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Wednesday, April 30th At 12:30pm 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Flex Space David Serlin in conversation with Mara Mills and Sophie Gonick. Moderated by Andrew Ross. Window Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences of people with disabilities. David Serlin reveals how people with …

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Friday 16, May, 2025 1pm-2:30pm (Zoom) The editors of the volume “Crip Authorship: Disability as Method”, Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, have brought together a variety of disabled positions on the topic of “authorship”: The contributions ask how disability and authorship are aesthetically and structurally connected and influence each other. Together with some of the …

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Saturday, 21 June 2025 V&A South Kensington Join us for an afternoon of talks, a screening, and a workshop exploring disability, authorship, and access at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Contributors to Crip Authorship—a 2024 CHOICE Reviews Outstanding Academic Title—will share their work on how disability can shape the way we write, communicate, …

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Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 6 - 7:30 PM Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library 40 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011   As part of Disability Pride Month, essayists Aiyuba Thomas, Chancey Fleet, and Harris Kornstein, all featured in a new book, How to be Disabled in a Pandemic , discuss their experiences with …

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NYU Center for Disability Studies is honored to co-present a screening of the Sundance-award winning documentary LIFE AFTER at NYC’s Film Forum on July 23 at 7:10pm introduced by Mara Mills. Join us and stay for a talkback with director Reid Davenport, disability activist & author Emily Ladau and comedian Maysoon Zayid.   If you …

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Authors' Roundtable: ‘How To Be Disabled In A Pandemic’ Wed, September 03 10:40 AM - 12:30 PM Second Floor: Cedar B Sheraton Grand, Space Tower Roundtable   Chair, Harris Kornstein, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona Presenter,  Marika Cifor, PhD, The University of Washington Presenter, Nadia Naomi Mbonde, Doctoral Candidate, NYU Presenter, Mara Mills, Professor, New …

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  How can feminist-of-color disability politics help us navigate contemporary crises of care and decimated social safety nets? Join Sami Schalk and Jina B. Kim for a discussion of Jina's new book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Duke UP, 2025), which examines the imaginative work of disabled, queer, …

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BOOK LAUNCH EVENT Friday, September 19, 6:00–7:30 PM ET Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway,  6th floor Also available via Zoom How does listening in documentary become a proxy for justice—and what other kinds of listening might be possible? In The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability (Columbia University Press, 2025), Pooja Rangan examines how documentary listening—through habits …

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The Department of Performance Studies is excited to welcome back PS Alum Leon Hilton (Ph.D. '16) to give a talk on his most recent book publication, Counter-cartographies: Neurodivergence and the Errancies of Performance (University of Minnesota Press). This talk draws together methods and critical apertures from performance theory and disability studies to describe hidden practices, silent …

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