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Columbia University Fayerweather Hall, Room 513 1180 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027   Disability has been a central—if unacknowledged—force in the history of science and the scientific disciplines. Across historical epistemology and laboratory research, disability has been “good to think with”: an object of investigation made to yield generalizable truths. Yet disability is rarely …

Celebrating Osiris 39: Disability and the History of Science Read More »

“Mad Studies” is an emerging interdisciplinary collaboration for transforming how we approach mental health and wellbeing. Mad studies centers the perspective of lived experience and it brings together activists, artists, concerned clinicians, and critical disability scholars. It uses these differing perspectives to liberate us from rigid categories, from single vision framings, and from the sanist …

Introducing the MAD Studies Reader Read More »

How can arts organizations continue to support disabled artists? How can we continue building models that center care, equity, and access in residency programs and in institutions more broadly? Join us for a day-long, hybrid symposium at BRIC reflecting upon these questions and activating the themes and artists of BRIC's current exhibition, to hold a …

shall we go together? A Symposium on Care, Equity, and Access in the Arts Read More »