As deafness is seen as disability, deaf communities are considered passive consumers of cinematic culture rather than a creative force. It was quite opposite.
Ear trumpets rock!They made it onto the cover of @JoDesignHistory. You can find there my article on visibility and efficiency of ear trumpets, with even more photos from @thackraymuseum hearing aids collection
@DeafHeritageUK @MobileDeaf @JDisSoc@CGDS_UTSC@DisabilityHistr
CfP: Media and Epidemics: Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health, 20th-21st Centuries, conference by @MEDEP_CHANSE, Faculty of Political Science, Univ of Bucharest in collaboration with the @MancHSTM Bucharest, 30-31 May 2024. Submissions by 31 January.
I'm so happy and proud to share that "My article I’m Angry! Disability Protests" in Post-Communist Poland has just been published in Problems of Post-Communism 1/2
https://t.co/05ncsfXPir
@DisVisibility @DisabilityStor1 @DisabilityHistr@CGDS_UTSC @CDSLeeds @MyEDF
The 3rd Media and Epidemics Research Seminar will take place online on Nov. 22. Our speaker will be Magdalena Dunaj of our Polish team. MEDEP is a project funded through @EUCHANSE - Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe.
#Deaffest has been running for over 15 years and we have an archive section to show for it! Discover the rich history of Deaffest's past #festivals at https://t.co/k0A8IVch8C. If you’re feeling a skosh nostalgic - do share your favourite Deaffest memories with us!
I am delighted to appear in @DisabilityHistr
podcast with amazing scholars and wonderful colleagues: Maria Bucur, Frances Bernstein and Maria Cristina Galmarini! The episode hosted by @i_aletheia
focuses disability studies in Eastern Europe
Yay! My paper on #design of ear trumpets published in @JoDesignHistory is trending in #art and #visualandperformingart You may check it out here: https://t.co/qRuH1pW1qK
The time to submit a paper to ICOHTEC meeting in Tallinn/Tartu, Estonia is in just 10 days Main theme is “Interdependencies. From Local Microstories to Global Perspectives on the History of Technology “ but we are open to any topic or approach @M_Zdrodowska@SocHistTech
The complicated work of (many) translations! Great work done by the organisers of @2022DeafHistory conference with Slovenian Sign Language, International Sign, spoken Slovenian, written English, sign for deaf-blind participants. WOW! @M_Zdrodowska@nad_dchs#dhi2022
Moving pictures in social media are the silent films of today. E.g. cat videos use graphical conventions to represent animal sounds - a great insight into contemporary media from disability studies! An excellent keynote talk by Magdalena Zdrodowska at #digra2022
Currently reading Deafening Modernism by Rebecca Sanchez and love how she analyses Ch. Chaplin's Modern Times in relation to exoticization of the Other in the 1920s. The main book's argument interestingly adds to L. Davis' concept of 'deafening moment'