Latest Past Events
Big Blue: Computing Depression from the DSM to AI Psychodiagnostics with Jeff Nagy and Whit Pow
ZoomFriday, May 1, 4-5:30PM ET @ Zoom Please join The Center for Disability Studies and The Association for Computing Machinery History Committee for our event with Jeff Nagy in conversation with Whit Pow, who will examine the remaking of psychiatric disability in an AI era through the case of algorithmic depression diagnostics. Depression diagnosis and …
INTERFACE FRICTIONS: How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies
Michelson Theater 721 Broadway 6th Floor, New YorkFriday, March 13, 6:00pm – 8:00pm Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th floor In Interface Frictions, Neta Alexander explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms reshape, condition, and break our bodies. Discussion: author Neta Alexander (Yale University), Anna McCarthy (Cinema Studies), and Whit Pow (Media, Culture, and Communication). Moderator: Faye Ginsburg (Anthropology / Center for Media, Culture & History). Co-sponsored by the Center for Disability …
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The Sensational Museum: Hannah Thompson in Conversation with Georgina Kleege on Arts Access
ZoomWednesday, March 11, 2026 12 - 1:30pm ET on Zoom NYU’s Grey Art Museum and Center for Disability Studies invite you to a presentation by Prof. Hannah Thompson (Royal Halloway, University of London) about her project The Sensational Museum, which, as she writes, means “using what we know about disability to change museums for everyone.” Prof. …