DCAL Events
DCAL Past Events
BSL/English interpretation is offered at the DCAL Speaker Series.
| Date & time | Event | Notes | Location |
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4-6pm Thursday 13th June, 2013 |
DCAL Speaker Series |
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DCAL Library |
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12-2pm Thursday 14th February, 2013 |
Diversity of visual languages |
An exhibition on Sign Language. How do Deaf people communicate? What do you know about sign language? Is sign language really a language? Do all Deaf people use one sign language? There will be quizzes, opportunities to learn some basic signs and how to fingerspell your name. |
Wilkins North Cloisters |
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1pm Friday 8th February, 2013 |
DCAL Speaker Series |
Adam Kendon "Visible Bodily Action in Utterance" Observations on the different ways in which visible bodily action is mobilised for utterance both in combination with speech or by itself. Implications for concepts of "gesture", "sign", and "language" will be discussed. |
G10, Chandler House |
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3:30-4:30pm Friday 30th November, 2012 |
DCAL Speaker Series |
Prof. Ceil Lucas Gallaudet university, Washington D.C.
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***CHANGE OF VENUE*** Room 305, 26 Bedford Way (Psychology Building) ***CHANGE OF VENUE*** |
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4-5pm Thursday 29th November, 2012 |
DCAL Speaker Series |
Prof. Tobias Haug Title: Technical innovations in creating a cross-linguistic testing platform for sign language tests: The case of the German Sign Language Receptive Skills Test |
DCAL Library |
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4-5pm Wednesday 17th October, 2012 |
DCAL Speaker Series |
Adam Stone will be presenting about his ongoing work in bilingual books that incorporate both sign language and written language. A new field in children's book publishing made possible only by very recent advances in computing, "bilingual ebooks" are now proliferating across app stores. Adam will discuss how he created and published one such ASL/English ebook, "Pointy Three", and review methodologies for evaluating the implementation and efficacy of such ebooks and their impact on deaf children's literacy development. |
DCAL Libary |
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4-5pm Thursday 11th October, 2012 |
DCAL Speaker Series |
Nick Palfreyman University of Central Lancaster (UCLAN), Topic: "The completive aspect and its realisations in two Indonesian sign language varieties" |
DCAL Library |
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1.10-1.50pm Thursday 4th October, 2012 |
Bite-sized Lunchtime Lectures "Red Room" |
Gerardo Ortega Delgado Title: Signs, gestures, and how language connects them (more information...) |
UCL North Lodge |
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4-5pm Thursday 13th September, 2012 |
DCAL Speaker Series |
Marie Dolezalova Language Resource Centre, Charles University, Prague Topic: An English Quest – The Art of Teaching English to the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Students (more information...) |
DCAL Library |
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9:30-4:30pm Tuesday 11th September, 2012 |
Deaf Children's Development Conference |
Conference Flyer |
City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB |
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1:30-3:30pm Thursday 19th July, 2012 |
Data Capture in BSL Workshop |
Have you ever wanted to collect qualitative or quantitative data from BSL users online? Katie and Rachel are leading the way using data capture technology to allow research participants to respond online to BSL questionnaires or to sign an open ended response to interview questions. There are many different potential uses for this technology including online cognitive and language data collection. Format 1st hour Presentations by Katie Rogers and Rachel Belk on current applications of data capture technology, barriers and ethical considerations. 2nd hour Group discussion on potential use of data capture technology at DCAL |
DCAL Library |
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11-12pm Thursday 19th July, 2012 |
DCAL Speaker Series |
Katie Rogers (University of Manchester) Topic: PhD findings about the mental health assessments in BSL |
DCAL Library |
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4-5pm Thursday 21st June, 2012 |
DCAL Speaker Series |
Professor Diane Brentari (University of Chicago) Topic: "Grammatical Regularities in Gesture, Homesign and Sign Language: Phonology and Morphology." (Slides from presentation) |
DCAL Library |
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12-1pm Thursday 31st May, 2012 |
DCAL Speaker Series |
John Bosco Conama (Centre for Deaf Studies, Trinity College Dublin) Topic: "Who decides?: Language education policies for Deaf children - Selected findings from a comparative analysis of Finnish and Irish policies on signed languages." (more information...) |
DCAL Library |
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12-1pm Thursday 10th May, 2012 |
DCAL Speaker Series |
Connie de Vos (University of Central Lancashire & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) Topic: "Modality-specific and language-specific elements in sign language acquisition: the perfective in Kata Kolok" (more information...) |
DCAL Library (please note change of venue from original announcement) |
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4:30pm Wednesday 9th May, 2012 |
Centre for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar Series |
Dr. Mairead MacSweeney (ICN & DCAL) Topic: "The deaf brain: A unique perspective on literacy" (more information...) |
Levinsky Room, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH |
| 4:00-5:00pm Thursday 8th March, 2012 | DCAL Speaker Series |
Dr. Adam Kosa (more information...) |
Room 305, 26 Bedford Way, LONDON, WC1H 0AP (please note changed room number and location) followed by nibbles in the DCAL Library, 49 Gordon Square, LONDON, WC1H 0PD from 5pm. |
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4:00-5:00pm Thursday 2nd February, 2012 |
DCAL Speaker Series |
Dr. Trevor Johnston Topic:"Lexicalization in signed languages: when is an idiom not an idiom?" (more information..) |
DCAL library |
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1:00pm-5:00pm Wednesday, 2nd November 2011 |
A Festival of Social Science event |
DCAL brings together leading Deaf and hearing researchers in the fields of sign linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience. Topic: 2 languages = 2 brains, 2 minds |
UCL |
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4:00-5:00pm Thursday 27th October, 2011 |
DCAL Speaker Series |
Dr. Pablo Romero-Fresco Topic:"Past, Present and Future of Live Subtitling" |
DCAL library |
DCAL Past Events
DCAL Invited Speaker Programme: Spring Term 09
DCAL Invited Speaker Programme: Summer Term 08
DCAL Invited Speaker Programme: Spring Term 08
DCAL Invited Speaker Programme: Autumn Term 2007-08
DCAL Invited Speaker Programme: 3rd term, 2007
DCAL Invited Speaker Programme: 2nd term, 2007
DCAL Invited Speaker Programme: 1st term, 2007
DCAL Invited Speaker Programme: 3rd term, 2006
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