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Below you will find information on current events regarding the Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf.

19 May 2022|IDGS

First international guest lecture with Dr. Robyn Dean

On May 4, the first of many international guest lectures of this summer semester took place. We were joined by Professor Robyn Dean from Rochester...

11 May 2022|IDGS

35 years of sign language research at the IDGS, University of Hamburg

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On 11 May 1987, the "Centre for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf" was ceremoniously opened at Rothenbaumchaussee 45 in Hamburg. The...

25 April 2022|IDGS

Ditze Foundation supports MA students at IDGS

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Within the framework of our joint Master's thesis entitled "Use of legal terminology in German Sign Language - suggestions for adequate translation"...

11 April 2022|IDGS

We congratulate Siegmund Prillwitz on his round birthday

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Today Siegmund Prillwitz, Professor Emeritus of Sign Language and Sign Language Interpreting at the Institute for German Sign Language and...

4 April 2022|IDGS

Stefan Goldschmidt receives Hamburg Teaching Award

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On 4.4.2022 Hamburg Teaching Award was handed over in a festive ceremony at the City Hall. Along with the awarding of the certificate by the Second...

1 March 2022|IDGS

Talk at the DGfS 2022

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The 44th annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), hosted by the University of Tübingen, took place online from February 23rd to...

9 February 2022|IDGS

STiNE registration phases in the 2022 summer semester

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Dear students and teachers, these are the STiNE registration phases in the 2019 / 2020 winter semester for the faculties SLM I+II.

Phase

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13 January 2022|IDGS

Adelina Worseck visiting the IDGS

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As part of the master's seminar "Applied sign language linguistics with a focus on sociolinguistics", led by Sarah Bauer, the online lecture by...

17 December 2021|IDGS

Winter Party 2021

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An eventful year is coming to an end - but of course one event cannot be missing to make the year complete: the winter party at IDGS!

On the evening...

16 December 2021|IDGS

Dr. Gabrielle Hodge visiting the IDGS

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Sign language research has contributed much to our understanding of human language and communication. Today, a wide range of research methods make it...

14 December 2021|IDGS

Stefan Goldschmidt receives Hamburg Teaching Award 2021

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It's official!

The Ministry of Science, Research, Equality and Districts is awarding the Hamburg Teaching Prize 2021 to our very esteemed colleague...

13 December 2021|IDGS

Ronice Müller de Quadros visits IDGS

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During her three-day visit to IDGS, Prof. Dr. Ronice Müller de Quadros presented the Portal de Libras in a lecture on 17 November 2021. The online...

1 December 2021|IDGS

DGS-Korpus: Advent calendar 2021

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The DGS-Korpus team wishes you a happy 1st December and happy opening of the calendar doors!

This year, we have once again created a calendar...

2 November 2021|IDGS

Federal Cross of Merit for Alexander von Meyenn

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On 1 October 2021, Senator Dr Leonhard presented our former, highly esteemed colleague Alexander von Meyenn with the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon...

18 October 2021|IDGS

Fellowship for interdisciplinary teaching tandem

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As part of the pilot project inter-faculty teaching in the studium generale: "Fellowships for interdisciplinary teaching tandems on the topic of...

1 October 2021|IDGS

Substitute Professor Fabian Bross - Welcome to the IDGS!

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As of today, 01. October 2021, Mr. Fabian Bross is our new acting professor at IDGS. We welcome him cordially!

A short introduction in DGS is here.

28 September 2021|IDGS

Short Talk at the AMLaP Conference

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The annual conference “Architecture and Mechanisms for Language Processing” (AMLaP) took place at the Université de Paris from 02.09.2021 until...

21 September 2021|IDGS

Orientation unit at IDGS: Programme is online!

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Dear new students at the IDGS,

we're all very looking forward to you joining us at the IDGS orientation unit from Oct 04-08 2021.

Please find the...

31 August 2021|IDGS

Announcement: Wintersemester 2021-2022

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Dear students,

the new annotated course catalogue "KVV" is online.

A good start into the new semester to you all!

Annotated course catalogue for the...

22 July 2021|IDGS

The IDGS at the FEAST conference

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From 1st to 4th of June 2021 the ninth “Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory” (FEAST) conference took place at the Centre for Sign...

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