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Design/Disability

Co-sponsor: NYU Department of Media, Culture and Communication. Reading, discussion and celebration of three new books by: —Aimi Hamraie (Vanderbilt) Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (2017) —Elizabeth Guffey (Purchase, SUNY) Designing Disability: Symbols, Space and Society (2017) —Bess Williamson (Art Institute of Chicago) Accessible America: A History of Design and Disability …

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Labor and Disability: No Right to Be Idle

8th Floor Commons 239 Greene Street, New York, NY, United States

In collaboration with the Skirball Center’s On Your Marx festival Co-Sponsor: NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis Join us for a book talk and celebration of No Right to Be Idle (2017) with author Sarah Rose (UTexas, Arlington), winner of the 2018 Philip Taft Labor History Prize. Starting in the late 19th century, Americans …

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Performance and Discussion: MOVING MAD, QUEER, AND CRIP

721 Broadway, 6th Floor Studio Space 721 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

  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 …

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