September 2023
Other-Worlding: Artist Talk By Emilie L. Gossiaux, In Conversation With Georgina Kleege
The Center for Disability Studies and NYU’s Grey Art Gallery invite you to join Emilie L. Gossiaux for an artist talk in advance of her debut museum solo exhibition, Other-Worlding, at the Queens Museum in New York City. Gossiaux will be in conversation with Georgina Kleege, author of More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art. Gossiaux and Kleege will preview Gossiaux’s exhibit, discuss her artistic practice, and consider the ways a disabled artist’s experience can inform how museums provide access.
October 2023
A Discussion With Andrew Leland
A discussion with Andrew Leland on his book about going blind, The Country of the Blind. Moderated by Gideon Lewis-Kraus, a staff writer at The New Yorker. Co-sponsored by the NYU Center for Disability Studies. Non-NYU-affiliated must RSVP in advance!
Disability And The Digital X Crip Authorship
The final event in the Disability and the Digital series features Emily Lim Rogers (Duke), Maxwell Joy Moore (Power Not Pity), and Louise Hickman (University of Cambridge) discussing their essays in the 2023 edited volume Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press). Moderated by Rebecca Sanchez and Mara Mills, Rogers will present on “Virtual Ethnography,” Moore on “Podcasting for Disability Justice,” and Hickman on “Willful Dictionaries and Crip Authorship in CART.” The Disability and the Digital Series is supported by the Digital Media and Dis/Abilities Research Network funded by DFG.
November 2023
Late Shift X NYU Center For Disability Studies With Jerron Herman: Rest
Join us on the evening of November 9 for the newest Late Shift program highlighting LAX, a site-responsive, interactive performance and score choreographed by interdisciplinary artist and dancer Jerron Herman. Designed to be experienced from anywhere within Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda, Herman’s score will guide visitors’ energy throughout the building, creating moments that honor our bodies’ needs for comfort, play, and rest. This immersive program, presented in collaboration with the Center for Disability Studies (CDS) at New York University, will also feature a host of additional activations throughout the museum.
Alt-Text As Poetry With Bojana Coklyat And Finnegan Shannon
Thursday, November 16 at 7PM in-person @ St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 1003 A banner with a beige background and thin black-line frame; off-right are two irregular half circles drawn in charcoal, extending to the top edge and bottom edge of the banner and almost meeting each other in the center but not quite. To the center-right of the frame are three dashed charcoal lines in a row, beginning at the center-right edge of the banner and extending to almost in between the two half-circles but not quite. MASKS ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS WORKSHOP Alt-text is an essential part of web accessibility.