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

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  • 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?

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  • 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.

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  • Presence: signs, pictures, voices from unheard worlds, December 5, 2009, Siena School for Liberal Arts, Siena, Italy
• Deaf Culture and Race

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  • National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, June 4, 2010, Washington, DC
• Black and White Signing Space: A Case of Convergence

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  Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 10), September 30, 2010, West Lafayette, IN
• The Intersection of African American English and Black ASL

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• African American Language Conference (AAL 2), November 2, 2010, San Antonio, TX
• International Symposium on Bilingualism 8, June 2011, Oslo, Norway