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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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Collective Strategies for Reparative Care: A Panel Discussion

efa project space 323 West 39th Street 2nd Floor, New York, NY, United States

  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 …

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Audio Description for Dance: Lessons from Paramodernities

20 Cooper Sq, room 531 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor, New York, NY, United States

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 …

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Screening and Discussion: GURRUMUL

721 Broadway, Room 006 721 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

  (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 …

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