"Memory, Place, Identity": Conversation Arising from the Bridge Collapse October 9, 2008

Yasmeen Arif and Brian Horrigan will open the symposium "The City, the River, the Bridge," about the collapse of the I-35W bridge and its aftermath, by leading discussion about memorials and memorializing as part of the practice of public history.

Yasmeen Arif will be in residence at the IAS in Spring of 2009 in the spring semester as a Quadrant Fellow with the Global Cultures Group to work on her project, "Afterlife: Recovering Life After Catastrophe." Brian Horrigan is an author and exhibit curator at the Minnesota Historical Society and an instructor for the Department of History at Hamline University.

Official Website: http://www.ias.umn.edu/CityRiverBridge.php