4th International Conference on Deaf History

List  of Presenters

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Donalda Ammons and Terry Giansanti, Rafael Pinchas (USA) ~ Preserving International Deaf Sports History

Jan Branson and Don Miller (Australia) ~ From Myth to History - Reinterpreting the History of British Deaf Education

Robert Buchanan (USA) ~ A Record of Resistance:  Independent Newspapers of the American Deaf Community: 1850 through 1990

Breda Carty (Australia) ~ Reconnecting with Our Deaf Ancestors

Katherine Carver and Kim A. Silva (USA) ~ Deaf "Hands On" History

Maria Evseeva (Russia) ~ Deaf People During the Great Patriotic War

James J. Fernandes and Elwyn Canning, Pamela Mower, Russell O. West (USA) ~ Deaf American Public Address: Outcomes from a New Course

Jack Gannon (USA) ~ Research, Record, and Disseminate

Susan Hamilton and Eileen Smith (New Zealand) ~ Recording Deaf Education History in New Zealand

Barbara Kannapell (USA) ~ The Forgotten People: Deaf Americans' Contributions During World War II

Walter P. Kelley (USA) ~ The Establishment of the National Association of Native American Deaf (Intertribal Deaf Council)

Verena Krausneker (Austria) ~ The Austrian Deaf Community During National Socialism 1938-1945

Harlan Lane (USA) ~ Origins of the American Deaf World: Assimilating and Differentiating Societies and their Relation to Genetic Patterning

Harry H. Lang (USA) ~ A Phone of Our Own: The Deaf Insurrection Against Ma Bell

Carolyn McCaskill and Pamela Baldwin (USA) ~ Black Deaf History: Telling Our Story

Gina A. Oliva (USA) ~ Leisure and the Deaf Community: Individual Choices Shape Collective History

Yutaka Osugi (Japan)   ~ Every Man, Every Woman, a Historian Can Be!
  ~ The Life History of Deaf Signers, an Online Data Project demonstration/discussion with Takeshi Yamaji (USA) and Ted Supalla (USA)

Armand Pelletier (France) ~ Creation in France of a Museum of Deaf People's History and Culture

Susan Plann (USA) ~ A Most Precious Jewel: Martin de Martin y Ruiz, a 19th Century Deaf-Blind Spaniard

Anne T. Quarteraro (USA) ~ The Life and Times of Ferdinand Berthier: Historical Analysis

Odd-Inge Schröder (Norway) ~ Bjarne Falk: A Deaf Norwegian American Painter

John S. Schuchman and Eleanor J. Corner, Eva Dicker Eiseman (USA) ~ Writing Our Parents' History: A CODA Perspective Panel Presentation

Talukder Shamim Shobuj (Bangladesh) ~ Deaf History and Deaf Studies in Bangladesh

Elena Silianova (Russia) ~ History of Russian "Deaf Towns"

Ted Supalla (USA) ~ Understanding Deaf History and Evolution of ASL Through Historical Films

Geraldine Francini-Whitt (USA) ~ How to Teach Deaf History in Content Area

Mark Zaurov (Germany) ~ The Fate of Deaf Jewish Survivors Who Were Not in Nazi Concentration Camps

 

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