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. If you […]
Authors' Roundtable: ‘How To Be Disabled In A Pandemic’ Wed, September 03 10:40 AM - 12:30 PM Second Floor: Cedar B Sheraton Grand, Space Tower Roundtable Chair, Harris Kornstein, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona Presenter, Marika Cifor, PhD, The University of Washington Presenter, Nadia Naomi Mbonde, Doctoral Candidate, NYU Presenter, Mara Mills, Professor, New […]
How 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, […]
BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday, September 19, 6:00–7:30 PM ET Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th floor Also available via Zoom How does listening in documentary become a proxy for justice—and what other kinds of listening might be possible? In The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability (Columbia University Press, 2025), Pooja Rangan examines how documentary listening—through habits […]
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 […]
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 sensory forms, from spoken and written […]
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. […]