Next Our Space Meeting
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Mary Beth Kitzel, PhD student, Geographist
Searching the Signs in the Weald: The early modern origins of American Sign Language
This talk will present current research into the origins of American Sign Language and the first European-American Deaf communities, tracing the beginnings of these communities to the parishes of the Kentish Weald, the home of a genetically deaf group of families. Relying upon the concepts of representation, individual identity and group identity, I assert the existence of a Deaf group identity predating the labels used to describe it, critically maintaining that with few exceptions (Ladd 2003; Batterbury, Ladd & Gulliver 2007), current discourses are subject to a dialectically false binary between the notions of deaf and hearing.
Cary Renaud, ex-student of Paulie House
Remembering Paulie House - photos and stories
Cary recently visited Paulie House for Deaf children in a reunion and she will share photos and narratives from the event.
24th April 2012 - Paul Redfern, experience in Swaizland
29th May 2012
26th June 2012
31st July 2012
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In case you are wondering, entry is free. Buffet available from 5.30pm.
More detailed information can be found at this website:
http://www.sussexdeafhistory.org.uk/page_id__118_path__0p35p.aspx
