Lectures
Spring 2016: |
• February 10, Sandra Jowers-Barber, "Your History, My History, Our History: The Importance of Collaboration in Researching, Presenting, and Documenting Historical Events" • April 13, Anne Leahy, "19th Century Deaf Interpreters in the UK and US Courts" |
Spring 2015: |
• February 4, Isaac Agboola, "Andrew Jackson Foster: The Man, The Vision, and the 30-Year Uphill Climb" • March 4, Kim Neilsen, "Was Helen Keller Deaf? Blindness, Deafness, and Multiple Identities" |
Fall 2014: |
• October 8, Kathleen Brockway, "Baltimore's Deaf Heritage" • November 5, Dr. Emily Shaw, "Exploring the Historical Connection between ASL and LSF" |
Spring 2014: |
• March 12, Brian Greenwald, "Alexander Graham Bell and the American Eugenics Movement" |
Fall 2013: |
• Ronald E. Nomeland and Melvia M. Nomeland, "The Deaf Community in America: History in the Making" • Jessica Lee, "Methods Matter: Gathering Life Histories in Tanzania" |
Spring 2013: |
• March 7, Benjamin Jarashow, "The 7 Ducks: Behind the DPN Movement" • April 24, Anja Werner, "Of Medical Miracles: The German Tradition of Defining Deafness as Disability" |
Fall 2012: |
• September 26, Drew Robarge, "Photographing Deaf People: The Lives and Works of Pioneers in Deaf Photography" • October 24, Marion Schmidt, "Eugenic Prevention and Educational Perfection: Hereditary Research at Clarke School for the Deaf, 1930-1983." • November 14, Arkady Belovosky, "The Great Patriotic War: Untold Deaf Heros" |
Spring 2012: |
• April 18, Jack Gannon, "Writing Our Deaf International History" |
Fall 2011: |
• October 12, Harlan Lane and Ulf Hedberg, "People of the Eye" • November 16, Jennifer Nelson, "Bulwer's Speaking Hands: Deafness and Rhetoric" |
Fall 2010: |
• September 22, William T. Ennis III, "Eugenics through the Backdoor: Deaf Marriages and Childbearing" • November 10, Newby Ely, "Deaf Nikkei's WWII Incarceration in American Concentration Camps" • December 1, Jannelle Legg, "Reverend Thomas Gallaudet and the St. Ann's Church Controversy" |
Fall 2009: |
• October 7, Joseph J. Murray, "Citizenship through Sign Language: Transnational Discourses" • October 28, Ted Supalla, "Charting the History of Register in ASL through Deaf Folklife Films and Written Artifacts" • < November 4, Jochen Muhs, "Deaf People in the Third Reich" |