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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
NYU IDM Fall 2022 Graduate Colloquium Speaker Series Featuring NYU CDS Visiting Scholar MIYUKI TANAKA Wednesday, November 9, 2022. 5:00 - 5:50 p.m. EST. Auditorium 202 at 370 Jay St. and Zoom Miyuki Tanaka is a Curator and Producer who works on projects that defy categorization under the theme […]
Join us for A Discussion and Reading of Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation (2022) with Editor AMANDA CACHIA and contributors SANDY GUTTMAN, MOLLY JOYCE, LYZA SYLVESTRE Moderated by Mara Mills Thursday, November 17, 2022. 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. EST. Image Description: The book cover of CURATING […]
Image Description: The book cover of Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present by Dennis Tyler . The book's title and author's name are typed on the top of the cover, above a black and brown mosaic silhouette against a lighter mosaic background. Join us for A Reading […]