Golem Girl: A Memoir (Riva Lehrer, 2020)
*Please note time change* Friday, March 12th, 4-5:30 PM, (ET) A Reading & Conversation with authors/artists/disability activists Riva Lehrer and Sunaura Taylor Riva Lehrer's memoir is a vivid portrait of her life, growing up disabled and Jewish, discovering her sexuality and her place as an artist in the emerging world of Disability Culture. Co-sponsors: ACLS …
Joseph Grigely and Emily Watlington in Conversation
Joseph Grigely “Fourteen Untitled Conversations” 2002 Artist and writer Joseph Grigely and critic and curator Emily Watlington in conversation on art, disability, apologies and other matters. Moderator: Mara Mills (C0-Chair NYU CDS) Joseph Grigely is an artist and writer. He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the MCA, Chicago; the Musée …
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La Marr Jurelle Bruce and Fred Moten in Conversation
How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness & Black Radical Creativity (Duke, 2021) Reading by author LA MARR JURELLE BRUCE (University of Maryland, American Studies) How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness & Black Radical Creativity (Duke, 2021) Followed by a conversation with FRED MOTEN (NYU, Performance Studies) Moderator: MARA MILLS …
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Katherine Standefer and Neta Alexander in Conversation
Reading by author KATHERINE STANDEFER Lightning Flowers: My Journey To Uncover The Cost Of Saving A Life (Little, Brown Spark, 2020) Followed by a conversation with NETA ALEXANDER (Colgate University, Film and Media Studies) Friday, October 8. 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Katherine Standefer is the author of Lightning Flowers: My Journey To Uncover the …
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Bojana Coklyat, Shannon Finnegan and Thomas Reid Discuss Alt-Text and Audio Description
Image Description: A blue postcard with blue, uneven, handwritten capitals spelling, “Artists for Alt-Text.” Disabled Creators BOJANA COKLYAT, SHANNON FINNEGAN and THOMAS REID discuss ALT-TEXT and AUDIO DESCRIPTION Moderator: KEVIN GOTKIN, Disability artist/activist Friday, November 5. 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Alt-text and audio description are part of a suite of access practices that aim …
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Impossible Enterprise: CETA, Ron Whyte, and The National Task Force for Disability and the Arts
Join Us for A Conversation With PATRICK McKELVEY (Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh) Image Description: Patrick McKelvey, a half-smiling scruffy white queer with teal glasses standing before a deep blue background. and ROBERT McRUER (Professor of English, The George Washington University) Image Description: This is an outdoor headshot of Robert McRuer. …
Virtual Launch Party: Disability Studies Quarterly 41, no. 4 – INDIGENEITY & DISABILITY
NYU's Center for Disability Studies and Native Studies Forum invite you to a virtual launch party to celebrate a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly 41, no. 4 INDIGENEITY & DISABILITY Kinship, Place, and Knowledge-Making Thursday, March 31. 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. This special issue considers reciprocity as a question, practice, and aspiration. What is possible when we …
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Aesthetics of Access in Dance
Join Us for A Conversation On The Aesthetics of Access in Dance With CHRISTOPHER "UNPEZVERDE" NÚÑEZ & YO-YO LIN Moderated by Kayla Hamilton Image Description: Kayla, a Black woman with medium brown skin looks directly into the camera. She is wearing a tan and black vertically striped shirt. She has black shoulder length locs …
DISABILITY AND THE DIGITAL – Access Aesthetics in Dance and Performance
Join Us for a DISABILITY AND THE DIGITAL CONVERSATION Access Aesthetics in Dance and Performance With Nina Mühlemann (Bern) Andy Slater (Chicago) Melanie Zimmermann (Hamburg) Moderated by Hanna Göbel & Mara Mills Thursday, June 16, 2022 12 -1 p.m. EST | 6-7 pm CEST | 7-8 pm TRT The session “Access Aesthetics in Dance …
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M. Leona Godin’s Book Release Celebration and Conversation
The Modern and Contemporary Colloquium and NYU Center for Disability Studies Present M. Leona Godin (NYU) In Conversation with Elizabeth Bearden (UW-Madison) & Stephen Kuusisto (Syracuse) Image Description: Author photo next to paperback cover. Godin stands to the side of and faces a six-foot canvas on which is painted a hyper-realistic close-up of her head …
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