Karen has been invited to give public lectures, keynotes and plenaries on placemaking and memory politics in the Canada, Colombia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, South Africa, Switzerland, the UK and the US. Her next lecture about ‘Artistic and Activist Practice in Wounded Cities’ will be part of a keynote panel of talks (with Ariela Azoulay and Saskia Sassen) for the ‘Injured Cities, Urban Afterlives’ conference, organized by the Center for Critical Analysis of Social Difference and Engendering Archives Project, Columbia University, in New York, October 14-15, 2011. See: http://socialdifference.org/injuredcities/.