The Culture and Language Lecture Series (CLLS) is hosted by the Graduate School and the Department of ASL and Deaf Studies and is designed to raise key issues involved in the culture and language of Deaf communities. This series takes the place of the Culture and Language Colloquium (CLC) previously offered to incoming graduate students. The CLLS is designed specifically for first year graduate students but is open to the entire Gallaudet Community. Graduate programs may decide how best to use the lectures to increase students' engagement with critical issues in Deaf culture and language. While this series takes the place of the Graduate School's former Culture and Language Colloquium, CLLS events are open to the entire Gallaudet community. Interpreters will be provided.
LOCATION: Sorenson Language and Communication Center (SLCC) Atrium
DATES: Selected Wednesdays, 12-1 pm
Spring 2009: Upcoming Presentations
POSTPONED - Dr. Gene Mirus,
Dr. Gaurav Mathur, and Dr. Paul Dudis
"Building an ASL Corpus"
POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2009
Spring 2009: Past Presentations
Wednesday, February 4th - Dr. Robert Johnson
"Deaf Bilingual Education: An Imperative"
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Bilingualism has always been a fact at Gallaudet, but there have been numerous ways of constructing and imagining what it means to the community. Some of our ways of imagining bilingualism have not led to productive dialogue. Dr. Robert E. Johnson will talk about constructions of bilingualism that might better lead to the outcomes we expect. These emerge from the unique needs and goals of educating students at Gallaudet. Dr. Johnson will address the ways in which bilingual policy, curriculum, and practice must be guided by this educational imperative if it is to be successful. (Video: Deaf Bilingual Education: An Imperative)
Wednesday, February 18th - Dr. MJ Bienvenu"Gallaudet's New Mission: What does it mean in practice"
Gallaudet University recently created a new mission statement that states Gallaudet as a bilingual university. The mission also recognizes American Sign Language and English as the campus' official languages. Dr. MJ Bienvenu will discuss what the new mission means for Gallaudet in practice. She will address what needs to be done to ensure both languages receive equal treatment in education at Gallaudet. (Video:Gallaudet's New Mission: What Does It Mean In Practice)
Wednesday, March 25th - Dr. Ceil Lucas, Dr. Carolyn McCaskill,
Joseph Hill, Roxanne Dummett, and Pamela Baldwin
"Sociolinguistic Variation in Black ASL: 2 hands or one, high or low?"
Dr. Ceil Lucas, Dr. Carolyn McCaskill, Joseph Hill, Roxanne Dummett, and Pamela Baldwin will present the ongoing research on sociolinguistic variations in American Sign Language among the black communities in America. More recently, this research has been focusing on communities in the south where extreme radical segregation occurred. They will discuss data of variation shown in black signers. They focus on the use of two hands or one in signs and the location (high or low). (Video: Coming Soon)
Wednesday, April 8th - Dr. Ted Supalla
"Signs Through History"
Dr. Ted Supalla will present new historical work on the structure of Early ASL which suggests strongly that this earlier form of the language was highly sequential, with separate words strung in phrasal units. These phrases can be seen as the historical antecedents of many modern complex and simultaneously organized words. The rich & complex inflectional and derivational morphology we find in modern ASL appeared as sequential (analytic) constructions in Early ASL. This would suggest that sign languages do not always contain complex simultaneous (nonconcatenative) morphology from the start - and that such morphology as found in modern ASL does not exist solely because of modality or iconicity.
These research findings are based on the NAD film data from 3 'cohort generations' of signers in the period from 1910-1920. Supalla will also demonstrate how such hypotheses about historical change in ASL can be significantly enhanced by carefully designed field elicitation work with living native signers. (Video: Coming Soon)
Fall 2008
Wednesday, September 17th - Dr. Benjamin Bahan
"Sensory Politics and Sound in the Deaf Community"
Dr. Benjamin Bahan's presentation is a follow-up to the lecture given during Graduate Student Orientation. Dr. Bahan will discuss the meanings and interpretations of sound within the Deaf world. (Video: Coming Soon)
Wednesday, October 15th - Dr. Michael Chorost"Cochlear Implants and the Future of the Deaf World"
What will the technology of cochlear implants do to the signing deaf community? What can be done to ensure the signing deaf community's prosperity? Dr. Chorost will present some data on the signing deaf population and offer fresh ideas for new initiatives. Along with Josh Swiller, he is co-teaching a course on these issues titled, "History of Change: How Minorities Prosper in Turbulent Times." He is the author of a memoir of getting cochlear implants, "Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human." (Video: Cochlear Implants and the Future of the Deaf World)
Wednesday, November 19th - Dr. Joseph Murray
"The Transnational Lives of Deaf People"
Deaf people have long operated in an expanded frame of reference which includes Deaf people from other nations. This lecture will trace the historical development of the transnational Deaf Public Sphere and its significance for nineteenth century Deaf communities. (Video: The Transnational Lives of Deaf People)
Please contact Nancy Carroll if you need deaf-blind interpreters.
More information, please contact:
Nancy Pollock Carroll, Ed.D.
Assistant Dean for Curriculum, Policy, and Operations
Graduate School and Professional Programs
Room 206, Fowler Hall
Phone: 202-651-5407 TTY/V
Email: nancy.pollock-carroll@gallaudet.edu
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