Leprosy, care and human rights with Dr. Beatriz Miranda-Galarza
25 Waverly Place 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY, United StatesThe NYU Department of Anthropology and the NYU Center for Disability Studies invite you to a medical anthropology/STS workshop with Anthropologist and Disability Studies scholar and activist Dr. Beatriz Miranda-Galarza, UN Special Rapporteur on discrimination against persons with leprosy, Coordinator of the Critical Disability Studies Programme and Critical Studies in Health, 17 Institute of Critical …
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DISABILITY WORLDS: A reading and discussion with Faye Ginsburg, Rayna Rapp and Mara Mills @ NYU Center for the Humanities
20 Cooper Sq, room 531 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor, New York, NY, United StatesMonday, November 4th | 6:00 pm EST NYU Center for the Humanities, Room 531 20 Cooper Square, NYC RSVP (required) For in-person or virtual attendance. Zoom link will be sent to registrants the day of the event. Join us for a brief reading from the new book Disability Worlds (2024, Duke University Press) with authors Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp (NYU Anthropology) …
Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal
25 Waverly Place rm 706Please join NYU Anthropology for their Fall 2024 Colloquia event with Mara Green, co-sponsored by the Center for Disability Studies and the Center for Media, Culture & History. RSVP to jr6329@nyu.edu by Wednesday, November 13th.
Alt-Guggenheim: Ramps
The Guggenheim Museum 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY, United StatesTitle: SRGM New York Description: 1071 Fifth Avenue; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, New York; Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Photographer: David Heald Rights: © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. All Rights Reserved. Alt-Guggenheim: Ramps Guggenheim Museum November 22, 2024 (RSVPs and waitlist full) CART and Description services provided. Alt-Guggenheim: Ramps is an …
shall we go together? A Symposium on Care, Equity, and Access in the Arts
25 Waverly Place rm 706How can arts organizations continue to support disabled artists? How can we continue building models that center care, equity, and access in residency programs and in institutions more broadly? Join us for a day-long, hybrid symposium at BRIC reflecting upon these questions and activating the themes and artists of BRIC's current exhibition, to hold a …
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Introducing the MAD Studies Reader
“Mad Studies” is an emerging interdisciplinary collaboration for transforming how we approach mental health and wellbeing. Mad studies centers the perspective of lived experience and it brings together activists, artists, concerned clinicians, and critical disability scholars. It uses these differing perspectives to liberate us from rigid categories, from single vision framings, and from the sanist …
Celebrating Osiris 39: Disability and the History of Science
Columbia University Fayerweather Hall, Room 513 1180 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 Disability has been a central—if unacknowledged—force in the history of science and the scientific disciplines. Across historical epistemology and laboratory research, disability has been “good to think with”: an object of investigation made to yield generalizable truths. Yet disability is rarely …
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Agency of Access: Book Talk with Amanda Cachia
Thursday, February 13th, 2025 4:00PM-5:00PM Whitney Museum of American Art Floor 8 (Trustee Room) Whitney 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 …
Stephen Dwoskin’s Face of Our Fear (1992): Reflections on Disability in Film with Rachel Garfield
The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts NYFilm Screening | Stephen Dwoskin's Face of Our Fear (1992): Reflections on Disability in Film with Rachel Garfield The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts 1 Washington Place NY 10003 Starting in the mid-1960s, Stephen Dwoskin, a UK-based experimental filmmaker who survived childhood poliomyelitis, developed a distinct audio-visual style rooted in the …
Mourning and Militancy: Bodily Autonomy and Networks of Care
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, …
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