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:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200423T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200423T190000 DTSTAMP:20240614T135537Z CREATED:20200124T151125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T135537Z UID:1084-1587661200-1587668400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED Screening/Discussion: Perfectly Normal for Me DESCRIPTION:Thursday April 23rd\,   5-7 PM \n20 Cooper Square\, 2nd floor Commons \nCANCELLED Perfectly Normal for Me (Catherine Tambini\, 2018\, 50 min) \n Post-screening discussion: Director Catherine Tambini\, producer Elizabeth Hemmerdinger\, and dancers/protagonists Veronica Siaba and Kathleen Downes \nAlexandria\, Jake\, Caitlin and Veronica\, ages 5 to 15\, want to change the conversation. They reveal in their own words what it’s like to deal with the literal ups and downs of a challenged life. In this intimate verité documentary\, four charismatic kids strive for acceptance in a world that is often\, at best\, indifferent to them. \nTheir exceptional parents search out programs where their children are accepted and feel valued\, from clinical services to adaptive skiing. We first meet them all in a unique after-school dance program in Queens\, New York.  With a diverse group of dedicated teenage volunteers – outstanding citizens in a world where the impulse to exclude\, bully or ignore is too often the norm – dancers and helpers work together for a year toward a jubilant spring recital. Thanks to the joy they find in working together\, dancers and helpers emerge as eloquent\, energized voices for inclusion. \nCo-Sponsors: Center for Ballet and the Arts\,  Center for Media\, Culture\, & History \n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/perfectly-normal-for-me/ LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 2nd floor event space\, 20 Cooper Square\, 2nd Floor Event Space\, New York\, NY\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T180000 DTSTAMP:20240614T135501Z CREATED:20200124T150659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T135501Z UID:1081-1585929600-1585936800@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED Screening/Discussion: Code of the Freaks DESCRIPTION:With apologies\, this event has been cancelled.\nFriday April 3\, 4-6 PM\,  \n19 University Place\, First floor theater (102) \n Code of the Freaks (Salome Chasnoff\, 2020\, 68 min.) \nTaking its title from Tod Browning’s classic film\, this radical reframing of how characters with disabilities are represented looks at a century of Hollywood favorites with a fresh perspective. Disability activists imagine a cinematic landscape that takes people with disabilities seriously. \nPost-screening discussion with director Salome Chasnoff; writer Alyson Patsavas; cinematographer and editor Jerzy Rose; and disability activist Lawrence Carter-Long. \nIn collaboration with ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York\, a showcase of award-winning films by and about people with disabilities. \nCo-Sponsors: Center for Media\, Culture & History\, NYU\, and NYU Department of Cinema Studies URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/code-of-the-freaks/ LOCATION:19 University Place First floor theater\, 19 University Place\, First floor theater (102)\, New York\, NY\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200312T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200312T180000 DTSTAMP:20240614T135410Z CREATED:20200124T150307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T135410Z UID:1079-1584028800-1584036000@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED | Reading/Book Talk: Ralph Savarese\, The Body Is a Big Sagacity DESCRIPTION:In light of the university’s response to COVID-19\, this event has been cancelled.\n  \nThursday March 12\,4-6 PM\,  \n239 Greene Street\, 8th floor commons \nRalph Savarese (Grinnell College) \nThe Body Is a Big Sagacity: Reading Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony with Autist Jamie Burke \nFrom:  See it Feelingly: Classic Novels\, Autistic Readers and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor \nDiscussant: Kristie Koenig  \nTalk Description \nJamie Burke\, a white\, autistic self-advocate\, learned to speak through innovative occupational therapy at the age of thirteen. At Syracuse University\, he minored in Native American Studies\, having long been interested in the nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Burke and Savarese\, who is also white\, spent several months discussing Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony\, which relates the story of a mixed-race veteran who returns from combat to the Laguna Pueblo reservation in a state of traumatized dysfunction. Burke’s familiarity with Native American culture and his talents as a “spatial visualizer” helped to illuminate the novel’s spiritual geography\, which has perplexed some readers. As the two men explored a new emphasis in the scientific literature on motor impairments in autism—both their wide-ranging repercussions and potential amelioration—Burke connected his own improbable journey to speech with the protagonist’s improbable journey to wholeness through ceremonial movement. What emerged in their conversations was a more dynamic understanding of readerly identification and\, just as important\, a new conception of health or well-being. The very idea of allyship\, across racial\, ethnic and neurological differences\, seemed as thorny as ever yet somehow reinvigorated. A blend of ethnography\, neuroscience\, literary analysis\, and disability studies\, the talk pushes back against sweeping claims of imaginative and interpretive incapacity in autism. \nBio: Ralph James Savarese is the author of two books\, Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption (Other Press\, 2007) and See It Feelingly: Classic Novels\, Autistic Readers\, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor (Duke UP\, 2018). He is also the co-editor of three collections\, including the first on the concept of neurodiversity. A fourth\, The Futures of Neurodiversity\, is under contract with the Modern Language Association. In 2012-2013\, he was a neurohumanities fellow at Duke University’s Institute for Brain Sciences. A documentary about his son’s inclusion journey appeared on PBS in 2017 and won a Peabody Award. Titled Deej\, it follows DJ from high school to Oberlin College\, where he was that institution’s first nonspeaking student with autism. Ralph teaches American literature\, creative writing\, and disability studies at Grinnell College in Iowa. \nCo-Sponsors:   NYU Departments of Media\, Culture\, and Communication\, English\, and Occupational Therapy. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/savarese/ LOCATION:8th Floor Commons\, 239 Greene Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T180000 DTSTAMP:20240614T135237Z CREATED:20200219T174157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T135237Z UID:1129-1582826400-1582826400@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Talking Books and the History of Aural Speed Reading DESCRIPTION:Mara Mills\, “Talking Books and the History of Aural Speed Reading” \nThursday\, February 27th at 6:00pm \nBobst Library\, Room 745 \nSpeech gained momentum in television and radio broadcasting in the 1970s\, after the commercialization of “time compressors” that allowed tape recordings to be accelerated without any change in pitch. This talk will discuss the cultural imperative for aural speed reading among blind Talking Book readers\, dating to the 1930s\, which drove time-stretching innovations in the magnetic tape era\, allowing playback rate to be changed without a ecting pitch. \nSponsored by NYU Libraries. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/talking-books/ LOCATION:Bobst Library 745\, 70 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T203000 DTSTAMP:20240614T134805Z CREATED:20200124T164049Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T134805Z UID:1094-1582569000-1582576200@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Sick and Tender: Sini Anderson and Amy Berkowitz in Conversation DESCRIPTION:Sick and Tender: Sini Anderson and Amy Berkowitz in Conversation\nMonday\, February 24th \n239 Greene Street\, 8th Floor Commons \n  \n \nPresented by the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture \nCo-Sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies and the NYU Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication \n239 Greene Street\, 8th Floor Commons\, 6:30 to 8:30 (access via 18 Washington Place) \nSini Anderson’s forthcoming documentary So Sick shines light on the late-stage Lyme epidemic\, while Amy Berkowitz’sTender Points explores connections between chronic pain and sexual violence. The two artists will engage in a broader conversation about invisible illness\, medical sexism and making art on crip time with moderator Mara Mills (NYU MCC) and discussant Emily Lim Rogers (NYU SCA) \nPresented by the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture and CDS. Co-sponsors: NYU Dept. of Media\, Culture\, and Communication; NYU Dept. of English. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/sick-and-tender-sini-anderson-and-amy-berkowitz-in-conversation/ LOCATION:8th Floor Commons\, 239 Greene Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T200000 DTSTAMP:20240614T134638Z CREATED:20190903T204249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T134638Z UID:961-1575482400-1575489600@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Radical Visibility: Sky Cubacub of Rebirth Garments DESCRIPTION:**Venue update: 16 Cooper Square\, Studio\, Center for Ballet and the Arts** \nPERFORMANCE followed by DISCUSSION facilitated by Prof. Kevin Gotkin\, NYU MCC & DANT \nInstead of a typical stoic runway\, Rebirth Garments hosts fashion performances that feature local models of all sizes and ages who identify as Queer and/ or Crip including apparent and non-apparent disabilities/ disorders all dancing in custom garments designed specifically to serve their physical and social needs. Through dancing\, models show how the garments help them move in a way that shows off their true selves. At the end of the performance we invite the audience to come join us\, changing the landscape of what we think of as a fashion show and transforming the event from a spectacle to an academic event\, club event\, and lesson on radical inclusion. \nAfter the fashion performance Sky will give verbal descriptions of each of the outfits. They will then have a conversation with Kevin Gotkin on stage. Questions from the audience are highly encouraged! The audience should feel free to come and go as they want. \nCART provided. \n— \nSky Cubacub is a non-binary queer and disabled Filipinx human from Chicago\, IL. Their clothing line\, Rebirth Garments\, challenges mainstream beauty standards through centering queer and disabled people of all sizes\, ethnicities and ages. They maintain the notion of Radical Visibility\,  a celebratory resistance\, highlighting the parts of us that society typically shuns\, a movement based on claiming our bodies; through the use of bright colors\, exuberant fabrics and innovative designs\, they refuse to assimilate and are spearheading a Queer and Disabled dress reform movement. \n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/radical-visibility/ LOCATION:16 Cooper Square\, Studio\, 16 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/rebirth_oakland_day1_180.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T163000 DTSTAMP:20250602T193716Z CREATED:20190912T160631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T193716Z UID:1033-1571488200-1571502600@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Screening Disabilities DESCRIPTION:Screening Disabilities: When I Walk & When We Walk\n \nwith Margaret Mead Film Festival\, American Museum of Natural History\, 79th and Central Park West.  \nTwo films by Jason DaSilva: 12:30pm When I Walk (2013\, 85 mins) / 2:30pm When We Walk (2019\, 78 min)  \nDocumentaries by filmmaker/disability activist Jason DaSilva reveal the possibilities and politics of living with disability. Talkback with director DaSilva. \n*NYU students\, professors and staff are entitled to a discounted ticket. Contact faye.ginsburg@nyu.edu for information. \nIn collaboration with the Center for Media\, Culture & History and The Reelabilities Film Festival. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/screening-disabilities/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T173000 DTSTAMP:20240614T134414Z CREATED:20190802T160042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T134414Z UID:955-1570723200-1570728600@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Touch This Page @ NYU Bobst: opening reception DESCRIPTION:Touch This Page\nThursday\, October 10th\, 4pm to 5:30pm | NYU Bobst Library\n \nTOUR + RECEPTION 4-5:30pm\, Mamdouha Bobst Gallery\, 70 Washington Square South \nEXHIBITION runs the month of October\, Bobst Library Atrium. \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. The exhibition\, co-directed by Sari Altschuler (Northeastern University) and David Weimer (Harvard Library)\, will be on display at NYU Bobst Library for National Disability Employment Awareness month in October. Join CDS and the exhibition’s directors for the opening reception on Thursday\, October 10th. \nModerator: Mara Mills (MCC\, Center for Disability Studies) \nCosponsored by NYU Libraries. \n  URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/touch-this-page/ LOCATION:70 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY 10012\, 70 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T180000 DTSTAMP:20240614T134316Z CREATED:20190903T204558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T134316Z UID:951-1570204800-1570212000@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Book Launch and Discussion: Bodyminds Reimagined DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebration of Dr. Sami Schalk’s (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability\, Race\, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction. The book traces how black women’s speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race\, gender\, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies\, Schalk demonstrates that this genre’s political potential lies in the authors’ creation of bodyminds that transcend reality’s limitations. \nA reception will follow. \nModerator: Mara Mills (C0-Chair NYU CDS) \nCo-sponsored by: The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality\, NYU; and NYU Africana Studies. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/bodyminds-reimagined/ LOCATION:8th Floor Commons\, 239 Greene Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Sami-Final-5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190912T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190912T210000 DTSTAMP:20240614T134234Z CREATED:20190813T230825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T134234Z UID:922-1568307600-1568322000@disabilitystudies.nyu.edu SUMMARY:Living with Disability - "About Us" and "Far from the Tree" DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the New York Times. \nBook launch | About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times \nFilm screening | Far from the Tree \n \n– 5 p.m. // Book launch of About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times\, with editor and contributor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and New York Times series and book editor Peter Catapano\, contributor and preface author Andrew Solomon\, and contributors Alice Sheppard and Rachel Kolb.  \n– 6 p.m. // Screening and discussion of Andrew Solomon’s award-winning film\, Far From the Tree\, followed by talk-back with Andrew\, documentary directors Jamila Ephron and Rachel Dretzin\, and film protagonists disability advocate Emily Kingsley\, her disability activist Down Syndrome adult son Jason Kingsley\, and his roomates Yaniv Gorodischer and Ray Frost. \nReception to follow. \n20 Cooper Square is wheelchair accessible. CART provided. For other access needs\, please indicate in your RSVP\, or email emily.rogers@nyu.edu.  \nCo-sponsored by: The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute; The Center for Media\, Culture and History; and Liveright Publishing Corporation. With generous support from: GSAS Dean Phillip Brian Harper and the Graduate School of Arts & Science; FAS Dean for the Humanities Carolyn Dinshaw\, Dean for the Humanities; and FAS Dean for Social Sciences David Stasavage. URL:https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/living-with-disability/ LOCATION:20 Cooper Sq\, room 531\, 20 Cooper Square\, 7th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR