NYU Center for Disability Studies

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

[NYU Center for Disability Studies @cdsNYU]

Our first event for spring 2024! @ShahdAlshammari on "Writing an Arab Illness Narrative," February 15, noon-1 EST (zoom):
https://t.co/V07hteiet1

[BRIC @BRICbrooklyn]

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.

🎟️: https://t.co/46OVFhlWjB

[Longmore Institute on Disability @LongmoreInst]

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!

[NYU Center for Disability Studies @cdsNYU]

We were delighted to cosponsor this -- and to future collaborations on the edited book:

[UChicago CEAS @UChicagoCEAS]

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: https://t.co/yhQXfbSy8H

[NYU Center for Disability Studies @cdsNYU]

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[NYU Center for Disability Studies @cdsNYU]

Jay Molina introducing Fire Through Dry Grass @cdsNYU last night:
https://t.co/vXzPcun5k5

[Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality @ NYU @csgsnyu]

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: https://t.co/ggA9rzVp3l

[NYU Center for Disability Studies @cdsNYU]

Coming up next at the NYU Center for Disability Studies, Bad Crip Feelings with @jlsmilges and Jina B. Kim (!!) on February 29 (zoom):
https://t.co/XgYk0Y3IFr

[Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality @ NYU @csgsnyu]

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: https://t.co/bXzao86y6i

[NYU Kevorkian Center @nyukevo]

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

🔗 https://t.co/gTOSRBd8Iz

[Michael John Carley @mjcarley]

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 https://t.co/klT2sAmryf

[The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU @CBA_NYU]

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: https://t.co/w6bOClISol

[NYU Center for Disability Studies @cdsNYU]

We can't wait for tomorrow night:

[Guggenheim New York @Guggenheim]

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: https://t.co/kXyzXgGOBE

📷: © Courtesy of Carolyn Lazard and Amber Rose Johnson.

[NYU Center for Disability Studies @cdsNYU]

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]

[NYU Center for Disability Studies @cdsNYU]

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]

[NYU Center for Disability Studies @cdsNYU]

"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]

[NYU Center for Disability Studies @cdsNYU]

This is tomorrow!

[NYU Center for Disability Studies @cdsNYU]

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: https://t.co/Hi2SBfkcrZ

[NYU Center for Disability Studies @cdsNYU]

Congrats to Carolyn Lazard for winning the MacArthur! https://t.co/25zr27n2VX

[NYU Center for Disability Studies @cdsNYU]

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: https://t.co/Hi2SBfkcrZ