BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//NYU Center for Disability Studies - ECPv6.18.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for NYU Center for Disability Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T140000 DTSTAMP:20250602T194717Z CREATED:20230918T203204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T194717Z UID:2955-1696510800-1696514400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Disability and the Digital x Crip Authorship DESCRIPTION: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.” \nThe Disability and the Digital Series is supported by the Digital Media and Dis/Abilities Research Network funded by DFG. \n\n  \nA light-skinned person with dark brown glasses is leaning into the camera. Her eyes are partly closed from smiling. She wears a light green dress with an open navy jacket over the top. Behind her are open areas of grass and trees. \nLouise Hickman is a research associate at the Minderoo Centre of Technology and Democracy\, University of Cambridge. Previously\, she was at the London School of Economics and the Ada Lovelace Institute’s JUST-AI Network on Data and AI Ethics. Her research draws on critical disability studies\, feminist labor studies\, and science and technology studies to examine the historical conditions of access work. She holds a PhD in Communication from the University of California\, San Diego\, and is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled “Crip AI: The Automation of Access.” \nMaxwell smiles slightly at the camera while wearing a multi-patterned shirt\, hexagonal purple glasses and blue glass earrings. Behind zir is sand\, ocean waves and a jagged cliff. \n  \n  \n​After receiving a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis nine years ago\, Maxwell Joy Moore became a podcaster and political agitator with a fierce desire to change the way disabled people of color are seen in mass media. Zir episodes serve as a vehicle for amplifying\, preserving\, and delighting in the voices of disabled people of color. Ze is committed to interjecting disability justice in any conversation ze has and loves to cultivate collaborative energy with cultural workers\, writers\, artists and storytellers within zir community. Maxwell was a 2019 Echoing Ida fellow and the 2019 Stitcher Breakthrough Fellow. Ze was a 2019 Werk It! Presenter and was featured at the Afros and Audio Festival in 2020. \nZe is and will always be a proud Black\, Jamaican-American\, queer\, non-binary\, disabled alien-prince from The Bronx. \n  \nHeadshot of Emily Lim Rogers\, an Asian transmasculine person wearing yellow glasses and a floral button down shirt in a park with dappled light from leafy trees in the background. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nEmily Lim Rogers is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her research and teaching focus on questions of debility\, knowledge\, and biomedicine. She is currently working on her first book project\, Clinical Proximities: ME/CFS and Biomedicine’s Binds\, an historical and ethnographic study of the politics of myalgic encephalomyelitis in the US. \n  \nEvent is free and open to the public. \nASL and live captions will be provided. \nIf you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone. \nPlease email accessibility needs as they relate to this event to msf440@nyu.edu. \n\n  \n  \nCo-sponsored by Digital Media and Dis/abilities Research Network\, Waterfront e.V. Hafen City Universität Hamburg (HCU)\, NYU Institute for Public Knowledge\, NYU Tandon School of Engineering\, 370 Jay Project \n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/disability-and-the-digital-x-crip-authorship/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T200000 DTSTAMP:20240614T132159Z CREATED:20230918T202221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T132159Z UID:2952-1696442400-1696449600@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:A Discussion with Andrew Leland DESCRIPTION: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. \nCo-sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies. \nNon-NYU-affiliated must RSVP in advance! URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/a-discussion-with-andrew-leland/ LOCATION:20 Cooper Sq\, room 531\, 20 Cooper Square\, 7th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/A-Conversation-with-Andrew-Leland-Flyer.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230922T173000 DTSTAMP:20251010T164518Z CREATED:20230905T152753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251010T164518Z UID:2922-1695398400-1695403800@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Other-Worlding: Artist Talk by Emilie L. Gossiaux\, in Conversation with Georgina Kleege DESCRIPTION: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 Art. Gossiaux and Kleege will preview Gossiaux’s exhibit\, discuss her artistic practice\, and consider the ways a disabled artist’s experience can inform how museums provide access. Moderated by Mara Mills. \nEmilie L. Gossiaux is a multidisciplinary artist whose works center disability pride through her investigations of the complex relationships between humans and animals in the Anthropocene\, or the human-impacted world. Gossiaux’s work fosters imagination\, liberation\, and pleasure in opposition to the Anthropocene’s exploitative systems of capitalism and ableism. For her first museum solo exhibition\, Gossiaux will create a large-scale sculptural installation that both expands upon her deep and sincere relationship with her guide dog\, London\, and celebrates the white cane as a symbol of freedom. \n\n  \n \nA photo of the artist Emilie L. Gossiaux sitting in her studio—she has dark brown hair\, light tan skin\, and is wearing a denim blue sleeveless button-up top and black pants. She looks down with a big smile on her face\, and holds up a small drawing of her guide dog\, London\, in her hands. London\, a golden labrador retriever\, is seated beside Emilie and is poking her nose at the bottom of the drawing. \n  \nEmilie Louise Gossiaux (b. 1989\, New Orleans\, LA) received a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2014\, and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art in 2019. Gossiaux’s recent solo shows include Significant Otherness at Mother Gallery\, New York\, and Memory of a Body at Mother Gallery\, Beacon\, NY. Group shows include Don’t Mind If I Do at MoCa Cleveland (2023); In Plain Sight at the Wellcome Collection (2022);  Greater New York at MoMA PS 1 (2021); Crip Time at Museum für Moderne Kunst\, Frankfurt (2021); Open Call at The Shed (2021) among others. Gossiaux was awarded a John F. Kennedy Center’s VSA Prize\, the Wynn Newhouse Award\, a NYFA Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant\, the Colene Brown Art Prize\, the Queens Museum Jerome Foundation Fellowship\, and the Pébéo Production Prize. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Paris Review\, The Brooklyn Rail\, The New Yorker\, Art in America\, and Topical Cream Magazine. Gossiaux currently lives and works in New York City. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nThis is a head shot of Georgina Kleege\, a middle-aged white woman with chin-length white hair. She is smiling and her white cane is visible on the right side of the image. \n  \nGeorgina Kleege is Professor Emeritus of English at UC Berkeley. She now lives in New York City. Her recent books include: Sight Unseen\, Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller\, and More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art. \n  \n  \n  \nEvent is free and open to the public. \nASL and live captions will be provided. \nIf you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone. \nPlease email accessibility needs as they relate to this event to msf440@nyu.edu. \n\nCo-sponsored by Proclaiming Disability Arts URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/other-worlding-artist-talk-by-emilie-l-gossiaux-in-conversation-with-georgina-kleege/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/unnamed-1-1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230608T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230608T173000 DTSTAMP:20240614T132305Z CREATED:20230302T010829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T132305Z UID:2239-1686240000-1686245400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Carolyn Lazard and Jerron Herman: Long Take DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event has been rescheduled and will now take place in June\n  \nCarolyn Lazard and Jerron Herman: Long Take\n\nThursday\, June 8 at 4:00-5:30pm (ET)\n  \nJoin us for\n  \nA virtual celebration of Carolyn Lazard’s debut US institutional solo exhibition\, Long Take\, at ICA (Philadelphia). Lazard will be in conversation with dancer and artist Jerron Herman\, whose audio recorded and described performance anchors the exhibition. Lazard and Herman will discuss their ongoing collaboration as artists and curators\, experimentation with access protocols\, and the experience of dance as both performer and spectator.\n  \nModerated by Mara Mills \n  \n\n  \n \nCarolyn Lazard\nCarolyn Working\, 2020\nPen on paper\n11 × 14 inches (27.94 × 35.56 cm)\n\n[A close-up view of a line drawing in black pen on brown-toned paper in a light wooden frame. The drawing is of a person with tightly coiled curly hair resting in bed while looking at an Apple brand laptop. The figure lays on a pillow with their head propped up by their hand. Their face is mostly obscured by the laptop revealing only one eye. Their body is covered in a blanket. The folds of the blanket take up half of the surface of the drawing.]\n\n\nCarolyn Lazard is an artist based in New York and Philadelphia. They have participated in exhibitions at several institutions including KW Institute for Contemporary Art\, Berlin; Museum fur Moderne Kunst\, Frankfurt; MoMA PS1\, New York; Palais de Tokyo\, Paris; and the New Museum\, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Long Take\, a co-commission between the Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis\, Nottingham Contemporary\, Nottingham\, and The Institute of Contemporary Art\, Philadelphia. Their work was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and the 2022 Venice Biennale. Lazard is a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow and a 2021 United States Artists Fellow. They hold a BA from Bard College and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.\n\n\n\n\nJERRON HERMAN\, a dark-skinned Black man with short cut blonde hair \nand a black beard\, smiling brightly in an ornate salon against the back of a chair. \nHe hugs himself while wearing a chartreuse tank and black leggings.\n\n\n\n\n\nJerron Herman is a disabled dancer and writer who creates works to facilitate welcoming. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees at Dance/USA and regularly writes on art and culture. His play\, 3 Bodies\, was published in Theater Magazine June 2022 issue. Jerron also curated the series Access Check 2.0 at the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation (2019-2020) and Discourse: Disabled Artists at the Joyce for The Joyce Theater (2021). His awards include a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship\, made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon and Ford Foundation; the Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship from the Jerome Foundation\, both in 2021.\n\njerronherman.com\nSocials – @jerronherman\n\n\n\n\nEvent is free and open to the public \nCART and ASL will be provided \nIf you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone \nPlease email accessibility needs as they relate to this event to msf440@nyu.edu \n  \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nCo-sponsored by: Grey Art Gallery\, Proclaiming Disability Arts\, Center for Black Visual Culture/Institute for African American Affairs\, Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity\, and Strategic Innovation\, The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/carolyn-lazard-and-jerron-herman-long-take/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230512T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230512T133000 DTSTAMP:20230509T173824Z CREATED:20230509T171559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230509T173824Z UID:2539-1683892800-1683898200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Book Presentation\, Crip Authorship: Disability As Method DESCRIPTION:Crip Authorship: Disability as Method\n\nA book presentation with the International Center for Finer Arts Kampnagel\n\nFriday\, 12th May at 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (ET) / 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm (CET)\n  \n  \nFrom Thursday to Sunday this week\, the International Center for Finer Arts Kampnagel\, in Hamburg (Germany) is presenting the first Performative Book Fair ever! The event is questioning exclusionary mechanisms of the literary production in a capitalist and violent system\, and exploring aesthetics and political potential of speculative fiction\, storytelling and revolutionary writing\, through interventions\, installations\, networking spaces\, panel discussions and lectures with artists\, authors\, publishers\, activists and researchers.\n\n  \nIn the frame of this book fair\, Kampnagel has invited editors Mara Mills and Rebecca Sánchez to collaborate in an online event to present the publication “Crip Authorship – Disability as Method” (forthcoming in July from NYU Press). This expansive volume presents the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Starting from the premise that disability is plural and authorship spans composition\, affect\, and publishing\, this collection of thirty-five compact essays asks how knowledge about disability is produced and shared in disability studies. Three of the volume’s authors will share excerpts from their chapters:\n\n  \nAlison Kafer (University of Texas\, Austin)\, “Manifesting Manifestos”\nTeresa Blankmeyer Burke (Gallaudet University)\, “ASL Books and Chirocentric Publication”\nJen Deerinwater (Cherokee Nation\, Crushing Colonialism)\, “Crip Indigenous Storytelling Across the Digital Divide”\nMara Mills and Rebecca Sánchez will moderate the event.\n  \nZOOM LINK HERE\n  \n  \n\nEvent is free and open to the public\nThe event will take place in English and ASL\, with live captions in English and live interpretation to German\nIf you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone\nPlease email accessibility needs related to this event to msf440@nyu.edu\n\n  \n  \n\nPROGRAM FOR BOOKFAIR\nThe book fair is curated by Pajam Masoumi and Alina Buchberger URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/book-presentation-crip-authorship-disability-as-method/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230414T173000 DTSTAMP:20251010T164553Z CREATED:20230406T033224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251010T164553Z UID:2481-1681488000-1681493400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Crip Genealogies Virtual Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Crip Genealogies Virtual Book Launch\nFriday\, April 14 at 4:00 – 5:30pm (ET) on Zoom\n\n  \nJoin 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 co-editors — Mel Y. Chen\, Alison Kafer\, Eunjung Kim\, and Julie Avril Minich — will briefly introduce the volume\, followed by comments from eight contributors and a conversation with the audience. This event is moderated by Mara Mills.\n  \n\n  \n\n\n  \nThe image on the cover is a detail of Sandie Chun-shan Yi’s artwork titled Skinny (2014–2019)\, made in collaboration with Rahnee Patrick. The color photograph consists of a close-up view of two small sacs made with silk organza resting on a white background. One sac takes up the lower half of the image while the other sac appears to float above it. Both sacs contain pieces of human skin flakes and have clusters of embroidery stitches in dark red and ivory colors. e book title\, Crip Genealogies\, sits in between the sacs. The editors’ names—Mel Y. Chen\, Alison Kafer\, Eunjung Kim\, and Julie Avril Minich—appear in smaller font and in all capital letters above the book title\, to the right. The bottom right corner features the text “with a foreword by therí a. pickens” in lowercase letters.\n\n\n  \n  \nMel Y. Chen is associate professor of gender and women’s studies and director for the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at the University of California\, Berkeley. Following Animacies: Biopolitics\, Racial Mattering\, and Queer Affect (Duke University Press\, 2012)\, they are completing a second book titled Chemical Intimacies\, on intoxication’s involvement in archival histories of the interanimation of time\, race\, and disability. Besides publishing widely in journals\, Chen coedits a Duke book series titled Anima\, enjoys teaching to the odd note\, and is part of a small and sustaining queer/trans of color arts collective in the San Francisco Bay Area.\n  \n  \nAlison Kafer is the Embrey Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin\, where she also teaches courses in lgbtq studies and disability studies. She is the author of Feminist\, Queer\, Crip (2013)\, which theorizes crip futurity and imagines futures for disabled people through cross-disability\, cross-movement\, and coalition politics. Her more recent work appears in Catalyst: Feminism\, Theory\, Technoscience; the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies; and South Atlantic Quarterly. She is currently working on a manuscript on disability and reproductive justice.\n  \n  \nEunjung Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Department of Cultural Foundations of Education and Disability Studies Program at Syracuse University. She is the author of Curative Violence: Rehabilitating Disability\, Gender and Sexuality in Modern Korea (Duke University Press\, 2017\, winner of Alison Piepmeier Award\, James B. Palaise Prize). Her work has appeared in journals such as Catalyst: Feminism\, Theory and Technoscience; Sexualities; GLQ; and Social Politics\, and in edited collections\, Against Health; Intersectionality and Beyond; Asexualities; and Disability\, Human Rights\, and the Limits of Humanitarianism. Her research and teaching is in transnational feminist disability studies theories\, asexuality theories\, and crip ecologies. She is a member of the disabled women’s organization Jangaeyeosong Gonggam\, wde\, in South Korea.\n  \n  \nJulie Avril Minich is an associate professor in the departments of English and Mexican American & Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Minich is the author of Accessible Citizenships: Disability\, Nation\, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico (2014)\, winner of the 2016 MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies. Her next book\, titled Radical Health: Unwellness\, Care\, and Latinx Expressive Culture\, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in October 2023.\n  \n  \nLezlie Frye is an assistant professor of gender studies and disability studies in the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah. Her research concentrates on the cultural history of disability\, race\, and gender in the United States since the 1970s\, with a particular emphasis on histories of state violence\, citizenship\, and social movements. Lezlie received her PhD in 2016 from the American Studies Program\, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis\, at New York University and was the 2014–15 Predoctoral Research Fellow in the Fisher Center for Gender Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Lezlie is currently working on a manuscript titled “Domesticating Disability: Post–Civil Rights Racial Disenfranchisement and the Birth of the Disabled Citizen.” Lezlie’s academic work is preceded by over a decade of popular education\, performance\, activism\, and organizing work that coheres around disability\, racial\, and economic justice.\n  \n  \nLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled and autistic nonbinary femme writer\, educator\, curator\, and disability/transformative justice worker of Burgher/ Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Galician/Roma descent. They are the author or coeditor of ten books\, including The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies\, Love Notes and Mourning Songs\, Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement (coedited with Ejeris Dixon)\, as well as Tonguebreaker\, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice\, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home\, Bodymap\, and Consensual Genocide; with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani\, they coedited The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. A longtime performer with Sins Invalid\, they are creating Living Altars/The Stacey Park Milbern Liberation Center\, performance and retreat space by and for disabled qtbipoc writers. They are the 2020 recipient of the Lambda Foundation’s Jeanne Cørdova Prize in Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction\, recognizing “a lifetime of work documenting the complexity of queer experience\,” and a 2020–21 US Artists Disability Futures Fellow.\n  \n  \nNatalia Duong is a researcher\, teacher\, and performance maker whose work spans performance studies\, Asian American studies\, disability studies\, and the environmental humanities. Her forthcoming book\, Chemical Diasporas\, examines the transnational spread of the chemical compound Agent Orange and the sensory and affective geographies created through its dispersal. Natalia received a PhD in performance studies with a designated emphasis in gender and women’s studies from the University of California\, Berkeley. Her writing can be found in Catalyst: Feminism\, Theory\, Technoscience; Canadian Review of American Studies; Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism; and Dance Research. Natalia is currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California\, Los Angeles.\n  \n  \nSuzanne Bost is a professor in the Department of English at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of three books—Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas\, 1850–2000 (2003)\, Encarnación: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature (2009)\, and Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism (2019)—and she coedited\, with Frances Aparicio\, The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature (2012). She has also published more than two dozen articles on Latinx literature\, feminist theory\, illness and disability\, and archival practices. Her current work focuses on decolonial feminisms and silence.\n  \n  \nMagda García received her PhD from the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where her dissertation research on affect theory\, Chicanx/Latinx literary and cultural studies\, and the speculative was supported by a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. She is currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, San Diego\, where she is working on her manuscript\, titled “Claiming La Bruja: Rage\, the Speculative\, and Contemporary Border Tejanx Feminist Affects.” She is coeditor of Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations\, Bodies\, and Spaces (2021)\, alongside Ellie D. Hernández and Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. She is from the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.\n  \n  \nFaith Njahîra Wangarî (she/her) is a disabled wheelchair-riding scholar-activist with muscular dystrophy from Kenya. Her experience as a researcher\, consultant in the humanitarian sector\, and beyond has involved work on inclusive education\, disability accessibility\, sexuality\, and health advocacy. She has given guest lectures at organizations and in university classrooms. She is a coproducer\, with Shiilā Seok Wun Au Yong (2019)\, of the documentary film For All the Brilliant Conversations\, a film about friendship\, healing\, and navigating trauma. Njahîra also contributed to #YouthCan (2020)\, a book collection of African stories in various sectors. She loves basking in the sun\, dancing to music\, being with loved ones\, all the things that add to her joy. Njahîra founded Muscular Dystrophy Society Kenya in 2013 as a support platform for those with muscular dystrophy and their loved ones. She serves on the boards of the 1in9 Campaign (South Africa) and National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (Kenya). Njahîra holds a graduate degree from Syracuse University through the Open Society Foundation’s Disability Rights and Inclusive Education scholarship program. Currently\, she is a doctoral researcher interrogating healthcare professionals’ interactions with persons with disabilities with the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria\, South Africa.\n  \n  \nKateřina Kolářová is a researcher at the Sociological Institute of Czech Academy of Science and teaches in the Gender Studies Program at the School of Humanities\, Charles University\, Prague. Her work engages intersections of disability\, crip\, queer\, and race theories; dialogue between postcolonial and decolonial studies with disability and queer studies; and feminist queer crip interrogations of microbial lives and microbiopolitics. The manuscript for her forthcoming book\, Rehabilitative Postsocialism: Disability\, Race\, Gender and Sexuality and the Limits of National Belonging\, won the 2019 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in Humanities. With Martina Winkler\, she coedited Re/Imaginations of Disability in State Socialism: Visions\, Promises\, Frustrations (2021)\, which maps disability politics under state socialism across Eastern Europe.\n  \n  \nSony Coráñez Bolton is assistant professor of Spanish and Latinx and Latin American studies at Amherst College. He studies the intersections of Latinx and Filipinx cultural politics\, literature\, and embodiment through the lenses of postcolonial disability\, queer of color critique\, and transnational feminism. His forthcoming book\, Crip Colony: Mestizaje\, US Imperialism\, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines\, analyzes the disability politics of Filipinx mixed-race subjects during the historical transition from Spanish colonial to US imperial rule. Sony’s work has appeared in Journal of Asian American Studies\, Revista Filipina\, Verge: Studies in Global Asias\, and q&a: Voices from Queer Asian North America.\n  \nCART and ASL will be provided.\n  \nIf you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone.\n\nPlease email accessibility needs as they relate to this event to msf440@nyu.edu\n\n\nCo-sponsored by: Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity\, and Strategic Innovation\, Disability Studies & Advocacy\, Proclaiming Disability Arts URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/crip-genealogies-virtual-book-launch/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T190000 DTSTAMP:20250602T194348Z CREATED:20230222T173411Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T194348Z UID:2226-1677852000-1677870000@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:NYU Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication presents: Trans Lineages Symposium DESCRIPTION:NYU Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication presents:\nTrans Lineages Symposium\n  \nFriday\, March 3\, 2023\n239 Greene Street\, Floor 8\n2-7 PM ET\n  \n\n  \nThe Trans Lineages Symposium is a one-day event centering the trans thinkers who came before us and the trans lineages we extend through our own work\, activism\, and research. In this symposium we honor and turn back to those who made our work possible\, focusing on the importance and necessity of honoring transgender histories\, genealogies\, and lineages in contemporary work in transgender studies. \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart of the 2×2 Keynote Series: New Edges in Media Studies.\nOrganized and moderated by Media\, Culture\, and Communication professors Whit Pow and Nicole Fleetwood. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSymposium Schedule\n\n2:00 PM – Introduction and Opening Remarks\n2:15 PM – First Panel | C. Riley Snorton (University of Chicago) & Erique Zhang (Northwestern)\n\n3:15 PM – First Panel Conversation / Q&A\n\n3:45 PM – Break\n\n4:15 PM – Second Panel | Jules Gill-Peterson (Johns Hopkins) & Cameron Awkward-Rich (University of Massachusetts Amherst)\n\n5:15 PM – Second Panel Conversation / Q&A / Conversation Among All Four Speakers\n\n6:15 PM – Reception\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent is free and open to the public. \nPlease indicate accessibility needs as they relate to this event on the registration form. \nCo-sponsored by: The NYU Center for Disability Studies; The NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality; The NYU LGBTQ+ Center;\nProfessors Paula Chakravartty and Nicole Fleetwood URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/nyu-department-of-media-culture-and-communication-presents-trans-lineages-symposium/ LOCATION:239 Greene Street\, Floor 8\, 239 Greene Street\, Floor 8\, New York\, NY\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230224T143000 DTSTAMP:20240613T152439Z CREATED:20230203T222815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240613T152439Z UID:2214-1677243600-1677249000@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Webinar: The New Disability Media\, Feb 10 & Feb 24 DESCRIPTION:Image Description: A light-skinned African-American man sits on the New York subway with his eyes closed. He wears a blue denim jacket and grips a white cane with both hands.\n  \nJoin us for\n  \nFilm Quarterly Webinar:\nThe New Disability Media\n  \nFilm Quarterly explores new directions in disability film and media in a two-part webinar discussing its special dossier “The New Disability Media” (Winter 2022) co-presented with NYU’s Center for Disability Studies and Center for Media\, Culture & History. On February 10th and February 24th at 1pm ET\, dossier co-editors B. Ruby Rich (Film Quarterly)\, Faye Ginsburg (NYU) and Lawrence Carter-Long (DisArt) will moderate conversations with the dossier’s scholars and filmmakers on exciting developments in disability film and media. \n  \nFebruary 10th\, 1-2:30pm (ET): \nNeta Alexander (Colgate University) \nMara Mills (New York University) \nPooja Rangan (Amherst College) \nReid Davenport (I Didn’t See You There) \nJordan Lord (Shared Resources) \nFebruary 24th\, 1-2:30pm (ET):\nJenny Chamarette (University of Reading) \nArseli Dokumaci (Concordia University) \nSlava Greenberg (University of Southern California) \nSalome Chasnoff (Code of the Freaks) \nCarrie Sandahl (Code of the Freaks) \nRodney Evans (Vision Portraits) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-Sponsors: Grey Art Gallery; Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity\, and Strategic Innovation; Disability Studies & Advocacy. \nFilm Quarterly’s webinars are supported by the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBoth events are free and open to the public. \nCART and ASL will be provided. \nIf you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone. \nPlease indicate requests for other accommodations on your RSVP form. \nEvent recordings will be available on our website upon approval of all involved panelists. \n  \nLink to 02/10 Zoom recording\n  \nLink to 02/24 Zoom recording\n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/webinar-the-new-disability-media-feb-10-feb-24/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221201T173000 DTSTAMP:20240614T132713Z CREATED:20220911T203104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T132713Z UID:2080-1669910400-1669915800@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:A Discussion and Reading of Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present DESCRIPTION: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.\n\n  \nJoin us for\n  \nA Reading of \nDisabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery to the Present (2022)\n  \nwith Author \nDennis Tyler smiles at the camera. He is wearing glasses and a beige suit jacket over a white collared shirt and blue tie.\nDENNIS TYLER\n(Fordham University) \n \nFollowed by a Conversation with\n  \nAnna smiles at the camera. She is wearing classes\, hoop earrings and a striped shirt. Her hair is pulled back into a pony tail.\n\nANNA LAQUAWN HINTON\nAssistant Professor of Disability Studies and Black Literature & Culture\, University of North Texas \n  \nModerated by Mara Mills\n  \nThursday\, December 1\, 2022. 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. EST.\n  \n\nDisabilities of the Color Line reveals how disability and disablement have shaped Black social life in America. Through both law and custom\, the color line has cast Black people as innately disabled and thus unfit for freedom\, incapable of self-governance\, and contagious within the national body politic. Disabilities of the Color Line maintains that the Black literary tradition historically has inverted this casting by exposing the disablement of racism without disclaiming disability.\n\n  \nSponsored by: NYU Center for Disability Studies; Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity\, and Strategic Innovation; Disability Studies & Advocacy; Center for Black Visual Culture/Institute for African American Affairs; NYU Department of Photography and Imaging\n  \nDennis Tyler is an Associate Professor of English at Fordham University. An expert in African American literature\, disability studies\, and critical race studies\, he is the author of Disabilities of the Color Line (NYU Press\, 2022). His essays and reviews have been published in African American Review\, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies\, Gender: Space\, The Feminist Wire\, Oxford Bibliographies\, and elsewhere. \n  \nAnna Hinton is an Assistant professor of Disability Studies and Black Literature & Culture. Her research interests include post-Brown Black women’s writing\, Black feminist theory\, critical disability studies\, crip theory\, reproductive justice\, and hip hop studies\, to name a few. She is currently writing her monograph\, Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Contemporary Black Women’s Writing\, which approaches conversations about aesthetics\, spirituality\, representation\, community\, sexuality\, motherhood\, and futurity through a Black feminist disability studies perspective. \n  \nThis is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. (Please note: if you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone.) For other accommodations\, please indicate on your RSVP form. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/disabilitiesofthecolorline/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221117T183000 DTSTAMP:20240614T132644Z CREATED:20220911T200713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T132644Z UID:2057-1668704400-1668709800@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:A Discussion and Reading of Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation DESCRIPTION:Join us for\n  \nA Discussion and Reading of \nCurating Access: Disability Art Activism and \nCreative Accommodation (2022)\n  \nwith Editor \nAMANDA CACHIA \nand contributors \nSANDY GUTTMAN\, MOLLY JOYCE\, LYZA SYLVESTRE\n  \n\nModerated by Mara Mills\n\n  \nThursday\, November 17\, 2022. 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. EST.\n  \n \n  \nImage Description: The book cover of CURATING ACCESS: DISABILITY ART ACTIVISM AND CREATIVE ACCOMMODATION. The book title and editor’s name are typed across a white block with a purple border in the center of the cover. The rest of the cover is a collage of different colored shapes.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Amanda Cachia – a white woman smiling at the camera with her brown curly hair tied up in a bun on top of her head. Sunglasses are also propped up on her head in front of the bun. Behind her is a field of yellow and orange flowers\, a skyline of buildings and a clear sky. \n \n \n \n \n \n Sandy Guttman – A white woman with brown hair and blue eyes\, wearing a black top and looking pensively at the camera. Behind her is a gallery wall with colorful prints and paintings.\n \n \n \n \n \n Liza Sylvestre – A white woman who has dark blonde shoulder length hair and a blue short-sleeved shirt\, sitting in a chair. Her elbows rest on the chair’s wooden armrests while her hands rest on her legs. She is staring into the camera. Behind her are multiple pages of diagrams and drawings that are tacked to the wall with colorful thumb tacks.\n \n \n \n \n \n Molly Joyce – A primarily black and white image with Molly Joyce\, a white light-skinned female with brown hair\, performing on her vintage toy organ. She is wearing all black and has her hair tied up in a bun\, and there is a yellow/orange wash of color in the lower left side of the image.\n \n \n\n\n  \nTable of contents and full author list available at the publisher’s website (where the book can also be purchased). PDF with OCR available here.\n  \nSponsored by: NYU Center for Disability Studies; Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity\, and Strategic Innovation; Grey Art Gallery; The Center for Ballet and the Arts\n  \nAmanda Cachia has an established career profile as a curator\, writer and art historian who specializes in disability art activism across intersectional axes of difference\, including gender\, race\, and sexuality in a bid to dismantle masculine and ableist hegemonies. Cachia received her PhD in Art History\, Theory & Criticism from the University of California San Diego in 2017. She is the editor of Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation (2022) published by Routledge\, that includes over 40 international contributors. Her first monograph\, Contemporary Disability Art and Institutional Critique\, is under review with Duke University Press. In February 2023\, Cachia will chair the Feminist Art Project Day of Panels\, Art\, Gender\, and Disability: Aesthetics of Access\, in collaboration with Rutgers University Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities for the College Art Association conference in New York\, consisting of 2 full days of in-person and virtual panels with disabled artists & scholars. This event has been generously funded by a $50\,000 Ford Foundation grant. \nSandy Guttman is an independent curator and graduate student in Disability Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to her time in school\, she was an assistant curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington\, DC\, where she supported a number of projects including Georgia Saxelby: Lullaby\, Manifesto: Art x Agency\, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors\, and Yoko Ono: Four Works for Washington DC and the World. Guttman’s curatorial and research interests focus on the intersection of disability aesthetics and creative accommodations in contemporary art—particularly in time-based media. \nLiza Sylvestre is a multimedia artist and Research Assistant Professor within the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign where she has co-founded the initiative Crip*: Cripistemology and the Arts. Her work has been shown internationally at venues including the Plains Art Museum\, Weisman Art Museum\, Roots & Culture\, Soap Factory\, Soo Visual Arts Center\, John Hansard Gallery\, ARGOS\, and MMK. Sylvestre has been the recipients of numerous grants\, fellowships\, and residencies including a 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship\, artist-in-residence at the Weisman Art Museum and the Center for Applied and Translational Sensory Science (CATSS)\, and a Citizens Advocate Award from the Minnesota Commission of the Deaf\, DeafBlind\, and Hard of Hearing (MNCDHH). Sylvestre’s work has been written about in numerous publications and books including Art in America\, Mousse Magazine\, Ocula Magazine\, Art Monthly\, and SciArt Magazine. \nMolly Joyce has been deemed one of the “most versatile\, prolific and intriguing composers working under the vast new-music dome” by The Washington Post. Her work is concerned with disability as a creative source. She has an impaired left hand from a previous car accident\, and the primary vehicle in her pursuit is her electric vintage toy organ\, an instrument she bought on eBay which engages her disability on a compositional and performative level. She is a current doctoral student at University of Virginia in Composition and Computer Technologies. \n  \nThis is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. (Please note: if you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone.) For other accommodations\, please indicate on your RSVP form. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/book-party-for-curating-access-disability-art-activism-and-creative-accommodation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T175000 DTSTAMP:20240614T132531Z CREATED:20221027T003649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T132531Z UID:2144-1668013200-1668016200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:NYU IDM FALL 2022 GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER SERIES: MIYUKI TANAKA DESCRIPTION:  \nNYU IDM Fall 2022 Graduate Colloquium Speaker Series\n  \nFeaturing NYU CDS Visiting Scholar\n  \nMIYUKI TANAKA\n  \nWednesday\, November 9\, 2022. 5:00 – 5:50 p.m. EST.\n  \nAuditorium 202 at 370 Jay St. and Zoom\n  \n \n  \nMiyuki Tanaka is a Curator and Producer who works on projects that defy categorization under the theme of “disability as a perspective that redefines the world.” \nShe’ll be showing a portion of her latest film “Night Cruising” and answering questions. She’ll also talk about her project of dance audio description using multiple radio channels. \nWebsite:  https://miyukitanaka.net\n  \nThis is a series hosted by NYU IDM. Please reach out to NYU IDM with any concerns or accommodation requests. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/nyu-idm-fall-2022-graduate-colloquium-speaker-series-miyuki-tanaka/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220922T193000 DTSTAMP:20240614T132448Z CREATED:20220913T110655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T132448Z UID:2052-1663869600-1663875000@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:M. Leona Godin’s Book Release Celebration and Conversation DESCRIPTION:The Modern and Contemporary Colloquium\nand\nNYU Center for Disability Studies Present\n  \nM. Leona Godin (NYU)\nIn Conversation with Elizabeth Bearden (UW-Madison) & Stephen Kuusisto (Syracuse)\n  \n\n\nImage 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 (painting by Roy Nachum\, photographed by Alabaster Rhumb). A misty\, speckled spectrum of colors ranging from light grey at the spine to a vibrant violet at center with  the title and byline in a large black font and Maggie Nelson’s blurb at the top. \n  \nThere Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness (Pantheon\, 2021) is now out in paperback! To mark the occasion\, author M. Leona Godin (NYU) will be joined by Stephen Kuusisto (Syracuse University) and Elisabeth Bearden (University of Wisconsin\, Madison) to read from their work and discuss the metaphors and realities of blindness and disability in the humanities as well as the importance of bio and sensory diversity in our teaching and understanding of literature.\n  \n  \nThursday\, September 22. 6pm EST.\n  \n  \nThis will be a hybrid event held in-person  in the English Department Event Space at 422 Greene Street\, 1st floor\, NYC\, and on Zoom\n  \n  \nAbout the book:\n“So graceful\, so wise\, so effortlessly erudite\, I learned something new and took pleasure in every page.” —Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \n“[A] thought-provoking mixture of criticism\, memoir\, and advocacy.” —The New Yorker \nFor millennia\, blindness has been used to signify thoughtlessness (“blind faith”)\, irrationality (“blind rage”)\, and unconsciousness (“blind evolution”). But at the same time\, blind people have been othered as the recipients of special powers as compensation for lost sight (from the poetic gifts of John Milton to the heightened senses of the comic book hero Daredevil). Combining analyses of blindness in art\, culture\, and history with her own story of gradually losing her sight\, in this genre-defying work\, M. Leona Godin probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric world\, and challenges deeply ingrained ideas about what it really means to be “blind.” \nA vivid personal and cultural history\, There Plant Eyes explores the fascinating history of blindness—from Homer to Helen Keller\, from Dune to Stevie Wonder\, and from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation. And in doing so\, Godin reveals just how essential blindness and vision are to our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. \n“Elegant\, fiercely argued\, Godin enlarges our understanding of the blind and sight impaired\, and There Plant Eyes proves a landmark contribution to the literature of disability\, comparable to Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face and Jean-Dominique Bauby’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly—which is to say the literature of the human itself.” —The Wall Street Journal \n  \nAbout the Speakers:\n  \nLeona Godin (pronounced like French sculptor Rodin) is a writer\, performer\, educator\, and the author of There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural history of Blindness (Pantheon\, 2021). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Playboy\, O Magazine\, Electric Literature\, Catapult\, and other print and online publications. She produced two plays: “The Star of Happiness” about Helen Keller’s time performing in vaudeville\, and “The Spectator and the Blind Man\,” about the invention of braille. Godin holds a PhD in English\, and besides her many years teaching literature and humanities courses at NYU\, she has lectured on art\, accessibility\, technology\, and disability at such places as Tandon School of Engineering\, Rice University\, Baylor College of Medicine\, and the American Printing House for the Blind. Her online magazine exploring the arts and sciences of smell and taste\, Aromatica Poetica\, publishes writing and art from around the world.\n  \nElizabeth Bearden’s first book\, The Emblematics of the Self: Ekphrasis and Identity in Renaissance Imitations of Greek Romance\, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2012. Her second book\, Monstrous Kinds: Body\, Space and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability\, was published in the University of Michigan Corporealities: Discourses of Disability series in 2019 and was the winner of the Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities. She has published articles in PMLA\, JEMCS\, Ancient Narrative Supplementum\, Arizona Journal for Hispanic Cultural Studies\, and E-Humanista/Cervantes. She has also directed a digital humanities project documenting the funeral of Sir Philip Sidney. The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) awarded her a fellowship for the 2022-23 academic year\, where she’ll work on her third monograph\, Crip Authority: Disability and the Art of Consolation in the Renaissance. This book continues Professor Bearden’s research on the history of disability with an emphasis on how disabled authors in the Renaissance from Petrarch to Milton discussed their lived experience of disability. \n  \nStephen Kuusisto\, who has been blind since birth\, is the author of Have Dog\, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey (Simon & Schuster\, 2018); Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening (W. W. Norton & Company\, 2006); and the memoir Planet of the Blind (Delta\, 1998)\, a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year”. He has also published several poetry collections: Old Horse\, What Is to Be Done? (Tiger Bark Press\, 2020); Letters to Borges (Copper Canyon Press\, 2013); and Only Bread\, Only Light (Copper Canyon Press\, 2000). Recognized by the New York Times as “a powerful writer with a musical ear for language and a gift for emotional candor\,” Steve has made numerous appearances on programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show\, Dateline NBC\, National Public Radio and the BBC. A graduate of the “Writer’s Workshop” at the University of Iowa\, and a Fulbright Scholar\, Steve holds a University Professorship in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University. He’s a recipient of a 2021 Guggenheim award in poetry. He speaks widely on poetry\, diversity\, disability\, education\, and public policy. His essays and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and literary magazines including Harper’s\, The New York Times Magazine\, Poetry\, and Partisan Review. \n  \nAll in-person guests must wear masks and bring proof of vaccination. CART and ASL will be provided. For other accessibility needs please reach out to Leona: mg357@nyu.edu. \n  \nAlso sponsored by NYU’s  Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity\, and Strategic Innovation; Disability Studies & Advocacy\n\n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/thereplanteyes/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220616T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220616T130000 DTSTAMP:20250602T194033Z CREATED:20220603T181713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T194033Z UID:1922-1655380800-1655384400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:DISABILITY AND THE DIGITAL - Access Aesthetics in Dance and Performance DESCRIPTION:Join Us for a \nDISABILITY AND THE DIGITAL CONVERSATION\n\nAccess Aesthetics in \nDance and Performance\nWith \nNina Mühlemann (Bern)\nAndy Slater (Chicago)\nMelanie Zimmermann (Hamburg)\n\n\n\n\nModerated by Hanna Göbel & Mara Mills  \n\nThursday\, June 16\, 2022\n12 -1 p.m. EST | 6-7 pm CEST | 7-8 pm TRT \n  \nThe session “Access Aesthetics in Dance and Performance” wishes to discuss the aesthetics of access in dance and performance. It will bring together experts of dance and performance\, who work on digital technologies of access\, especially in the context of the digital distribution of dance pieces and performances. The aim is to discuss access in the digital realm by means of how disability aesthetics in dance and performance challenge the collective sensorium.\n  \n\nNina Mühlemann is an artist and disability scholar based in Zurich\, Switzerland and completed her PhD at King’s College London in Disability Studies and Performance Studies in 2017 (‘Beyond the Superhuman–Disabled Artists Working in the Context of London 2012’). From 2018-2019 she was co-director of the Future Clinic for Critical Care\, a socio-culturally animated theatre practice project based in Zurich. Since 2020 she is co-director of Criptonite\, a Zurich-based queer-crip theatre project. She has co-curated the symposia It’s a Matter of Perspective (IntegrART\, Zürich\, 2019)\, Exploring Crip Spacetime (No Limits Festival\, Berlin\, 2019) and Rethinking Structures (IntegrART\, Zürich\, 2021). Since 2022 she is a postdoctoral researcher for the SNF-project “Aesthetics of the im/mobile” at the University of the Arts Berne. \n  \n\nAndy Slater is a Chicago-based media artist\, sound designer\, and access advocate.He is a member of the Society of Visually Impaired Sound Artists and a teaching artist with the Atlantic Center for the Arts’ Young SoundSeekers program. He holds a Masters in Sound Arts and Industries from Northwestern University and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a 2022 United States Artists fellow\, 2022-2023 Leonardo Crip Tech Incubator fellow and a 2018 3Arts/Bodies of Work fellow at the University of Illinois Chicago. In 2020 Andy was acknowledged for his art by the New York Times in their article\, “28 Ways To Learn About Disability Culture.” Andy’s current work focuses on advocacy for accessible art and technology\, Alt-Text for sound and image\, the phonology of the blindbody\, spatial audio for extended reality\, and sound design for film\, dance\, and video games. He has exhibited and performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago\, Mcsweeneys Quarterly Concern\, the Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco\,Transmediale Festival Berlin\, Chicago Inclusive Dance Festival\, Ian Potter Museum of Art Melbourne\, Critical Distance Toronto\, Gallery 400 Chicago\, Experimental Sound Studios Chicago\, the Art Institute of Chicago\, Flux Factory New York\, and Momenta Dance Company Chicago. \nMelanie Zimmermann  is a dramaturge and curator at Kampnagel\, Hamburg. After working for film and television\, she studied Cultural Studies and Dance in Frankfurt on the Oder and in Paris. She was press and public relations assistant for the Forsythe Company and studied dramaturgy with Hans-Thies Lehmann in Frankfurt on the Main and in Brussels; in 2010\, she was on a danceWEB scholarship. Then she began working as freelance dance and theatre dramaturge\, e.g. for Wanda Golonka\, Peeping Tom\, Sebastian Matthias\, Laurent Chétouane and was project manager of the MAMAZA collective. Since 2010 she works as dance dramaturge and curator at Kampnagel. Since eleven years\, she supports and creates festivals\, events and formats to support the international collaboration of dance makers. From 2018 – 2022 she was realizing the “Europe beyond Access” program at Kampnagel. \nHanna Göbel is currently a Substitute Professor for Urban Anthropology and Ethnographic Methods at HafenCity University in Hamburg. Her main research areas and current interests are anthropology and sociology of the body\, disabilities and the urban form\, (urban) publics and (digital) audiences of disability. \nCo-sponsors:  \nDigital Media and Dis/Abilities\n(Research Network\, Funded by DFG) \nWaterfront e.V.\, HafenCity Universität Hamburg (HCU)\n \nThis is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. (Please note: if you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone.) For other accommodations\, please indicate on your RSVP form. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/accessaesthetics/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T173000 DTSTAMP:20240614T132948Z CREATED:20220411T124047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T132948Z UID:1905-1650556800-1650562200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Aesthetics of Access in Dance DESCRIPTION:Join Us for A Conversation On \nThe Aesthetics of Access in Dance \nWith\n  \n\nCHRISTOPHER “UNPEZVERDE” NÚÑEZ\n& \nYO-YO LIN \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Image Description: Portrait of Christopher looking into the camera. He wears a black shirt and a Navajo Turquoise necklace designed by Clarence Chama.\nCredit: Walter Wlodarczyk\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Image Description: Yo-Yo\, a Tawiwanese-American woman with blond hair and dark roots smirks at the camera. She is wearing sunglasses with an orange tint to them and holding her hand up to her face with a finger on her cheek. \n \n \n\n\nModerated by \nKayla Hamilton\nImage 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 with a few gold locs on the left. Her head is slightly tilted to the left. Behind her is a red brick wall.\n\nThursday\, April 21\, 2022. 4:00 –5:30 p.m.\n  \nImage Description: Portrait of Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez’s inner child and himself performing “YO OBSOLETE”. He holds the pink car with his hands. One of the wheels broke during the performance. Sadness and acceptance invades him. Changes in matter do not modify the essence or identity of things.Credit: Walter Wlodarczyk\, courtesy of The Immigrant Artist Biennial\n\nAn emerging genre of disability art explores “the aesthetics of access.” These artworks (whether dance\, video\, painting\, or sound) take accessibility practices such as captioning\, alt text\, and description to be aesthetic ones. Yo-Yo Lin and Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez discuss the ways aesthetics of access in dance reimagines audiences\, performance\, and media.\n  \n\n Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez is a visually impaired choreographer and dramaturg who traces the ideological narratives contained in immigrant and disabled bodies. From the autobiographical\, he explores how imagination constructs meaning and personal mythology from the devastating events\, violence and trauma experienced during his childhood in Central America. Núñez Audio Description practice is manifested through storytelling\, as a form of resistance\, preservation\, cultural continuity\, and perseverance. As Costa Rican born\, of Nicaraguan and Garífuna descent\, he is inspired by experiences of displacement\, family migratory journeys\, herbal medicine\, indigenous dances\, craftsmanship and folktales and how they intertwine with disability. Núñez choreography nurtures spaces for immigrant\, disabled\, and undocumented Latin American ancestry to flourish and be celebrated. \n  \n\nYo-Yo Lin 林友友 is a Taiwanese-American\, interdisciplinary media artist who explores the possibilities of self-knowledge in the context of emerging\, embodied technologies. She often uses video\, animation\, live performance\, and lush sound design to create meditative ‘memoryscapes.’ Her recent body of work reveals and re-values the complex realities of living with chronic illness and intergenerational trauma. She creates openings into these realities in the form of spaces\, performances\, or tools. Her practice often facilitates sites for community-centered abundance\, developing into physical and virtual media installations\, workshops\, access-centered nightlife parties\, and artist collectives. \n  \nKayla Hamilton grew up in Texarkana\, Texas\, to a family of cattle farmers. She was an active child\, and wanted to be a soccer player\, but since she had low vision\, her parents thought dance would be the safest physical activity for her. Kayla says movement allowed her to be in relationship with herself\, others and the world simultaneously. This sense of alignment led her to want to pursue it professionally.  She moved to New York to become a performer\, and found communities she is deeply grateful for.  Hamilton notes that she has worked with some phenomenal Black women – Gesel Mason\, Paloma McGregor and Alice Sheppard.  Their guidance\, and the need to have more agency and access over the theatrical elements and processes she was a part of\, catalyzed both her performance making and middle school teaching practices– carving out spaces for Black and Disabled folks to exist in the world more fully. \n  \nCo-sponsors:  \nProclaiming Disability Arts \nNYU Center for Ballet and the Arts\n\nNYU Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity\, and Strategic Innovation \nThis is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. (Please note: if you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone.) For other accommodations\, please indicate on your RSVP form. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/aestheticsofaccessindance/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/walter-wlodarczyk-2020-03-07-_87A8986.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T173000 DTSTAMP:20240614T132922Z CREATED:20220302T231830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T132922Z UID:1883-1648742400-1648747800@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Virtual Launch Party: Disability Studies Quarterly 41\, no. 4 - INDIGENEITY & DISABILITY DESCRIPTION:NYU’s Center for Disability Studies and Native Studies Forum \ninvite you to a virtual launch party to celebrate \na special issue of  \nDisability Studies Quarterly 41\, no. 4 \nINDIGENEITY & DISABILITY \nKinship\, Place\, and Knowledge-Making \n\nThursday\, March 31. 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.\n  \nThis special issue considers reciprocity as a question\, practice\, and aspiration. \nWhat is possible when we Indigenize disability studies (DST) and when we fully embed disability studies in Native American Indigenous studies (NAIS)? \nOur contributors come from wide-ranging locations inside and outside of academic worlds\, across Turtle Island and beyond. \nThe twenty-four pieces include personal narratives\, photo essays\, museum reviews\, creative reflections\, collaborative research\, and community-based history. \nThis issue was created in the hopes of sparking more coalitional\, cross-disciplinary\, and broad public collective learning. \n  \nJoin us for a Roundtable with editors and authors \nSusan Burch (not pictured) \nProfessor and director\, American Studies\, Middlebury College  \nElla Callow (Cherokee descent)Director\, Disability Access & Compliance\, University of California\, Berkeley\nJuliet Larkin-GilmoreOscar Handlin Fellow\, ACLS\nJen Deerinwater (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)\,Executive Director\, Crushing Colonialism\nModerator:Elizabeth Ellis (Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma)NYU\, History\, Native Studies Forum\nCo-sponsors: NYU Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity and Strategic Innovation; Proclaiming Disability Arts \nThis is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. (Please note: if you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone.) For other accommodations\, please indicate on your RSVP form. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/dsqlaunchparty/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220325T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220325T173000 DTSTAMP:20240614T132851Z CREATED:20220228T140320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T132851Z UID:1850-1648224000-1648229400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Impossible Enterprise: CETA\, Ron Whyte\, and The National Task Force for Disability and the Arts DESCRIPTION:Join Us for A Conversation With \n  \n\nPATRICK McKELVEY\n(Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts\, University of Pittsburgh) \nImage Description: Patrick McKelvey\, a half-smiling scruffy white queer with teal glasses standing before a deep blue background.\nand \n\nROBERT McRUER\n(Professor of English\, The George Washington University) \nImage Description: This is an outdoor headshot of Robert McRuer. He is a white man in his mid-fifties\, which very short salt and pepper hair and beard. He wears a gray short-sleeve shirt and his arms are crossed. There is a tree with green leaves and a blue sky behind him. \n\nFriday\, March 25\, 2022. 4:00 –5:30 p.m.\n  \nModerated by Mara Mills \n  \nThis talk considers the changing role of performance labor in light of the disability rights and liberation movements of the 1970s. McKelvey focuses on the infrastructural activism of queer and disabled playwright Ron Whyte and examines how Whyte drew upon competing policy and activist paradigms to secure public service employment through the New York Artists Project (1978-1980)\, the largest of numerous federally-subsidized arts jobs programs funded through the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act\, or CETA (1973).  McKelvey demonstrates how Whyte used the material support he received through CETA to launch the National Task Force for Disability and the Arts and create a radical blueprint of infrastructural imagination focused on supporting disabled artists. \n  \n\nPatrick McKelvey is Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh\, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in performance studies\, theatre history\, and disability studies. Before joining the faculty at Pitt\, he received his PhD from Brown University in 2017 and taught at Florida State University’s School of Theatre from 2016 to 2018. He has published essays in Theatre Journal\, Theatre Survey\, the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism\, and Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings (ed. Clare Croft; Oxford\, 2017). McKelvey’s 2016 essay\, “Ron Whyte’s ‘Disemployment’ Prosthetic Performance and Theatrical Labor” (Theatre Survey) received three “best article” awards: from the American Society for Theatre Research\, the American Theatre and Drama Society\, and the Committee for LGBT History. McKelvey is currently completing his first book\, Disability Works: US Performance After Rehabilitation (under review\, NYU Press)\, and beginning work on his second\, Supporting Actors: A Disability History of Theatrical Welfare from Springbrook to Broadway Cares. \n\n  \nRobert McRuer is a Professor of English at The George Washington University\, where he teaches disability studies\, queer theory\, and critical theory more generally.  He is the author of three books including Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (NYU\, 2006) and Crip Times: Disability\, Globalization\, and Resistance (NYU\, 2018).  With Anna Mollow\, he is the co-editor of Sex and Disability (Duke UP\, 2012). \n  \nCo-sponsors:  \nTamiment Library \nGrey Art Gallery \nProclaiming Disability Arts \nNYU Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity\, and Strategic Innovation\n \n  \nThis is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. (Please note: if you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone.) For other accommodations\, please indicate on your RSVP form. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/impossible-enterprise-ceta-ron-whyte-and-the-national-task-force-for-disability-and-the-arts/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211105T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211105T173000 DTSTAMP:20240614T132826Z CREATED:20210922T010945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T132826Z UID:1735-1636128000-1636133400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Bojana Coklyat\, Shannon Finnegan and Thomas Reid Discuss Alt-Text and Audio Description DESCRIPTION:Image Description: A blue postcard with blue\, uneven\, handwritten capitals spelling\, “Artists for Alt-Text.”\n\n\nDisabled Creators \nBOJANA COKLYAT\, SHANNON FINNEGAN and THOMAS REID \ndiscuss\nALT-TEXT and AUDIO DESCRIPTION \n\nModerator: KEVIN GOTKIN\, Disability artist/activist \nFriday\, November 5. 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.\n  \nAlt-text and audio description are part of a suite of access practices that aim to make visual content accessible to blind and low vision people. These practices are often approached in a dry and compliance-oriented way. How can we instead approach them creatively? All three creators have been considering this question\, Bojana and Shannon through their project Alt-Text as Poetry\, and Thomas through his podcast series Flipping the Script on Audio Description. \n  \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n Image Description: Bojana Coklyat is a smiley white woman with a chin-length brunette bob. She is about 5-feet 6-inches\, easing into her 40s and usually has a white cane with her when outside. Here\, she is wearing a typical outfit of late\, a graphic black and white t-shirt\, cherry red cardigan and black jeans.\n \n \n \n \n \n Image Description: Shannon Finnegan is a white person with close-cropped hair. Here they have a reserved smile and their most fun shirt (a multi-patterned\, asymmetrical button-up).\n \n \n \n \n \n Image Description: Thomas Reid is a brown skin Black man with a clean shaven bald head who smiles into the camera. He has a goatee and is wearing dark shades and a gray button up shirt.\n \n \n\n  \nBojana Coklyat is a disabled artist and disability activist who informs her work with both Disability Studies and Art Administration. She has interned at the Whitney Museum of Art\, has attended the Kennedy Center Leadership Exchange in the Arts And Disability (LEAD) over the past several years and currently works at the Museum Art and Culture Access Consortium (MAC) leading a project on mapping virtual access in cultural institutions during COVID. Bojana uses her experiences living with low vision to inform her approach to art\, activism\, and scholarship. \nShannon Finnegan is a multidisciplinary artist. Some of their recent work includes Anti-Stairs Club Lounge\, an ongoing project that gathers people together who share an aversion to stairs; Alt-Text as Poetry\, a collaboration with Bojana Coklyat that explores the expressive potential of image description; and Do You Want Us Here or Not\, a series of benches and cushions designed for exhibition spaces. \nThomas Reid is the host and producer of Reid My Mind Radio\, a podcast featuring compelling people impacted by all degrees of blindness and disability. Through his Flipping the Script on Audio Description series\, Reid continues to explore the art by going beyond surface level topics and examining its implications on the community.\n \nCo-sponsors: NYU Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity and Strategic Innovation; Proclaiming Disability Arts \n  \nThis is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. (Please note: if you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone.) For other accommodations\, please indicate on your RSVP form. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/bojana-coklyat-shannon-finnegan-and-thomas-reid-discuss-alt-text-and-audio-description/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_9958-2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211008T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211008T173000 DTSTAMP:20240614T132759Z CREATED:20210916T171212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T132759Z UID:1727-1633708800-1633714200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Katherine Standefer and Neta Alexander in Conversation DESCRIPTION:Reading by author\nKATHERINE STANDEFER\nLightning Flowers: My Journey To Uncover The Cost Of Saving A Life \n(Little\, Brown Spark\, 2020) \nFollowed by a conversation with \nNETA ALEXANDER\n(Colgate University\, Film and Media Studies) \n\nFriday\, October 8. 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.\n  \nKatherine Standefer is the author of Lightning Flowers: My Journey To Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life\, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice/Staff Pick. Named one of Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of Fall 2020\, Lightning Flowers was also featured on NPR’s Fresh Air. Prior writing appeared in The Best American Essays 2016. Standefer earned her MFA at the University of Arizona. She teaches for Ashland University’s Low-Residency MFA and lives on a piñon- and juniper-studded mesa in New Mexico with her chickens. \n  \n  \n \nNeta Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Film & Media at Colgate University. Her public scholarship\, encompassing topics such as the Internet of Medical Things\, the limitations of technology\, and life as a pacemaker-equipped patient\, has been published in The Atlantic\, Public Books\, The Literary Review\, Real Life Magazine\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Haaretz. Her recent book\, Failure\, co-written with Arjun Appadurai\, was published by Polity. \n  \nCo-sponsors: NYU Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity\, and Strategic Innovation \n \n  \nThis is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. (Please note: if you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone.) For other accommodations\, please indicate on your RSVP form. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/lightning-flowers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210930T173000 DTSTAMP:20240614T132739Z CREATED:20210909T211641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T132739Z UID:1710-1633017600-1633023000@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:La Marr Jurelle Bruce and Fred Moten in Conversation DESCRIPTION:How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness & Black Radical Creativity (Duke\, 2021)\nReading by author \nLA MARR JURELLE BRUCE\n(University of Maryland\, American Studies)\nHow to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness & Black Radical Creativity (Duke\, 2021)\nFollowed by a conversation with FRED MOTEN\n(NYU\, Performance Studies)\nModerator: MARA MILLS (C0-Chair NYU CDS)\nThursday\, September 30. 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.\n  \n \nLa Marr Jurelle Bruce is an interdisciplinary humanities scholar\, cultural and literary critic\, black/Black studies devotee\, Bronx native\, first-generation college graduate\, and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland\, College Park. He has published work on black expressive culture in such venues as African American Review\, American Quarterly\, The Black Scholar\, GLQ\, and Social Text. His first book\, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity\, debuted in June on Duke University Press. The Afromantic\, his second project\, will yield a cultural history\, critical theory\, aesthetic expression\, and existential assertion of black love amid and against antiblackness. \nFred Moten works in the departments of performance studies and comparative literature at New York University. His latest book\, written with Stefano Harney\, is All Incomplete (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia\, 2021). \nCo-sponsors: NYU Center for Black Visual Culture + Institute for African American Affairs; Proclaiming Disability Arts; NYU Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity\, and Strategic Innovation \n  \nThis is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. (Please note: if you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone.) For other accommodations\, please indicate on your RSVP form. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/la-marr-jurelle-bruce-and-fred-moten-in-conversation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210409T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210409T173000 DTSTAMP:20240614T133803Z CREATED:20210127T191814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T133803Z UID:1557-1617984000-1617989400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Joseph Grigely and Emily Watlington in Conversation DESCRIPTION:Joseph Grigely “Fourteen Untitled Conversations” 2002\nArtist and writer Joseph Grigely and critic and curator Emily Watlington in conversation on art\, disability\, apologies and other matters. \nModerator: Mara Mills (C0-Chair NYU CDS) \nJoseph Grigely is an artist and writer. He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the MCA\, Chicago; the Musée d’art Moderne in Paris; the Douglas Hyde Gallery\, Dublin; and has participated in the Whitney\, Venice\, Berlin\, Istanbul\, Liverpool\, and Sydney Biennials.  His books include Textualterity: Art\, Theory\, and Textual Criticism (1995)\, Conversation Pieces(1998)\, Exhibition Prosthetics(2010)\, MacLean 705(2015)\, and Oceans of Love: The Uncontainable Gregory Battcock(2016)\, as well as essays on disability theory and body criticism. He has a D.Phil. from Oxford University and is Professor of Visual & Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \n  \nEmily Watlington is a critic\, curator\, and assistant editor at Art in America. She writes on topics including art\, design\, disability justice\, and feminism. She is a Fulbright scholar who holds a SMArchS in the History\, Theory\, and Criticism of Architecture and Art from MIT. In 2018\, she received the Vera List Writing Prize in the Visual Arts\, and in 2020\, the Theorist Award from C/O Berlin. \nCo-sponsors:\n \nACLS Scholars & Society Program; Grey Art Gallery\, NYU;  Institute of Fine Arts; The Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity and Strategic Innovation URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/joseph-grigely-emily-watlington/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T173000 DTSTAMP:20240614T133711Z CREATED:20210126T173811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T133711Z UID:1553-1615564800-1615570200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Golem Girl: A Memoir (Riva Lehrer\, 2020) DESCRIPTION:*Please note time change* \nFriday\, March 12th\, 4-5:30 PM\, (ET) \nA Reading & Conversation with authors/artists/disability activists Riva Lehrer and Sunaura Taylor \nRiva 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. \nCo-sponsors: \nACLS Scholars & Society Program; Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU; Grey Art Gallery\, NYU; Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History/Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; Department of Social and Cultural Analysis; The Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity and Strategic Innovation \nThis is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. (Please note: if you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone.) For other accommodations\, please indicate on your RSVP form. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/golem-girl/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210305T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210305T183000 DTSTAMP:20240614T133639Z CREATED:20210126T172408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T133639Z UID:1543-1614960000-1614969000@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Screening and Discussion: Vision Portraits (Rodney Evans\, 2019) DESCRIPTION:A Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Rodney Evans and performance artist/dancer Kayla Hamilton \nThis feature-length documentary chronicles the creative paths of blind and visually impaired artists — photographer John Dugdale\, dancer Kayla Hamilton\, writer Ryan Knighton and the director\, award-winning filmmaker Rodney Evans. \nCo-sponsors:\n \nACLS Scholars & Society Program; Center for Media\, Culture & History; Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU; Institute of African American Affairs and Center for Black Visual Culture;  Grey Art Gallery\, NYU; The Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity and Strategic Innovation \nThis is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. (Please note: if you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone.) For other accommodations\, please indicate on your RSVP form. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/vision-portraits/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210212T133000 DTSTAMP:20240614T133548Z CREATED:20210112T193919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T133548Z UID:1522-1613131200-1613136600@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Deafness and Hearing in the History of Science DESCRIPTION:Deafness and Hearing in the History of Science\n \n\nFriday\, February 12\, 12-1:30 p.m. (ET)\n\n\n\nReading\, discussion\, and celebration of two new books:\n\nJaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware)\, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History (Chicago\, 2020)\nViktoria Tkaczyk (Humboldt University of Berlin)\, Mara Mills (NYU)\, and Alexandra Hui (Mississippi State)\, eds. Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality (Oxford\, 2020)\n\nCo-Sponsor: \nThe Office of Global Inclusion\, Diversity and Strategic Innovation \n\n\nThis is a Zoom webinar. CART and ASL are provided. (Please note: if you require captioning and ASL simultaneously\, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer\, and not a tablet or smartphone.) For other accommodations\, please indicate on your RSVP form. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/deafness-and-hearing/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201203T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201203T183000 DTSTAMP:20240614T133257Z CREATED:20200901T174303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T133257Z UID:1343-1607014800-1607020200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Autistic Self-Advocacy\, Neurodiversity\, and Disability Culture DESCRIPTION:NYU Center for Disability Studies \nThe ACLS Scholars & Society Program \nNYU Big Ideas Series \nco-sponsors \nThe NYU Office of Global Inclusion/NYU WOMXN 100 Initiative \n \n \nAutistic Self-Advocacy\, Neurodiversity\, and Disability Culture\nLydia X. Z. Brown (Advocate\, Scholar-Activist\, Lawyer; Georgetown University\, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network\, Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence\, Survival\, & Empowerment)\n\nMichael John Carley (Author\, Autistic self-advocate\, NYU Office of GIobal Inclusion) \nModerator: Kristie Patten (NYU Steinhardt\, Center for Disability Studies)\n \n\nAll the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism (Lydia X.Z. Brown\, co-editor\, 2017)\nAspergers from the Inside Out (Michael John Carley\, 2008)\n\n\nCART provided. \nThis is a Zoom webinar: Registration is required. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/autistic-self-advocacy-neurodiversity-and-disability-culture/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T183000 DTSTAMP:20240614T133236Z CREATED:20200901T173417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T133236Z UID:1338-1605200400-1605205800@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Disability Justice and the Politics of Inclusive Design DESCRIPTION:NYU Center for Disability Studies \nThe ACLS Scholars & Society Program \nNYU Big Ideas Series \nco-sponsors \nThe NYU Office of Global Inclusion/NYU WOMXN 100 Initiative \n\n \nDisability Justice and the Politics of Inclusive Design\nSara Hendren (designer/activist\, Olin College) + Regine Gilbert (designer/activist\, NYU Tandon) discussing their recent books:\nSara Hendren\, What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World (Penguin/Riverhead\, 2020)\nRegine Gilbert\, Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind\, (APress\, 2019)\n\nModerator: Mara Mills (C0-Chair NYU CDS) \nCART provided. This is a Zoom webinar: Registration is required. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/disability-justice-and-the-politics-of-inclusive-design/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201015T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201015T183000 DTSTAMP:20240614T133217Z CREATED:20200901T171242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T133217Z UID:1332-1602781200-1602786600@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Disability Visibility at the Intersections DESCRIPTION:NYU Center for Disability Studies \nThe ACLS Scholars & Society Program \nNYU Big Ideas Series \nco-sponsors \nThe NYU Office of Global Inclusion/NYU WOMXN 100 Initiative \nDisability Visibility at the Intersections \nA conversation with contributors to \nDisability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century (2020\, Alice Wong\, editor; Vintage Books) \nAlice Wong (Director\, Disability Visibility Project) \nBritney Wilson (Civil rights lawyer\, contributor to Disability Visibility) \nReyma McCoy McDeid (National Center for Independent Living\, autism self-advocate) \nModerator: Alice Sheppard (dancer/choreographer) \nCART provided. \nThis is a Zoom webinar: Registration is required. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/disability-visibility-at-the-intersections/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200925T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200925T173000 DTSTAMP:20240614T133156Z CREATED:20200901T170334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T133156Z UID:1329-1601049600-1601055000@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Judy Heumann in Conversation with Simi Linton DESCRIPTION:NYU Center for Disability Studies \nThe ACLS Scholars & Society Program \nNYU Big Ideas Series \nco-sponsors \nThe NYU Office of Global Inclusion/NYU WOMXN 100 Initiative \n \nA reading and conversation with disability rights activist and author\nJudy Heumann in conversation with Simi Linton\nReading from her 2020 memoir\, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist (2020\, Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner\, Penguin Random House)\nfollowed by conversation with disability activist\, writer\, filmmaker Simi Linton \n  \nCART provided. \nThis is a Zoom webinar: Registration is required. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/judy-heumann-in-conversation-with-simi-linton/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200515T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200515T173000 DTSTAMP:20240614T140005Z CREATED:20200124T152257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T140005Z UID:1091-1589558400-1589563800@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Virtual Event | Reading/Book Talk: Nadina LaSpina\, Such a Pretty Girl DESCRIPTION:Friday May 15th\, 4-5:30 PM\,  \nZoom – RSVP for link and to provide access requests \nDisability rights activist Nadina LaSpina will read from her memoir Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle\, Empowerment\, and Disability Pride\, which describes her journey to find a place for herself in an ableist world. The reading will be followed by a conversation with authors Simi Linton (disability rights activist) and Jessie Male (disability scholar at NYU Gallatin). The audiobook edition of Such a Pretty Girl launches May 12th.   \nFollowed by conversation with author/disability activist Simi Linton and author/disability scholar Jessie Male (NYU Gallatin) \nCo-Sponsors: NYU Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication and The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/nadina-laspina/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200507T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200507T210000 DTSTAMP:20250602T193538Z CREATED:20200426T180256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T193538Z UID:1240-1588878000-1588885200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening and Discussion: Disability\, Documentary\, and Description DESCRIPTION:Film Screening and Discussion: Disability\, Documentary\, and Description\n\nThursday\, May 7th\, 7 to 9pm \n\nImage description: A white woman with shoulder length blonde hair covering one eye\, sits\, looking down and wearing a polka-dotted raincoat. To the side of her is a hand-held mirror that reflects her hand and some coins. A caption appears on top of her hands that reads “so I am counting coins and putting in envelopes.”\n\n\n\n\nThe film\, art\, and writing of Jordan Lord focuses on the entanglements between access and documentary\, framing and support\, familial and financial debts. Integrating audio description to refract the perspectives of the people on camera and using both captions and their own body to delimit what parts of each image are shown\, their films consider how access renders and interrupts standard aesthetic\, social\, and institutional protocols. As they observe how they and their family are caught up in various financial\, legal and medical apparatuses––and how these apparatuses get involved with practices of documentary filmmaking––they seek to reflect how disability and debt both break open and intimately contract the frames placed on dependency and care. \n  \nFollowing a screening of three of their films\, join us for a talkback and conversation on these themes and more with Jordan and artists Constantina Zavitsanos and Carolyn Lazard. Moderated by Emily Lim Rogers. \n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\nThree films by Jordan Lord:\n\nI Can Hear My Mother’s Voice\, Jordan Lord and Deborah Lord\, 5 minutes\, 2018. \nThis collaboration between Jordan and their mother Deborah documents her process of learning how to use Jordan’s camera. Deborah’s audio description of what she has recorded ranges from a reflection on filmmaking and personal observations of what she sees onscreen to a meditation on how her act of recording triggers senses of both memory and loss. \n  \nAfter… After… (Access)\, Jordan Lord\, 16 minutes\, 2018 \nThis essay film follows the filmmaker’s attempt to get access to filming their open heart surgery\, while confronting the inaccessibility of film and video for disabled audiences. Lord considers what it means to give varying levels of access to their body and feelings\, while also thinking about the dependencies that make access to the film possible in the first place. \n  \nShared Resources\, Jordan Lord\, 54 minute excerpt\, 2020 \nThis feature-length documentary is about Lord’s family and their debts. Though Jordan’s father Albert was a debt collector for over 30 years\, he and Deborah are in a tremendous amount of debt––much of which stemmed from the cost of Jordan’s college education. The film spans 4 years of Deborah and Albert’s bankruptcy\, as they attempt to live under austerity. Through the process of making and watching the film together\, Jordan\, Deborah\, Albert\, and Jordan’s sister Ashley reckon with each others’ very different understandings of debt\, dependency\, and disability. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nThe films are audio described and open captioned in English. \nThere is a strobe effect (a flickering light) about 8 minutes into the video After… After… (Access). The video also says this at the beginning.\nLive audio description of event\, provided by Alejandra Ospina.\nCART\, ASL provided. \n\nConstantina Zavitsanos is an artist who works in sculpture\, performance\, text\, and sound. Zavitsanos’s work elaborates what is invaluable in the re/production of debt\, dependency\, and means beyond measure. Zavitsanos has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum\, the New Museum\, Artists Space\, The Kitchen\, and Participant Inc. in New York; at Arika in Glasgow\, Scotland; and at Fri Art Kunsthalle in Switzerland. With Park McArthur\, they co-authored the texts “Other Forms of Conviviality” in the journal Women and Performance (Routledge\, 2013)\, and “The Guild of the Brave Poor Things” in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press\, 2017). Zavitsanos lives in New York and teaches at the New School. \nCarolyn Lazard is a Philadelphia-based artist and writer. They have exhibited and screened work in various institutions including the Walker Art Center\, the New Museum\, Camden Art Centre\, the Stedelijk Museum\, Museum für Moderne Kunst\, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Lazard has published writing in the Brooklyn Rail\, Mousse Magazine\, and Triple Canopy. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/documentary-and-description/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200501T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200501T173000 DTSTAMP:20240614T135716Z CREATED:20200206T191934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T135716Z UID:1098-1588348800-1588354200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED Touch This Page: Closing Reception at NYU Tandon DESCRIPTION:EXHIBITION on view for the Spring 2020 semester. CLOSING RECEPTION 4pm to 5:30pm on 5/10. \nBern Dibner Library\, NYU Tandon (5 MetroTech Center) \n“Touch This Page! Making Sense of the Ways We Read” is an exhibition about multisensory experiences of reading. Its central objects are 3D replicas from historical books for blind and low-vision readers printed between 1830 and 1910. Join CDS\, NYU Libraries\, and co-curators Sari Altschuler and David Weimer for a tour of the exhibit\, followed by a closing reception. \nCosponsored by NYU Libraries. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/touch-this-page-tandon/ LOCATION:Bern Dibner Library\, 5 MetroTech Center\, Brooklyn\, NY\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR