• Making Sense: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal

    25 Waverly Place rm 706

    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. RSVP to jr6329@nyu.edu by Wednesday, November 13th.

    Free
  • Alt-Guggenheim: Ramps

    The Guggenheim Museum 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY, United States

    Title: SRGM New York Description: 1071 Fifth Avenue; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, New York; Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Photographer: David Heald Rights: © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. All Rights Reserved. Alt-Guggenheim: Ramps Guggenheim Museum November 22, 2024 (RSVPs and waitlist full) CART and Description services provided. Alt-Guggenheim: Ramps is an […]

  • shall we go together? A Symposium on Care, Equity, and Access in the Arts

    25 Waverly Place rm 706

    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 […]

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  • Introducing the MAD Studies Reader

    “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 […]

  • Celebrating Osiris 39: Disability and the History of Science

    Columbia University Fayerweather Hall, Room 513 1180 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027   Disability 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 […]

  • Agency of Access: Book Talk with Amanda Cachia

    Thursday, February 13th, 2025 4:00PM-5:00PM Whitney Museum of American Art Floor 8 (Trustee Room) Whitney 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 […]

  • Stephen Dwoskin’s Face of Our Fear (1992): Reflections on Disability in Film with Rachel Garfield

    The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts NY

    Film Screening | Stephen Dwoskin's Face of Our Fear (1992): Reflections on Disability in Film with Rachel Garfield   The Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts 1 Washington Place NY 10003 Starting in the mid-1960s, Stephen Dwoskin, a UK-based experimental filmmaker who survived childhood poliomyelitis, developed a distinct audio-visual style rooted in the […]

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  • Mourning and Militancy: Bodily Autonomy and Networks of Care

    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, […]

  • Film screening Spanish Cinema Now + 2025: Por donde pasa el silencio by Sandra Romero

    King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square S, New York, United States

        In cooperation with Spain Culture, and as part of the 2025 edition of Spanish Cinema Now +.  Espacio 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. Film Screening: Por […]

  • All Day All Night: A Conversation with Seth Kim-Cohen, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield, Park McArthur, and Mara Mills

    Hess Theater and Online, via Zoom

    Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 4–5:30 pm Hess Theater and Online, via Zoom This 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 […]