LINGANTH Digest - 30 Jan 2014 to 31 Jan 2014 (#2014-12)

Sat Feb 1 16:59:39 UTC 2014

Thanks to everyone for their recommendations! They're very helpful.

-Jessica

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Topics of the day:

  1. recommendation documentary on a Sign Language/Deaf community (3)
  2. Wyoming History MA program looking for students

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Date:    Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:26:24 +0000
From:    Alastair Cole <Alastair.Cole at ED.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: recommendation documentary on a Sign Language/Deaf community

I would also very much recommend Frank's suggestion of Nicholas Philibert's film 'In the Land of the Deaf'. It's a wonderful piece of cinema which I use to teach both documentary practice and to raise discussion on various themes in linguistic anthropology with students from other academic areas.

You may also want to have a look at 'Touch the sound' by Thomas Riedelsheimer, (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424509/) while not directly engaging with sign language as much as Philibert's film, it is a great exploration of the world of deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie and again provides plenty to discuss within themes of deaf communities and communication.

If you need short documentary films, i.e. 10-15min films let me know and I can pass on some more titles as there have been a few that have been made over the last while that could be useful.

Alastair

Quoting Jessica Taylor <jessica.taylor at UTORONTO.CA> on Thu, 30 Jan
2014 16:41:31 -0500:

> Does anyone know of a good documentary to show undergrads on a sign 
> language and/or Deaf community/culture? It's for a 1st year seminar on 
> Language and Diversity (where diversity could be multilingualism, 
> gender, ethnicity, globalization, translation, etc.). Ideally it would 
> be 30-60 minutes, but all recommendations welcome!
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jessica Taylor
>
>
>
> University of Toronto
>
>

Trans-Disciplinary Documentary Film
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.
The University of Edinburgh

UK +44(0)7740124773
Twitter: @TongueTiedFilms
www.tonguetiedfilms.co.uk

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Date:    Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:52:47 -0700
From:    Leila Monaghan <leila.monaghan at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Wyoming History MA program looking for students

Hi, can you let any undergrads you know about the opportunities at the University of Wyoming?

The University of Wyoming History program has available GAships for incoming students and is still accepting applications.  It is a small but well rounded program with strengths in the American West including available minors in American Indian Studies and Women and Gender Studies.
They have had a number of anthropologists in the program and are open to people bringing in anthropological theory. Also, there is an anthropology department that is four field with a PhD program and an emphasis on Plains Indian archeology.

http://www.uwyo.edu/history/

Happy to answer questions about the department.

all best,

Leila

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Leila Monaghan, PhD
Department of Anthropology
Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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Date:    Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:14:34 -0600
From:    "Ginger B. Pizer" <GPizer at ENGLISH.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: recommendation documentary on a Sign Language/Deaf community

The PBS documentary 'Through Deaf Eyes' is good, though you'd need to choose excerpts, since it's two hours long. 

Ginger Pizer

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Ginger Pizer, PhD
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of English
Mississippi State University
gpizer at english.msstate.edu

>>> Jessica Taylor <jessica.taylor at UTORONTO.CA> 01/30/14 5:07 PM >>>
Does anyone know of a good documentary to show undergrads on a sign language and/or Deaf community/culture? It's for a 1st year seminar on Language and Diversity (where diversity could be multilingualism, gender, ethnicity, globalization, translation, etc.). Ideally it would be 30-60 minutes, but all recommendations welcome!

Thanks,

Jessica Taylor

University of Toronto

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Date:    Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:46:39 +0100
From:    Celso Alvarez Cáccamo <lxalvarz at UDC.ES>
Subject: Re: recommendation documentary on a Sign Language/Deaf community

There is Werner Herzog's extraordinary documentary about deaf-blind people including quite a bit about deaf-blind communication, Land of Silence and Darkness (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit, 1971). It is no light, uplifting stuff. It is 85 min. long, but it's worth two sessions of whatever university course deals with language and communication.

-celso

Celso Alvarez Cáccamo
lxalvarz at udc.es

A 2014/01/31, às 13:26, Alastair Cole escreveu:

> I would also very much recommend Frank's suggestion of Nicholas Philibert's film 'In the Land of the Deaf'. It's a wonderful piece of cinema which I use to teach both documentary practice and to raise discussion on various themes in linguistic anthropology with students from other academic areas.
> 
> You may also want to have a look at 'Touch the sound' by Thomas Riedelsheimer, (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424509/) while not directly engaging with sign language as much as Philibert's film, it is a great exploration of the world of deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie and again provides plenty to discuss within themes of deaf communities and communication.
> 
> If you need short documentary films, i.e. 10-15min films let me know and I can pass on some more titles as there have been a few that have been made over the last while that could be useful.
> 
> 
> Alastair
> 
> 
> Quoting Jessica Taylor <jessica.taylor at UTORONTO.CA> on Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:41:31 -0500:
> 
>> Does anyone know of a good documentary to show undergrads on a sign 
>> language and/or Deaf community/culture? It's for a 1st year seminar 
>> on Language and Diversity (where diversity could be multilingualism, 
>> gender, ethnicity, globalization, translation, etc.). Ideally it 
>> would be 30-60 minutes, but all recommendations welcome!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jessica Taylor
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> University of Toronto
>> 
>> 
> 
> Trans-Disciplinary Documentary Film
> School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.
> The University of Edinburgh
> 
> UK +44(0)7740124773
> Twitter: @TongueTiedFilms
> www.tonguetiedfilms.co.uk
> 
> --
> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in 
> Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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