Friday May 15th, 4-5:30 PM, Zoom - RSVP for link and to provide access requests Disability 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 […]
NYU Center for Disability Studies The ACLS Scholars & Society Program NYU Big Ideas Series co-sponsors The NYU Office of Global Inclusion/NYU WOMXN 100 Initiative A reading and conversation with disability rights activist and author Judy Heumann in conversation with Simi Linton Reading from her 2020 memoir, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights […]
NYU Center for Disability Studies The ACLS Scholars & Society Program NYU Big Ideas Series co-sponsors The NYU Office of Global Inclusion/NYU WOMXN 100 Initiative Disability Visibility at the Intersections A conversation with contributors to Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century (2020, Alice Wong, editor; Vintage Books) Alice Wong (Director, Disability Visibility Project) […]
NYU Center for Disability Studies The ACLS Scholars & Society Program NYU Big Ideas Series co-sponsors The NYU Office of Global Inclusion/NYU WOMXN 100 Initiative Disability Justice and the Politics of Inclusive Design Sara Hendren (designer/activist, Olin College) + Regine Gilbert (designer/activist, NYU Tandon) discussing their recent books: Sara Hendren, What Can a Body Do? […]
NYU Center for Disability Studies The ACLS Scholars & Society Program NYU Big Ideas Series co-sponsors The NYU Office of Global Inclusion/NYU WOMXN 100 Initiative Autistic Self-Advocacy, Neurodiversity, and Disability Culture Lydia X. Z. Brown (Advocate, Scholar-Activist, Lawyer; Georgetown University, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color's Interdependence, […]
Deafness and Hearing in the History of Science Friday, February 12, 12-1:30 p.m. (ET) Reading, discussion, and celebration of two new books: Jaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware), Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History (Chicago, 2020) Viktoria Tkaczyk (Humboldt University of Berlin), Mara Mills (NYU), and Alexandra Hui (Mississippi State), eds. Testing Hearing: The Making of […]
A Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Rodney Evans and performance artist/dancer Kayla Hamilton This 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. Co-sponsors: ACLS Scholars & Society Program; Center for Media, Culture & History; […]
*Please note time change* Friday, March 12th, 4-5:30 PM, (ET) A Reading & Conversation with authors/artists/disability activists Riva Lehrer and Sunaura Taylor Riva 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. Co-sponsors: ACLS […]
Joseph Grigely “Fourteen Untitled Conversations” 2002 Artist and writer Joseph Grigely and critic and curator Emily Watlington in conversation on art, disability, apologies and other matters. Moderator: Mara Mills (C0-Chair NYU CDS) Joseph Grigely is an artist and writer. He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the MCA, Chicago; the Musée […]
How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness & Black Radical Creativity (Duke, 2021) Reading by author LA MARR JURELLE BRUCE (University of Maryland, American Studies) How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness & Black Radical Creativity (Duke, 2021) Followed by a conversation with FRED MOTEN (NYU, Performance Studies) Moderator: MARA MILLS […]