Christina Lee introduces the context behind Disability Matters' upcoming 'Online Town Hall Circus' event which will take place on the 19th of September.| the polyphony
Roanoke College is set to introduce a groundbreaking opportunity for its students – a Disability Studies degree program. For years, both faculty members and students at Roanoke College have dedicated their efforts to implementing various courses and initiatives aimed at promoting disability programs. Through a gradual and persistent process, they have achieved their goal, and| The Latest National Disability News
Dr. Jonathan Sterne passed away earlier this year. He was, in many ways, a model scholar and colleague. The intellectual ferment of the field now called “sound studies” is often traced to the sonic…| Sounding Out!
Dr. Angela Marie Smith Receives 2024 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities The University of Michigan Press has awarded the 2024 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities to Affecting Disability on American Screens, a groundbreaking manuscript by Associate Professor Angela Marie Smith. This prestigious annual prize recognizes an outstanding […]| SCHOOL FOR CULTURAL & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. –Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five On an almost visceral level, we may likewise remark that states of “latency” involve downward movement, as in the case of something falling by the wayside and lying unnoticed until its presence is felt. — Hans Gumbrecht, After 1945: Latency as Origin of […]| Sounding Out!
Fall 2024 Research Symposium Presenter: Mar Smith Mentor: Kim Hackford-Peer Presentation: Forging Representation in the Wake of Censorship: A “Trans” Analysis of Spider-Man’s Canon Summary: The argument that Spider-Man’s story can be read as a transgender narrative is built on a strong foundation of allegory, body horror, comic history, and censorship. In a time where […]| SCHOOL FOR CULTURAL & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
*As a 2023-24 Diamonstein-Spielvogal Fellow at the New York Public Library, I was asked to give a public lecture in the Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities on March 8, 2024 called: “Image Description and the Critical Blind Gaze.” Below is the recording of the lecture—including questions from the star-studded audience!—followed by a cleaned-up transcript of my lecture… Read more The post Image Description and the Critical Blind Gaze * NYPL Public Lecture appeared f...| M. Leona Godin
Thanks to Bojana Coklyat for inviting me to co-lead a verbal description tour with Art educator Paula Stuttman at the Whitney Museum on May 9! It was great fun to discuss some of the works in “Harold Cohen: AARON” with the help of Be My AI, an app for blind people powered by GPT4 that produces robust, nearly instantaneous image… Read more The post AI Describing AI * Whitney Museum * Photo/Description Journal appeared first on M. Leona Godin.| M. Leona Godin