Danielle Peers, community organizer, artist, and a visiting professor in NYU Performance Studies, is an Assistant Professor at the Univ. of Alberta, and Director of the Media in Motion Lab. Dr. Lindsay Eales disability scholar + founding Co-Artistic Director of CRIPSiE (the Collaborative Radically Integrated Performers Society in Edmonton), creating dance by/for people experiencing disability […]
Presented in Collaboration with the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts EFA Project Space | 323 West 39th Street 2nd Floor NY, NY 10018 Collective Strategies for Reparative Care: A panel discussion with Ted Kerr (writer and organizer, What Would an HIV Doula Do?), Lana Lin (filmmaker, scholar, author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of […]
20 Cooper Square, Room 222 Lunch provided; vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options available. Join us for a lunchtime conversation between Georgina Kleege, Netta Yerushalmy, Mara Mills, David Linton, and Mary Murphy about their experience describing George Balanchine's abstract modernist ballet, Agon, for both blind and sighted audiences. Their response to Agon is part of the Paramodernities series at New York Live […]
(2017, 93 min., Paul Damien Williams, Australia, Yolngu) Wednesday, April 3, 5-7 PM, 721 Broadway, Tisch School of the Arts, Room 006 Discussion with Director Paul Damien Williams & Faye Ginsburg Born blind, the late Indigenous Australian musician and Yolngu elder Gurrumul Yunupingu, was celebrated at home and abroad, straddling Aboriginal and global worlds […]
Presented by the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture: TALKING HANDS (dir. Emanuel Almborg, 2016), 48 min - screening + director in conversation with Mara Mills WHEN: Monday 22 April 2019, 6:30pm WHERE: Kriser Room, 25 Waverly Place Free and open to the public "We see and hear through the eyes and ears of our friends, all people, the entire human race." […]
239 Greene Street, 8th Floor Commons Celebrate a new special issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience with editors Kelly Fritsch, Lichen Hamraie, Mara Mills, and David Serlin and authors Kevin Gotkin and Alice Sheppard. Crip Technoscience brings critical feminist perspectives to the study of disability, science, and technology, offering interventions into political debates related […]
In collaboration with the New York Times. Book launch | About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times Film screening | Far from the Tree - 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 […]
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 […]
Touch This Page Thursday, October 10th, 4pm to 5:30pm | NYU Bobst Library TOUR + RECEPTION 4-5:30pm, Mamdouha Bobst Gallery, 70 Washington Square South EXHIBITION runs the month of October, Bobst Library Atrium. “Touch This Page! Making Sense of the Ways We Read” is an exhibition about multisensory experiences of reading. Its central objects are […]
Screening Disabilities: When I Walk & When We Walk with Margaret Mead Film Festival, American Museum of Natural History, 79th and Central Park West. Two films by Jason DaSilva: 12:30pm When I Walk (2013, 85 mins) / 2:30pm When We Walk (2019, 78 min) Documentaries by filmmaker/disability activist Jason DaSilva reveal the possibilities and politics […]