September 2024
Sunaura Taylor Book Talk
September 24, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The Center for Disability Studies, the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, and NYU Environmental Studies hosted a book talk where author, Sunaura Taylor discussed her book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from A Wounded Desert, in a conversation with Professor Julie Livingston and Professor Thuy Tu.
October 2024
Conference: The Global Cochlear Implant
October 11, 2024 – October 12, 2024
Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies and the University of Chicago Center for International Social Science Research, Center for East Asian Studies, and Department of Comparative Human Development Giannino Fund. Additional funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities Danger and Opportunities of Technology Program.
Open Circuits Revisited
October 17, 2024 @ 8:00 am – October 19 @ 7:30 pm
The groundbreaking Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television, sponsored by EAI and held at MoMA in 1974, brought together artists, theorists, curators, arts administrators, and critics to discuss the challenges and opportunities of artists’ television and video. On the 50th anniversary of this landmark event, EAI is thrilled to collaborate with NYU’s Center for Disability Studies and Department of Media, Culture, and Communications to present a series of public lectures and events, paired with closed discussion sessions convening artists and practitioners in the field.
November 2024
Leprosy, care and human rights with Dr. Beatriz Miranda-Galarza
November 1, 2024 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
The NYU Department of Anthropology and the NYU Center for Disability Studies invite you to a medical anthropology/STS workshop with Anthropologist and Disability Studies scholar and activist Dr. Beatriz Miranda-Galarza, UN Special Rapporteur on discrimination against persons with leprosy, Coordinator of the Critical Disability Studies Programme and Critical Studies in Health, 17 Institute of Critical Studies in Mexico City.
DISABILITY WORLDS: A reading and discussion with Faye Ginsburg, Rayna Rapp and Mara Mills @ NYU Center for the Humanities
November 4, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Join us for a brief reading from the new book Disability Worlds (2024, Duke University Press) with authors Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp (NYU Anthropology) followed by a discussion with Mara Mills (NYU MCC and Director, Center for Disability Studies).Disability Worlds chronicles authors Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp’s immersion in NYC’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. Disability consciousness, they show, emerges in everyday politics, practices, and frictions, from genetic testing to the reimagining of kinship, and the perils of what some call “the disability cliff”, while highlighting the remarkable world-changing creativity of neurodiversity activists and disabled artists.
Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal
November 14, 2024 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Alt-Guggenheim: Ramps
November 22, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Alt-Guggenheim: Ramps is an experimental symposium that brings together disability historians, artists, art critics, architects, designers, and students to consider the ramification of ramps, past and future, in the iconic setting of the Guggenheim Museum. A collaboration between Academic Engagement at the Guggenheim and the NYU Center for Disability Studies, this event is part of the Guggenheim’s Innovation Lab.
December 2024
Shall we go together? A Symposium on Care, Equity, and Access in the Arts
December 7, 2024 @ 12:00 pm
How can arts organizations continue to support disabled artists? How can we continue building models that center care, equity, and access in residency programs and in institutions more broadly? Join us for a day-long, hybrid symposium at BRIC reflecting upon these questions and activating the themes and artists of BRIC’s current exhibition, to hold a we (co-sponsored by the Center for Disability Studies).