Film Quarterly Seminar: The New Disability Media, February 24

Image Description: A light-skinned African American man sits on the New York subway with his eyes closed. He wears a blue denim jacket and grips a white cane with both hands.

Image Description: A light-skinned African American man sits on the New York subway with his eyes closed. He wears a blue denim jacket and grips a white cane with both hands.

Film Quarterly explores new directions in disability film and media in a two-part webinar discussing its special dossier “The New Disability Media” (Winter 2022) co-presented with NYU’s Center for Disability Studies and Center for Media, Culture & History. On February 10 and February 24 at 1pm ET, dossier co-editors B. Ruby Rich (Film Quarterly), Faye Ginsburg (NYU) and Lawrence Carter-Long (DisArt) will moderate conversations with the dossier’s scholars and filmmakers on exciting developments in disability film and media.

February 24, 1–2:30pm (ET):
Jenny Chamarette (University of Reading)
Arseli Dokumaci (Concordia University)
Slava Greenberg (University of Southern California)
Salome Chasnoff (Code of the Freaks)
Carrie Sandahl (Code of the Freaks)
Rodney Evans (Vision Portraits)

Registration is required – Click Here

Co-Sponsors: Grey Art Gallery; Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation; Disability Studies & Advocacy.

Film Quarterly’s webinars are supported by the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms initiative.

Event is free and open to the public.

CART and ASL will be provided.

If you require captioning and ASL simultaneously, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer, and not a tablet or smartphone.

Please indicate requests for other accommodations on your RSVP form.

Event recordings will be available on our website upon approval of all involved panelists.

Starts 2/24/23 1:00 pm
Ends 2/24/23 2:30 pm
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