Join Us for a DISABILITY AND THE DIGITAL CONVERSATION Access Aesthetics in Dance and Performance With Nina Mühlemann (Bern) Andy Slater (Chicago) Melanie Zimmermann (Hamburg) Moderated by Hanna Göbel & Mara Mills  Thursday, June 16, 2022 12 -1 p.m. EST | 6-7 pm CEST | 7-8 pm TRT    The session “Access Aesthetics in Dance and Performance” wishes to discuss the aesthetics of access in dance and performance. It will bring together experts of dance and performance, who work on…

Join Us for A Conversation On The Aesthetics of Access in Dance With   CHRISTOPHER "UNPEZVERDE" NÚÑEZ & YO-YO LIN Moderated by Kayla Hamilton Image Description: Kayla, a Black woman with medium brown skin looks directly into the camera. She is wearing a tan and black vertically striped shirt. She has black shoulder length locs with a few gold locs on the left. Her head is slightly tilted to the left. Behind her is a red brick wall. Thursday, April…

NYU's Center for Disability Studies and Native Studies Forum invite you to a virtual launch party to celebrate a special issue of  Disability Studies Quarterly 41, no. 4 INDIGENEITY & DISABILITY Kinship, Place, and Knowledge-Making Thursday, March 31. 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.   This special issue considers reciprocity as a question, practice, and aspiration. What is possible when we Indigenize disability studies (DST) and when we fully embed disability studies in Native American Indigenous studies (NAIS)? Our contributors come from wide-ranging locations inside and outside of academic worlds,…

Join Us for A Conversation With    PATRICK McKELVEY (Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh) Image Description: Patrick McKelvey, a half-smiling scruffy white queer with teal glasses standing before a deep blue background. and ROBERT McRUER (Professor of English, The George Washington University) Image Description: This is an outdoor headshot of Robert McRuer. He is a white man in his mid-fifties, which very short salt and pepper hair and beard. He wears a gray short-sleeve shirt and his…

Image Description: A blue postcard with blue, uneven, handwritten capitals spelling, “Artists for Alt-Text.” Disabled Creators  BOJANA COKLYAT, SHANNON FINNEGAN and THOMAS REID discuss ALT-TEXT and AUDIO DESCRIPTION Moderator: KEVIN GOTKIN, Disability artist/activist Friday, November 5. 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.   Alt-text and audio description are part of a suite of access practices that aim to make visual content accessible to blind and low vision people. These practices are often approached in a dry and compliance-oriented way. How can we…

Reading by author KATHERINE STANDEFER Lightning Flowers: My Journey To Uncover The Cost Of Saving A Life (Little, Brown Spark, 2020) Followed by a conversation with NETA ALEXANDER (Colgate University, Film and Media Studies) Friday, October 8. 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.   Katherine Standefer is the author of Lightning Flowers: My Journey To Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice/Staff Pick. Named one of Oprah Magazine's Best Books of Fall…

How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness & Black Radical Creativity (Duke, 2021) Reading by author LA MARR JURELLE BRUCE (University of Maryland, American Studies) How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness & Black Radical Creativity (Duke, 2021) Followed by a conversation with FRED MOTEN (NYU, Performance Studies) Moderator: MARA MILLS (C0-Chair NYU CDS) Thursday, September 30. 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.   La Marr Jurelle Bruce is an interdisciplinary humanities scholar, cultural and literary critic, black/Black…

Joseph Grigely “Fourteen Untitled Conversations” 2002 Artist and writer Joseph Grigely and critic and curator Emily Watlington in conversation on art, disability, apologies and other matters. Moderator: Mara Mills (C0-Chair NYU CDS) Joseph Grigely is an artist and writer. He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the MCA, Chicago; the Musée d’art Moderne in Paris; the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; and has participated in the Whitney, Venice, Berlin, Istanbul, Liverpool, and Sydney Biennials.  His books include…