Events

Join 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.

Thursday, 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 […]

Join 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 […]

Wednesday, 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. […]

Friday, 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 […]

Friday, 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 […]

Note: This event is organized by O–Overgaden. Please visit their event page for more information or support. What happens when the gaze becomes audible? And what emerges when experiences of visual impairment open up new ways of experiencing art? Join us to launch the opening of the group exhibition IN PROTEST AND IN CARE with […]

Current Disability Studies Minor student? Want to know more about the Minor? Interested in disability-related research on campus? Join the NYU Center for Disability Studies for a semester-start party to connect with faculty, staff, and students. Pizza will be served! We'll have gluten-free and vegan options. This event is for NYU students and staff only. […]

  Tuesday, September 22, 1:30 - 3pm ET In-person at Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South Room 204 New York, NY 10012 REGISTER HERE 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 […]

REGISTER HERE This event will take place in-person (20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor, New York, NY) and on Zoom Please join the Center for Disability Studies and the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis for a celebration of Dr. Emily Lim Rogers's debut book from Duke University Press. In Sick Work, Rogers shows the unpaid labor it […]