Book Talk | Max Holleran | Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, September 2 (5:30-7:00 PM) for an event with Max Holleran. He will discuss his new book Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center with Erica Robles-Anderson and Marita Sturken.
Max Holleran is Senior Lecturer of Social Policy at University of Melbourne and author of Yes to The City. His work focuses on urban development, particularly how cities manage tourism, housing, and densification. He has written about gentrification, architectural aesthetics, post-socialist urban planning, and European Union integration for anthropology, sociology, geography, and history journals. His work on cities and politics has also appeared in the New Republic, Slate, the Washington Post, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing (Princeton University Press, 2022) and Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union (Palgrave, 2020).
Erica Robles-Anderson is an Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, with affiliation in Religious Studies. She is a historian interested in how cultural narratives shape migrations into new technological regimes. Erica is currently writing a trilogy about American collectivity which looks at how conservative religious technocultures have transformed religious institutions, kinship structures, and schools in the past half-century. She is the author of several publications about software design, megachurches, screens and gender, suffering, mediation, and social reproduction. She is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief (with Arjun Appadurai and Vyjayanthi Rao) of Public Culture, an award-winning journal for transnational studies of culture.
Marita Sturken is the author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering (University of California Press, 1997), Thelma & Louise (British Film Institute Modern Classics series, 2000; reissued in 2020), Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (with Lisa Cartwright, Oxford University Press, Third Edition 2018), and Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism From Oklahoma City to Ground Zero (Duke University Press, 2007), which won the 2007-2008 Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award from the Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University. Her most recent book, Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era (New York University Press, 2022), examines the role of memory in shaping the post-9/11 era, and how the nationalistic project of 9/11 memory has given way to the challenging memory activism of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice at the end of this era. Her books have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Czech, and Hebrew. In 2023 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.