By: Erin Moriarty Harrelson 27 September 2018 What is the difference between deaf ethnographic filmmaking and producing documentaries for television and cinema? This question was raised during a filmmaking workshop hosted by MobileDeaf on 17-18 September 2018, attended by the filmmakers from Belgium and London we work with. As a part of its research and […]
By: Annelies Kusters and Jemina Napier, 14 September 2018 Annelies: What do people think when they see a signing person on stage, and hear a simultaneous interpretation? On Thursday 6 September, I gave a keynote presentation at BAAL titled “Sign multilingual and translingual practices and ideologies”. You can find the video here (click CC for subtitles): […]
By: Annelies Kusters, 10 July 2018 For a year, I have been doing research on International Sign, more specifically on what people think about International Sign, how people feel about it, how they learned it, and when they use it (or not) and why. Some people have called it a uniquely deaf phenomenon because it […]
By: Erin Moriarty Harrelson I have been in Indonesia for about four months now, familiarising myself with Bali, tourism in Bali in general, and the nature of deaf tourism here. This involved going on “ride-alongs” with deaf tourist groups, meeting with deaf tourists individually, as well as meeting with community leaders, tourist guides, and village […]
Amandine and Steve were at the conference, Borders Racisms and Resistance and we left the event with much to contemplate. Here is our brief summary: the research papers and activist speakers were focused mainly on the UK, although there was some evidence shared of the experience of increased border controls on peoples in Eastern Europe. […]