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  • Fire Through Dry Grass (2023, 89 minutes) screening and discussion with film directors Andres “Jay” Molina and Alexis Neophytides, moderated by director of Proclaiming Disability Arts, Simi Linton

    19 University Place, NYU, Theater 102

    Friday, March 1 5:00-7:30 PM 19 University Place, New York University Theater 102     A film poster with the title “Fire Through Dry Grass” in bold yellow handwritten block letters. An image of 5 Black and brown men in wheelchairs, looking straight into the camera, is above the text. They are on a dark […]

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  • Shrinkage And Activist Affordances, With Arseli Dokumaci And Michele Friedner

    Join us as Arseli Dokumaci and Michele Friedner engage in a conversation about shrinking worlds and activist affordances. Following a brief viewing and discussion of Arseli's ethnographic videos showing activist affordances in action, Arseli and Michele will facilitate and open up a conversation about the immense amount of effort and creative work disabled people do […]

  • What does sound do? An artist talk with Andy Slater, Josephine Sales, and Meesh Sara Fradkin, moderated by Jonathan Sterne

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    The Center for Disability Studies invites you to join Andy Slater, Josephine Sales, and Meesh Sara Fradkin for an artist talk moderated by Jonathan Sterne. The three artists will delve into their individual practices through various forms of sound art and descriptions, and then come together in conversation about poetics and access.   Friday April 12, 4-5:30 […]

  • A scene of a lush green backyard garden. The garden is tall and meandering but clearly cared for. The dense green pushes against the sides of Brooklyn apartment buildings. A caption reads "vibrant slowness" in large white text is in the center of the video still.

    An Abundance of Feeling: An Artist Talk and Reading with Alex Dolores Salerno and ofi Davis

    Join us for a conversation between poet ofi davis and artist Alex Dolores Salerno, moderated by artist Francisco echo Eraso in conjunction with Alex Dolores Salerno’s exhibition Greenness on view at Real Art Ways. Greenness, a show dedicated to disabled ancestor Mel Baggs, frames being in relationship with the earth as an access need. ofi […]

  • Book Launch for Disability Worlds, by Faye Ginsburg & Rayna Rapp (Duke University Press, 2024)

    King Juan Carlos Center Patio 53 Washington Square South

      Please join The Center for Disability Studies, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp (NYU anthropologists/authors/activists) to celebrate the publication of Disability Worlds with a welcome from Jordana Mendelson (Director, NYU KJCC, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese) and remarks by Simi Linton (disability activist, project director and author of Proclaiming Disability Arts) followed by a brief reading from the book.   […]

  • Sunaura Taylor Book Talk

    20 Cooper Square, 4th floor

    Sunaura Taylor Book Talk Wednesday, Sep 25 2024, 6PM SCA Flex Space 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Please 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, […]

  • A photograph of a video installation with two large screens hung at right angles in the corner of a room. Filling each screen is a historical image in rainbow tones: on the left, a medical sketch of the inner ear; and on the right, a photograph of the back of the head of an early cochlear implant user. Overlaid in a line at the center of each screen are several other, mostly abstract images in different colors, some archival and some computer-generated. To the right of the installation is a smaller screen on a stand, on which a video of an ASL interpreter is playing, with a brightly-colored digital image of a waveform and other shapes in the background.

    Conference: The Global Cochlear Implant

    The University of Chicago

    Image from Darrin Martin, "Listening In..." Conference: The Global Cochlear Implant The University of Chicago October 11-12, 2024 Room: (This conference is taking place in person only at The University of Chicago) Friday: Social Science Research Building room 302 Saturday: Rosenwald Hall room 329 Sponsored by the University of Chicago and the NYU Center for […]

  • EAI logo in black and white

    Open Circuits Revisited

    25 Waverly Place rm 706

    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 […]

  • Leprosy, care and human rights with Dr.  Beatriz Miranda-Galarza

    25 Waverly Place 25 Waverly Place, New York, NY, United States

    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 […]

  • DISABILITY WORLDS: A reading and discussion with Faye Ginsburg, Rayna Rapp and Mara Mills @ NYU Center for the Humanities

    20 Cooper Sq, room 531 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Monday, November 4th | 6:00 pm EST NYU Center for the Humanities, Room 531 20 Cooper Square, NYC For in-person or virtual attendance. Zoom link will be sent to registrants the day of the event. Join 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 […]