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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.