September 2020
Judy Heumann In Conversation With Simi Linton
September 25, 2020 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
NYU Center for Disability Studies The ACLS Scholars & Society Program NYU Big Ideas Series co-sponsors The NYU Office of Global Inclusion/NYU WOMXN 100 Initiative A reading and conversation with disability rights activist and author Judy Heumann in conversation with Simi Linton Reading from her 2020 memoir, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist (2020, Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner, Penguin Random House) followed by conversation with disability activist, writer, filmmaker Simi Linton CART provided. This is…Find out more »
October 2020
Disability Visibility At The Intersections
October 15, 2020 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
NYU Center for Disability Studies The ACLS Scholars & Society Program NYU Big Ideas Series co-sponsors The NYU Office of Global Inclusion/NYU WOMXN 100 Initiative Disability Visibility at the Intersections A conversation with contributors to Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century (2020, Alice Wong, editor; Vintage Books) Alice Wong (Director, Disability Visibility Project) Britney Wilson (Civil rights lawyer, contributor to Disability Visibility) Reyma McCoy McDeid (National Center for Independent Living, autism self-advocate) Moderator: Alice Sheppard (dancer/choreographer) CART provided. This…Find out more »
November 2020
Disability Justice And The Politics Of Inclusive Design
November 12, 2020 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
NYU Center for Disability Studies The ACLS Scholars & Society Program NYU Big Ideas Series co-sponsors The NYU Office of Global Inclusion/NYU WOMXN 100 Initiative Disability Justice and the Politics of Inclusive Design Sara Hendren (designer/activist, Olin College) + Regine Gilbert (designer/activist, NYU Tandon) discussing their recent books: Sara Hendren, What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World (Penguin/Riverhead, 2020) Regine Gilbert, Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind, (APress, 2019) CART…Find out more »
December 2020
Autistic Self-Advocacy, Neurodiversity, And Disability Culture
December 3, 2020 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
NYU Center for Disability Studies The ACLS Scholars & Society Program NYU Big Ideas Series co-sponsors The NYU Office of Global Inclusion/NYU WOMXN 100 Initiative Autistic Self-Advocacy, Neurodiversity, and Disability Culture Lydia X. Z. Brown (Advocate, Scholar-Activist, Lawyer; Georgetown University, Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence, Survival, & Empowerment) Michael John Carley (Author, Autistic self-advocate, NYU Office of GIobal Inclusion) Moderator: Kristie Patten (NYU Steinhardt, Center for Disability Studies) All the…Find out more »