BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//NYU Center for Disability Studies - ECPv6.18.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for NYU Center for Disability Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T183000 DTSTAMP:20260826T223536Z CREATED:20260826T223536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T223536Z UID:5485-1790269200-1790274600@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Sick Work: Exhaustion\, Labor\, and Invisible Illness Book Talk with Dr. Emily Lim Rogers DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nThis event will take place in-person (20 Cooper Square\, 4th Floor\, New York\, NY) and on Zoom \n\nPlease 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. \nIn 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. \nUse code E26WORK for 30% off when you pre-order the book on the Duke University Press website. \n\nThis event is free and open to the public but requires registration. \nASL and live captions will be provided. \nPlease email accessibility needs as they relate to this event to kgotkin@nyu.edu. \n\n \nEmily Lim Rogers is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and a graduate of NYU’s American Studies PhD program (2021). Currently\, she is beginning research for a new project on the multiplicitous politics of alternative medicine in the US. \n\nREGISTER HERE URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/sick-work-2026/ LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 4th floor END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260922T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260922T150000 DTSTAMP:20260921T173045Z CREATED:20260915T175633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260921T173045Z UID:5560-1790083800-1790089200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:A Roundtable on Para Athletics with Stanley Mutuma\, Denis McGrath\, and Honor Culpepper DESCRIPTION:  \nTuesday\, September 22\, 1:30 – 3pm ET\nIn-person at Vanderbilt Hall\, 40 Washington Square South\nRoom 204\nNew York\, NY 10012 \nREGISTER HERE \nKenyan 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. \nAs 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). \nModerated 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. \nThis event is free and open to the public but requires registration. \nAccess Information \nThe venue is wheelchair-accessible. KN95 masks and live captions will be available. Please let us know about other access features you need in the registration form or email kgotkin@nyu.edu. \nSpeaker Bios \nStanley Mutuma is a Kenyan jurist\, disability rights activist\, and international sports leader. He serves in the Judiciary of Kenya\, working closely with the National Council for Law Reporting as a legal scholar and contributor to The Bench Bulletin. He has represented the Kenyan government at the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) at the United Nations headquarters in New York\, and provides strategic leadership to Kenya’s Paralympic movement as Secretary General of the Kenya National Paralympic Committee. \nDenis McGrath is a student at NYU Law and Co-President of NYU Adaptive Sports. He graduated from the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. At Michigan\, he was part of the Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD Advisory Board) and was one of the first athletes to join the University’s Adaptive Sports program\, which is one of the leading collegiate adaptive sports programs in the country. Some of Denis’s recent athletic accomplishments include 1st place at the 2024 USA Paralympic Cycling Trials\, 2nd in the 2025 ParaCycling National Time Trials\, and 3rd in the 2026 National Road Race and Time Trials. He represented Canada as goalkeeper at the 2022 Paralympic Soccer World Cup. At NYU Law\, Denis has co-chaired the Disability Allied Law Students Association and served on the Student Bar Association as Accessibility Chair. \nHonor Culpepper is a student at NYU Law and Co-President of NYU Adaptive Sports. She attended NYU as a student-athlete\, earning her degree in the Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication. Previously\, Honor trained as a journalist and helped lead NYU’s Women’s Basketball team to a national championship in 2024. At NYU Law\, she serves as the Executive Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law\, and the Captain of NYU Law’s Dean’s Cup basketball team. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/roundtable-on-para-athletics/ LOCATION:Vanderbilt Hall\, 40 Washington Square South\, Room 204\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260914T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260914T190000 DTSTAMP:20260908T182752Z CREATED:20260908T182752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260908T182752Z UID:5501-1789407000-1789412400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Disability Studies Minor Party DESCRIPTION:Current Disability Studies Minor student? Want to know more about the Minor? Interested in disability-related research on campus? \nJoin the NYU Center for Disability Studies for a semester-start party to connect with faculty\, staff\, and students. \nPizza will be served! We’ll have gluten-free and vegan options. \nThis event is for NYU students and staff only. \nAccess information: Free KN95 masks. 20 Cooper Square is wheelchair accessible. There are push button door openers\, elevators\, and large stalls with grab bars in gendered bathrooms. There are also single-stall\, all-gender bathrooms\, and a lactation room available. If there are other ways we can help make sure your access needs are met\, email kjg259@nyu.edu. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/disability-studies-minor-party/ LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, Room 222\, 20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260828T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260828T170000 DTSTAMP:20260826T215931Z CREATED:20260826T201902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T215931Z UID:5478-1787932800-1787936400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Disability as Method: Impairment\, Access Friction\, and Collaboration—a roundtable with Bernd Oppl\, Georgina Kleege\, and Mara Mills DESCRIPTION:Note: This event is organized by O–Overgaden. Please visit their event page for more information or support. \n \n\n\n\n\nWhat happens when the gaze becomes audible? And what emerges when experiences of visual impairment open up new ways of experiencing art? \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us to launch the opening of the group exhibition IN PROTEST AND IN CARE with a talk bringing together artist Bernd Oppl and scholars Georgina Kleege and Mara Mills for a conversation about disability-as-method and how visual impairment can shape both the making and experiencing of art. It is also possible to participate online. \nThe conversation takes as its starting point Bernd Oppl’s work with eye tracking\, where eye movements become sound\, noise\, and interference. The speakers will explore how differences in vision and perception can open up new ways of thinking about art\, communication\, and access. \nHow can we consider and redefine access as a collaborative process with the potential to create new aesthetic possibilities and experiences for everyone? What can emerge when different ways of sensing and experiencing are not simply accommodated\, but actively allowed to shape an artwork and the way we experience it? \nThe event will be held in English. The bar will be open\, offering beer and alcohol-free beverages. \nEntry to the talk is free\, as is admission to all of O—Overgaden’s exhibitions. \nFor participation online find the Zoom link here: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76763866829?pwd=JtwERaAksMFOaRoKlRma1cIs4geiyE.1 \n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility:\n\n\n\n\nThe event takes place on the ground floor. There is a 15cm step between the entrance hall and the exhibition spaces\, with a mobile ramp available upon request. O—Overgaden has a manual wheelchair available and a stair climber for access from street level. \nIf you require assistance entering the building\, please contact us before your visit by e-mail at overgaden@overgaden.org or by phone on +45 32 57 72 73\, so we can coordinate for a member of staff to assist you in entering the building and make your visit as easy and comfortable as possible. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/disability-as-method-impairment-access-friction-and-collaboration-a-roundtable-with-bernd-oppl-georgina-kleege-and-mara-mills/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T173000 DTSTAMP:20260624T140041Z CREATED:20260311T192226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T140041Z UID:5106-1777651200-1777656600@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Big Blue: Computing Depression from the DSM to AI Psychodiagnostics with Jeff Nagy and Whit Pow DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 1\, 4-5:30PM ET @ Zoom \nPlease 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 treatment have long been targets for computation\, from early patient tracking systems to cognitive behavioral therapy software. But what happens to the political economy of diagnosis in the scalar shift from clinic to platform\, and in the concomitant translation from diagnostic criteria to machine learning features? What can we learn about an emergent technopolitics of depression by examining these systems and the datasets they depend on? This talk takes up these questions\, leveraging a database of three decades of attempts to bring AI to bear on depression diagnosis. \nModerated by Mara Mills.\nEvent is free and open to the public but requires registration.\nASL and live captions will be provided.\nPlease email accessibility needs as they relate to this event to kgotkin@nyu.edu. \n\nBios: \n \nJeff Nagy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. He holds a PhD in Communication from Stanford University. With the DISCO Network\, he is a co-author of Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal (Stanford University Press\, 2025). His research and writing have appeared in Parapraxis\, n+1\, New Media and Society\, Technology and Culture\, and elsewhere.\n\n\n \n\n\nWhit Pow is an assistant professor in the Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University. Their research lies at the intersection of transgender media studies\, trans of color critique\, software studies\, electronic art\, video game studies\, and computer history. Pow’s work has been published in Flow Journal\, Camera Obscura\, Feminist Media Histories\, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies\, ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories\, among others. Pow is a recipient of the NYU Center for the Humanities Fellowship\, the Career Enhancement Fellowship funded by the Mellon Foundation\, and the ACLS Digital Justice Seed Grant for the Trans Games Digital Zine Project\, directed by Ari Gass and Teddy Pozo. Their book manuscript\, “Unmediating: A Trans Media History\,” is forthcoming from the ASTERISK book series at Duke University Press.\n\n\nSponsors: \n\n\n                        URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/big-blue-computing-depression-from-the-dsm-to-ai-psychodiagnostics-with-jeff-nagy-and-whit-pow/ LOCATION:Zoom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T200000 DTSTAMP:20260624T140100Z CREATED:20260302T202012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T140100Z UID:5102-1773424800-1773432000@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:INTERFACE FRICTIONS: How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 13\, 6:00pm – 8:00pm\nMichelson Theater\, 721 Broadway\, 6th floor \nIn 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). \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Disability Studies\, the Center for Media\, Culture & History\, and the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies. \nThis is an in-person event\, open to the public. Prior registration is required. Non-NYU attendees will receive emailed instructions for building access and may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. NYU attendees must present their NYU ID. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/interface-frictions-how-digital-debility-reshapes-our-bodies/ LOCATION:Michelson Theater\, 721 Broadway 6th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T133000 DTSTAMP:20260624T140006Z CREATED:20260219T233052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T140006Z UID:5092-1773230400-1773235800@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:The Sensational Museum: Hannah Thompson in Conversation with Georgina Kleege on Arts Access DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 11\, 2026\n12 – 1:30pm ET on Zoom \nNYU’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. Thompson will be in conversation with Prof. Emeritus Georgina Kleege (UC Berkeley) and Dr. Kevin Gotkin (Assistant Director\, Center for Disability Studies\, NYU). \nThis special event is held in memory of Joseph Lovett\, a devoted friend of the Grey Art Museum and the Center for Disability Studies. Lovett used film and television to foster awareness of critical issues. He produced the first US broadcast news segments on the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s\, and later created feature documentaries on subjects such as gay life in the US\, blindness\, and cancer. With his husband James Cottrell\, Lovett gifted some 200 artworks to the Grey Art Museum\, further strengthening NYU’s holdings from the downtown NYC arts scene around SoHo and the Lower East Side. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but requires registration. \nAccess information: This event will feature open audio description\, ASL interpretation\, and automated captions. If there other features that will meet your access needs\, please email kgotkin@nyu.edu ideally by Wednesday\, February 4. \n\nBios: \n \nHannah Thompson is Professor of French and Critical Disability Studies at Royal Holloway\, University of London and describes herself as a ‘partially blind academic and activist’. She has published widely on the body\, gender and disability in nineteenth-century French literature. Her most recent research focuses on the benefits of blindness (“blindness gain”) in literature\, culture and heritage and on audio description as a kind of creative\, intermodal translation with a focus on museums\, galleries and performance venues. She worked with a range of theatres and audio describers during her AHRC 2021-2 EDI Fellowship ‘Inclusive Description for Equality and Access’. In April 2023 she became PI on the £1M AHRC-funded grant The Sensational Museum which aims to ‘use what we know about disability to change how museums work for everyone.’ Hannah writes about her place as a partially blind academic in a resolutely sighted world in her blog Blind Spot. \n\nGeorgina Kleege is a blind writer and disability studies scholar who recently retired from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and now lives in New York City.  Her recent books include: Sight Unseen and Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller. Kleege’s latest book\, More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art\, is concerned with blindness and visual art: how blindness is represented in art\, how blindness affects the lives of visual artists\, how museums can make visual art accessible to people who are blind and visually impaired. She has lectured and served as consultant to art institutions around the world. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/the-sensational-museum-hannah-thompson-in-conversation-with-georgina-kleege-on-arts-access/ LOCATION:Zoom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T200000 DTSTAMP:20260624T135928Z CREATED:20260121T184621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T135928Z UID:4978-1770922800-1770926400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Laura Mauldin + Sian-Pierre Regis: In Sickness and in Health DESCRIPTION: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 for this event is Sian-Pierre Regis\, award-winning director\, former CNN/MTV journalist\, and now podcaster of the caregiving podcast series Raising Adults. In addition to interviewing Laura about the book\, Sian-Pierre will share a never-before-heard clip from his upcoming podcast series. \nACCESSIBILITY:\nStrand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator. Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.\nASL interpretation is available for this event provided and sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies. For further information on accessibility in this space\, or to make a request\, please contact events@strandbooks.com.\nThis event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store’s 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street. The event is generously sponsored by the Well Spouse Association and the NYU Center for Disability Studies. \n\n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/laura-mauldin-sian-pierre-regis-in-sickness-and-in-health/ LOCATION:Strand at Union Square\, 828 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T170000 DTSTAMP:20260624T135837Z CREATED:20260114T171740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T135837Z UID:4963-1770912000-1770915600@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice Book Talk with Rachel Kolb and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 12\, 4-5PM ET @ Zoom \nArticulate: 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 English to American Sign Language. \nJoin the author and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Emory University) for a virtual book party\, which will include some reflections on translating the insights of Deaf and disability studies into general-audience writing. Moderated by Mara Mills. \nEvent is free and open to the public but requires registration. \nThis event will feature ASL interpretation and captioning. Please email other access needs to kjg259@nyu.edu by Thursday\, Feb. 5. \nBook can be purchased at various online retailers. \n\n\n \nRachel Kolb is a writer whose work explores communication\, language\, and disability as central components of human experience. A graduate of Stanford University\, she was the first signing deaf Rhodes scholar at Oxford before receiving her Ph.D. in English literature from Emory University and then completing a junior fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Her work has been published in The New York Times and The Atlantic\, among other venues\, and she is the author of the new memoir Articulate (Ecco\, 2025). \n\nRosemarie Garland-Thomson is professor emerita of English and bioethics at Emory University. RGT is a senior advisor and fellow at the Hastings Center\, where she is also chief project advisor for “The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability and Technology\,” a project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is also a 2020 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar and a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for 2021-22. \n\n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/articulate-a-deaf-memoir-of-voice-book-talk-with-rachel-kolb-and-rosemarie-garland-thomson/ LOCATION:Zoom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T183000 DTSTAMP:20260624T135812Z CREATED:20260126T191524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T135812Z UID:5035-1770224400-1770229800@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:How the Civil Rights Movement Shaped Disability Rights DESCRIPTION:Image credit: PBS American Masters.\nWednesday\, February 4\, 2026\, 5 – 6:30pm ET\, in-person at Kimmel Center for University Life 905/907. \nJoin 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. These pivotal movements were founded on innovative strategies\, legal precedents\, and moral arguments\, all of which contributed to progress. This event is hosted by the Moses Center for Accessibility and Inclusive Culture and the Center for Disability Studies. Dinner will be provided. \n\n\n\nAlongside student facilitators\, we will learn about the legislative ripple effect\, from landmark acts like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the eventual passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990\, and highlight pivotal actions that secured rights and recognition. This interactive session is open to all NYU community members with an interest in deepening their understanding of the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and its influence on the Disability Rights Movement. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/how-the-civil-rights-movement-shaped-disability-rights/ LOCATION:Kimmel Center for University Life\, 60 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T173000 DTSTAMP:20260624T140324Z CREATED:20250930T195651Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T140324Z UID:4880-1763049600-1763055000@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED! Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice Book Talk with Rachel Kolb and Rebecca Sanchez DESCRIPTION:  \n \n\nArticulate: 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 English to American Sign Language. \nJoin the author and respondent Rebecca Sanchez (Fordham University) for a virtual book party\, which will include some reflections on translating the insights of Deaf and disability studies into general-audience writing. Moderated by Mara Mills. \n\nEvent is free and open to the public but requires registration.\nASL and live captions will be provided.\nPlease email accessibility needs to msf440@nyu.edu.\nBook can be purchased at various online retailers. \n\nBios:\nPhoto by Josephine Sittenfeld.\nRachel Kolb is a writer whose work explores communication\, language\, and disability as central components of human experience. A graduate of Stanford University\, she was the first signing deaf Rhodes scholar at Oxford before receiving her Ph.D. in English literature from Emory University and then completing a junior fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Her work has been published in The New York Times and The Atlantic\, among other venues\, and she is the author of the new memoir Articulate (Ecco\, 2025). \n  \nRebecca Sanchez is Professor of English at Fordham University. She is the author of Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in Twentieth-Century American Literature (NYU Press\, 2015) and co-editor with Mara Mills of the re-release of Pauline Leader’s memoir And No Birds Sing (Gallaudet University Press\, 2016) and the collection Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press\, 2023). Her research focuses on 20th century literature\, communicative difference and poetics. \n\n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/articulate-a-deaf-memoir-of-voice-book-talk/ LOCATION:Zoom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T193000 DTSTAMP:20260624T140304Z CREATED:20250828T172153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T140304Z UID:4842-1760637600-1760643000@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance\, a book talk with Leon Hilton DESCRIPTION:The 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 countermeasures\, and overlooked insurgent strategies for reconfiguring the world so that it might nurture\, rather than annihilate\, the persistence and flourishing of autistic and other neurodivergent ways of being. It maps out unseen pathways for thinking\, watching\, and responding to the life called up and made visible through the apertures for thought afforded by the concept of neurodivergence. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q/A session moderated by Professor and Chair Ann Pellegriniwith a reception to follow. \nThis event is organized by the Department of Performance Studies and cosponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies. \n\nNYU provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Please submit your request for accommodations for events and services at least two weeks before the date of your accommodation need. Although we can’t guarantee accommodation requests received less than two weeks before the event\, you should still contact us and we will do our best to meet your accommodation needs. Request disability accommodations through this link. \n\nBio:\nLeon J. Hilton is an associate professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. He is the founder and co-convener of Brown’s Disability Studies Working Group\, launched in 2022 with the support of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities. He is the author of Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance (University of Minnesota Press)\, and his scholarship and criticism has also been published in Third Text\, The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies\, American Quarterly\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, TDR/The Drama Review\, and elsewhere. He is a member of the editorial collective of the journal Social Text\, and sits on the advisory board of Spectrum Theatre Ensemble\, a neurodiverse theatre company based in Providence\, RI. In 2022\, he received the Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/counter-cartographies-neurodivergence-and-the-errancies-of-performance-a-book-talk-with-leon-hilton/ LOCATION:Richard Schechner Studio\, Room 612\, 721 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250919T193000 DTSTAMP:20260624T140228Z CREATED:20250821T213834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T140228Z UID:4817-1758304800-1758310200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:BOOK EVENT: THE DOCUMENTARY AUDIT DESCRIPTION:BOOK LAUNCH EVENT \nFriday\, September 19\, 6:00–7:30 PM ET\nMichelson Theater\, 721 Broadway\,  6th floor\nAlso available via Zoom \nHow does listening in documentary become a proxy for justice—and what other kinds of listening might be possible? \nIn The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability (Columbia University Press\, 2025)\, Pooja Rangan examines how documentary listening—through habits she calls neutral\, entitled\, and juridical—can reinforce structures of profiling\, exclusion\, and carceral capture\, even when framed as progressive or ethical. \nThis launch event brings together three respondents who take up the book’s invitation to think documentary and sound alongside raciolinguistics\, disability access activism\, and legal forensics: \n\nLakshmi Padmanabhan (Film Scholar\, Northwestern University)\nJordan Lord (Artist and Writer\, Colorado College)\nLaCharles Ward (Curator and Scholar\, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)\n\nTogether\, they will explore how to refuse listening habits that discipline and punish\, and how to reimagine accountability across media\, law\, and everyday life. \nFree and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. \nPlease email accessibility needs related to this event to cmc673@nyu.edu before Friday\, September 5\, 2025. \nUse coupon code CUP20 to save 20% when ordering The Documentary Audit from Columbia University Press. \nSPONSORS \nNYU Center for Media\, Culture\, and History\nColumbia University Press\nAmherst College\nNYU Center for Disability Studies\nNYU Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies\n \nThis is an in-person event\, open to the public. Prior registration is required. Non-NYU attendees will receive emailed instructions for building access and may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. NYU attendees must present their NYU ID. \n\nParticipant Bios:\n \nPooja Rangan is Professor of English in Film and Media Studies at Amherst College. She is the author of the award winning books Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (Duke UP 2017) and Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object\, Method\, and Practice (U. California Press 2023\, coedited with Akshya Saxena\, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan\, and Pavitra Sundar). Rangan is currently writing a book with the filmmaker and scholar Brett Story on documentary and the making and unmaking of carceral common sense. She also edits the Investigating Visible Evidence book series at Columbia UP along with Jane Gaines\, Michael Renov and Faye Ginsburg. \n  \n \nLakshmi Padmanabhan is an assistant professor of Radio\, TV\, Film at Northwestern University. Their current book project\, Documentary Degree Zero\, examines realism in Indian independent documentary and the unrealized promises of decolonization from the 1970s to today. They are editor of Forms of Errantry on filmmaker Miryam Charles\, with academic work in Art History\, Camera Obscura\, Cultural Critique\, JCMS\, Women & Performance\, and New Review of Film and Television\, and criticism in n+1\, e-flux\, Seen\, Public Books\, Jewish Currents\, and Post45. A curator of experimental film and video\, they have organized programs for e-flux Screening Room\, DocLisboa\, the Block Museum\, BRIC Arts\, and Magic Lantern Cinema. \n  \n \nJordan Lord is a teacher\, artist\, filmmaker\, and writer\, whose work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts\, framing and support\, access and documentary. Their work has been shown at venues and festivals including MoMA\, Walker Art Center\, Camden International Film Festival\, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival\, and Performance Space NY. They have presented solo exhibitions at Artists Space (New York\, NY)\, Piper Keys (London\, UK)\, and Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY). \n  \n \nLaCharles Ward is Supervisory Museum Curator of Photography and Film and Director of the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. A cultural theorist of African American photography and Black visual culture across the diaspora\, his writings on photography\, legal history\, and Black people’s relationship to law have appeared in Black Camera\, History of Photography\, and museum catalogues. Formerly a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication\, Ward is developing book projects on evidence law\, photography\, and Black life. \n\n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/book-event-the-documentary-audit/ LOCATION:Michelson Theater\, 721 Broadway 6th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T173000 DTSTAMP:20260624T140149Z CREATED:20250818T184254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260624T140149Z UID:4811-1757606400-1757611800@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing DESCRIPTION:  \n\nHow 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\, and feminist of color literary visionaries writing after major U.S. welfare reform. Together\, Schalk and Kim will foreground the necessity of a disability approach to challenging U.S. infrastructural violence and manufactured scarcity\, and highlight the imaginative blueprints for survival left by radical writers of color such as Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Octavia Butler. Moderated by Mara Mills. \nEvent is free and open to the public but requires registration.\nASL and live captions will be provided.\nPlease email accessibility needs as they relate to this\nevent to msf440@nyu.edu. \nUse coupon code E25JBKIM to save 30% when you order Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing from dukeupress.edu. \n\nSpeaker Bios: \n\nJina B. Kim is a scholar of feminist disability studies and queer of color critique. She is an associate professor of English and the Study of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality at Smith College in Northampton\, Mass. Her new book\, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing\, demonstrates how and why we need radical disability politics and aesthetics for navigating contemporary crises of care. Jina’s work has appeared in Signs\, Social Text\, GLQ\, American Quarterly\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, Disability Studies Quarterly\, and The Asian American Literary Review. \n  \n\nDr. Sami Schalk is a professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined (2018) and Black Disability Politics(2022)\, both available open access from Duke University Press. Dr. Schalk’s research focuses on disability\, race and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. In addition to her academic work\, Dr. Schalk writes for mainstream outlets and makes art as a form of pleasure activism. Her current research project focuses on the creation and impact of pleasure spaces for multiply marginalized people. \n\n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/care-at-the-end-of-the-world-dreaming-of-infrastructure-in-crip-of-color-writing/ LOCATION:Zoom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250903T104000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250903T123000 DTSTAMP:20250708T145014Z CREATED:20250708T144920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250708T145014Z UID:4802-1756896000-1756902600@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Authors' Roundtable: ‘How To Be Disabled In A Pandemic’\, 09/03 at 4S 2025 Seattle DESCRIPTION:Authors’ Roundtable: ‘How To Be Disabled In A Pandemic’\n\n\n Wed\, September 03\n\n\n 10:40 AM – 12:30 PM\n\n\n Second Floor: Cedar B\nSheraton Grand\, Space Tower\n\n\n Roundtable\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n Chair\, Harris Kornstein\, Assistant Professor\, University of Arizona\n\n\n Presenter\,  Marika Cifor\, PhD\, The University of Washington\n\n\n Presenter\, Nadia Naomi Mbonde\, Doctoral Candidate\, NYU\n\n\n Presenter\, Mara Mills\, Professor\, New York University\n\n\n Presenter\, Emily Lim Rogers\, Assistant Professor\, Duke University\n\n\n Presenter\, Bella Ruhl\, Doctoral Student\, New York University URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/4s-htbdiap/ LOCATION:Sheraton Grand\, Space Tower\, Second Floor: Cedar B\, Seattle END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250723T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250723T210000 DTSTAMP:20250708T161052Z CREATED:20250708T155617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250708T161052Z UID:4806-1753297200-1753304400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Life After at Film Forum DESCRIPTION:NYU Center for Disability Studies is honored to co-present a screening of the Sundance-award winning documentary LIFE AFTER at NYC’s Film Forum on July 23 at 7:10pm introduced by Mara Mills. Join us and stay for a talkback with director Reid Davenport\, disability activist & author Emily Ladau and comedian Maysoon Zayid. \n \n  \nIf you can’t make this event\, you can use our PROMO CODE: NYUCDS for $4 off any screening during the film’s week-long run July 18–24. \n  \nFrom Multitude Films\, LIFE AFTER is a gripping personal investigation that exposes the tangled web of moral dilemmas and profit motives surrounding assisted dying. Director Reid Davenport asks a probing question\, why is it acceptable to give disabled people the means to die\, before supporting them in the chance to live? \n  \nWatch the trailer here. Find tickets and more at lifeafterfilm.com/screenings. \n  \nAccessibility: Open Captions\, Audio Description\, and Q&A ASL interpreter provided. See venue website for more accessibility information. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/life-after-at-film-forum/ LOCATION:Film Forum\, 209 West Houston St.\, New York\, 10014 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250722T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250722T193000 DTSTAMP:20250626T172236Z CREATED:20250624T200116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250626T172236Z UID:4779-1753207200-1753212600@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:How To Be Disabled in a Pandemic: A Disability Pride Panel in Collaboration with the NYU Center for Disability Studies DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, July 22\, 2025\, 6 – 7:30 PM\nAndrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library\n40 West 20th Street\nNew York\, NY 10011 \n  \nAs part of Disability Pride Month\, essayists Aiyuba Thomas\, Chancey Fleet\, and Harris Kornstein\, all featured in a new book\, How to be Disabled in a Pandemic \, discuss their experiences with disability in New York City during the Covid-19 lockdown. This program is a collaboration between the New York Public Library and the NYU Center for Disability Studies. \nTo join the event online | Please register for an Online Ticket. This event will be streamed on Zoom. To receive a Zoom link\, please be sure to register! The link will be shared with registrants shortly before start time. \nAmerican Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for this event. Real-time CART (Communication Access Real-Time Translation) captioning will be provided for this event. \nMore Information and Registration\n  \nABOUT THE PANELISTS: \nAiyuba Thomas is an MA graduate from NYU-GALLATIN School of Individualized Study\, where he concentrated in Social Entrepreneurship. He is a justice-impacted researcher and activist dedicated to addressing issues that impact marginalized communities\, especially those affected by mass incarceration. Aiyuba is an alumnus of Columbia JIE and NYU PEP. He is the founder of “The Association” a NYU student organization created to provide on and off campus support for those affected by the INJUSTICE system. Aiyuba co-authored “Abolition Labor\,” offering insights and a national inquiry into prison labor\, and “How To Be Disabled in a Pandemic\,” a collaborative work with NYU’s Center for Disability. \nAs a skilled investigator\, Aiyuba has conducted nearly 200 ethnographic and oral history interviews with formerly incarcerated individuals/groups\, their families\, supporters\, lawyers\, politicians\, and social change activists. These interviews have led to several publications and have been featured on various multimedia platforms. Most recently\, Aiyuba served as the Project Manager for “Movements Against Mass Incarceration\,” an archival oral history project that aims to span the nation. \nIn addition to his research work\, Aiyuba is deeply involved in advocacy\, education\, and mentorship. He tirelessly works to bring about positive change and support those affected by incarceration. \nChancey Fleet is a Blind tech educator and activist based in Brooklyn. She is the founding Assistive Technology Coordinator at the New York Public Library\, where she runs a free- peer-powered tech coaching service that connects library patrons with print-reading disabilities to 150 hours of one-to-one coaching each month; curates a rotating selection of workshops on tech topics with accessibility in mind; and runs the Dimensions Lab for free and open tactile graphics creation. Chancey is a 2017 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. She serves as President of the National Federation of the Blind’s Assistive Technology Trainers’ Division. Check out Chancey’s library at: talkingbooks.nypl.org \nHarris Kornstein is a scholar and artist whose work focuses on queer play through contemporary technologies and digital cultures\, media art/activism\, and disability and queer/trans studies. Their current book project considers what we might learn from drag performers to creatively counter many of the harms of digital technologies\, through playful techniques of misuse\, obfuscation\, and reinvention. They also co-edited the anthology How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic (NYU Press\, forthcoming February 2025) analyzing the experiences of disabled New Yorkers during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Harris’s research has been published in journals like Surveillance & Society and Curriculum Inquiry\, alongside several edited volumes such as Queer Data Studies\, and their essays have appeared in publications like The Guardian\, Wired\, and Salon. Additionally\, their research has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Harris is currently Assistant Professor of Public & Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona and earned a PhD in Media\, Culture & Communication from NYU and an MFA in Digital Arts & New Media from UC Santa Cruz. \n  \nABOUT THE MODERATOR \nQuemuel Arroyo joined the MTA in February 2021 as the organization’s first agencywide Chief Accessibility Officer. In this capacity\, Arroyo leads the implementation of policies\, initiatives\, and programs that advance accessibility throughout the organization. \nPrior to joining the MTA\, Arroyo served as Interim President and Global Head of Community at Charge\, an e-scooter charging and docking company. Before Charge\, he served as the first Chief Accessibility Specialist at the New York City Department of Transportation\, where he helped settle the largest accessibility claim in the nation. \n  \n\n\n\nACCESSIBILITY NOTES \nOnline: \n\nReal-time CART (Communication Access Real-Time Translation) captioning will be provided for this event.\nAmerican Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for this event\n\nDISABILITY PRIDE MONTH AT NYPL:\nThe New York Public Library is celebrating Disability Pride Month throughout July. Discover a wide array of accessible resources\, including book recommendations\, accessible technology training\, braille study groups\, and more. Plus\, join us for free events for all ages—this month and all year long! To learn more and see what’s coming up\, please visit: https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/disability-pride-month \n\n\n\n\nAssistive Listening and ASL:\nAssistive listening devices available\nASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing accessibility@nypl.org.\n\n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/how-to-be-disabled-in-a-pandemic-a-disability-pride-panel-in-collaboration-with-the-nyu-center-for-disability-studies/ LOCATION:Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library\, 40 West 20th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250621T124500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250621T170000 DTSTAMP:20250707T134818Z CREATED:20250527T130716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250707T134818Z UID:4652-1750509900-1750525200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Crip Authorship: Disability as a Method for Creativity DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, 21 June 2025\nV&A South Kensington \n\n\nJoin us for an afternoon of talks\, a screening\, and a workshop exploring disability\, authorship\, and access at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Contributors to Crip Authorship—a 2024 CHOICE Reviews Outstanding Academic Title—will share their work on how disability can shape the way we write\, communicate\, and create. Highlights include a screening with Louise Hickman\, a plain language writing workshop led by Kelsie Acton\, and a keynote lecture by Georgina Kleege. The event will begin with a book signing and introduction by the editors\, Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez. \n\nPlease note that space for the workshop component is limited; only request an in-person ticket if you are certain you can attend. Alternatively\, you are welcome to join the event online via hybrid access. \nThis event is presented in collaboration with the New York University Center for Disability Studies: https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/ \nThis event will be held in-person. If you prefer to join remotely\, we are offering streamed online tickets as a separate option. You can attend this event online by registering through this webpage. \n\n\nRegister Here URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/crip-authorship-disability-as-a-method-for-creativity/ LOCATION:V&A South Kensington\, Cromwell Rd\, London SW7 2RL\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250516T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250516T203000 DTSTAMP:20250828T160243Z CREATED:20250410T212203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T160243Z UID:4314-1747422000-1747427400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Kampnagel Performative Book Fair 2025: Crip Authorship Book Discussion/Talk DESCRIPTION:Friday 16\, May\, 2025\n1pm-2:30pm (Zoom) \nThe editors of the volume “Crip Authorship: Disability as Method”\, Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez\, have brought together a variety of disabled positions on the topic of “authorship”: The contributions ask how disability and authorship are aesthetically and structurally connected and influence each other. Together with some of the authors\, this time they focus on the topic of translation. This discussion is a part of The Performative Book Fair by Kampnagel. \nEvent Recording URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/crip-authorship-book-discussion-talk/ LOCATION:Virtual Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250430T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250430T123000 DTSTAMP:20250530T184210Z CREATED:20250410T210920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T184210Z UID:4308-1746016200-1746016200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Window Shopping with Helen Keller Book Talk DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 30th\nAt 12:30pm\n20 Cooper Square\, 4th Floor Flex Space \n\nDavid Serlin in conversation with Mara Mills and Sophie Gonick. Moderated by Andrew Ross.\nWindow Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with sensory and physical impairments navigated urban spaces and helped to shape modern culture. Through four case studies – the lives of Joseph Merrick (aka “The Elephant Man”) and Helen Keller\, the architectural and design projects of the Works Progress Administration\, and Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman’s design for the Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped – Serlin offers a new history of modernity’s entanglements with disability. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Disability Studies at New York University. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/window-shopping-with-helen-keller-book-talk/ LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 4th floor END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250429T180000 DTSTAMP:20250530T184151Z CREATED:20250318T175012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T184151Z UID:4250-1745942400-1745949600@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic Book Party DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, 29 April\, 4-6PM\nEspacio de Culturas at KJCC\n53 Washington Square South\n\nPlease join The Center for Disability Studies\, and book editors Mara Mills\, Harris Kornstein\, Faye Ginsburg\, and Rayna Rapp to celebrate the publication of How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic with refreshments and brief readings by some of the book’s authors. Books will be available for purchase. \nEvent is free and open to the public but requires registration.\nASL interpretation and KF94 masks will be provided. Please fill out the registration form or email msf440@nyu.edu by 04/09 if you have any access needs for this event. \n\nHow to Be Disabled in a Pandemic will be available for purchase at this event. It is also available for purchase from NYU Press (and wherever books are sold). We are also thrilled to note that NYU Press has simultaneously published an Open Access version of the book. \nSave 30% when you use code NYUAU30 at checkout on nyupress.org. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/how-to-be-disabled-in-a-pandemic-book-launch-party/ LOCATION:King Juan Carlos Center Patio\, 53 Washington Square South END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T200000 DTSTAMP:20250530T184109Z CREATED:20250313T185327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T184109Z UID:4204-1745524800-1745524800@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Anna RG: Air Change Per Hour DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 24th at 8pm\, at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater\, ISSUE is proud to present AIR CHANGE PER HOUR\, the first commission from 2025 Artist-In-Residence Anna RG that interrogates relationships between sound\, space\, and accessibility in the context of airborne safety. Rooted in the ongoing realities of the pandemic\, this work challenges expectations of silence in performance spaces by embracing the presence of air purifiers—not just as functional access objects\, but as sonic\, conceptual and political agents within the room. \nthey said purifiers were loud\, meant audible sound. held silence over safety\, one sense above another. but here in the corner the purifier is humming furniture music in Bb. it is holding duets between the loud of the ache in my head and the song through the fog. it is setting a room\, shared resonant lung\, and in we move the air we borrow\, and here it filters what our bodies cannot. accompanist to a row of stories; like held their breath and wait for help\, like letters from a fever. lean in\, a rumble\, lean in\, what kind of future breeze\, out of the corner of your eye? \nRG\, who lives with long covid\, creates AIR CHANGE PER HOUR with support from access dramaturg Alison Kopit\, composer Alexa Dexa\, and engineer Daniel Neumann; and features guest performers Dave Ruder and Slic\, and writing by Jenna Bitar. They will be joined by a group of disabled/chronically ill artists performing “Scores for Sick Music.” The bed performers may or may not be present. \nACCESS INFORMATION: All access will be open\, meaning that the full audience experiences the access-rich environment of the show. Audio descriptions will be featured throughout\, and the full production will be open-captioned\, including sonic descriptions. The audience will also be asked to mask\, which is a part of the access infrastructure. The show contains themes of pandemics\, chronic illness\, isolation\, genocide\, and collective care\, and so we ask the audience to protect each other\, as well as the performers\, with this material act of solidarity.** The space is wheelchair accessible\, and has two gender-neutral accessible bathrooms. The show is seated\, and has a series of short rests/breaks. Guests are welcome to move and make sounds as needed\, throughout the evening. Air purifiers are present ensuring at least 6 air changes per hour in the space. Please contact us if you have further questions about access\, at sylver@issueprojectroom.org. We look forward to speaking with you! \nThe artist would like to thank: Molly Joyce\, Jay Afrisando\, and Andy Slater for guidance. Thank you to the members and borrowers of AIRNYC and who facilitate this community air purifier library that allowed this performance to be possible. \n**Thank you to Alison Kopit\, for the use of this access text\, created for “Dan Fishback is Alive and Unwell and Living in his Apartment” at the Public Theater. \nAnna RG works in composition\, sculpture and community organizing\, towards possibilities of Sick Music making and listening. For a decade\, she toured with her research-based ballad project\, Anna & Elizabeth\, their Smithsonian Folkways album called a “radical expansion of what folk songs are supposed to do” by The New Yorker. They performed at Carnegie Hall\, Big Ears Festival (where she was guest curator of traditional music)\, NPR’s Tiny Desk and many other venues not currently accessible to high risk artists. Anna has collaborated widely\, including with the Aizuri Quartet\, Lonnie Holley\, Glen Hansard\, Paul Wiancko\, Jim White\, and the dearly departed Susan Alcorn\, and has won blue ribbons in fiddle contests across Appalachia. They hold an MFA in sculpture from Bard College\, is a MacDowell Fellow\, and recently exhibited at Tulca Festival (Galway). She is a member of the collective Artists In Resistance NYC (AIRNYC) which operates a lending library of the community-owned air purifiers used in the show\, which are available for anyone to borrow\, for free. \nRespect your RSVP \nISSUE encourages a culture of respect around free arts programming–by honoring your RSVP\, you recognize ISSUE’s ongoing efforts to cultivate new work by emerging artists. If you can no longer attend this free event\, please contact sylver@issueprojectroom.org to let us know. Thank you for respecting the reservation. \n\n\n\n\nFounded in 2003\, ISSUE Project Room is a pioneering nonprofit performance center\, presenting projects by interdisciplinary artists that expand the boundaries of artistic practice and stimulate critical dialogue in the broader community. ISSUE serves as a leading cultural incubator\, facilitating the commission and premiere of innovative new works. \nAnna RG activates AIR CHANGE PER HOUR at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater\, where ongoing challenges with airflow persist due to the delay in Government of New York City managed renovations. \nFor visitors requiring accessible access for the performance\, ISSUE Project Room’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater is ADA accessible by lift and a ramp funded through the Accessibility Project of Downtown Brooklyn Partnership’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative Placemaking Fund. \nISSUE Project Room’s Artist-In-Residence program is made possible\, in part\, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts\, TD Charitable Foundation\, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council\, and with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. \nAdditional support for ISSUE Project Room’s 2025 season is provided by Metabolic Studio. \nAnna RG’s residency is also supported by NYU’s Center for Disability Studies. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/anna-rg-air-change-per-hour/ LOCATION:Come Forever + Zoom\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/042425_anna-rg_ISSUE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T210000 DTSTAMP:20250530T184034Z CREATED:20250422T040518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T184034Z UID:4336-1745521200-1745528400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Intimacy Violation: a film screening and performance DESCRIPTION:Intimacy Violation: screening of a work-in-progress film by Yining Chi\, followed by a participatory performance around audio description led by the artist and a discussion moderated by Meesh Sara Fradkin. \nThursday\, April 24\, 7-9pm @ Come Forever + Zoom \n“Intimacy Violation is a video essay that explores the intersections of disability\, kinship\, trust\, and authority through my mom\, Ning’s experience with a rare genetic disease in China. The film unfolds through different forms of intimacy: societal infrastructure violates my mom’s access intimacy; our opposing views on medicine and sexuality violate our political intimacy; my mom perceives her illness as violating our familial intimacy; technology violates our body intimacy; and\, by filming her vulnerability\, I may be violating our emotional intimacy…” — Yining Chi \n \nLight refreshments will be served after the discussion\, with mingling encouraged! \nEvent is free and open to the public but requires registration (either to attend on zoom or in person). Film and performance include open captions (Chinese-English bilingual) and audio description. Live captions will be provided for Zoom. Venue is wheelchair accessible with an accessible bathroom. Masks are required and provided as part of collective care–refreshments will be served outside in open air. \nCome Forever is located at 342 Hewes St\, Brooklyn\, off the Hewes JM and Broadway G trains. \n\n\n\n\n \nYining Chi (she/they) is an art-maker\, mover\, and researcher from Beijing\, China\, currently based in New York City. Chi’s medium shifts between exhibition\, movement\, moving image\, and accessibility. Her research focuses on the material body and its visual rhetorics within collective emotional states\, while their practice enacts how social structures inscribe mobilities and memories onto bodies. Chi is an MA candidate in Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University. Recent projects include the public performance art series Urban Stage (Guangzhou\, 2023) and the curatorial project The Intimate Revolt (Goethe-Institut China\, Beijing\, 2022). \n \nMeesh Sara Fradkin is a writer and artist working with sound\, text and media. She is a doctoral candidate in music in the interdisciplinary music technology track at McGill University and a visiting scholar at NYU’s Center for Disability Studies. \nThis event is sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies and supported by A Blade of Grass. \n\n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/intimacyviolation/ LOCATION:Come Forever + Zoom\, Brooklyn ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/0416-Intimacy-Violation_banner-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T134500 DTSTAMP:20250530T183930Z CREATED:20250409T145508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T183930Z UID:4302-1745497800-1745502300@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Book Launch: All This Safety Is Killing Us DESCRIPTION:A virtual book launch with Ronica Mukerjee\, Onyinye Alheri\, Leroy Moore & Pato Hebert \nThursday\, Apr 24\, 2025 |12:30pm to 1:45pm \n\n\nAbout All This Safety Is Killing Us\n\n\nA multi-discipline\, multimedia guide to abolition through the lens of healthcare and medicine – featuring writings and artwork from 10+ incarcerated and post-detention activists \nExposing how marginalized communities are vilified by “carceral safety” systems\, educators and health justice advocates Carlos Martinez and Ronica Mukerjee call for a radical break with reformist strategies in favor of ones grounded in grassroots organizing and abolition. \n\n\nThis panel brings together author and contributors\, Ronica Mukerjee\, Onyinye Alheri\, Leroy Moore\, moderated by Pato Hebert. \n\nSpeaker Bios: \nOnyịnye Alheri (Ọ or she/her) is an artist\, curator and scholar engaging with international movements that promote peace\, harm-reduction and collective healing. Born in Èkó (so-called Lagos\, Nigeria)\, Onyịnye is blessed to have lived in many lands and currently splits time between Mozambique and Mexico. Ọ is engaged in research and knowledge sharing exploring topics including mental health\, abolition\, harm reduction and more. Ọ earned a bachelor’s of arts (BA) in International Studies & Philosophy from Macalester College and a master’s in social work (MSW) from the University of Maryland\, Baltimore. \nFrom Harvard to The Whitney Museum to Media Engagement for Disability in Johannesburg South Africa\, Leroy Moore has more than twenty years of activism\, journalism\, writing\, lecturing on race and disability. Black disabled poet\, activist and author of six books on Black Disabled issues from poetry to children books to his recent graphic novel\, Krip-HopVol. 1 that was published in 2019 by Poor Press. Black Disabled Art History 101 in 2017 published by Xochitl Justice Press. Leroy F. Moore Jr. is the Founder of the international collective called\, Krip-Hop Nation. Since the 1990s\, he has written the column “Illin-N-Chillin” for POOR Magazine and then as a founding member of the magazine’s school\, the Homefulness and Decolonize Academy. Moore was one of the founding members of National Black Disability Coalition and activist around police brutality against people with disabilities. Leroy has started and helped start organizations like Disability Advocates of Minorities Organization to Sins Invalid and was an early  thinker of Disability Justice to Krip-Hop Nation. His cultural work includes film documentary\, Where Is Hope\, Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities\, spoken-word CDs\, poetry books. \nRonica Mukerjee DNP\, MsA is a family and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner as well as an acupuncturist. Dr. Mukerjee is currently an assistant professor at Columbia University and provides both hormonal care and psychiatric care for trans and gender diverse patients. Previously they livede and worked in Tijuana\, Mexico co-directing a refugee health organization she co-founded. Dr Mukerjee is passionate about border-police-prison abolition as well as racial\, economic and health care justice in LGBTQIA+\, refugees and migrant communities\, for people with substance use disorders\, and for people living with HIV. \nPato Hebert is a visual artist\, educator and cultural worker. He splits time between New York City\, and his creative studio in Los Angeles. Born in Idaho Falls\, Idaho\, Hebert spent his childhood there and in Eugene\, Oregon. He also lived in Panamá\, where is mother is from. He joined the Art & Public Policy Department at NYU in 2012. Prior to NYU\, he was a visiting assistant professor at Reed College and Scripps College. He also taught at Art Center College of Design and the University of California Irvine. \n\n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/book-launch-all-this-safety-is-killing-us/ LOCATION:Zoom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250422T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250422T140000 DTSTAMP:20251010T164259Z CREATED:20250225T204436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251010T164259Z UID:4178-1745325000-1745330400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Remote Access Archive Launch Party DESCRIPTION:The Remote Access Archive is a crowdsourced\, community-based and digital archive. It documents the ways that disabled people and communities have used technology for remote forms of participation\, both before and during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This event includes an overview of remote access\, its promises\, and frictions\, as well as an in-depth exploration of how the Critical Design Lab created the archive. Moderated by Mara Mills. \nEvent is free and open to the public.\nLive captions will be provided.\nPlease email accessibility needs as they relate to this event to msf440@nyu.edu. If requesting ASL\, please write by 04/10. \n\nArt by Yo Yo Lin displayed on a zoom screen with a message in the chat about the sound drawing attention to the frictions of using technology for remote access.\n\nSpeakers: \nAimi Hamraie is a disabled designer and researcher based at Vanderbilt University\, and director of the Critical Design Lab. They are the author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (2017). \nKelsie Acton (she/her) is neurodivergent access consultant and researcher with York St John University and the Royal Central School for Speech and Drama. She is a member of the Critical Design Lab\, the project manager for the Remote Access Archive\, and authored the plainer language versions of Alice Wong’s Year of the Tiger and Disability Intimacy. \n[sarah] Cavar is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies and Science & Technology Studies at UC Davis\, where their critical-creative practices concern transMadness\, experimental poetics\, and generative nonsense. Their scholarship has appeared in or is forthcoming from Kairos\, Transgender Studies Quarterly\, Disability Studies Quarterly\, and elsewhere. Cavar’s debut novel\, Failure to Comply (2024)\, is available from featherproof books. They worked on the Remote Access Archive from 2022 – 2024. \nKatie Sullivan is a disabled student and writer and friend (et cetera). She is a research assistant in the Critical Design Lab and the Community Power Lab\, researching disability culture and critical health studies\, respectively. Sullivan will graduate from Vanderbilt University with an undergraduate degree in English and Medicine\, Health\, & Society in May 2025. Leisurely pursuits include feeling the sun on her face\, plunking out blog posts\, making comics\, and other things of the crafty-ilk. She worked on the Remote Access Archive 2023 – 2024. \nAvianna Miller (she/her/hers) is a chronically ill artist working primarily in photography and video. She is a strong proponent for accessibility in arts and cultural spaces\, physical and digital. She received her BA from Drew University in 2023\, where she majored in Studio Art and Media & Communications. Miller’s work has been included in shows at Drew University\, Circle Contemporary\, Dyer Arts Center\, Temple University\, and published by the Guggenheim Museum. She worked on the Remote Access Archive from 2023 – 2024. \nMartina Svyantek finished her individualized\, interdisciplinary PhD at Virginia Tech in 2021\, with a research focus on policy and procedure documents related to Disability at three U.S. institutions of higher education over a 25-year time frame. She has over five years of experience advocating for and promoting accessibility in real-time physical spaces as well as in digital and asynchronous situations. Martina served as the Assistive Technology Specialist in SDAC for three years before her transition into her role as the Strategic Initiatives and Accessible Technology Manager. She is now responsible for integrating research and best practices for the strategic leadership of departmental and institutional initiatives seeking the betterment of disability inclusion at the University of Virginia. She worked on the Remote Access Archive from 2023 – 2024. \n\nDarol Nance of the Deaf AIDs Information Centre poses with a TDD device.\n\nAlice Wong visits the White House via Beam Pro Telepresence Robot.\n\nCritical Design Lab is on Instagram and Bluesky. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/remote-access-archive-launch-party/ LOCATION:Zoom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T173000 DTSTAMP:20250530T183751Z CREATED:20250304T174409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T183751Z UID:4199-1742572800-1742578200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:All Day All Night: A Conversation with Seth Kim-Cohen\, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield\, Park McArthur\, and Mara Mills DESCRIPTION:Fri\, Mar 21\, 2025\, 4–5:30 pm\nHess Theater and Online\, via Zoom \nThis program brings together artists and writers Seth Kim-Cohen\, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield\, Park McArthur\, and Mara Mills for a conversation on the occasion of Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night. As contributors to the exhibition catalogue\, they will share their responses to Christine Sun Kim’s work and engage in a conversation about sign language aesthetics\, mediumship\, competing temporalities\, and Deaf methods. \nThe conversation will take place on Zoom and is available to livestream. \nIn New York City? Join us in-person at the Whitney to experience the program in a shared space where refreshments will be served and conversation is encouraged. In-person registration includes museum admission so that participants can view the exhibition Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night before or after the program. \nThis program is presented in partnership with the Center for Disability Studies at NYU. \nASL interpretation and CART captioning will be provided. \n\nSpeakers: \nSeth Kim-Cohen is the author of Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life\, Against Ambience\, and In the Blink of an Ear. He is Professor of Art History\, Theory\, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \nJeffrey Yasuo Mansfield is a principal at MASS Design Group\, where he works on a portfolio of projects that uplift the lived experience and cultural memory of the Deaf and Disability communities. Jeffrey co-authored The Architecture of Health\, co-edited MASS Design Group’s first Monograph\, Justice is Beauty\, and is currently working on a project that explores how the architecture and landscapes of deafness shape social perceptions of deafness\, disability\, and community. \nPark McArthur is an artist whose exhibition Contact M is presented by Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach\, Germany\, and mumok in Vienna through September 2025. \nMara Mills is Associate Professor and Ph.D. Director in the Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University. She is cofounder and Director of the NYU Center for Disability Studies and coeditor of Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press\, 2023) and How to be Disabled in a Pandemic (NYU Press\, 2025). URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/all-day-all-night-a-conversation-with-seth-kim-cohen-jeffrey-yasuo-mansfield-park-mcarthur-and-mara-mills/ LOCATION:Hess Theater and Online\, via Zoom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/large_WMAA90182_TR5_8638-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T190000 DTSTAMP:20250530T183711Z CREATED:20250220T221117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T183711Z UID:4161-1741201200-1741201200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Film screening Spanish Cinema Now + 2025: Por donde pasa el silencio by Sandra Romero DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nIn cooperation with Spain Culture\, and as part of the 2025 edition of Spanish Cinema Now +.  \nEspacio de Culturas at KJCC is thrilled to screen Por donde pasa el silencio\, nominated for Best New Director at the Goya Awards\, followed by a discussion with the film’s director\, Sandra Romero. \nFilm Screening: Por Donde Pasa el Silencio\nLocation: 53 Washington Square South\nDate: March 5 \nTime: 7PM \nPost-screening discussion about disability\, autonomy and care with filmmaker Sandra Romero and authors Rachel Adams (Columbia University) and Aurélie Vialette (Yale University). \nFilm in Spanish with English subtitles \nPost-film discussion in English\, with bi-lingual (Spanish-English discussion) \nCo-sponsors: Center for Disability Studies\, NYU Center for Media\, Culture and History \n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/film-screening-spanish-cinema-now-2025-por-donde-pasa-el-silencio-by-sandra-romero/ LOCATION:King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center\, 53 Washington Square S\, New York\, 10012\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-24-at-4.58.00 PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250224T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250224T191500 DTSTAMP:20250530T183633Z CREATED:20250124T185354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T183633Z UID:4131-1740420000-1740424500@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Mourning and Militancy: Bodily Autonomy and Networks of Care DESCRIPTION:This panel takes its title from Douglas Crimp’s famous 1989 essay written at the height of the AIDS crisis\, which argued for the need for both militant activism and collective mourning. How might our current moment similarly demand an attention to collective grief and care\, organizing and activism?  This conversation brings together artists and activists\, Dean Spade\, Amitis Motevalli\, Yin Q\, and Viva Ruiz\, to consider the aesthetic and political strategies they find most necessary to combat the violent curtailing of bodily autonomy faced by queer/trans communities in particular. \n\n\n\n\nDean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence\, Critical Trans Politics\, and the Limits of Law\, and Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!.” His latest book\, Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships\, Hook Up and Raise Hell Together\, was published by Algonquin Press in January. \n\nAmitis Motevalli is an artist who explores the cultural resistance and survival of people living in poverty\, conflict\, catastrophe and/or war. Her experiences as a trans-national migrant and in community organizing are foundational in her work and research. Through many media\, digital\, analog\, static and live\, her work juxtaposes and contrasts iconography with iconoclasm\, memorials with monuments\, archive methodologies with canon. Her work intends to ask questions about archiving\, documentation and canonization of histories\, in particular related to violence. In this line of questioning she subverts populism by invoking the significance of a secular grassroots struggle. She is primarily based  in Los Angeles\, exhibiting art internationally as well as organizing to create an active and critical cultural discourse through information exchange\, either in art\, pedagogy with cultural producers and educators. \n\nYin Q (b.1974\, they/she) is a parent\, writer\, media producer\, curator and core organizer with Red Canary Song and founding member of Kink Out. They were honored by Spike Lee as an impact activist in 2019 in his tribute to Jackie Robinson. Yin’s writing has been published in BUST\, Apogee Journal (Columbia University)\, We Too\, Stories of Sex Work and Survival (The Feminist Press at CUNY\, 2021)\, and Afro Asia (Duke University Press\, 2008). Their media work includes “Mercy\, Mistress\,” an autobiographical pilot based on their experience as a dominatrix (starring Daniel K. Issac\, Poppy Liu; EP Margaret Cho)\, and Fly In Power\, a documentary for Red Canary Song and the short video\, Yang Song\, Fly in Power. Yin has brought sex worker art activations to Leslie Lohman Museum\, MoMA PS1 (Resident Artist\, 2020)\, Performance Space New York\, Brown University (AAPI Resident Artist\, 2023)\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles. \n\nViva Ruiz is a community/family/nightlife/sex work educated artist\, progeny of factory working Ecuadorian migrants born and raised in Jamaica\, Queens. They are proud to be the “daughter” of beloved Chloe Dzubilo\, punk rock trans femme activist. Ruiz’s original telenovelas and short films have screened internationally at art spaces including the Whitney Museum\, MoMa PS1 and many more. Ruiz has been building power and birthing pro-abortion aesthetics since 2015 with the #thankgodforabortion experiment. Viva is a 2022 Creative Capital grantee and 2022 Art Matters fellow. She is intentional about calling more beautiful worlds into being with and in service to the spirits that walk with them. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/mourning-and-militancy-bodily-autonomy-and-networks-of-care/ LOCATION:NY ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/unnamed-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T190000 DTSTAMP:20250530T183344Z CREATED:20250117T082526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T183344Z UID:4117-1739466000-1739473200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Stephen Dwoskin's Face of Our Fear (1992): Reflections on Disability in Film with Rachel Garfield DESCRIPTION:Film Screening | Stephen Dwoskin’s Face of Our Fear (1992): Reflections on Disability in Film with Rachel Garfield\n  \nThe Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts 1 Washington Place NY 10003 \nStarting in the mid-1960s\, Stephen Dwoskin\, a UK-based experimental filmmaker who survived childhood poliomyelitis\, developed a distinct audio-visual style rooted in the specific conditions of (im-)mobility that permeate his cinematography. Simultaneously\, he was strongly preoccupied with the ways narrative cinema uses disability as a symbolic or iconic component. In his essay film Face of our Fear (1991)\, Dwoskin discusses the long history of disability mis-representation in Western art and media\, highlighting the shifting meaning of disability across centuries of evolving cultural traditions. \nThis event features a screening of Dwoskin’s Face of our Fear (52 minutes)\, followed by a discussion and Q&A with Professor Rachel Garfield—a film scholar\, artist\, and close friend and collaborator of the late Stephen Dwoskin. Open captions and CART provided; audio description available upon request. \nTo request an ASL interpreter\, please email o.tchepikova.treon@nyu.edu by January 29. For other access requests or questions\, please contact Gallatin’s Office of Special Events by emailing events.gallatin@nyu.edu\, also by January 29. \nThis event is programmed by Gallatin School of Individualized Study and is co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies and the NYU Center for Media\, Culture and History. Please visit the event’s website for more information on how materials such as images and audio taken at the event may be reproduced. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/stephen-dwoskins-face-of-our-fear-1992-reflections-on-disability-in-film-with-rachel-garfield/ LOCATION:The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts\, NY\, 10003 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Dwoskin.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T170000 DTSTAMP:20250211T205830Z CREATED:20250211T205702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T205830Z UID:4148-1739462400-1739466000@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Agency of Access: Book Talk with Amanda Cachia DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 13th\, 2025\n4:00PM-5:00PM\nWhitney Museum of American Art\nFloor 8 (Trustee Room) \nWhitney Access programs invite you to the launch of Amanda Cachia’s book\, The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique. This event will celebrate the disabled and Deaf artists featured in the book\, including Christine Sun Kim\, and local New York-based artists Park McArthur\, Finnegan Shannon\, and Sughanda Gupta. The book examines how access can be a method to experience arts in a multisensory way. Crip author and art historian Amanda Cachia brings to light how our bodies take in environments in different ways and reveals how equity affects different bodies when access is not considered. Cachia will join a discussion with Whitney Associate Manager of Access Programs and Initiatives\, Bojana Coklyat. After the conversation\, there will be time for questions from the audience and to visit Christine Sun Kim’s exhibition\, All Day All Night. Cachia will also sign copies of the book\, which will be available for purchase. \nThis event will have ASL interpretation. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/agency-of-access-book-talk-with-amanda-cachia/ LOCATION:NY END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR