DCAL INVITED SPEAKERS PROGRAMME
(Second Term, 2007)
VENUE: DCAL Library
Speaker: Dr Carolina Plaza Pust – Lecturer in linguistics, University of
Frankfurt, Germany
Thursday January 25th, 4pm
“Language contact in the bilingual acquisition of sign language and
written language”
Speaker; Dr Joanna Atkinson – Research psychologist & Clinical
psychologist, DCAL
Wednesday January 31st, 12.30pm
“Exploring voice-hallucinations in deaf people with schizophrenia”
Speaker: Prof Anne Baker - Professor of Linguistics, University of Amsterdam,
Chair for Psycholinguistics, Language pathology and Sign Linguistics, Holland
Friday February 9th, 12.30pm
“Early sign interaction - the development of turntaking”
Speaker: Dr Rachel Sutton-Spence - Senior Lecturer in Deaf Studies, Centre
for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol
Wednesday Feb 14th, 4pm
“Metaphor in BSL poetry - An exploration of Dorothy Miles' poem "Trio””
Speaker: Corrie Tijsseling – Ph.D. student in history and philosophy of
pedagogics, Institutional affiliation: Radboud University, Nijmegen and
University of Utrecht, Utrecht
Thursday March 8th, 4pm
“Images and self-images of Deaf people: the effects of social-political
and religious influences on the education of the deaf”
Speaker: Dr Chris Stone – Postdoctoral researcher, DCAL
Thursday March 22nd, 4pm
“Deaf translators and hearing interpreters - a linguistic and
enthnographic exploration of a Deaf translation norm”
Speaker: Dr Diane Burman - Researcher, Teacher of the Deaf, Oxford
Brookes University
Wednesday April 4th, 4pm
“Writing Profiles for Deaf Children”
For further details contact Tyron Woolfe - t.woolfe@ucl.ac.uk
Advance notice: Term 3, 2007: 15th May, 4pm – Dr Cyril Courtin will be
giving the invited speaker slot re: Theory of Mind