Category: Events
Online premiere of film “#deaftravel: Deaf Tourism in Bali” on 21 August 2021
We hope the trailer got you interested in seeing MobileDeaf’s first ethnographic film! #deaftravel: Deaf Tourism in Bali explores the experiences of deaf tourists who visited Bali as solo travelers, in pairs, or in groups, in the summer of 2018. The tourists originated from Europe, the USA, and India. They joined tours guided by two […]
WEBINAR: DEAF REFUGEES’ LANGUAGING đź—“
TUESDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 2020 at 3:00 – 5:00 PM (UK time) Research presentation by Amandine le Maire (Heriot-Watt University) and Nina Sivunen (University of Jyväskylä) and panel discussion with deaf refugees : Ibrahim Al-Kadri and Chris Kubwimana. Interactive discussion, Q&A Language: International Sign with interpretation to spoken English. You need a password to log in […]
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DEAF MIGRATION LONDON ZOOM WEBINAR: Tuesday 18 August 2020, 3-5 pm GMT Research presentation by Steve Emery and Sanchayeeta Iyer (with photos and film clips) Interactive discussion, Q&A Language: British Sign Language with interpretation to spoken English and International Sign You need a password to log in to this session. Register and you will be sent the password. REGISTRATION […]
MobileDeaf at Deaf Black History Month event, 12 October 2018
By: Steve Emery, 20 October 2018 Every year in October the UK hosts Black History Month (BHM) celebrations. They started in 1987 in the UK by Ghanaian-born Akyaaba Addai Sebo, a special projects officer at the Greater London Council after a visit to the USA. [Fun fact, in 1987 I was working at GLC as a […]
“Waar is de rode draad?”: Anthropologists and Filmmakers Making Deaf Ethnographic Films
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 […]
Innovations in Deaf Studies
Here you can find some of the presentations and powerpoints from the conference cum book launch “Deaf Scholars and Innovations in Deaf Studies”, held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, on 14-15 June 2017 (hashtag #innodeaf). The conference was financed by the ERC Starting Grant for MobileDeaf. The book that was launched is called “Innovations in Deaf […]
PhDeaf: doing a PhD from a deaf perspective
Amandine and Annelies were at the “Dr Deaf” workshop in Ă…l in Norway, from 19-21 January 2018. Annelies was one of the four instructors and Amandine was one of the 35 participants. The other instructors were Dr. Joseph Murray (who organised the workshop), Dr. Hilde Haualand and Dr. Robert Adam. Participants came from Norway, Sweden, Finland, […]
Visiting an all-deaf research team: Finnish PhD student Nina Sivunen’s 2 months with MobileDeaf
Hello! My name is Nina Sivunen and I am a PhD student at the Centre of Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. I got a University of Jyväskylä Science Council´s Research Mobility Grant for strengthening strategic partnership and career development. I applied for this grant to join the all-deaf research […]
MobileDeaf at the Borders, Racisms and Resistance Conference
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. […]