Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing
ZoomHow can feminist-of-color disability politics help us navigate contemporary crises of care and decimated social safety nets? Join Sami Schalk and Jina B. Kim for a discussion of Jina's new book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Duke UP, 2025), which examines the imaginative work of disabled, queer, …
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BOOK EVENT: THE DOCUMENTARY AUDIT
Michelson Theater 721 Broadway 6th Floor, New York, NY, United StatesBOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday, September 19, 6:00–7:30 PM ET Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th floor Also available via Zoom How does listening in documentary become a proxy for justice—and what other kinds of listening might be possible? In The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability (Columbia University Press, 2025), Pooja Rangan examines how documentary listening—through habits …
Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance, a book talk with Leon Hilton
Richard Schechner Studio, Room 612 721 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesThe Department of Performance Studies is excited to welcome back PS Alum Leon Hilton (Ph.D. '16) to give a talk on his most recent book publication, Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance (University of Minnesota Press). This talk draws together methods and critical apertures from performance theory and disability studies to describe hidden practices, silent …
RESCHEDULED! Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice Book Talk with Rachel Kolb and Rebecca Sanchez
ZoomArticulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice (Ecco, 2025) is Rachel Kolb’s debut book about growing up deaf and mainstreamed in the years after the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed. Part memoir, part social commentary, Kolb reflects on the possibilities and stakes of communicating in different languages and sensory forms, from spoken and written …
How the Civil Rights Movement Shaped Disability Rights
Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United StatesJoin us as part of NYU’s 21st MLK Week in exploring the connections and shared history between the Civil Rights Movement and the Disability Rights Movement.
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice Book Talk with Rachel Kolb and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
ZoomThursday, February 12, 4-5PM ET @ Zoom Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice (Ecco, 2025) is Rachel Kolb’s debut book about growing up deaf and mainstreamed in the years after the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed. Part memoir, part social commentary, Kolb reflects on the possibilities and stakes of communicating in different languages and …
Laura Mauldin + Sian-Pierre Regis: In Sickness and in Health
Strand at Union Square 828 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesJoin us for a release event with writer, professor, and former New America Fellow Laura Mauldin for her debut book In Sickness and in Health: Love Stories from the Front Lines of America’s Caregiving Crisis, which Publishers Weekly has called "an unflinching look at private worlds of pain and a forceful denunciation of America’s for-profit healthcare system." Joining Laura …
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The Sensational Museum: Hannah Thompson in Conversation with Georgina Kleege on Arts Access
ZoomWednesday, March 11, 2026 12 - 1:30pm ET on Zoom NYU’s Grey Art Museum and Center for Disability Studies invite you to a presentation by Prof. Hannah Thompson (Royal Halloway, University of London) about her project The Sensational Museum, which, as she writes, means “using what we know about disability to change museums for everyone.” Prof. …
INTERFACE FRICTIONS: How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies
Michelson Theater 721 Broadway 6th Floor, New York, NY, United StatesFriday, March 13, 6:00pm – 8:00pm Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th floor In Interface Frictions, Neta Alexander explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms reshape, condition, and break our bodies. Discussion: author Neta Alexander (Yale University), Anna McCarthy (Cinema Studies), and Whit Pow (Media, Culture, and Communication). Moderator: Faye Ginsburg (Anthropology / Center for Media, Culture & History). Co-sponsored by the Center for Disability …
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Big Blue: Computing Depression from the DSM to AI Psychodiagnostics with Jeff Nagy and Whit Pow
ZoomFriday, May 1, 4-5:30PM ET @ Zoom Please join The Center for Disability Studies and The Association for Computing Machinery History Committee for our event with Jeff Nagy in conversation with Whit Pow, who will examine the remaking of psychiatric disability in an AI era through the case of algorithmic depression diagnostics. Depression diagnosis and …