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NYU Center for Disability Studies

@cdsNYU

Official Twitter of the Center for Disability Studies at NYU. Home of the minor in Disability Studies. Fall '23 virtual programs announced.

 New York, NY
disabilitystudies.nyu.edu
Joined September 2018
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Our first event for spring 2024! @ShahdAlshammari on "Writing an Arab Illness Narrative," February 15, noon-1 EST (zoom): disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/ev…
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BRIC@BRICbrooklyn30 Oct 2024
How can arts organizations support disabled artists? Join us for a hybrid symposium on 12/7, inspired by "to hold a we," featuring artist tours, workshops, roundtable discussions, + more. Masks required for in-person; CART provided, ASL available. 🎟️: bricartsmedia.org/event/shal…
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Longmore Institute on Disability@LongmoreInst23 Oct 2024
Emerge: Summer 2025 Hybrid Disability Studies Workshop for Disabled Activists, Artists, Cultural Producers, Filmmakers, and Academics. Enrich your practice as a scholar-activist, gain new connections and mentorship, and deepen your relationship with disabilities studies!
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We were delighted to cosponsor this -- and to future collaborations on the edited book:
UChicago CEAS (@UChicagoCEAS) profile pictureUChicago CEAS@UChicagoCEAS7 Oct 2024
Oct. 11-12: The Global Cochlear Implant - a conference on the history, present, & future of cochlear implants; this program will ft. presentations about cochlear implant use in China and Taiwan, in addition to Turkey, Pakistan, Jordan, and France; MORE: bit.ly/4dBC3YP
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Letter from NYU Chairs and Directors to University Administration (April 25)

Letter from NYU Chairs and Directors to University Administration (April 25)

April 25, 2024 Dear President Mills and Interim Provost Dopico, We write as department chairs and center directors across multiple schools shocked by the decision made by the New York University...

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Jay Molina introducing Fire Through Dry Grass @cdsNYU last night: disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/ev…
Photograph of a lecture hall with a film screen at the front. A Latinx man wearing red sits in a wheelchair and holds a mic in front of the screen. An interpreter stands to his left. The photo shows two rows of audience members, some using power chairs.

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Alexis Kyle Mitchell is currently a visiting scholar in the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and a previous Postdoctoral Fellow at @cdsNYU. Join us next week for a screening of her film ‘The Treasury of Human Inheritance’ Learn more: csgsnyu.org/events/the-treas…
Screening flyer for the The Treasury of Human Inheritance: A Work-in-Progress. A screening and discussion with filmmaker Alexis Kyle Mitchell March 4, 2024, Monday, 5:30 to 7:30 pm Kriser Screening Room Department of Anthropology/Center for Media, Culture & History 25 Waverly Place. Background is a Grey image of two hands open with a shining blue orb - cracked and illuminated at the center. Photo of Alexis: white person with black hair, blue eyes and brown lipstick gazing into the distance.

ALT Screening flyer for the The Treasury of Human Inheritance: A Work-in-Progress. A screening and discussion with filmmaker Alexis Kyle Mitchell March 4, 2024, Monday, 5:30 to 7:30 pm Kriser Screening Room Department of Anthropology/Center for Media, Culture & History 25 Waverly Place. Background is a Grey image of two hands open with a shining blue orb - cracked and illuminated at the center. Photo of Alexis: white person with black hair, blue eyes and brown lipstick gazing into the distance.

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Coming up next at the NYU Center for Disability Studies, Bad Crip Feelings with @jlsmilges and Jina B. Kim (!!) on February 29 (zoom): disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/ev…
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Join us on Monday, March 4th for a screening and discussion with filmmaker Alexis Kyle Mitchell of 'The Treasury of Human Inheritance' at 5:30 pm in the Kriser Screening Room, 25 Waverly Place. Register here: urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2…
Screening flyer for the The Treasury of Human Inheritance: A Work-in-Progress. A screening and discussion with filmmaker Alexis Kyle Mitchell March 4, 2024, Monday, 5:30 to 7:30 pm Kriser Screening Room Department of Anthropology/Center for Media, Culture & History 25 Waverly Place. Background is a Grey image of two hands open with a shining blue orb - cracked and illuminated at the center

ALT Screening flyer for the The Treasury of Human Inheritance: A Work-in-Progress. A screening and discussion with filmmaker Alexis Kyle Mitchell March 4, 2024, Monday, 5:30 to 7:30 pm Kriser Screening Room Department of Anthropology/Center for Media, Culture & History 25 Waverly Place. Background is a Grey image of two hands open with a shining blue orb - cracked and illuminated at the center

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NYU Kevorkian Center@nyukevo2 Feb 2024
Join us & @CDSNYU for Shahd Alshammari's reading from Head Above Water, a disability memoirs from the Gulf region, with a follow up discussion on disability in literature & the role of illness narratives by Arab women.  📆 [12.15.24] 12 PM - 1 PM 🔗 buff.ly/3SDZ3z1
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Michael John Carley@mjcarley30 Jan 2024
One of my favorite and closest students at NYU, Rosie Lee, stars in a CBS news segment on the new sensory space—the nation's BEST—at Bobst library. @nyuniversity @cdsNYU drive.google.com/file/d/19Dc…
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The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU@CBA_NYU9 Jan 2024
Event Announcement! IN-PERSON: Time, Disability, and the Making of an Opera: Jerron Herman in conversation with Mara Mills January 29th, 6PM | 16 Cooper Square, Studio RSVP Here: eventbrite.com/e/in-person-t…
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We can't wait for tomorrow night:
Guggenheim New York (@Guggenheim) profile pictureGuggenheim New York
@Guggenheim8 Nov 2023
Grab your friends and join us for an exciting Late Shift after hours event at the museum! 🗓️ November 9 - 6 PM Presented in collaboration with @cdsNYU, the evening will also highlight LAX, an interactive performance and score choreographed by artist and dancer Jerron Herman, creating moments that honor our bodies’ needs for comfort, play, and rest. Get exclusive access to exhibitions on view, gallery talks, a screening of "Notes from the Panorama," a video collaboration between multidisciplinary artist Carolyn Lazard and writer/performer Amber Rose Johnson, and more! Grab your tickets: gu.gg/47bfR5q 📷: © Courtesy of Carolyn Lazard and Amber Rose Johnson.
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POSTPONED! "In sorrow and fury and after extensive conversation, we have decided to postpone our discussion of Arseli’s book. The time is not right. We do not wish to celebrate Activist Affordances as massive disablement, debility and death-making take place in Gaza. We are [1]
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"uncomfortable talking about the book, as places are being actively decimated and reduced to rubble, affordances are being eradicated, and entire livelihoods are erased out of existence. The situation in Gaza and the broader occupied Palestine is beyond shrinkage. [2]
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In the face of genocidal violence, this event can wait. We look forward to a conversation at a future date. (Please follow the email updates from the Center for Disability Studies)." [3]
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This is tomorrow!
NYU Center for Disability Studies (@cdsNYU) profile pictureNYU Center for Disability Studies@cdsNYU25 Sep 2023
Our next event of the semester will be on Oct. 5 from 1-2pm ET with Emily Lim Rogers, Bri Joy Moore, and Louise Hickman discussing their essays in the 2023 edited volume Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press). Register here: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register…
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Congrats to Carolyn Lazard for winning the MacArthur! macfound.org/fellows/class-o…
Carolyn Lazard

Carolyn Lazard

Exploring the limits of aesthetic perception and using accessibility as a creative tool for collective practices of care.

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Our next event of the semester will be on Oct. 5 from 1-2pm ET with Emily Lim Rogers, Bri Joy Moore, and Louise Hickman discussing their essays in the 2023 edited volume Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press). Register here: nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register…
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