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AAG 2012 presentations

OK, so I’m not going to put up all the abstracts to the AAG presentations – there doesn’t seem much point when they are posted elsewhere.

But – here’s a list of presenters, their papers, and links to their abstracts and to (at least one of) their own pages.

Enjoy

Session 1

• Austin Kocher – The Ohio State University, Department of Geography – “What is Deaf Geography?: An Interpreter Steps Out of Role“
• Emily Fekete – University of Kansas – “Geography and American Sign Language: Rethinking Language and Space“
• Mike Gulliver – University of Bristol – “Deaf Geographies – pasts, presents, futures“
• Pierre Schmitt – Center for Language, Interaction and Culture (CLIC), UCLA – “International Deaf Geographies : Toward a Global Community ? “

Session 2

• Jordan Eickman, Ph.D. – California State University, Northridge – “Tracing Deafhood: Exploring the origins and spread of Deaf cultural identity“
• Cynthia Benoit – INRS Urbanisation Culture Société Alain Turpin – SIVET – Urban d/Deaf population and services: Using GIS to explore Deaf geography and geographical accessibility
• Mary Beth Kitzel – Queen’s University (Canada) Bader International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex. “Inspiring the next generation of Deaf geographers” (Mary Beth didn’t present a talk – instead, she spoke about the proposed field school on Deaf Geography planned for summer 2013 – for more information, see her comment below).
• Dai O’brien – School for Policy Studies, Bristol University – “Using visual research to explore the space of young d/Deaf people“

Session 3

• Jeffrey Mansfield – Harvard University Graduate School of Design – “The Genius of the Deaf Experience: Designing Spaces and Infrastructures of Communication“
  
• Hansel Bauman – Gallaudet University – “The DeafSpace Project: Communicating Through Space, Light, Form and Material“
• Russell Rosen – Teachers College, Columbia University – “Sensescapes in the American Deaf Community“
• Deniz Ilkbasaran – UC, San Diego – “Late Modernity Mobilities and the Future of Deaf Geographies“
• Robert T. Sirvage – Gallaudet University – “Peripatetic Spaces in the Making: New Methodologies for Deaf Epistemologies“

director of the Field School for Deaf Geographies at the Queen’s University (Canada) Bader International Study Centre at Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex. For additional information regarding the 2013 Field School of Deaf Geographies, please contact me at Deaf_geog@bisc.queensu.ac.uk