September 2026
A Roundtable on Para Athletics with Stanley Mutuma, Denis McGrath, and Honor Culpepper
September 22, 2026 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm ET

Kenyan jurist, disability rights activist, and international sports leader Stanley Mutuma is participating in a weeklong residency at the Guggenheim New York in connection with the exhibition Taryn Simon: Father Country I Do Love You, which opens on September 18, 2026. As part of this residency, the NYU Center for Disability Studies is delighted to co-host a roundtable conversation featuring Mutuma and NYU Adaptive Sports Co-Presidents, Denis McGrath (NYU Law) and Honor Culpepper (NYU Law).
Moderated by Mara Mills (CDS Director and Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication), and Chitra Ramalingam (Director of Learning, Guggenheim Museum). Co-sponsored by the Disability Allied Law Students Association (DALSA) at NYU Law.

Sick Work: Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness Book Talk with Dr. Emily Lim Rogers
September 24, 2026 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm ET

A celebration of Dr. Emily Lim Rogers’s debut book from Duke University Press hosted by the Center for Disability Studies and the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU.
In Sick Work, Rogers shows the unpaid labor it takes to be recognized as sick in the United States. Through a historical and ethnographic account of myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)—a disease defined by disproportionate exhaustion after any form of exertion, which has no cures or treatments—she reveals how changing formations of labor decide what counts as disability and what does not. Sickness, she writes, is not work’s opposite. Rather, people with ME/CFS are forced to do their own labor of disease advocacy, or “sick work,” even as their symptoms prevent many from working paid jobs. Examining the everyday lives of people with ME/CFS and their activist movements, Sick Work demands a radical transformation of how work is defined and valued.