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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/
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T120000
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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/
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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
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260828T160000
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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/
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260922T133000
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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
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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
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