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 […]
**Venue update: 16 Cooper Square, Studio, Center for Ballet and the Arts** PERFORMANCE followed by DISCUSSION facilitated by Prof. Kevin Gotkin, NYU MCC & DANT Instead 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 […]
Sick and Tender: Sini Anderson and Amy Berkowitz in Conversation Monday, February 24th 239 Greene Street, 8th Floor Commons Presented by the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture Co-Sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies and the NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication 239 Greene Street, 8th Floor Commons, 6:30 to 8:30 (access via […]
Mara Mills, "Talking Books and the History of Aural Speed Reading" Thursday, February 27th at 6:00pm Bobst Library, Room 745 Speech 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 […]
In light of the university's response to COVID-19, this event has been cancelled. Thursday March 12,4-6 PM, 239 Greene Street, 8th floor commons Ralph Savarese (Grinnell College) The Body Is a Big Sagacity: Reading Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony with Autist Jamie Burke From: See it Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers and the Schooling of […]
With apologies, this event has been cancelled. Friday April 3, 4-6 PM, 19 University Place, First floor theater (102) Code of the Freaks (Salome Chasnoff, 2020, 68 min.) Taking 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 […]
Thursday April 23rd, 5-7 PM 20 Cooper Square, 2nd floor Commons CANCELLED Perfectly Normal for Me (Catherine Tambini, 2018, 50 min) Post-screening discussion: Director Catherine Tambini, producer Elizabeth Hemmerdinger, and dancers/protagonists Veronica Siaba and Kathleen Downes Alexandria, Jake, Caitlin and Veronica, ages 5 to 15, want to change the conversation. They reveal in their own […]