[Linganth] Creating Belonging: Ritual Recruitment of Hanoi Sign Language Interpreters – An Online Talk and Discussion -This Friday (2/13)

[SLA Online]

*Creating Belonging: Ritual Recruitment of Hanoi Sign Language
InterpretersA talk by Aron Marie (University of Virginia)*
Friday, February 13th
12pm EST

The event will include ASL interpretation.

Join the event through the Zoom link below, or with the QR code on the
attached flyer.

SLA Online is proud to co-sponsor this online talk and discussion, which is
part of the
Disability Research Interest Group’s
<https://medanthro.net/interest-groups/drig/> Encore speaker series.

*Event Description:* How do deaf people recruit hearing sign language
interpreters,
and entice hearing people to stay involved with deaf sociality? Research on
the
development of sign language interpreting has primarily focused on the
global north,
where the first individuals identified as interpreters typically had
pre-existing relationships
with deaf people, either through kinship or professional ties. However, in
Hanoi, Vietnam
the majority of interpreters have no prior relationship to deaf people. In
this talk, Aron
Marie examines how, for young hearing women, learning Ha Noi Sign Language
(HNSL)
and becoming an interpreter provides them with a sense of belonging that
both entices
them to take deaf turns and to stay connected to the deaf sociality.

*Speaker Bio:* Aron Marie (he/they) is an Assistant professor of
Anthropology and
American Sign Language at the University of Virginia. Drawing on over a
decade working
with deaf/disabled people in Vietnam and the United States, his research
focuses on how
disabled people and their allies create political movements and communicate
in innovative,
non-normative ways.

*Join via Zoom:*
https://brown.zoom.us/j/99784862256?pwd=BmRRRVKKsAZkIkJChTpb9PGQNSOZWR.1
Meeting ID: 997 8486 2256
Passcode: drig

Alt text: The attached flyer contains an image of deaf and hearing signers
in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, who are seated in a circle on the floor of a shared
community meeting space. A yellow ball of yarn crisscrosses the circle in a
star-like pattern, physically tying deaf and hearing members of the group
together. The flyer also notes that ASL interpretation is available for
this talk.

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