Schedule and Registration are now available!
12:30 - 13:00
Check in & Coffee
13:00 - 13:30
Opening Remarks
Carol Padden | Department of Communication, University of California San Diego
Session Chair: Derek Braun | Biology Department, Gallaudet University
13:30 - 14:00
Emily Shaw [Gallaudet University]
Icons, Indices and Symbols: A Peircean take on historical data from American Sign Language
14:00 - 14:30
Lauren Reed & Ronald Planer [Australian National University]
‘Overseeing’, recipient design and language evolution
14:30 - 15:00
Lina Hou [UC Santa Barbara] & Laura Horton [University of Wisconsin Madison]
Genes, deafness, and family signed languages in Mexico and Guatemala
Session Chair: Richard P. Meier | Department of Linguistics, UT Austin
15:30 - 16:00
Christian Rathmann [Humboldt University of Berlin] and Peter Romanek [Tallinn University]
Emergence, Convergence, and Generational Shifts in Sign Languages within the Habsburg Empire: A Lexical Perspective
16:00 - 16:30
Angoua Tano [Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny ], Ashlea Beard & Erin Wilkinson [University of New Mexico]
Hybrid phonologies: Name Sign Systems in LSCI and ASL across fifty years of language contact
16:30 - 17:00
Kumari Manta [MPI Leipzig] & Damien Blasi [University of Barcelona]
The Massar Village Sign Language: Documentation and Challenges
17:00 - 17:30
Katie Mudd [Stony Brook University]
A multi-methodological approach to understanding lexical variation
17:30 - 18:00
Concluding Remarks
Carol Padden | Department of Communication, University of California San Diego
Sabine Arnaud | Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS
9:00 - 9:30
Check in & Coffee
Session Chair: Victoria Nyst | Centre for Linguistics and the African Studies Centre, Leiden University
9:30 - 10:00
Marta Morgado [University of Birmingham]
International Sign and the Power of Social Media: From Natural Emergence to Everyday Use
10:00 - 10:30
David Kaique Rodrigues dos Santos,
Débora Campos Wanderley & Indira Simionatto Stedile Assis Moura [Working Group on Línguas Indígenas de Sinais (GT LIS) ]
Actions of the National Working Group on Línguas Indígenas de Sinais (GT LIS) and the Promotion of Research on LIS in Brazil
10:30 - 11:00
Starr Lang [California State University Northridge]
LSM & Mexican Gestures: A piece in the Language Puzzle
11:00 - 12:30
Lunch break
Session Chair: Sabine Arnaud | Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS
12:30 - 13:00
Hao Lin [Shanghai International Studies University]
Zhou Tianfu, The first and foremost deaf in China
13:00 - 13:30
Lenka Okrouhlíková [Charles University]
Emergence and Early Development of Czech Sign Language
13:30 - 14:00
Veronica Escobar [University College London]
Understanding the emergence of BSL through deaf school records in the 1830s
14:00 - 15:00
Discussion & Concluding Remarks
Carol Padden | Department of Communication, University of California San Diego
Sabine Arnaud | Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS