Dictionary of War in New York

On Saturday, September 26th 2009, 11 am, the "Cities and the New Wars" conference organized by Saskia Sassen hosted the 9th edition of the Dictionary of War. 15 guests are invited to present a concept that plays a crucial role in the contemporary discourse of war and urban spaces: Ted Byfield (Parsons, The New School for Design), Tony Conrad (University of Buffalo, New York), Susan Crile (Hunter College, CUNY), Ashley Dawson (CUNY Graduate School), James Der Derian (Brown University), Fiona Jeffries (CUNY, Graduate Center), Danny Kaplan (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Jennifer S. Light (Northwestern University), Suketu Mehta (New York University), Rosalind C. Morris (Columbia University), Richard Sennett (New York University and London School of Economics), Ida Susser and Jan Schneider (CUNY Graduate Center), Gar Smith (Environmentalists Against War), Gediminas Urbonas (MIT, Visual Arts Program).