<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">May 29, 2021</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">WOCAL Congress online!</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Nyst, V.A.S." <<a href="mailto:v.a.s.nyst@HUM.LEIDENUNIV.NL" class="">v.a.s.nyst@HUM.LEIDENUNIV.NL</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Reminder WOCAL Workshop on African sign languages & HANDS!Festival: June 7-12</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">May 29, 2021 at 6:17:12 AM PDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" class="">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">linguists interested in signed languages <<a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU" class="">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">***Apologies for multiple posting, thank you for sharing!***</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><img size="0" contenttype="image/png" id="img791889" contextid="img326231" tabindex="0" sizeoption="small" class="" apple-inline="yes" src="cid:b5981347-d4ef-445e-ba62-626ae158bd41"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><img size="0" contenttype="image/png" id="img936324" contextid="img360958" tabindex="0" sizeoption="small" class="" apple-inline="yes" src="cid:61a03d39-d39b-48c0-9a5f-cb111ffb3a3b"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Dear all,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">We hope this message finds you well. The fifth anniversary of the WOCAL workshop on African sign languages, organized by the HANDS!Lab at Leiden University is coming closer! From June 7-12, we will have a daily online panel with almost 30 talks in total, on a variety of topics related to African SLs, such as lexical variation, narratives, songs, and sign language technology. Participation is free for participants in the global south.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://sign.wocal.net/wocal10-workshop/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk106826" previewremoved="true">http://sign.wocal.net/wocal10-workshop/</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Look<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://sign.wocal.net/workshop-program/" class="OWAAutoLink">here for our program</a>. The general WOCAL also has two keynotes on African sign languages, by Woinshet Girma (Addis Ababa University) and Anna Marie Diagne (Université Cheikh Anta Diop). <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">The workshop will close with the HANDS!Festival presenting deaf artists and their work from Senegal, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, and South Africa. Also, it will feature the winning contributions of the visual vernacular story telling competition:<a href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2021/06/hands-festival-2021-on-african-sign-languages-and-deaf-studies" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk884214" previewremoved="true">https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2021/06/hands-festival-2021-on-african-sign-languages-and-deaf-studies</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Please share with anyone interested. The event will be accessible in International Sign and English and/or French.<br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="">We hope to see you there! </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">greetings, the WOCAL SL team<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Anique Schüller</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Hope Morgan<br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Lisa van der Mark<br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Manolis Fragkiadakis<br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Mariana Martins</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Marco Nyarko<br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Marta Morgado</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Nargess Asghari<br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Timothy Mac Hadjah</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">WOCAL SL committee:<br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span class="">Evans Namasaka Burichani</span><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Yede Sanogo<br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Yves Beosso</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Hope Morgan</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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