NATO Today

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

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

November 13: Attack on Paris

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.

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

Sports, Politics, and Patriotism

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.

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 discuss how expressions of patriotism became embedded in American sports after 9/11, why they persist almost two decades later, and how they complicate the world of sports today.

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Africa and the Expanding Front of Violent Extremism

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.

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 fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and research manager for AEI’s Critical Threats Project, discuss the spread of terrorism and extremist ideologies to African nations and the potential options for responding to these threats.

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

America’s Cybersecurity Problem

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

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. cybersecurity.

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Skywalkers

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.

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 history of the Mohawk ironworkers at the World Trade Center site.

Thursday, December 13, 2018

New York Stories: Howard Milstein

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.

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 healing and rebuilding lower Manhattan over the last 17 years. 

Thursday, December 6, 2018
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