Presentations

Since the project began in July of 2007, we have done a number of presentations at a variety of conferences. Here you will find the name of the conferences and a representative power point handout for each topic.

• Black ASL: The Socio-historical Foundation DOWNLOAD
  • Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, April 4, 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Eastern Regional Conference (ERC) of the National Black Deaf Advocates, April 26, 2008, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC
  • VL2 Lecture Series, October 22, 2008, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC (video of our presentation)
  • New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 37), November 7, 2008, Houston, TX
  • Black Expo, November 22, 2008, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC
  • National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, May 29 2009, San Diego, CA
  • University of Rome La Sapienza, November 2009, Rome, Italy
• Variation in ASL: Two Hands or One, High or Low?DOWNLOAD 1 | DOWNLOAD 2
  • American Dialect Society, Jan. 9, 2009, San Francisco, CA
  • Culture and Language Lecture Series, March 25, 2009, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC
  • University of Venice Ca Foscari, November 2009, Venice, Italy
• Black ASL: A Historical and Linguistic Overview
  • Black Deaf Advocates, National July 2009 Phoenix, AZ
  • Deaf People of Color, May 2010 Portland, OR
• Signing Outside the Box: The Size of Signing Space in Black ASL
  • New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 38), October 22, 2009, Ottawa, Canada
  • American Dialect Society, January 9, 2010, Baltimore, MD
• A Presence Ignored: The Case of Black Deaf Community in the U.S.DOWNLOAD
  • Presence: signs, pictures, voices from unheard worlds, December 5, 2009, Siena School for Liberal Arts, Siena, Italy
• Deaf Culture and RaceDOWNLOAD
  • National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, June 4, 2010, Washington, DC
• Black and White Signing Space: A Case of ConvergenceDOWNLOAD
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• The Intersection of African American English and Black ASLDOWNLOAD
• African American Language Conference (AAL 2), November 2, 2010, San Antonio, TX
• International Symposium on Bilingualism 8, June 2011, Oslo, Norway
• The History and Structure of Black ASL in the American South
  • University of Venice Ca Foscari, November 2009, Venice, Italy
• The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and StructureDOWNLOAD
  • The National Museum of Language, May 2011, College Park, MD
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, September 2011, Washington, DC
  • Georgia State University, September 29-30, 2011
  • Georgia Perimeter College, September 29-30, 2011
  • Linguistics Department of Gallaudet University, 30th year celebration, October 21, 2011
  • Gallaudet University Homecoming: Alumni of Color, October 22, 2011
  • NWAV 40, Georgetown University, October 28, 2011
  • Teacher’s College Columbia University, New York City, February 3, 2012
  • Benjamin Branch Library, Greensboro NC, February 16, 2012
  • Deaf Studies Today Utah Valley University: Orem, Utah April 12-14, 2012
  • North Carolina RID Conference, Wilmington NC, June 23, 2012
  • North Carolina ASLTA Conference, Whiteville NC, November 2, 2012
  • New Mexico School for the Deaf, Santa Fe New Mexico, January 18, 2013
  • Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for Deaf, Rochester NY, February 7, 2013
  • Madonna University, Livonia Michigan, February 22 & 23, 2013
  • Union County College, Cranfield Nee Jersey, February 23, 2013
  • University of Pennsylvania, February 28, 2013
  • Swarthmore College, March 1, 2013
  • Columbia College, Chicago Illinois, April 12, 2013
• Full Showing of the Black ASL DVD
  • National Alliance of Black Interpreters (NAOBI), April 2011, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC
  • Gallaudet University campus community, December 2010, April 2011, Washington, DC
  • Northeastern University, Boston University, October 2011, Boston MA