Crip Genealogies Virtual Book Launch Friday, April 14 at 4:00 - 5:30pm (ET) on Zoom Join us as we celebrate the publication of Crip Genealogies, a new volume that seeks to reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. The […]
Crip Authorship: Disability as Method A book presentation with the International Center for Finer Arts Kampnagel Friday, 12th May at 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (ET) / 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm (CET) From Thursday to Sunday this week, the International Center for Finer Arts Kampnagel, in Hamburg (Germany) is presenting the first Performative […]
Please note that this event has been rescheduled and will now take place in June Carolyn Lazard and Jerron Herman: Long Take Thursday, June 8 at 4:00-5:30pm (ET) Join us for A virtual celebration of Carolyn Lazard's debut US institutional solo exhibition, Long Take, at ICA (Philadelphia). Lazard will be in conversation with dancer and […]
The Center for Disability Studies and NYU's Grey Art Gallery invite you to join Emilie L. Gossiaux for an artist talk in advance of her debut museum solo exhibition, Other-Worlding, at the Queens Museum in New York City. Gossiaux will be in conversation with Georgina Kleege, author of More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to […]
A discussion with Andrew Leland on his book about going blind, The Country of the Blind. Moderated by Gideon Lewis-Kraus, a staff writer at The New Yorker. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies. Non-NYU-affiliated must RSVP in advance!
The final event in the Disability and the Digital series features Emily Lim Rogers (Duke), Maxwell Joy Moore (Power Not Pity), and Louise Hickman (University of Cambridge) discussing their essays in the 2023 edited volume Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press). Moderated by Rebecca Sanchez and Mara Mills, Rogers will present on "Virtual Ethnography," Moore on "Podcasting for Disability Justice," and Hickman on "Willful Dictionaries and Crip Authorship in CART." The Disability and the Digital Series is supported by the Digital Media and Dis/Abilities Research […]
Join us on the evening of November 9 for the newest Late Shift program highlighting LAX, a site-responsive, interactive performance and score choreographed by interdisciplinary artist and dancer Jerron Herman. Designed to be experienced from anywhere within Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda, Herman’s score will guide visitors’ energy throughout the building, creating moments that honor our […]
Thursday, November 16 at 7PM in-person @ St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 1003 A banner with a beige background and thin black-line frame; off-right are two irregular half circles drawn in charcoal, extending to the top edge and bottom edge of the banner and almost meeting each other in the center but not quite. […]
Choreographer Jerron Herman and Historian of Science and Technology Mara Mills discuss opera and disability and Herman's approach to choreography and design for the upcoming 2025 world premiere of Sensorium Ex, a contemporary opera composed by Paola Prestini, with libretto by Brenda Shaugnessy and co-direction by Jay Scheib. In partnership with NYU Center for Disability Studies, the evening will investigate […]
Thursday, February 15 2024 from 12-1pm EST Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness book cover. A woman lays with her eyes closed, facing up towards the sky. She is immersed in pink, orange, and white circles, which live on about 2/3 of the book cover. In all caps in a white bolded type, Shahd Alshammari's name is […]