Past Public Programs

Welcome to the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s Public Programs Archive, where you can explore past programs and learn more about the continuing impact of 9/11 on the world today.

Three men and a woman take part in a moderated discussion on stage at the Museum. The woman is speaking, second from the left, as the three men listen. The black silhouettes of audience members are in the foreground.
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  • Al-Qaeda Today

    To complement the 9/11 Museum's special exhibition Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden, al-Qaeda experts Peter Bergen, Bruce Hoffman, Mary E. Galligan, and Mark Stout discuss the future of the terrorist...

    Tuesday, November 19, 2019
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    Mark Stout, who advised the Museum in the creation of the exhibition, speaks onstage at the Museum Auditorium as three people—al-Qaeda experts Peter Bergen, Bruce Hoffman and Mary E. Galligan—sit to his right looking on. Clifford Chanin, the executive vice president and deputy director for museum programs, sits to the left of Stout holding a clipboard. Audience members are silhouetted in the foreground.

  • Combating Terrorist Content: The Social Media Challenge

    David Tessler of Facebook and Joan Donovan of the Harvard Kennedy School discuss the challenges that social media platforms face in countering violent extremism.

    Tuesday, November 5, 2019
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    David Tessler of Facebook speaks onstage as Joan Donovan of the Harvard Kennedy School and Clifford Chanin, the executive vice president and deputy director for museum programs, look on to his left. The silhouettes of audience members are visible in the foreground. The wall behind them is lit up blue and the logo of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum is displayed on it.

  • ISIS without the Caliphate: What Happens Now?

    The so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria is no more, but ISIS remains active. Graeme Wood of The Atlantic and Devorah Margolin of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism discuss what the...

    Tuesday, October 29, 2019
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    Devorah Margolin of George Washington University gestures as she speaks to Clifford Chanin, the executive vice president and deputy director for museum programs, onstage during a public program at the Museum auditorium. Graeme Wood of The Atlantic is seated next to her.

  • Playing for Peace: Music by Karim Wasfi

    Celebrated cellist Karim Wasfi performs a site-specific musical composition for those affected by the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 9/11 attacks. 

    Thursday, October 17, 2019
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    Cellist Karim Wasfi performs while seated onstage in this wide-angle photo of the Museum Auditorium. His bright orange-brown cello contrasts with the blue lights of the stage. The silhouettes of audience members are visible in the foreground.

  • American Diplomacy in a Post-9/11 Era

    Ronald E. Neumann of the American Academy of Diplomacy, Gérard Araud, former Ambassador of France to the United States, and Peter Ammon, former Ambassador of Germany to the United States discuss the...

    Monday, October 7, 2019
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    The silhouettes of audience members are visible in the foreground as Peter Ammon, former Ambassador of Germany to the U.S., speaks onstage during a public program in the Museum auditorium. He is seated next to Gérard Araud, former Ambassador of France to the U.S., and Clifford Chanin, the executive vice president and deputy director for museum programs.

  • Essential Intelligence: The CIA’s Response to 9/11

    Former senior leaders of the CIA, including two former acting directors, discuss how 9/11 ushered in a new era of intelligence work.

    Thursday, September 26, 2019
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    Former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin sits between Former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell and former CIA Senior Paramilitary Officer Phil Reilly while onstage at the Museum Auditorium. McLaughlin holds up his right hand as he speaks to the crowd during the public program, “Essential Intelligence: The CIA’s Response to 9/11.” Morell and Reilly watch McLaughlin as he speaks. The silhouetted heads of audience members are visible in the foreground.

  • Only Plane in the Sky

    Journalist and historian Garrett Graff recounts the harrowing story of 9/11 in Only Plane in the Sky, a comprehensive, minute-by-minute account of the attacks.

    Thursday, September 19, 2019
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    Journalist and historian Garrett Graff gestures with both hands as he speaks onstage during the public program “Only Plane in the Sky.” A woman hosting the program sits next to him as she watches on and holds a pile of papers and books. The silhouetted heads of several audience members are in the foreground.

  • Confronting Hate

    Emmy Award–winning documentarian Deeyah Khan has long explored how people are drawn to extremist ideologies.

    Thursday, May 16, 2019
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    Emmy Award–winning documentarian Deeyah Khan smiles as she leans forward and gestures with her left hand onstage while speaking during a public program at the Museum Auditorium. Curtains behind her are lit up blue.

  • Holding Back the Hudson

    Remnants of the original World Trade Center are embedded throughout the 9/11 Memorial Museum. This is seen most visibly in the Slurry Wall, a retaining wall built in the late 1960s to hold back the...

    Monday, May 6, 2019
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    Peter Rinaldi, the former engineering program director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, speaks onstage at the Museum Auditorium as Harriet Senie, director of art history at the City College of New York, and Ken Lustbader, the former advisor to the Lower Manhattan Emergency Preservation Fund, listen on. A woman hosting the event is seated to the right of the three panelists. The 9/11 Memorial & Museum logo is on a projector above them. Audience members are silhouetted in the foreground.

  • Fall and Rise

    Former Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff discusses his experience reporting on 9/11 and the process of writing Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11, which drew inspiration from the 9/11 Memorial...

    Tuesday, April 30, 2019
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    Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff gestures with both of his hands as he speaks while seated onstage at the Museum Auditorium. He is speaking with a woman who is hosting the event and seated to his right. The walls behind him are lit a bright shade of blue.

  • The ISIS Files

    New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi and Lorenzo Vidino, director of the George Washington University Program on Extremism, discuss “The ISIS Files,” a collection of 15,000 pages of...

    Wednesday, April 17, 2019
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    New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi and Lorenzo Vidino, director of the George Washington University Program on Extremism, are onstage at the Museum Auditorium, along with Clifford Chanin, the executive vice president and deputy director for museum programs. Callimachi is speaking as the two men look on. She is holding a microphone in her right hand as she gestures with her left hand. Vidino and Chanin listen on with their legs crossed.

  • Bernie Williams: Remembering the 2001 World Series

    Former Yankees player Bernie Williams discusses the series, recounts President Bush’s famous first pitch, and reflects on what it meant for the Yankees to become “America’s Team.”

    Thursday, April 4, 2019
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    Former Yankees player Bernie Williams plays an electric guitar on stage in the Auditorium as part of a public program. He is wearing a suit, tie, and hat.

  • NATO at 70: Does the Alliance Have a Future?

    Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO R. Nicholas Burns and former Deputy Secretary General of NATO Alexander Vershbow discuss the current state of NATO.

    Tuesday, April 2, 2019
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    Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO R. Nicholas Burns gestures with both hands as he speaks onstage between former Deputy Secretary General of NATO Alexander Vershbow and Clifford Chanin, the executive vice president and deputy director for museum programs. Vershbow has his hands folded as he listens on. Chanin is holding a clipboard.

  • How Safe Are We? Homeland Security Since 9/11

    Former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano discusses her new book, How Safe Are We?: Homeland Security Since 9/11, and offers insights into the department.

    Tuesday, March 26, 2019
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    Former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano speaks onstage as she gestures with both hands. Clifford Chanin, the executive vice president and deputy director for museum programs, listens as he sits next to her with a clipboard. The silhouettes of several audience members are visible in the foreground.

  • Providing for the Common Defense

    After the election of a new president, Congress appoints a bipartisan commission to examine the nation’s defense strategy and military readiness. The most recent review found that the security of the...

    Monday, March 18, 2019
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    In this photograph, two participants in a public program sit on a blue-lit auditorium stage with legs crossed in suits and ties. One man in the center of the stage is speaking and gesturing toward the moderator, who sits holding a clipboard in his lap. On the other side of the man speaking sits the other public program participant, who sits with an expression of patient listening. Silhouetted in the foreground of the photograph are the heads of the audience members.

  • How We Win

    In her book How We Win, Farah Pandith makes the case that we have the resources and expertise but need a better strategy to stop the spread of extremism into local communities.

    Tuesday, March 12, 2019
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    This close-up shot shows Author Farah Pandith gesturing with both hands as she speaks to Foreign Affairs editor Gideon Rose, who is in the foreground listening to her with his hands in his lap.

  • New York Stories: Sonia Sotomayor

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor reflects on the impact of the 9/11 attacks on American society from her unique vantagepoint as a native New Yorker who watched as her city and neighborhood...

    Friday, March 8, 2019
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  • When Is It Okay? Restarting Sports After 9/11

    Mike Greenberg, longtime SportsCenter anchor and current host of ESPN’s "Get Up!”, discusses how league commissioners led the charge in supporting a reeling nation in a post-9/11 world with NBA...

    Thursday, February 28, 2019
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    A woman and four men sit onstage while taking part in a public program about sports after 9/11 at the Museum Auditorium. To the left is WNBA Founding President and Big East Conference Commissioner Val Ackerman. To the right of her is NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, who is speaking while gesturing with both hands. To the right of him is NBA Commissioner Emeritus David J. Stern. To the right of him is former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue. At the far right is Mike Greenberg, longtime SportsCenter anchor and c

  • What Lies Ahead for Saudi Arabia?

    American Enterprise Institute scholar Karen E. Young and journalist Hassan Hassan unpack Saudi Arabia’s current sociopolitical and economic climate.

    Thursday, February 21, 2019
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    Journalist Hassan Hassan gestures with both hands as he speaks to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s Noah Rauch, who is moderating a public program at the Museum Auditorium. Rauch is in the foreground and out of focus. In the distance to Hassan’s right is American Enterprise Institute scholar Karen E. Young, who is listening as Hassan speaks.

  • VICE on HBO: After the Fall

    VICE correspondent Isobel Yeung discusses her recent reporting from conflict zones in the Middle East.

    Tuesday, December 18, 2018
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    VICE correspondent Isobel Yeung gestures as she speaks onstage next to a woman hosting a public program at the Museum Auditorium. A curtain behind her is lit up blue.