Permutations of the Species: Towards an Anthropology of Independent Disability Film Festivals

A joint presentation by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
April 1, Thursday
4 to 6 PM
David T. Mitchell, Institute on Disabilities, Temple University
Sharon L. Snyder, Brace Yourselves Productions
In this co-presentation, Mitchell and Snyder analyze the ideological, aesthetic, and pedagogical effects of disability film festivals. Mitchell and Snyder are particularly interested to explore the way such festivals, by screening an array of international films, manage to respond to newly evolving concepts of “being disabled” even as they resist articulating a shared identity based on collective coherence of experience, affect, or diagnosis.
Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
This event is free and open to the public. Venue is wheelchair accessible. If you need sign language interpretation services or other accommodations, please let us know as soon as possible.
For more information about this event, please contact Julie Elman at 212-992-8305 or julie.elman@nyu.edu.
Co-sponsored by NYU’s Council for the Study of Disability; Department of Social and Cultural Analysis; Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies; and Center for Study of Gender and Sexuality.