Program

(preliminary, alterations possible)

Supporting program:

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024, approx. 4pm: Guided city tour in International Sign (free of charge)

Thursday, July 4th, 2024, apporx. 6pm: Dinner (payment on your own costs).

 

Thursday, July 4th, 2024

Time, Event:

9:00-09:30 Opening

9:30-10:30 Keynote: 
Vadim Kimmelman – Complex relations between grammatical and emotional nonmanuals in sign languages

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:30 Presentation:
Marianthi Koraka, Thomas Finkbeiner & Nina-Kristin Meister – Non-manuals reveal signers‘ intentions in DGS imperative speech acts - Abstract
- Slides

11:30-12:00 Presentation:
Desirée Kirst – Eyebrow Competition: Layering emotion & grammar in ASL

12:00-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-14:00 Presentation
Fien Andries – Then, Now and Beyond: the use of self-enactments in layered stance-taking in VGT - Abstract
- Slides

14:00-14:30 Presentation
Donna Jo Napoli, Ronice Müller de Quadros & Christian Rathmann – Alignment mouth demonstration with classifiers

14:30-15:30 Postersession

• Anastasia Bauer & Anna Kuder – Smiling in spontaneous dyadic signed interaction: disentangling feedback and alignment functions  - Abstract
  - Poster

• Neha Kulshreshtha – The Effect of Emotional State on the Position of Wh-signs in Indian Sign Language

• Anne Wienholz, Sarah Fritzsche & Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber – Affective facial expressions in deaf early and late signing children - Abstract
  - Poster

• Rosalee Wolfe & Fabrizio Nunnari – Challenges in portraying emotion in generated sign language

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:00 Keynote
Barbara Hager – "The contacts disappeared"- Expressing Emotions of Deaf Students during Covid-19

17:00-17:15 Closing
 

Friday, July 5th, 2024

Time, Event: 

09:00-10:00 Keynote:
Matt Dye – Interpreting emotional state from facial expressions in adult signers - Abstract
- Slides

10:00-10:30 Presentation:
Fabrizio Nunnari, Patrick Gebhard, Marco González, Pamela Perniss, Annalena Aicher & Elisabeth André – Emotions in Sign Language within the BIGEKO project

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:30 Presentation:
Svetlana Dachkovsky, Rose Stamp, Wendy Sandler, Boaz Ben-David, Vered Shakuf,
Dean Geckt, Liran Evenberg, Hagit Hel-Or – Perceiving Emotions in Sign Language: Lexical (Words) Vs. Non-Lexical (Tone) Channels - Abstract
- Slides

11:30-12:00 Presentation:
Sarah Schwarzenberg, Jenne Mertens, Alexander Eisenzimmer, Simon Kollien & Annika Herrmann – Expressing Emotions in the DGS Corpus: The Interaction of Lexemes and Nonmanuals - Abstract
- Slides

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-14:30 Round Table

14:30-15:00 Closing