The CUNY disability scholars group is an informal network of CUNY faculty, students, and staff with a shared interest in disability studies. The group meets regularly during the academic year. The purpose of the group is to connect disability scholars from every part of the university, to support a community of scholarly sharing and discourse, and to foster collaborations between disciplines, between campuses, between junior and senior scholars, and between applied and theoretical disability studies work.

This year, the CUNY Disability Scholars group invites you to participate in a series of public events as part of “Disability, Culture, and Society,” a graduate course team-taught by Julia Miele Rodas (Bronx Community College) and Joseph Straus (The Graduate Center). Events are co-sponsored by the CUNY Disability Scholars; the Futures Initiative; the CUNY Graduate Center Program in Music & the CUNY School of Professional Studies.

The Graduate Center and CUNY School of Professional Studies are both wheelchair accessible. For other accommodations, please contact events@sps.cuny.edu.

For more information, please visit: opencuny.org/cunydisabilityscholars

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Fall 2018 Events

9.5.2018, 6:30 PM Book Launch & Signing
Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe,
Julia Miele Rodas, Bronx Community College, CUNY
CUNY School of Professional Studies, Room 407
co-hosted by the Columbia University Seminar in Disability, Culture & Society

9.12.2018, 6:30 PM Disability & Life Writing
Thomas Couser, Hofstra University (emeritus)
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 3491

9.26.2018, 6:30 PM Book Launch & Signing
Authoring Autism
Melanie Yergeau, University of Michigan
CUNY School of Professional Studies, Room 407
co-hosted by the Columbia University Seminar in Disability,
Culture & Society

9.28.2018 12-2 PM
CUNY Disability Scholars Fall Meeting
CUNY School of Professional Studies, Room 407

10.3.2018, 6:30 PM, Disability & Education
David Connor, Hunter College, CUNY
CUNY School of Professional Studies, Room 407

10.17.2018, 6:30 PM, Disability & Race
Dennis Tyler, Fordham University
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 3491

10.24.2018, 6:30 PM, Book Talk & Signing
Literatures of Madness,
Elizabeth Donaldson, New York Institute of Technology
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 3491

11.07.2018, 6:30 PM, Book Talk & Signing
Broken Beauty: Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability
Joseph Straus, The Graduate Center, CUNY
CUNY School of Professional Studies, Room 407

11.28.2018, 6:30 PM, Disability & Opera
Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Brooklyn College, CUNY
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 3491