There are going to be loads of conferences this September looking back on 9/11. This is the one I plan to attend: “10 Years Later: Insights on al-Qaeda’s Past and Future through Captured Records” sponsored by the Conflict Records Research Center (CRRC) at the National Defense University on Sept. 13-14. The CRRC has picked up where West Point’s CTC left off and is the US government’s primary conduit for releasing loads of material from the Harmony Database, which houses scans and translations of documents captured in Afghanistan and Iraq. Over the last decade, these documents have yielded much of what we know about al-Qaeda’s inner workings, and they continue to be a treasure trove of fresh finds for grad students and scholars alike.
The CRRC is taking proposals for papers now (deadline June 15) and they want drafts by August 15 (email Joseph Simons here). I hope Anzalone, Zelin, Farrall, Gartenstein-Ross, Watts, Berger, Brown, Fishman, Johnsen, Kaplan, the FFI crew, et al will submit something so we can have a massive jihad dork fest in DC.
