NYU Center for Disability Studies

03/17/2022

We're excited to share our new website from the NYU Disability Covid Chronicles team, created by Harris Kornstein
and featuring essays and interviews from our research in progress. Be sure to follow along as we feature a new project each week!

Research How to be Disabled in a Pandemic Our team is currently preparing an edited volume based on two years (and counting) of research and living in New York City in a state of pandemic. The sixt…

03/17/2022

What is possible when we Indigenize disability studies (DST) and when we fully embed disability studies in Native American Indigenous studies (NAIS)?

Join us on Thursday, 3/31 from 4-5:30 as we think things through and celebrate a special issue of DSQ on INDIGENEITY & DISABILITY.

https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/dsqlaunchparty/

03/17/2022

Hello FB Friends, we've missed you! We invite you to our first event of the Spring Season on Friday, 3/25 from 4-5:30 with Patrick McKevley and Robert McRuer.

Join Us for A Conversation With   PATRICK McKELVEY (Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh) and ROBERT McRUER (Professor of English, The George Washington University) Friday, March 25, 2022. 4:00 –5:30 p.m.   Moderated by Mara Mills   This talk considers the changing role...

10/04/2021

https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/event/lightning-flowers/

Reading by author KATHERINE STANDEFER Lightning Flowers: My Journey To Uncover The Cost Of Saving A Life (Little, Brown Spark, 2020) Followed by a conversation with NETA ALEXANDER (Colgate University, Film and Media Studies) Friday, October 8. 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.   Katherine Standefer is the author ...

09/03/2020

Our Fall 2020 programming is here! All events free and open to the public, and captioning is provided. Registration links on our website, and on this calendar:

A reading and conversation with disability rights activist and author Judy Heumann in conversation with Simi Linton. Reading from her 2020 memoir, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist (Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner, 2020, Penguin Random House) followed by convers...

05/10/2020

Join us on Friday as disability activist Nadina LaSpina reads from her new memoir, Such a Pretty Girl (2019). In conversation with Simi Linton and Jessie Male. Please RSVP for the Zoom webinar link!

Friday May 15th, 4-5:30 PM, Zoom – RSVP for link and to provide access requests Disability rights activist Nadina LaSpina will read from her memoir Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride, which describes her journey to find a place for herself in an ableist worl...