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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED! Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice Book Talk with Rachel Kolb and Rebecca Sanchez
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n\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 respondent Rebecca Sanchez (Fordham 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. \n\nEvent is free and open to the public but requires registration.\nASL and live captions will be provided.\nPlease email accessibility needs to msf440@nyu.edu.\nBook can be purchased at various online retailers. \n\nBios:\nPhoto by Josephine Sittenfeld.\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  \nRebecca Sanchez is Professor of English at Fordham University. She is the author of Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in Twentieth-Century American Literature (NYU Press\, 2015) and co-editor with Mara Mills of the re-release of Pauline Leader’s memoir And No Birds Sing (Gallaudet University Press\, 2016) and the collection Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press\, 2023). Her research focuses on 20th century literature\, communicative difference and poetics. \n\n 
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/articulate-a-deaf-memoir-of-voice-book-talk/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T180000
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SUMMARY:Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance\, a book talk with Leon Hilton
DESCRIPTION: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 countermeasures\, and overlooked insurgent strategies for reconfiguring the world so that it might nurture\, rather than annihilate\, the persistence and flourishing of autistic and other neurodivergent ways of being. It maps out unseen pathways for thinking\, watching\, and responding to the life called up and made visible through the apertures for thought afforded by the concept of neurodivergence. \nThe talk will be followed by a Q/A session moderated by Professor and Chair Ann Pellegriniwith a reception to follow. \nThis event is organized by the Department of Performance Studies and cosponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies. \n\nNYU provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Please submit your request for accommodations for events and services at least two weeks before the date of your accommodation need. Although we can’t guarantee accommodation requests received less than two weeks before the event\, you should still contact us and we will do our best to meet your accommodation needs. Request disability accommodations through this link. \n\nBio:\nLeon J. Hilton is an associate professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. He is the founder and co-convener of Brown’s Disability Studies Working Group\, launched in 2022 with the support of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities. He is the author of Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance (University of Minnesota Press)\, and his scholarship and criticism has also been published in Third Text\, The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies\, American Quarterly\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, TDR/The Drama Review\, and elsewhere. He is a member of the editorial collective of the journal Social Text\, and sits on the advisory board of Spectrum Theatre Ensemble\, a neurodiverse theatre company based in Providence\, RI. In 2022\, he received the Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/counter-cartographies-neurodivergence-and-the-errancies-of-performance-a-book-talk-with-leon-hilton/
LOCATION:Richard Schechner Studio\, Room 612\, 721 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:BOOK EVENT: THE DOCUMENTARY AUDIT
DESCRIPTION:BOOK LAUNCH EVENT \nFriday\, September 19\, 6:00–7:30 PM ET\nMichelson Theater\, 721 Broadway\,  6th floor\nAlso available via Zoom \nHow does listening in documentary become a proxy for justice—and what other kinds of listening might be possible? \nIn The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability (Columbia University Press\, 2025)\, Pooja Rangan examines how documentary listening—through habits she calls neutral\, entitled\, and juridical—can reinforce structures of profiling\, exclusion\, and carceral capture\, even when framed as progressive or ethical. \nThis launch event brings together three respondents who take up the book’s invitation to think documentary and sound alongside raciolinguistics\, disability access activism\, and legal forensics: \n\nLakshmi Padmanabhan (Film Scholar\, Northwestern University)\nJordan Lord (Artist and Writer\, Colorado College)\nLaCharles Ward (Curator and Scholar\, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)\n\nTogether\, they will explore how to refuse listening habits that discipline and punish\, and how to reimagine accountability across media\, law\, and everyday life. \nFree and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. \nPlease email accessibility needs related to this event to cmc673@nyu.edu before Friday\, September 5\, 2025. \nUse coupon code CUP20 to save 20% when ordering The Documentary Audit from Columbia University Press. \nSPONSORS \nNYU Center for Media\, Culture\, and History\nColumbia University Press\nAmherst College\nNYU Center for Disability Studies\nNYU Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies\n \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. \n\nParticipant Bios:\n \nPooja Rangan is Professor of English in Film and Media Studies at Amherst College. She is the author of the award winning books Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (Duke UP 2017) and Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object\, Method\, and Practice (U. California Press 2023\, coedited with Akshya Saxena\, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan\, and Pavitra Sundar). Rangan is currently writing a book with the filmmaker and scholar Brett Story on documentary and the making and unmaking of carceral common sense. She also edits the Investigating Visible Evidence book series at Columbia UP along with Jane Gaines\, Michael Renov and Faye Ginsburg. \n  \n \nLakshmi Padmanabhan is an assistant professor of Radio\, TV\, Film at Northwestern University. Their current book project\, Documentary Degree Zero\, examines realism in Indian independent documentary and the unrealized promises of decolonization from the 1970s to today. They are editor of Forms of Errantry on filmmaker Miryam Charles\, with academic work in Art History\, Camera Obscura\, Cultural Critique\, JCMS\, Women & Performance\, and New Review of Film and Television\, and criticism in n+1\, e-flux\, Seen\, Public Books\, Jewish Currents\, and Post45. A curator of experimental film and video\, they have organized programs for e-flux Screening Room\, DocLisboa\, the Block Museum\, BRIC Arts\, and Magic Lantern Cinema. \n  \n \nJordan Lord is a teacher\, artist\, filmmaker\, and writer\, whose work addresses the relationships between historical and emotional debts\, framing and support\, access and documentary. Their work has been shown at venues and festivals including MoMA\, Walker Art Center\, Camden International Film Festival\, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival\, and Performance Space NY. They have presented solo exhibitions at Artists Space (New York\, NY)\, Piper Keys (London\, UK)\, and Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY). \n  \n \nLaCharles Ward is Supervisory Museum Curator of Photography and Film and Director of the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. A cultural theorist of African American photography and Black visual culture across the diaspora\, his writings on photography\, legal history\, and Black people’s relationship to law have appeared in Black Camera\, History of Photography\, and museum catalogues. Formerly a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication\, Ward is developing book projects on evidence law\, photography\, and Black life. \n\n 
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/book-event-the-documentary-audit/
LOCATION:Michelson Theater\, 721 Broadway 6th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nHow 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\, and feminist of color literary visionaries writing after major U.S. welfare reform. Together\, Schalk and Kim will foreground the necessity of a disability approach to challenging U.S. infrastructural violence and manufactured scarcity\, and highlight the imaginative blueprints for survival left by radical writers of color such as Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Octavia Butler. Moderated 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\nevent to msf440@nyu.edu. \nUse coupon code E25JBKIM to save 30% when you order Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing from dukeupress.edu. \n\nSpeaker Bios: \n\nJina B. Kim is a scholar of feminist disability studies and queer of color critique. She is an associate professor of English and the Study of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality at Smith College in Northampton\, Mass. Her new book\, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing\, demonstrates how and why we need radical disability politics and aesthetics for navigating contemporary crises of care. Jina’s work has appeared in Signs\, Social Text\, GLQ\, American Quarterly\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, Disability Studies Quarterly\, and The Asian American Literary Review. \n  \n\nDr. Sami Schalk is a professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Bodyminds Reimagined (2018) and Black Disability Politics(2022)\, both available open access from Duke University Press. Dr. Schalk’s research focuses on disability\, race and gender in contemporary American literature and culture. In addition to her academic work\, Dr. Schalk writes for mainstream outlets and makes art as a form of pleasure activism. Her current research project focuses on the creation and impact of pleasure spaces for multiply marginalized people. \n\n 
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/care-at-the-end-of-the-world-dreaming-of-infrastructure-in-crip-of-color-writing/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Authors' Roundtable: ‘How To Be Disabled In A Pandemic’\, 09/03 at 4S 2025 Seattle
DESCRIPTION:Authors’ Roundtable: ‘How To Be Disabled In A Pandemic’\n\n\n Wed\, September 03\n\n\n 10:40 AM – 12:30 PM\n\n\n Second Floor: Cedar B\nSheraton Grand\, Space Tower\n\n\n Roundtable\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n Chair\, Harris Kornstein\, Assistant Professor\, University of Arizona\n\n\n Presenter\,  Marika Cifor\, PhD\, The University of Washington\n\n\n Presenter\, Nadia Naomi Mbonde\, Doctoral Candidate\, NYU\n\n\n Presenter\, Mara Mills\, Professor\, New York University\n\n\n Presenter\, Emily Lim Rogers\, Assistant Professor\, Duke University\n\n\n Presenter\, Bella Ruhl\, Doctoral Student\, New York University
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/4s-htbdiap/
LOCATION:Sheraton Grand\, Space Tower\, Second Floor: Cedar B\, Seattle
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250723T190000
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SUMMARY:Life After at Film Forum
DESCRIPTION: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. \n \n  \nIf you can’t make this event\, you can use our PROMO CODE: NYUCDS for $4 off any screening during the film’s week-long run July 18–24. \n  \nFrom Multitude Films\, LIFE AFTER is a gripping personal investigation that exposes the tangled web of moral dilemmas and profit motives surrounding assisted dying. Director Reid Davenport asks a probing question\, why is it acceptable to give disabled people the means to die\, before supporting them in the chance to live? \n  \nWatch the trailer here. Find tickets and more at lifeafterfilm.com/screenings. \n  \nAccessibility: Open Captions\, Audio Description\, and Q&A ASL interpreter provided. See venue website for more accessibility information.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/life-after-at-film-forum/
LOCATION:Film Forum\, 209 West Houston St.\, New York\, 10014
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250722T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250722T193000
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SUMMARY:How To Be Disabled in a Pandemic: A Disability Pride Panel in Collaboration with the NYU Center for Disability Studies
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, July 22\, 2025\, 6 – 7:30 PM\nAndrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library\n40 West 20th Street\nNew York\, NY 10011 \n  \nAs part of Disability Pride Month\, essayists Aiyuba Thomas\, Chancey Fleet\, and Harris Kornstein\, all featured in a new book\, How to be Disabled in a Pandemic \, discuss their experiences with disability in New York City during the Covid-19 lockdown. This program is a collaboration between the New York Public Library and the NYU Center for Disability Studies. \nTo join the event online | Please register for an Online Ticket. This event will be streamed on Zoom. To receive a Zoom link\, please be sure to register! The link will be shared with registrants shortly before start time. \nAmerican Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for this event. Real-time CART (Communication Access Real-Time Translation) captioning will be provided for this event. \nMore Information and Registration\n  \nABOUT THE PANELISTS: \nAiyuba Thomas is an MA graduate from NYU-GALLATIN School of Individualized Study\, where he concentrated in Social Entrepreneurship. He is a justice-impacted researcher and activist dedicated to addressing issues that impact marginalized communities\, especially those affected by mass incarceration. Aiyuba is an alumnus of Columbia JIE and NYU PEP. He is the founder of “The Association” a NYU student organization created to provide on and off campus support for those affected by the INJUSTICE system. Aiyuba co-authored “Abolition Labor\,” offering insights and a national inquiry into prison labor\, and “How To Be Disabled in a Pandemic\,” a collaborative work with NYU’s Center for Disability. \nAs a skilled investigator\, Aiyuba has conducted nearly 200 ethnographic and oral history interviews with formerly incarcerated individuals/groups\, their families\, supporters\, lawyers\, politicians\, and social change activists. These interviews have led to several publications and have been featured on various multimedia platforms. Most recently\, Aiyuba served as the Project Manager for “Movements Against Mass Incarceration\,” an archival oral history project that aims to span the nation. \nIn addition to his research work\, Aiyuba is deeply involved in advocacy\, education\, and mentorship. He tirelessly works to bring about positive change and support those affected by incarceration. \nChancey Fleet is a Blind tech educator and activist based in Brooklyn. She is the founding Assistive Technology Coordinator at the New York Public Library\, where she runs a free- peer-powered tech coaching service that connects library patrons with print-reading disabilities to 150 hours of one-to-one coaching each month; curates a rotating selection of workshops on tech topics with accessibility in mind; and runs the Dimensions Lab for free and open tactile graphics creation. Chancey is a 2017 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. She serves as President of the National Federation of the Blind’s Assistive Technology Trainers’ Division. Check out Chancey’s library at: talkingbooks.nypl.org \nHarris Kornstein is a scholar and artist whose work focuses on queer play through contemporary technologies and digital cultures\, media art/activism\, and disability and queer/trans studies. Their current book project considers what we might learn from drag performers to creatively counter many of the harms of digital technologies\, through playful techniques of misuse\, obfuscation\, and reinvention. They also co-edited the anthology How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic (NYU Press\, forthcoming February 2025) analyzing the experiences of disabled New Yorkers during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Harris’s research has been published in journals like Surveillance & Society and Curriculum Inquiry\, alongside several edited volumes such as Queer Data Studies\, and their essays have appeared in publications like The Guardian\, Wired\, and Salon. Additionally\, their research has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. Harris is currently Assistant Professor of Public & Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona and earned a PhD in Media\, Culture & Communication from NYU and an MFA in Digital Arts & New Media from UC Santa Cruz. \n  \nABOUT THE MODERATOR \nQuemuel Arroyo joined the MTA in February 2021 as the organization’s first agencywide Chief Accessibility Officer. In this capacity\, Arroyo leads the implementation of policies\, initiatives\, and programs that advance accessibility throughout the organization. \nPrior to joining the MTA\, Arroyo served as Interim President and Global Head of Community at Charge\, an e-scooter charging and docking company. Before Charge\, he served as the first Chief Accessibility Specialist at the New York City Department of Transportation\, where he helped settle the largest accessibility claim in the nation. \n  \n\n\n\nACCESSIBILITY NOTES \nOnline: \n\nReal-time CART (Communication Access Real-Time Translation) captioning will be provided for this event.\nAmerican Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for this event\n\nDISABILITY PRIDE MONTH AT NYPL:\nThe New York Public Library is celebrating Disability Pride Month throughout July. Discover a wide array of accessible resources\, including book recommendations\, accessible technology training\, braille study groups\, and more. Plus\, join us for free events for all ages—this month and all year long! To learn more and see what’s coming up\, please visit: https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/disability-pride-month \n\n\n\n\nAssistive Listening and ASL:\nAssistive listening devices available\nASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing accessibility@nypl.org.\n\n 
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/how-to-be-disabled-in-a-pandemic-a-disability-pride-panel-in-collaboration-with-the-nyu-center-for-disability-studies/
LOCATION:Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library\, 40 West 20th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Crip Authorship: Disability as a Method for Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, 21 June 2025\nV&A South Kensington \n\n\nJoin us for an afternoon of talks\, a screening\, and a workshop exploring disability\, authorship\, and access at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Contributors to Crip Authorship—a 2024 CHOICE Reviews Outstanding Academic Title—will share their work on how disability can shape the way we write\, communicate\, and create. Highlights include a screening with Louise Hickman\, a plain language writing workshop led by Kelsie Acton\, and a keynote lecture by Georgina Kleege. The event will begin with a book signing and introduction by the editors\, Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez. \n\nPlease note that space for the workshop component is limited; only request an in-person ticket if you are certain you can attend. Alternatively\, you are welcome to join the event online via hybrid access. \nThis event is presented in collaboration with the New York University Center for Disability Studies: https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/ \nThis event will be held in-person. If you prefer to join remotely\, we are offering streamed online tickets as a separate option. You can attend this event online by registering through this webpage. \n\n\nRegister Here
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/crip-authorship-disability-as-a-method-for-creativity/
LOCATION:V&A South Kensington\, Cromwell Rd\, London SW7 2RL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250516T190000
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SUMMARY:Kampnagel Performative Book Fair 2025: Crip Authorship Book Discussion/Talk
DESCRIPTION:Friday 16\, May\, 2025\n1pm-2:30pm (Zoom) \nThe editors of the volume “Crip Authorship: Disability as Method”\, Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez\, have brought together a variety of disabled positions on the topic of “authorship”: The contributions ask how disability and authorship are aesthetically and structurally connected and influence each other. Together with some of the authors\, this time they focus on the topic of translation. This discussion is a part of The Performative Book Fair by Kampnagel. \nEvent Recording
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/crip-authorship-book-discussion-talk/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250430T123000
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SUMMARY:Window Shopping with Helen Keller Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 30th\nAt 12:30pm\n20 Cooper Square\, 4th Floor Flex Space \n\nDavid Serlin in conversation with Mara Mills and Sophie Gonick. Moderated by Andrew Ross.\nWindow Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with sensory and physical impairments navigated urban spaces and helped to shape modern culture. Through four case studies – the lives of Joseph Merrick (aka “The Elephant Man”) and Helen Keller\, the architectural and design projects of the Works Progress Administration\, and Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman’s design for the Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped – Serlin offers a new history of modernity’s entanglements with disability. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Disability Studies at New York University.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/window-shopping-with-helen-keller-book-talk/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 4th floor
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SUMMARY:How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic Book Party
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, 29 April\, 4-6PM\nEspacio de Culturas at KJCC\n53 Washington Square South\n\nPlease join The Center for Disability Studies\, and book editors Mara Mills\, Harris Kornstein\, Faye Ginsburg\, and Rayna Rapp to celebrate the publication of How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic with refreshments and brief readings by some of the book’s authors. Books will be available for purchase. \nEvent is free and open to the public but requires registration.\nASL interpretation and KF94 masks will be provided. Please fill out the registration form or email msf440@nyu.edu by 04/09 if you have any access needs for this event. \n\nHow to Be Disabled in a Pandemic will be available for purchase at this event. It is also available for purchase from NYU Press (and wherever books are sold). We are also thrilled to note that NYU Press has simultaneously published an Open Access version of the book. \nSave 30% when you use code NYUAU30 at checkout on nyupress.org.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/how-to-be-disabled-in-a-pandemic-book-launch-party/
LOCATION:King Juan Carlos Center Patio\, 53 Washington Square South
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SUMMARY:Anna RG: Air Change Per Hour
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 24th at 8pm\, at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater\, ISSUE is proud to present AIR CHANGE PER HOUR\, the first commission from 2025 Artist-In-Residence Anna RG that interrogates relationships between sound\, space\, and accessibility in the context of airborne safety. Rooted in the ongoing realities of the pandemic\, this work challenges expectations of silence in performance spaces by embracing the presence of air purifiers—not just as functional access objects\, but as sonic\, conceptual and political agents within the room. \nthey said purifiers were loud\, meant audible sound. held silence over safety\, one sense above another. but here in the corner the purifier is humming furniture music in Bb. it is holding duets between the loud of the ache in my head and the song through the fog. it is setting a room\, shared resonant lung\, and in we move the air we borrow\, and here it filters what our bodies cannot. accompanist to a row of stories; like held their breath and wait for help\, like letters from a fever. lean in\, a rumble\, lean in\, what kind of future breeze\, out of the corner of your eye? \nRG\, who lives with long covid\, creates AIR CHANGE PER HOUR with support from access dramaturg Alison Kopit\, composer Alexa Dexa\, and engineer Daniel Neumann; and features guest performers Dave Ruder and Slic\, and writing by Jenna Bitar. They will be joined by a group of disabled/chronically ill artists performing “Scores for Sick Music.” The bed performers may or may not be present. \nACCESS INFORMATION: All access will be open\, meaning that the full audience experiences the access-rich environment of the show. Audio descriptions will be featured throughout\, and the full production will be open-captioned\, including sonic descriptions. The audience will also be asked to mask\, which is a part of the access infrastructure. The show contains themes of pandemics\, chronic illness\, isolation\, genocide\, and collective care\, and so we ask the audience to protect each other\, as well as the performers\, with this material act of solidarity.** The space is wheelchair accessible\, and has two gender-neutral accessible bathrooms. The show is seated\, and has a series of short rests/breaks. Guests are welcome to move and make sounds as needed\, throughout the evening. Air purifiers are present ensuring at least 6 air changes per hour in the space. Please contact us if you have further questions about access\, at sylver@issueprojectroom.org. We look forward to speaking with you! \nThe artist would like to thank: Molly Joyce\, Jay Afrisando\, and Andy Slater for guidance. Thank you to the members and borrowers of AIRNYC and who facilitate this community air purifier library that allowed this performance to be possible. \n**Thank you to Alison Kopit\, for the use of this access text\, created for “Dan Fishback is Alive and Unwell and Living in his Apartment” at the Public Theater. \nAnna RG works in composition\, sculpture and community organizing\, towards possibilities of Sick Music making and listening. For a decade\, she toured with her research-based ballad project\, Anna & Elizabeth\, their Smithsonian Folkways album called a “radical expansion of what folk songs are supposed to do” by The New Yorker. They performed at Carnegie Hall\, Big Ears Festival (where she was guest curator of traditional music)\, NPR’s Tiny Desk and many other venues not currently accessible to high risk artists. Anna has collaborated widely\, including with the Aizuri Quartet\, Lonnie Holley\, Glen Hansard\, Paul Wiancko\, Jim White\, and the dearly departed Susan Alcorn\, and has won blue ribbons in fiddle contests across Appalachia. They hold an MFA in sculpture from Bard College\, is a MacDowell Fellow\, and recently exhibited at Tulca Festival (Galway). She is a member of the collective Artists In Resistance NYC (AIRNYC) which operates a lending library of the community-owned air purifiers used in the show\, which are available for anyone to borrow\, for free. \nRespect your RSVP \nISSUE encourages a culture of respect around free arts programming–by honoring your RSVP\, you recognize ISSUE’s ongoing efforts to cultivate new work by emerging artists. If you can no longer attend this free event\, please contact sylver@issueprojectroom.org to let us know. Thank you for respecting the reservation. \n\n\n\n\nFounded in 2003\, ISSUE Project Room is a pioneering nonprofit performance center\, presenting projects by interdisciplinary artists that expand the boundaries of artistic practice and stimulate critical dialogue in the broader community. ISSUE serves as a leading cultural incubator\, facilitating the commission and premiere of innovative new works. \nAnna RG activates AIR CHANGE PER HOUR at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater\, where ongoing challenges with airflow persist due to the delay in Government of New York City managed renovations. \nFor visitors requiring accessible access for the performance\, ISSUE Project Room’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater is ADA accessible by lift and a ramp funded through the Accessibility Project of Downtown Brooklyn Partnership’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative Placemaking Fund. \nISSUE Project Room’s Artist-In-Residence program is made possible\, in part\, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts\, TD Charitable Foundation\, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council\, and with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. \nAdditional support for ISSUE Project Room’s 2025 season is provided by Metabolic Studio. \nAnna RG’s residency is also supported by NYU’s Center for Disability Studies.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/anna-rg-air-change-per-hour/
LOCATION:Come Forever + Zoom\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:Intimacy Violation: a film screening and performance
DESCRIPTION:Intimacy Violation: screening of a work-in-progress film by Yining Chi\, followed by a participatory performance around audio description led by the artist and a discussion moderated by Meesh Sara Fradkin. \nThursday\, April 24\, 7-9pm @ Come Forever + Zoom \n“Intimacy Violation is a video essay that explores the intersections of disability\, kinship\, trust\, and authority through my mom\, Ning’s experience with a rare genetic disease in China. The film unfolds through different forms of intimacy: societal infrastructure violates my mom’s access intimacy; our opposing views on medicine and sexuality violate our political intimacy; my mom perceives her illness as violating our familial intimacy; technology violates our body intimacy; and\, by filming her vulnerability\, I may be violating our emotional intimacy…” — Yining Chi \n \nLight refreshments will be served after the discussion\, with mingling encouraged! \nEvent is free and open to the public but requires registration (either to attend on zoom or in person). Film and performance include open captions (Chinese-English bilingual) and audio description. Live captions will be provided for Zoom. Venue is wheelchair accessible with an accessible bathroom. Masks are required and provided as part of collective care–refreshments will be served outside in open air. \nCome Forever is located at 342 Hewes St\, Brooklyn\, off the Hewes JM and Broadway G trains. \n\n\n\n\n \nYining Chi (she/they) is an art-maker\, mover\, and researcher from Beijing\, China\, currently based in New York City. Chi’s medium shifts between exhibition\, movement\, moving image\, and accessibility. Her research focuses on the material body and its visual rhetorics within collective emotional states\, while their practice enacts how social structures inscribe mobilities and memories onto bodies. Chi is an MA candidate in Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University. Recent projects include the public performance art series Urban Stage (Guangzhou\, 2023) and the curatorial project The Intimate Revolt (Goethe-Institut China\, Beijing\, 2022). \n \nMeesh Sara Fradkin is a writer and artist working with sound\, text and media. She is a doctoral candidate in music in the interdisciplinary music technology track at McGill University and a visiting scholar at NYU’s Center for Disability Studies. \nThis event is sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies and supported by A Blade of Grass. \n\n 
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/intimacyviolation/
LOCATION:Come Forever + Zoom\, Brooklyn
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: All This Safety Is Killing Us
DESCRIPTION:A virtual book launch with Ronica Mukerjee\, Onyinye Alheri\, Leroy Moore & Pato Hebert \nThursday\, Apr 24\, 2025 |12:30pm to 1:45pm \n\n\nAbout All This Safety Is Killing Us\n\n\nA multi-discipline\, multimedia guide to abolition through the lens of healthcare and medicine – featuring writings and artwork from 10+ incarcerated and post-detention activists \nExposing how marginalized communities are vilified by “carceral safety” systems\, educators and health justice advocates Carlos Martinez and Ronica Mukerjee call for a radical break with reformist strategies in favor of ones grounded in grassroots organizing and abolition. \n\n\nThis panel brings together author and contributors\, Ronica Mukerjee\, Onyinye Alheri\, Leroy Moore\, moderated by Pato Hebert. \n\nSpeaker Bios: \nOnyịnye Alheri (Ọ or she/her) is an artist\, curator and scholar engaging with international movements that promote peace\, harm-reduction and collective healing. Born in Èkó (so-called Lagos\, Nigeria)\, Onyịnye is blessed to have lived in many lands and currently splits time between Mozambique and Mexico. Ọ is engaged in research and knowledge sharing exploring topics including mental health\, abolition\, harm reduction and more. Ọ earned a bachelor’s of arts (BA) in International Studies & Philosophy from Macalester College and a master’s in social work (MSW) from the University of Maryland\, Baltimore. \nFrom Harvard to The Whitney Museum to Media Engagement for Disability in Johannesburg South Africa\, Leroy Moore has more than twenty years of activism\, journalism\, writing\, lecturing on race and disability. Black disabled poet\, activist and author of six books on Black Disabled issues from poetry to children books to his recent graphic novel\, Krip-HopVol. 1 that was published in 2019 by Poor Press. Black Disabled Art History 101 in 2017 published by Xochitl Justice Press. Leroy F. Moore Jr. is the Founder of the international collective called\, Krip-Hop Nation. Since the 1990s\, he has written the column “Illin-N-Chillin” for POOR Magazine and then as a founding member of the magazine’s school\, the Homefulness and Decolonize Academy. Moore was one of the founding members of National Black Disability Coalition and activist around police brutality against people with disabilities. Leroy has started and helped start organizations like Disability Advocates of Minorities Organization to Sins Invalid and was an early  thinker of Disability Justice to Krip-Hop Nation. His cultural work includes film documentary\, Where Is Hope\, Police Brutality Against People with Disabilities\, spoken-word CDs\, poetry books. \nRonica Mukerjee DNP\, MsA is a family and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner as well as an acupuncturist. Dr. Mukerjee is currently an assistant professor at Columbia University and provides both hormonal care and psychiatric care for trans and gender diverse patients. Previously they livede and worked in Tijuana\, Mexico co-directing a refugee health organization she co-founded. Dr Mukerjee is passionate about border-police-prison abolition as well as racial\, economic and health care justice in LGBTQIA+\, refugees and migrant communities\, for people with substance use disorders\, and for people living with HIV. \nPato Hebert is a visual artist\, educator and cultural worker. He splits time between New York City\, and his creative studio in Los Angeles. Born in Idaho Falls\, Idaho\, Hebert spent his childhood there and in Eugene\, Oregon. He also lived in Panamá\, where is mother is from. He joined the Art & Public Policy Department at NYU in 2012. Prior to NYU\, he was a visiting assistant professor at Reed College and Scripps College. He also taught at Art Center College of Design and the University of California Irvine. \n\n 
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/book-launch-all-this-safety-is-killing-us/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Remote Access Archive Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:The Remote Access Archive is a crowdsourced\, community-based and digital archive. It documents the ways that disabled people and communities have used technology for remote forms of participation\, both before and during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This event includes an overview of remote access\, its promises\, and frictions\, as well as an in-depth exploration of how the Critical Design Lab created the archive. Moderated by Mara Mills. \nEvent is free and open to the public.\nLive captions will be provided.\nPlease email accessibility needs as they relate to this event to msf440@nyu.edu. If requesting ASL\, please write by 04/10. \n\nArt by Yo Yo Lin displayed on a zoom screen with a message in the chat about the sound drawing attention to the frictions of using technology for remote access.\n\nSpeakers: \nAimi Hamraie is a disabled designer and researcher based at Vanderbilt University\, and director of the Critical Design Lab. They are the author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (2017). \nKelsie Acton (she/her) is neurodivergent access consultant and researcher with York St John University and the Royal Central School for Speech and Drama. She is a member of the Critical Design Lab\, the project manager for the Remote Access Archive\, and authored the plainer language versions of Alice Wong’s Year of the Tiger and Disability Intimacy. \n[sarah] Cavar is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies and Science & Technology Studies at UC Davis\, where their critical-creative practices concern transMadness\, experimental poetics\, and generative nonsense. Their scholarship has appeared in or is forthcoming from Kairos\, Transgender Studies Quarterly\, Disability Studies Quarterly\, and elsewhere. Cavar’s debut novel\, Failure to Comply (2024)\, is available from featherproof books. They worked on the Remote Access Archive from 2022 – 2024. \nKatie Sullivan is a disabled student and writer and friend (et cetera). She is a research assistant in the Critical Design Lab and the Community Power Lab\, researching disability culture and critical health studies\, respectively. Sullivan will graduate from Vanderbilt University with an undergraduate degree in English and Medicine\, Health\, & Society in May 2025. Leisurely pursuits include feeling the sun on her face\, plunking out blog posts\, making comics\, and other things of the crafty-ilk. She worked on the Remote Access Archive 2023 – 2024. \nAvianna Miller (she/her/hers) is a chronically ill artist working primarily in photography and video. She is a strong proponent for accessibility in arts and cultural spaces\, physical and digital. She received her BA from Drew University in 2023\, where she majored in Studio Art and Media & Communications. Miller’s work has been included in shows at Drew University\, Circle Contemporary\, Dyer Arts Center\, Temple University\, and published by the Guggenheim Museum. She worked on the Remote Access Archive from 2023 – 2024. \nMartina Svyantek finished her individualized\, interdisciplinary PhD at Virginia Tech in 2021\, with a research focus on policy and procedure documents related to Disability at three U.S. institutions of higher education over a 25-year time frame. She has over five years of experience advocating for and promoting accessibility in real-time physical spaces as well as in digital and asynchronous situations. Martina served as the Assistive Technology Specialist in SDAC for three years before her transition into her role as the Strategic Initiatives and Accessible Technology Manager. She is now responsible for integrating research and best practices for the strategic leadership of departmental and institutional initiatives seeking the betterment of disability inclusion at the University of Virginia. She worked on the Remote Access Archive from 2023 – 2024. \n\nDarol Nance of the Deaf AIDs Information Centre poses with a TDD device.\n\nAlice Wong visits the White House via Beam Pro Telepresence Robot.\n\nCritical Design Lab is on Instagram and Bluesky.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/remote-access-archive-launch-party/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:All Day All Night: A Conversation with Seth Kim-Cohen\, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield\, Park McArthur\, and Mara Mills
DESCRIPTION:Fri\, Mar 21\, 2025\, 4–5:30 pm\nHess Theater and Online\, via Zoom  \nThis program brings together artists and writers Seth Kim-Cohen\, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield\, Park McArthur\, and Mara Mills for a conversation on the occasion of Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night. As contributors to the exhibition catalogue\, they will share their responses to Christine Sun Kim’s work and engage in a conversation about sign language aesthetics\, mediumship\, competing temporalities\, and Deaf methods. \nThe conversation will take place on Zoom and is available to livestream. \nIn New York City? Join us in-person at the Whitney to experience the program in a shared space where refreshments will be served and conversation is encouraged. In-person registration includes museum admission so that participants can view the exhibition Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night before or after the program. \nThis program is presented in partnership with the Center for Disability Studies at NYU. \nASL interpretation and CART captioning will be provided. \n\nSpeakers: \nSeth Kim-Cohen is the author of Rock and Roll vs. Modern Life\, Against Ambience\, and In the Blink of an Ear. He is Professor of Art History\, Theory\, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \nJeffrey Yasuo Mansfield is a principal at MASS Design Group\, where he works on a portfolio of projects that uplift the lived experience and cultural memory of the Deaf and Disability communities. Jeffrey co-authored The Architecture of Health\, co-edited MASS Design Group’s first Monograph\, Justice is Beauty\, and is currently working on a project that explores how the architecture and landscapes of deafness shape social perceptions of deafness\, disability\, and community. \nPark McArthur is an artist whose exhibition Contact M is presented by Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach\, Germany\, and mumok in Vienna through September 2025. \nMara Mills is Associate Professor and Ph.D. Director in the Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University. She is cofounder and Director of the NYU Center for Disability Studies and coeditor of Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press\, 2023) and How to be Disabled in a Pandemic (NYU Press\, 2025).
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/all-day-all-night-a-conversation-with-seth-kim-cohen-jeffrey-yasuo-mansfield-park-mcarthur-and-mara-mills/
LOCATION:Hess Theater and Online\, via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Film screening Spanish Cinema Now + 2025: Por donde pasa el silencio by Sandra Romero
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nIn cooperation with Spain Culture\, and as part of the 2025 edition of Spanish Cinema Now +.  \nEspacio de Culturas at KJCC is thrilled to screen Por donde pasa el silencio\, nominated for Best New Director at the Goya Awards\, followed by a discussion with the film’s director\, Sandra Romero. \nFilm Screening: Por Donde Pasa el Silencio\nLocation: 53 Washington Square South\nDate: March 5 \nTime: 7PM \nPost-screening discussion about disability\, autonomy and care with filmmaker Sandra Romero and authors Rachel Adams (Columbia University) and Aurélie Vialette (Yale University). \nFilm in Spanish with English subtitles \nPost-film discussion in English\, with bi-lingual (Spanish-English discussion) \nCo-sponsors: Center for Disability Studies\, NYU Center for Media\, Culture and History \n 
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/film-screening-spanish-cinema-now-2025-por-donde-pasa-el-silencio-by-sandra-romero/
LOCATION:King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center\, 53 Washington Square S\, New York\, 10012\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250224T180000
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SUMMARY:Mourning and Militancy: Bodily Autonomy and Networks of Care
DESCRIPTION: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\, Dean Spade\, Amitis Motevalli\, Yin Q\, and Viva Ruiz\, to consider the aesthetic and political strategies they find most necessary to combat the violent curtailing of bodily autonomy faced by queer/trans communities in particular. \n\n\n\n\nDean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence\, Critical Trans Politics\, and the Limits of Law\, and Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) the director of the documentary “Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back!.” His latest book\, Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships\, Hook Up and Raise Hell Together\, was published by Algonquin Press in January. \n\nAmitis Motevalli is an artist who explores the cultural resistance and survival of people living in poverty\, conflict\, catastrophe and/or war. Her experiences as a trans-national migrant and in community organizing are foundational in her work and research. Through many media\, digital\, analog\, static and live\, her work juxtaposes and contrasts iconography with iconoclasm\, memorials with monuments\, archive methodologies with canon. Her work intends to ask questions about archiving\, documentation and canonization of histories\, in particular related to violence. In this line of questioning she subverts populism by invoking the significance of a secular grassroots struggle. She is primarily based  in Los Angeles\, exhibiting art internationally as well as organizing to create an active and critical cultural discourse through information exchange\, either in art\, pedagogy with cultural producers and educators. \n\nYin Q (b.1974\, they/she) is a parent\, writer\, media producer\, curator and core organizer with Red Canary Song and founding member of Kink Out. They were honored by Spike Lee as an impact activist in 2019 in his tribute to Jackie Robinson. Yin’s writing has been published in BUST\, Apogee Journal (Columbia University)\, We Too\, Stories of Sex Work and Survival (The Feminist Press at CUNY\, 2021)\, and Afro Asia (Duke University Press\, 2008). Their media work includes “Mercy\, Mistress\,” an autobiographical pilot based on their experience as a dominatrix (starring Daniel K. Issac\, Poppy Liu; EP Margaret Cho)\, and Fly In Power\, a documentary for Red Canary Song and the short video\, Yang Song\, Fly in Power. Yin has brought sex worker art activations to Leslie Lohman Museum\, MoMA PS1 (Resident Artist\, 2020)\, Performance Space New York\, Brown University (AAPI Resident Artist\, 2023)\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles. \n\nViva Ruiz is a community/family/nightlife/sex work educated artist\, progeny of factory working Ecuadorian migrants born and raised in Jamaica\, Queens. They are proud to be the “daughter” of beloved Chloe Dzubilo\, punk rock trans femme activist. Ruiz’s original telenovelas and short films have screened internationally at art spaces including the Whitney Museum\, MoMa PS1 and many more. Ruiz has been building power and birthing pro-abortion aesthetics since 2015 with the #thankgodforabortion experiment. Viva is a 2022 Creative Capital grantee and 2022 Art Matters fellow. She is intentional about calling more beautiful worlds into being with and in service to the spirits that walk with them.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/mourning-and-militancy-bodily-autonomy-and-networks-of-care/
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SUMMARY:Stephen Dwoskin's Face of Our Fear (1992): Reflections on Disability in Film with Rachel Garfield
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening | Stephen Dwoskin’s Face of Our Fear (1992): Reflections on Disability in Film with Rachel Garfield\n  \nThe Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts 1 Washington Place NY 10003 \nStarting in the mid-1960s\, Stephen Dwoskin\, a UK-based experimental filmmaker who survived childhood poliomyelitis\, developed a distinct audio-visual style rooted in the specific conditions of (im-)mobility that permeate his cinematography. Simultaneously\, he was strongly preoccupied with the ways narrative cinema uses disability as a symbolic or iconic component. In his essay film Face of our Fear (1991)\, Dwoskin discusses the long history of disability mis-representation in Western art and media\, highlighting the shifting meaning of disability across centuries of evolving cultural traditions. \nThis event features a screening of Dwoskin’s Face of our Fear (52 minutes)\, followed by a discussion and Q&A with Professor Rachel Garfield—a film scholar\, artist\, and close friend and collaborator of the late Stephen Dwoskin. Open captions and CART provided; audio description available upon request. \nTo request an ASL interpreter\, please email o.tchepikova.treon@nyu.edu by January 29. For other access requests or questions\, please contact Gallatin’s Office of Special Events by emailing events.gallatin@nyu.edu\, also by January 29. \nThis event is programmed by Gallatin School of Individualized Study and is co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies and the NYU Center for Media\, Culture and History. Please visit the event’s website for more information on how materials such as images and audio taken at the event may be reproduced.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/stephen-dwoskins-face-of-our-fear-1992-reflections-on-disability-in-film-with-rachel-garfield/
LOCATION:The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts\, NY\, 10003
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T170000
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SUMMARY:Agency of Access: Book Talk with Amanda Cachia
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 13th\, 2025\n4:00PM-5:00PM\nWhitney Museum of American Art\nFloor 8 (Trustee Room) \nWhitney 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 New York-based artists Park McArthur\, Finnegan Shannon\, and Sughanda Gupta. The book examines how access can be a method to experience arts in a multisensory way. Crip author and art historian Amanda Cachia brings to light how our bodies take in environments in different ways and reveals how equity affects different bodies when access is not considered. Cachia will join a discussion with Whitney Associate Manager of Access Programs and Initiatives\, Bojana Coklyat. After the conversation\, there will be time for questions from the audience and to visit Christine Sun Kim’s exhibition\, All Day All Night. Cachia will also sign copies of the book\, which will be available for purchase. \nThis event will have ASL interpretation.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/agency-of-access-book-talk-with-amanda-cachia/
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Osiris 39: Disability and the History of Science
DESCRIPTION:Columbia University\nFayerweather Hall\, Room 513\n1180 Amsterdam Avenue New York\, NY 10027 \n  \nDisability 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 imagined to be the source of expertise\, especially the kind of expertise that produces (rational\, neutral\, universal) scientific knowledge. \nJaipreet Virdi\, Mara Mills\, and Sarah F. Rose introduce a disability history of science in the current volume of Osiris\, which they co-edited. Across the volume\, contributors trace the disabling impacts of scientific theories and practices in the contexts of war\, factory labor\, insurance\, and colonialism; others excavate racial and settler ableism in the history of scientific facts\, protocols\, and collections; still others query the boundaries between scientific\, lay\, and disability expertise. Contending that disability alters method\, the volume’s authors bring new sources and interpretation techniques to the history of science\, overturn familiar narratives\, apply disability analyses to established terms and archives\, and discuss accessibility issues for disabled historians. \nIn this talk\, the three editors emphasize how disability history and the history of science need to be placed in conversation to foreground disability epistemologies\, disabled scientists\, and disability sciencing (engagement with scientific tools and processes). Looking beyond the paradigms of medicalization and industrialization\, the editors further propose a “scientific management model of disability” to account for the shaping of disabled lives and relations by the applied sciences\, from the ancient world to the present. \n\nEvent Speakers: \n\nMara Mills\, Associate Professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University\nSarah F. Rose\, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington\nJaipreet Virdi\, Associate Professor of History at the University of Deleware\n\n\nThis event is part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series.\nCo-sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/celebrating-osiris-39-disability-and-the-history-of-science/
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SUMMARY:Introducing the MAD Studies Reader
DESCRIPTION:“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 prejudice. Mad studies\, at its heart\, realigns who gets to contribute to the conversation\, research\, and practice around mental difference. \nThis panel\, moderated by Neil Gong\, brings together the three editors of the recently released Mad Studies Reader\, Jazmine Russell\, Alisha Ali\, and Bradley Lewis\, to celebrate and nurture this emergent work and the community it fosters. \nThis event is co-sponsored by NYU Center for Disability Studies. \nPlease note that zoom link will be sent 24 hours before the event. \n\nPanelists \nAlisha Ali: Alisha is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University where she heads the Advocacy and Community-Based Trauma Studies (ACTS) Lab. Her research examines the mental health effects of various forms of oppression. \nJazmine Russell: Jazmine is the co-founder of the Institute for the Development of Human Arts\, a transformative mental health educator\, trauma survivor\, and host of Depth Work: A Holistic Mental Health Podcast. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of Mad Studies\, Critical Psychology\, and Neuroscience\, and a postgraduate student at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. \nBradley Lewis: Brad is a psychotherapist/psychiatrist and a humanities professor at New York University. He is devoted to enriching everyday life and clinical practice through integration with the arts\, humanities\, and cultural/political/religious study. \nNeil Gong: Neil is an assistant professor of sociology at UC San Diego\, where he researches psychiatric services\, homelessness\, and how communities seek to maintain social order. His recent book\, Sons\, Daughters\, and Sidewalk Psychotics\, examines inequality in mental health care by comparing public safety net and elite private psychiatric programs.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/introducing-the-mad-studies-reader/
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SUMMARY:shall we go together? A Symposium on Care\, Equity\, and Access in the Arts
DESCRIPTION:How 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 we (co-sponsored by the Center for Disability Studies).\n \nThe symposium will feature virtual and in-person offerings\, including an artist and curator tour\, roundtable discussion\, participatory workshops\, and closing party. Schedule and participants announced soon!\n \nIn-person offerings are mask-required. Masks will be provided. All programs include CART. ASL interpretation upon request.\n  \n\n\nBRIC is committed to advancing accessibility for disabled artists\, audiences\, and staff members. We understand disability as a spectrum\, inclusive of neurodiversity\, chronic illness\, mental health disabilities\, and invisible disabilities\, as well as disabilities that affect mobility\, sight\, hearing\, and other senses. The main floor of BRIC House has an accessible entrance on Rockwell Place. There is an accessible\, all-gender bathroom on the main level. The Main Gallery and Stoop is accessible via wheelchair lift. The Ballroom and Project Room are on the main level and are wheelchair accessible. The event will have a sensory-friendly\, low-stim room. Portable FM assistive listening devices are available for programs on the Stoop and in the Ballroom upon request. For more information about accessibility at BRIC\, visit bricartsmedia.org/accessibility-bric.\n\n\n 
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/shallwegotogether/
LOCATION:25 Waverly Place rm 706
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241122T120000
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SUMMARY:Alt-Guggenheim: Ramps
DESCRIPTION:Title: SRGM New York\nDescription: 1071 Fifth Avenue; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York\, New York; Architect Frank Lloyd Wright\nPhotographer: David Heald\nRights: © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation\, New York. All Rights Reserved. \n\nAlt-Guggenheim: Ramps\nGuggenheim Museum\nNovember 22\, 2024 (RSVPs and waitlist full)\nCART and Description services provided. \nAlt-Guggenheim: Ramps is an experimental symposium that brings together disability historians\, artists\, art critics\, architects\, designers\, and students to consider the ramification of ramps\, past and future\, in the iconic setting of the Guggenheim Museum. A collaboration between Academic Engagement at the Guggenheim and the NYU Center for Disability Studies\, this event is part of the Guggenheim’s Innovation Lab. \n\nProgram: \n12:00-1:00 pm: Arrival\, Registration\, COVID testing \nWright Restaurant (enter via ramp at 88th street) \n  \n1:15-1:45 pm: Welcome and Introduction \nChitra Ramalingam (Guggenheim Museum)\, “Museum Kinaesthetics” \nMara Mills (New York University)\, “Alt Histories of the Guggenheim Spiral” \n  \n1:45-3:00: “The inclined plane: ramps in history\, space\, time”   \nDavid Gissen (Parsons School of Design) \nDavid Serlin (University of California\, San Diego) \nSarah Hendren (Northeastern University) \n  \n3:00-3:45: Coffee/refreshments/snacks break (Wright room) \n  \n3:45-4:30: Simi Linton\, “The Guggenheim Affair” \n  \n4:30-5:30: “The Ramification of ‘Ramps’” \nConstantina Zavitsanos and Geelia Ronkina (artists)\, “Inclines\, Declines\, Reclines: A Selection of Recent Ramp-based Artworks” (by zoom) \nEmily Watlington (Art in America) \n  \n5:30-6:00: Transition to the Guggenheim ramps during closed hours \n  \n6:00-6:45: Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson (Kinetic Light): Performance on Ramp 6 \n  \n6:45-7:30: Reception in the Wright \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAcademic Engagement at the Guggenheim brings students and faculty together to learn from and connect with the Guggenheim’s staff\, collection\, and architecture. The Innovation Lab is an experiential learning program developed in collaboration with university and college partners\, to cultivate interdisciplinary\, collaborative\, publicly engaged\, and experimental pedagogy and practice. \nThe NYU Center for Disability Studies promotes disability scholarship\, artistry\, and activism at NYU and beyond through research and publishing\, a disability studies minor\, a public event series\, and collaborative programming with arts and other organizations internationally. \n  \nPresenter Bios:\nDavid Gissen: David Gissen is the author of several books on architecture history and theory — The Architecture of Disability: Buildings\, Cities and Landscapes Beyond Access (2023)\, Manhattan Atmospheres: Architecture\, the Interior Environment and Urban Crises (2014)\, and Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments (2009). He also works with museums and cultural institutions on projects examining histories of architecture\, disability\, and design\, including commissioned work from MoMA\, The Walker Art Center\, The Victoria and Albert Museum\, and the 2016 and 2021 Venice Biennales. He is currently Professor of Architecture and Urban History at The New School and has held distinguished visiting appointments in the schools of architecture at Columbia University\, Yale\, MIT\, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSara Hendren: Sara Hendren is an artist\, design researcher\, writer\, professor at Northeastern University\, and the author of What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World. Her art and design works have been exhibited on the White House lawn\, the Seoul Museum of Art\, the Vitra Museum\, and many others\, and her work is held in the permanent collections at MoMA\, the Victoria & Albert Museum\, and the Cooper Hewitt. \nGeorgina Kleege: Georgina Kleege is Professor Emerita of English at UC Berkeley where she taught classes in creative writing and disability studies. She now lives in New York City.  Her recent books include: Sight Unseen\, Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller\, and More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art. \nLaurel Lawson: Laurel Lawson is a choreographic collaborator\, dancer\, designer\, and engineer with Kinetic Light. She is the primary costume and makeup designer\, and designs the wheelchairs that Kinetic Light use in performance. She is also the product designer and lead for access and software initiatives such as Audimance\, the company’s app which revolutionizes audio description for non-visual audiences\, and the primary curriculum author and teacher for Access ALLways. Her work has been recognized with a 2019-20 Dance/USA Artist Fellowship\, made possible with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation\, and with a 2023 Creative Capital Award. \nSimi Linton: Simi Linton is the author of Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity\, My Body Politic\, and “Cultural Territories of Disability\,” and the subject of the documentary Invitation to Dance (Christian von Tippelskirch and Simi Linton). Her current and largest project to date is the book Disability Arts\, and accompanying 3-phase radically accessible publishing schema – a project led by a collective of disabled creatives and activists. \nMara Mills: Mara Mills is Associate Professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University and Director of the NYU Center for Disability Studies\, a hub for disability arts programming. She is also a founding editorial board member of the journal Catalyst: Feminism\, Theory\, Technoscience. She is recently coeditor of Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press\, 2023) and a special issue of the journal Osiris on “Disability and the History of Science” (University of Chicago Press\, 2024). Upcoming publications include the edited collection How to be Disabled in a Pandemic (NYU Press\, February 2025)\, funded by the National Science Foundation\, and a collaborative research project with anthropologist Michele Friedner\, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities\, on “The Global Cochlear Implant.” \nChitra Ramalingam: Chitra Ramalingam is Director of Academic Engagement at the Guggenheim Museum\, where she oversees the museum’s programs for students and faculty in higher education\, including curricular partnerships with colleges and universities. An interdisciplinary educator\, scholar\, and curator with a PhD in History of Science from Harvard\, she has held positions at the Science Museum London and the University of Cambridge\, and was Associate Curator of Photography and Head of Prints and Drawings at the Yale Center for British Art. At Yale she also taught for nearly a decade in the History of Science and Medicine Program\, where she developed experimental pedagogies around university collections. She is co-editor of William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography (Yale University Press\, 2013) and author of numerous articles on the visual cultures of experimental science and the early history of photography. \nGeelia Ronkina: Geelia Ronkina is a writer and artist based in New York. Recent work has appeared in CURA.\, The Contemporary Journal\, the Poetry Project\, Storefront for Art and Architecture\, and Performance Space New York. They were a 2023–2024 Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney ISP and are a current PhD candidate in Performance Studies at New York University. \nDavid Serlin: David Serlin (pronouns: he/him) is Professor of Communication at UC San Diego\, where he is core faculty in Science Studies and affiliated faculty in Critical Gender Studies and Urban Studies. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome\, where he was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture in 2021. David is the author or editor of numerous books including Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press\, 2004)\, Artificial Parts\, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (co-editor; NYU Press\, 2002); and Keywords for Disability Studies (co-editor; NYU Press\, 2015). Today’s talk is excerpted from his forthcoming book Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture (University of Chicago Press\, 2025)\, which will be out in January. He is an editor at large for the journal Cabinet and a founding editor of the journal Catalyst: Feminism\, Theory\, Technoscience. Outside of academia\, David also writes books for children. He is the author of the New York Times-bestselling beginning reader Baby Monkey\, Private Eye (Scholastic\, 2018)\, which was illustrated by his husband\, Brian Selznick. \nAlice Sheppard: Alice Sheppard is the Founder and Artistic Director of Kinetic Light\, as well as a choreographer and dancer in the company. Sheppard has danced in projects with AXIS Dance Company\, Ballet Cymru\, GDance\, and Marc Brew Company in the United Kingdom and Full Radius Dance\, Marjani Forté\, MBDance\, Infinity Dance Theater\, and Steve Paxton in the United States. A Bessie award-winning choreographer\, Sheppard is also a sought-after speaker and has lectured on topics related to disability arts\, race and dance. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, in academic journals\, and the anthology Disability Visibility\, edited by Alice Wong.  She is a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow\, a joint initiative of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Ford Foundation. \nEmily Watlington: Emily Watlington is a critic\, curator\, and senior editor at Art in America. She holds a master’s degree in the History\, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art from MIT\, and is the recipient of the Rabkin Prize for Arts Journalism (2024)\, C/O Berlin Theorist Award (2020)\, and the Vera List Writing Prize for Visual Arts (2018). \nConstantina Zavitsanos: Constantina Zavitsanos works in sculpture\, performance\, text\, and sound and deals in debt\, dependency\, and other shared resources. Zavitsanoshas exhibited at New Museum\, Brooklyn Museum\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, The Kitchen\, Artists Space\, Participant Inc.\, and Performance Space New York\, and at Arika UK\, Glasgow; If I Can’t Dance\, Amsterdam; and Galerie Max Mayer\, Düsseldorf. With Park McArthur\, they wrote “Other Forms of Conviviality” in the journal\, Women & Performance\, (Routledge\, 2013) and “The Guild of the Brave Poor Things” in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press\, 2017). They co-organize the cross-disability arts events\, I Wanna Be With You Everywhere\, and have received a Roy Lichtenstein Award in Visual Arts from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/alt-guggenheim-ramps/
LOCATION:The Guggenheim Museum\, 1071 5th Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10128\, United States
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SUMMARY:Making Sense: Language\, Ethics\, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal
DESCRIPTION:Please 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. \nRSVP to jr6329@nyu.edu by Wednesday\, November 13th.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/msleauidn/
LOCATION:25 Waverly Place rm 706
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241104T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241104T193000
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SUMMARY:DISABILITY WORLDS: A reading and discussion with Faye Ginsburg\, Rayna Rapp and Mara Mills @ NYU Center for the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 4th | 6:00 pm EST\nNYU Center for the Humanities\, Room 531\n20 Cooper Square\, NYC\nFor in-person or virtual attendance.\nZoom link will be sent to registrants the day of the event.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a brief reading from the new book Disability Worlds (2024\, Duke University Press) with authors Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp (NYU Anthropology) followed by a discussion with Mara Mills (NYU MCC and Director\, Center for Disability Studies). \nDisability Worlds chronicles authors Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp’s immersion in NYC’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents\, activists\, anthropologists\, and disability studies scholars. Disability consciousness\, they show\, emerges in everyday politics\, practices\, and frictions\, from genetic testing to the reimagining of kinship\, and the perils of what some call “the disability cliff”\, while highlighting the remarkable world-changing creativity of neurodiversity activists and disabled artists.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisitor Access & Registration\nCART provided. If you have any accessibility needs or questions about our access plans\, please contact mk739@nyu.edu.Co-sponsored by: NYU Department of Anthropology\, Center for Disability Studies\, Center for Media\, Culture & History and the Institute of Public Knowledge
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/disabilityworldsfgrrmm/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Sq\, room 531\, 20 Cooper Square\, 7th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Leprosy\, care and human rights with Dr.  Beatriz Miranda-Galarza
DESCRIPTION:The 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 Studies in Mexico City.\n\n \nLEPROSY\, CARE and HUMAN RIGHTS\nFRIDAY NOVEMBER 1\,  5 – 6:30 PM\, NYU Anthropology Department 25 Waverly Place\, first floor conference room\n \nDr.  Beatriz Miranda-Galarza is an expert on resurgent leprosy in Latin America\, Africa and Asia. She will be speaking on leprosy in the USA; human rights\, leprosy and care; and the UN and Care Units. She will be screening two 5 minute videos created by people with leprosy. \n  \nRSVP to faye.ginsburg@nyu.edu\n \nIf you have any access needs\, please contact faye.ginsburg@nyu.edu. We can accommodate requests for CART or ASL interpretation up to October 15
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/lchr/
LOCATION:25 Waverly Place\, 25 Waverly Place\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T080000
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SUMMARY:Open Circuits Revisited
DESCRIPTION:The groundbreaking Open Circuits: An International Conference on the Future of Television\, sponsored by EAI and held at MoMA in 1974\, brought together artists\, theorists\, curators\, arts administrators\, and critics to discuss the challenges and opportunities of artists’ television and video. On the 50th anniversary of this landmark event\, EAI is thrilled to collaborate with NYU’s Center for Disability Studies and Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communications to present a series of public lectures and events\, paired with closed discussion sessions convening artists and practitioners in the field. If you have any accessibility needs or questions about our access plans for these events\, please contact cstrange@eai.org. We can accommodate requests for ASL interpretation up to two weeks prior to October 17. HEPA filters will be on the premises for all events\, provided by Artists in Resistance NYC.\n  \nSchedule of Events:\n  \nThursday\, October 17: Susan Murray and Fred Turner in Conversation\, with introductions by Rebecca Cleman and Marita Sturken\nLocation: The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU\n16-20 Cooper Sq.\, New York\, NY\, 10003\n  \nFriday\, October 18: The New Television: Video After Television: Book Launch and Reception\nLocation: EAI\n  \nSaturday\, October 19: Alexander Galloway x Whit Pow: Error\, Noise\, & Randomness\nLocation: EAI\n  \nPresenter Biographies:\n  \nSusan Murray\, New York University\nSusan Murray is Professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at NYU. She is the author of Bright Signals: A History of Color Television and was a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow.\n  \nFred Turner\, Stanford University\nFred Turner is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author most recently\, with Mary Beth Meehan\, of Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America.\n  \nMarita Sturken\, New York University\nMarita Sturken is Professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at NYU. She is the author of Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials\, Museums\, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era (New York University Press\, 2022)\, Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (with Lisa Cartwright\, Oxford University Press\, Third Edition 2018)\, among several other books.\n  \nRebecca Cleman\, Electronic Arts Intermix\nRebecca Cleman is Executive Director of Electronic Arts Intermix and a writer. She has programmed screenings and special projects for such venues as the International House Philadelphia; the Museum of Art and Design\, Anthology Film Archives\, and Andrea Rosen Gallery\, New York City; and the Julia Stoschek Collection\, Germany.\n  \nAlexander R. Galloway\, New York University\nAlexander R. Galloway is a professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University. His most recent book is Uncomputable: Play and Politics In the Long Digital Age (Verso\, 2021).\n  \nWhit Pow\nWhit Pow is an assistant professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University. Their work focuses on queer and transgender (trans) histories of games\, computational media and electronic art. Their latest article\, “How the Computer Taught Us to See\,” is published in Camera Obscura by Duke University Press.\n 
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/open-circuits-revisited/
LOCATION:25 Waverly Place rm 706
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SUMMARY:Conference: The Global Cochlear Implant
DESCRIPTION:Image from Darrin Martin\, “Listening In…“ \n\nConference: The Global Cochlear Implant\nThe University of Chicago \nOctober 11-12\, 2024 \nRoom: (This conference is taking place in person only at The University of Chicago) \n\nFriday: Social Science Research Building room 302\nSaturday: Rosenwald Hall room 329\n\nSponsored by the University of Chicago and the NYU Center for Disability Studies\, with funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities Dangers and Opportunities of Technology Program. \nCo-sponsored by the University of Chicago Center for International Social Science Research\, Center for East Asian Studies\, and Department of Comparative Human Development Giannino Fund. \nCART and ASL provided. \n\nConference Program: \n\nFriday October 11th\, 2024 (Social Science Research Building room 302) \n9:30-10: Introduction by Michele Friedner (University of Chicago) and Mara Mills (New York University) \n\n\n10:00-10:30 Mara Mills (New York University)\, “There is No Such Thing as Artificial Hearing: Cochlear Implants Become Speech Processors (1964-1978)” \n10:30-11:00: Soline Vennetier (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)\, “Shifting technology: a History of Cochlear Implants\, Deafness\, and the Deaf Community in France Since the 1960s” \n11:00-11:30: Magnus Schaefer (McGill)\, “MED-EL: Naturalizing ‘Natural Hearing’” \n11:30-12:00: Discussion: Histories of Cochlear Implants \n12:00-1:00:  LUNCH \n1:00-1:30: Kaitlin Stack Whitney (RIT)\, “Cochlear and neural implants beyond the human” \n1:30-2:00: Corinna Hill (RIT/NTID) and Wyatte Hall (University of Rochester Medical Center)\, “Reality Versus Marketing: The Role and Perceptions of the Cochlear Implant as A Language Acquisition Device Throughout History” \n2:00-2:15  BREAK \n2:15-2:45: Sharath Chandra Ramakrishnan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)\, “Regulatory concerns and unintended consequences in the assemblage of cochlear implantation” \n2:45-3:15: Discussion: STS approaches to Cochlear Implants \n5:00-6:00: Darrin Martin (UC Davis)\, Artist Talk and Screening of “Listening In…” \n6:00-7:00: RECEPTION \nSaturday October 12\, 2024 (Social Science Research Building room 302) \n10:00-10:30: Timothy Loh (Princeton)\, “An expanded istifada: cochlear implants and regulating communication for deaf Jordanians” \n10:30-11:00: Fulden Arisan (University of Chicago)\, “Globalizing Hearing Loss: Cochlear Implant Networks and Prosthetic Citizenship in Turkey” \n11:00-11:15 BREAK \n11:15-11:45: Theresia Hofer (University of Bristol) and Junhui Yang (University of Central Lancashire)\, “The Tech\, the State and the People in the Routinization of Cochlear Implants in China” \n11:45-12:15: Michele Friedner (University of Chicago)\, “Cochlear Implant Circuits: Geopolitical and Affective Hearing and Not-Hearing Mobilities and Networks in Pakistan” \n12:15-1:15: Tsung-Lun Alan Wang (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)\, “Linguistic entrepreneurship and cochlear implants: An ethnographic context of Taiwanese deaf adults” \n1:15-2:15: LUNCH \n2:15-2:45: Discussion: Ethnographies of Cochlear Implants \n2:45-3:15: Lindsey D. Felt (Stanford)\, “Cochlear Implants and Criptech Futures” \n3:15-3:45: Danielle Carr (UCLA)\, “Emerging Concerns in the Field of Neural Implants” \n3:45-4:15 Closing Discussion: Keywords and Cross-Cutting Concepts \n6:00: DINNER FOR CONFERENCE PRESENTERS
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/conference-the-global-cochlear-implant/
LOCATION:The University of Chicago
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SUMMARY:Sunaura Taylor Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Sunaura Taylor Book Talk\nWednesday\, Sep 25 2024\, 6PM\nSCA Flex Space 20 Cooper Square\, 4th Floor \n\nPlease join The Center for Disability Studies\, the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis\, and NYU Environmental Studies for a book talk where author\, Sunaura Taylor will be discussing her book\, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from A Wounded Desert\, and will be in conversation with Professor Julie Livingston and Professor Thuy Tu. \n  \n Deep below the ground in Tucson\, Arizona\, lies an aquifer forever altered by the detritus of a postwar Superfund site. Disabled Ecologies tells the story of this contamination and its ripple effects through the largely Mexican American community living above. Drawing on her own complex relationship to this long-ago injured landscape\, Sunaura Taylor takes us with her to follow the site’s disabled ecology—the networks of disability\, both human and wild\, that are created when ecosystems are corrupted and profoundly altered.\n  \nWhat Taylor finds is a story of entanglements that reach far beyond the Sonoran Desert. These stories tell of debilitating and sometimes life-ending injuries\, but they also map out alternative modes of connection\, solidarity\, and resistance—an environmentalism of the injured. An original and deeply personal reflection on what disability means in an era of increasing multispecies disablement\, Disabled Ecologies is a powerful call to reflect on the kinds of care\, treatment\, and assistance this age of disability requires.
URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/sunaura-taylor-book-talk/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 4th floor
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