir.  Over six decades Lifton has conducted influential  studies of totalitarianism, war crimes, nuclear bomb victims, Vietnam veterans and the relationship between history and psychology. Lifton will discuss his memoir, his career and our times with Dart Center Executive Director Bruce Shapiro. The conversation, co-sponsored by The Nation, takes place in Columbia Journalism School's Lecture Hall, 2950 Broadway at 116th Street. More information is available here.