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

7 January 2021|IDGS

New employees - Welcome to the IDGS!

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Just in time for the start of 2021 we welcome new staff members:

- Dr. Martje Hansen is the substitute for the teaching of Annika Herrmann from...

2 December 2020|IDGS

Guest Lecture at the IDGS by Dr. Szilard Engelhardt

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This Wednesday, 25.11.2020 we had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Szilárd Engelhardt as guest speaker at an internal lecture of the institute. His lecture...

1 December 2020|IDGS

The DGS-Korpus team wishes you a happy 1st December!

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From today on you can open a door every day in the advent calendar of the DGS-Korpus project. We hope to bring a little joy into this unusual...

16 November 2020|IDGS

New issue of the academic journal DAS ZEICHEN

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The November 2020 issue of the academic journal DAS ZEICHEN is expected to be published on November 25, 2020. Please find here an overview of the...

26 October 2020|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 26-30 2020. This year it will...

22 October 2020|IDGS

Germany Scholarship for a student at the IDGS - Congratulations!

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One of our students at the IDGS has successfully applied for the Germany Scholarship, so that "Sign Languages/Sign Language...

20 October 2020|IDGS

Lecture by Prof. Diane Lillo-Martin with DGS and captions now online on Lecture2Go

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At the beginning of the annual DGfS conference 2020, that took place in Hamburg (04-06 March), Diane Lillo-Martin (Haskins Laboratories, University of...

7 October 2020|IDGS

Promotional film of the University of Hamburg in DGS

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The University of Hamburg has a new promotional film, also in barrier-free versions. For the version in German Sign Language, we were able to...

10 September 2020|IDGS

KVV WiSe 2020/2021

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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...

17 July 2020|IDGS

Guest Lecture at the IDGS by Dr. Sibaji Panda

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Before the beginning of the lecture-free period, we were pleased to welcome a last guest in our...

10 July 2020|IDGS

Life Stories Documentary

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In the context of the EU project "The Sign Hub", a documentary film was made that had its (digital) world premiere at the FEAST conference in Paris in...

9 July 2020|IDGS

Information Letter for all Students at the IDGS

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Dear students,

please read here our information letter.

Best regards, your IDGS team

3 July 2020|IDGS

Guest Lecture at the IDGS by Dr. Adam Schembri

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For the penultimate time this semester, we were pleased to welcome a guest in our series "International Sign Language Research: Current Discussions"...

1 July 2020|IDGS

DFG Return Fellowship at the IDGS for Dr. Szilárd Engelhardt

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We are pleased that Dr. Szilárd Engelhardt has been granted a return fellowship by the DFG from July to December 2020 to work at the IDGS, giving him...

24 June 2020|IDGS

Guest Lecture at the IDGS by Prof. Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen

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In the series "International Sign Language Research: Current Discussions" we again had an international guest on our computer screens in our home...

22 June 2020|IDGS

Online Lecture at the IDGS by Anne Wienholz

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Anne Wienholz, our deputy professor this semester at IDGS, gave her welcome speech on 10.06.2020, live via online video conference.

She spoke from...

26 May 2020|IDGS

Guest Lecture by Aline Meili

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The second lecture in our series of international guest lectures was delivered on 20.05.2020 by Mrs. Aline Meili in the form of a live lecture via...

7 May 2020|IDGS

Guest lectures by Manolis Fragkiadakis and Maren Brumm

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The prelude to our series of international guest lectures was provided on 06.05.2020 by Maren Brumm and Manolis Fragkiadakis in the form of live...

5 May 2020|IDGS

Defence of the Dissertation of Marloes Oomen, Amsterdam

Verteidigung/defense of doctoral thesis Oomen

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On April 29, 2020 Marloes Oomen successfully defended her doctoral thesis "Iconicity as a mediator between verb semantics and morphosyntactic...

23 April 2020|IDGS

Cancelled: "Open Day" at IDGS postponed until further notice

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The open day at the IDGS announced for 20 June 2020 on this website and in the magazine DAS ZEICHEN has unfortunately to be cancelled due to corona...

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