9/11 Tribute Center programs are offered throughout the year. Lectures, educational workshops and support programs are available to unite family members who lost loved ones, survivors, Lower Manhattan residents, rescue and recovery workers and volunteers who assisted in the aftermath of 9/11. Visit tributewtc.org for a schedule of upcoming programs and events.
World Trade Center survivor Sujo John will speak at the First Baptist Church in Richmond Hill on Sunday, September 15, 2013 at 9:00am, 11:15 am and 6:00pm. The talks are free and open to the public. Mr. John was working on the 81st floor of Tower 1 when terrorists crashed American Flight 11 9 floors […]
The John Jay Center on Terrorism’s fall 2013 Friday Seminar Series will begin on Friday, September 20, 2013, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm with a lecture entitled State Terrorism and the Dynamics of Political Violence by Martin Miller, a professor of history and Slavic and Eurasian studies at Duke University and author of The Foundations of Modern Terrorism: […]
John Jay College will continue their Friday Seminars on Terrorism with a lecture from Mark Hamm, professor of Criminology at Indiana State University, who has published widely in the areas of terrorism, hate crimes, and prison subcultures. The lecture will be held on Friday, October 11, 2013 at 3:00pm at Haaren Hall at John Jay […]
John Jay’s Seminars on Terrorism continue on Friday, October 25, 2013, 3:00pm with Jessica Stern lecturing on the subject The Tsarnaev Brothers: What We Know So Far. Jessica Stern is a prolific author on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. She is currently a fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at […]
On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 from 8:00am to 10:00am, at the Disability Employment Awareness Breakfast at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Knoxville, author, disability activist & 9/11 survivor Michael Hingson will discuss his escape from the 78th floor of the World Trade Center. Hingson is blind and escaped Tower 1 with a colleague and his guide dog […]
This month will mark the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, November 9-10, 1938, when Nazis destroyed, burned and vandalized thousands of synagogues, Jewish homes and businesses. Kristallnacht survivor Ilie Wacs, who was 11 at the time, is an artist whose work about that act of terrorism, A Gathering Storm: The Vienna […]