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April 2024
What does sound do? An artist talk with Andy Slater, Josephine Sales, and Meesh Sara Fradkin, moderated by Jonathan Sterne
The Center for Disability Studies invites you to join Andy Slater, Josephine Sales, and Meesh Sara Fradkin for an artist talk moderated by Jonathan Sterne. The three artists will delve into their individual practices through various forms of sound art and descriptions, and then come together in conversation about poetics and access. Friday April 12, 4-5:30 pm ET on Zoom Register here Event announcement using redaction 50 type and segoe ui regular type in black and orange with a faded pastel…
Find out more »March 2024
Shrinkage And Activist Affordances, With Arseli Dokumaci And Michele Friedner
Join us as Arseli Dokumaci and Michele Friedner engage in a conversation about shrinking worlds and activist affordances. Following a brief viewing and discussion of Arseli's ethnographic videos showing activist affordances in action, Arseli and Michele will facilitate and open up a conversation about the immense amount of effort and creative work disabled people do everyday, building inhabitable worlds from the ground up. Register here Event is free and open to the public. ASL and live captions will be…
Find out more »Fire Through Dry Grass (2023, 89 minutes) screening and discussion with film directors Andres “Jay” Molina and Alexis Neophytides, moderated by director of Proclaiming Disability Arts, Simi Linton
Friday, March 1 5:00-7:30 PM 19 University Place, New York University Theater 102 Register here A film poster with the title “Fire Through Dry Grass” in bold yellow handwritten block letters. An image of 5 Black and brown men in wheelchairs, looking straight into the camera, is above the text. They are on a dark gray background that has layered yellow drawings intricately arranged: a brick building, a man in a mask, varied excerpts of poetry, and a…
Find out more »February 2024
Bad Crip Feelings and How (Not) to Bear Them, with J. Logan Smilges and Jina B. Kim
Join us for an evening of bad crip feelings with a talk by J. Logan Smilges (UBC) on their book Crip Negativity (2023), followed by a conversation with Jina B. Kim (Smith). Crip Negativity addresses the role of bad feelings in disability studies and organizing, and at this event, Smilges will address what the book's reception can tell us about the field’s affective attachments and political commitments. Register here Cover for Crip Negativity by J. Logan Smilges. White text against a solid black background. J. Logan Smilges is an assistant professor of…
Find out more »Writing An Arab Illness Narrative: Head Above Water Shahd Alshammari, in conversation with Mara Mills
Thursday, February 15 2024 from 12-1pm EST Zoom (registration required) Register here Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness book cover. A woman lays with her eyes closed, facing up towards the sky. She is immersed in pink, orange, and white circles, which live on about 2/3 of the book cover. In all caps in a white bolded type, Shahd Alshammari's name is at the very top center. The book title is in the same type until the semicolon, where it then switches…
Find out more »January 2024
Time, Disability, and the Making of an Opera
Choreographer Jerron Herman and Historian of Science and Technology Mara Mills discuss opera and disability and Herman's approach to choreography and design for the upcoming 2025 world premiere of Sensorium Ex, a contemporary opera composed by Paola Prestini, with libretto by Brenda Shaugnessy and co-direction by Jay Scheib. In partnership with NYU Center for Disability Studies, the evening will investigate the ways that disability shapes time, with a particular focus on the possibilities and paradoxes of fermata in Herman's work. Dance and music from the work will…
Find out more »November 2023
Alt-text as Poetry with Bojana Coklyat and Finnegan Shannon
Thursday, November 16 at 7PM in-person @ St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 1003 A banner with a beige background and thin black-line frame; off-right are two irregular half circles drawn in charcoal, extending to the top edge and bottom edge of the banner and almost meeting each other in the center but not quite. To the center-right of the frame are three dashed charcoal lines in a row, beginning at the center-right edge of the banner and extending to almost in between the two half-circles…
Find out more »Late Shift x NYU Center for Disability Studies with Jerron Herman: Rest
Join us on the evening of November 9 for the newest Late Shift program highlighting LAX, a site-responsive, interactive performance and score choreographed by interdisciplinary artist and dancer Jerron Herman. Designed to be experienced from anywhere within Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda, Herman’s score will guide visitors’ energy throughout the building, creating moments that honor our bodies’ needs for comfort, play, and rest. This immersive program, presented in collaboration with the Center for Disability Studies (CDS) at New York University, will…
Find out more »October 2023
Disability and the Digital x Crip Authorship
The final event in the Disability and the Digital series features Emily Lim Rogers (Duke), Maxwell Joy Moore (Power Not Pity), and Louise Hickman (University of Cambridge) discussing their essays in the 2023 edited volume Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press). Moderated by Rebecca Sanchez and Mara Mills, Rogers will present on "Virtual Ethnography," Moore on "Podcasting for Disability Justice," and Hickman on "Willful Dictionaries and Crip Authorship in CART." The Disability and the Digital Series is supported by the Digital Media and Dis/Abilities Research Network funded by DFG. Register here A light-skinned person with dark brown glasses is leaning into the camera. Her eyes are partly closed from…
Find out more »A Discussion with Andrew Leland
A discussion with Andrew Leland on his book about going blind, The Country of the Blind. Moderated by Gideon Lewis-Kraus, a staff writer at The New Yorker. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies. Non-NYU-affiliated must RSVP in advance! Register here
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