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Announcing our Summer 2022 Visiting Scholar
The NYU Center for Disability Studies is pleased to announce our Visiting Scholar this Summer, Miyuki Tanaka. Miyuki Tanaka is an independent curator and producer. She has been working on projects that defy categorization under the theme of “disability as a perspective that redefines the world.” She produces exhibitions, performances, and various projects to rethink the way we view and perceive expressions together with audiences including disabled people. She is working on her doctoral thesis about how accessibility can bring out autonomy, creativity, and imagination of visually impaired people through analysis of the information processing and spatio-temporal cognition of visually impaired users of
Disability and the Digital
Conversations Across Sociology, Cultural Studies and Disability Studies December 2025 update. Report on the Disability and the Digital event series published by Hanna Göbel: “Access Work in Disability Communities,” in Grounding Digitalization (transcript Verlag, 2025), https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839457887-015 Event Dates CO-OPTING AI: QUEER Co-opting AI: QueerAPRIL 7TH 202212-1 PM EST | 6 – 7 PM CEST | 7 – 8 PM TRT QUESTIONING SMART URBAN MOBILITY APRIL 28TH 202212-1 PM EST | 6 – 7 PM CEST | 7 – 8 PM TRT REFUSAL AND RESISTANCEMAY 19TH 202212-1 PM EST | 6 – 7 PM CEST | 7 – 8 PM TRT ACCESS AESTHETICS
Proclaiming Disability Arts
New York University’s Center for Disability Studies is pleased to announce a major book and community engagement project, Proclaiming Disability Arts, directed by Simi Linton, along with Co-Principal Investigator Mara Mills. Proclaiming Disability Arts builds on this moment in Disability Arts, mapping histories and engaging its meaning, impact, and transformative potential throughout the art worlds. The project is informed by meetings and forums with disabled artists and Disability Justice thinkers. Proclaiming Disability Arts is built on an ethos of access, utilizing the most innovative methods available, some developed specifically for this project. The project aims to actively subvert the hierarchies
Announcing Our 2021-2022 Visiting Scholars
The NYU Center for Disability Studies is pleased to announce our Visiting Scholars for 2021-2022 Indyara de Araujo Morais is a Fulbright Fellow from Brazil, part of the Ph.D. program in Public Health at the University of Brasilia. Her research is on the Brazilian Functional Index, which was built based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF). The instrument was applied to 7 thousand people in the health services of the Brazilian Unified Health System. She has worked for the Brazilian federal government in the General Coordination of Health for Persons with Disabilities and the National Secretariat
Welcome NYU CDS RA Destiny Lopez
The NYU Center for Disability Studies is pleased to welcome Destiny as our 2021-2022 Center RA. Welcome to Destiny Lopez, the NYU Center for Disability Studies RA for 2021-2022. Destiny is a Multimedia Storyteller and advocate for accessible and inclusive media. She holds both a Master of Arts (’20) and a Bachelor of Science (’16) in Media, Culture and Communication from NYU Steinhardt. Inspired by her experience as a woman with a hearing loss, Destiny spent her graduate studies conducting global research on media accessibility for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Her award-winning thesis, Accessible Sound: Creative and Integrated
NSF Standard Grant for Disability Expertise and Design Justice for Post-COVID Equity
The NYU Center for Disability Studies has received a National Science Foundation Standard Grant for the project, “Disability Expertise and Design Justice for Post-COVID Equity.” The $618,490 grant–awarded to Principal Investigator Mara Mills, and co-PIs Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp–will support the Disability COVID Chronicles, which will analyze the lives of disabled and chronically ill people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers will collaborate with community members to collect memories, stories, artwork, and other materials to build a publicly accessible archive. Submit materials! We invite members of disabled and chronically ill communities to participate in this project by sharing their stories