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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  • 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
    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
    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
    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
    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

  • 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
    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
    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
    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.

  • Skywalkers

    In association with the exhibition Skywalkers, artist Melissa Cacciola, Kahnawake Council Chief Lindsay LeBorgne and Local 40 Business Manager Robert Walsh discuss Cacciola’s photographs and the...

    Thursday, December 13, 2018
    Kahnawake Council Chief Lindsay LeBorgne gestures with both hands as he speaks to an audience during a public program at the Museum’s Auditorium. Seated to his left and listening on are Local 40 Business Manager Robert Walsh and artist Melissa Cacciola. Seated to the left of them is a moderator leading the discussion; she is holding a piece of paper. Audience members are silhouetted by the white and blue lights of the stage.

  • New York Stories: Howard Milstein

    Howard Milstein, co-chairman, president, and CEO of Emigrant Savings Bank, shares how he and others responded to the events of 9/11, from providing immediate relief to New Yorkers across the city to...

    Thursday, December 6, 2018
    Real estate owner and builder Howard Milstein gestures with his left hand as he sits on the Museum Auditorium stage with moderator Clifford Chanin, executive vice president and deputy director for Museum Programs. Milstein and Chanin are both smiling as they sit on the stage, which is bathed in blue and white light. A white table with two glasses of water sits between the two of them.

  • Sports, Politics, and Patriotism

    Sports columnist Howard Bryant, author of The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism, and USA Today columnist and CNN and ABC News commentator Christine Brennan di...

    Wednesday, November 28, 2018
    Three public program participants sit on a blue-lit auditorium stage. To the far left, a man in a gray blazer, red sweater, and jeans gestures with both arms, his face holds an expression of incredulity. A woman in the center and the moderator look on. The heads of the audience members appear in the foreground in silhouette.

  • Africa and the Expanding Front of Violent Extremism

    Dr. Muhammad Fraser-Rahim, executive director of Quilliam in North America and assistant professor in the Citadel’s Department of Intelligence and Security Studies, and Katherine Zimmerman, research...

    Tuesday, November 13, 2018
    In this close-cropped photograph, two public program participants sit on a blue-lit auditorium stage. To the left, a woman in a red blazer gestures with her hands while the other participant, a man in a suit, looks in her direction.

  • America’s Cybersecurity Problem

    Avril D. Haines, a senior research scholar at Columbia University and former deputy national security advisor to President Obama and CIA deputy director, shares her thoughts on the state of U.S...

    Tuesday, October 23, 2018
    A woman in a gauzy scarf addresses a man in a suit, who holds a clipboard and is facing away from the camera.

  • Paris, New York, Madrid, London: The City Responds to Terror

    Sociologist Gérôme Truc draws from his field work in cities targeted by terrorism to better understand the impact of terrorism on contemporary societies.

    Thursday, October 18, 2018
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  • Combating Extremist Content on the Web

    How can technology be used to stop ISIS and other violent extremist groups from weaponizing the internet?

    Tuesday, October 9, 2018
    Vidhya Ramalingam, founder of Moonshot CVE, holds out her hands as she speaks onstage at the Museum Auditorium. Hany Farid, Dartmouth computer science professor and senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project, listens with his hands in his lap to her left. Clifford Chanin, the executive vice president and deputy director for museum programs, sits to her right holding a clipboard and listening on. Audience members in the foreground are silhouetted by the white and blue lights onstage.

  • The Latest in Counterterrorism with Nicholas Rasmussen

    Drawing upon his cumulative 27 years in public service, Nicholas Rasmussen shares his insights into the current state of terrorism and counterterrorism policy.

    Tuesday, October 2, 2018
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  • NATO Today

    NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg assesses the current challenges facing the Alliance, after 17 years of the fight against terrorism. 

    Wednesday, September 26, 2018
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  • November 13: Attack on Paris

    Award-winning "9/11" documentarians Jules and Gédéon Naudet discuss their latest Netflix project, a three-part documentary chronicling the terrorist attacks in Paris.

    Monday, September 24, 2018
    Three men in suits sit on a blue-lit auditorium stage. Behind them "9/11 Memorial & Museum #museumtalk" is projected on a screen behind them.

  • The New World Trade Center

    World-renowned architect and World Trade Center master planner Daniel Libeskind and 9/11 Memorial architect Michael Arad examine the evolution and revitalization of the World Trade Center site since...

    Thursday, June 21, 2018
    In this wide-angle photograph, three men sit on a blue-lit auditorium stage. The heads of the audience members appear in silhouette in the foreground.

  • The Future of al-Qaeda

    Al-Qaeda remains an active threat to American security, adapting their operations and priorities in the Middle East. Anne Stenersen of the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment examines al-Qaeda’s...

    Tuesday, May 22, 2018
    A female speaker gestures with her hands on a blue-lit auditorium stage while the male moderator looks on.