Deaf History Symposium
The one-day conference aims to bring together scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to explore and examine understandings and representations of d/Deafness and hardness of hearing covering a chronological period that spans from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.
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The one-day conference aims to bring together scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to explore and examine understandings and representations of d/Deafness and hardness of hearing covering a chronological period that spans from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Organised in three sessions, the symposium interrogates deaf culture from historical, visual, artistic, legal and social perspectives. The papers aim at drawing out trends and new insights, and thereby offering new perspectives on early modern and modern deaf cultures.
Dr Angelo Lo Conte (Assistant Professor, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Dr Ruben Verwaal (Rubicon Fellow, Institute of Medical Humanities, Durham University)
Prof Chiara Branchini (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Dr Giovanni Tarantino (University of Florence)
Dr Angelo Lo Conte (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Dr Rosamund Oates (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Dr Sabine Arnaud (CNRS, Centre Alexandre Koyré Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris)
Dr Esme Cleall (Sheffield University)
Dr Leendert van der Miesen (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome)
Dr Ruben Verwaal (Durham University)
Prof Josef Fulka (Charles University, Prague)
Prof Julia DeLancey (University of Mary Washington)
Dr Barbara Kaminska (Sam Houston State University)
University Grants Committee of Hong Kong (HKBU22607320)
NWO Dutch Research Council