Below you will find information on current events regarding the Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf.
The Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf (IDGS) at the Faculty of Humanities invites applications for an Acting...
Get to know German Sign Language! Once again we contribute to the "Small Subject Weeks" ("Kleine Fächer-Wochen") of the University of Hamburg, this...
*12. April 1949 † 05. December 2019
With dismay we learned that Heiko Zienert closed his eyes forever. We are thinking about his family and his loved...
On 04 December 2019, our long-standing employee and lecturer Stefan Goldschmidt presented a very personal project to IDGS students and employees: The...
On November 26th 2019 Dr. Agnes Villwock gave a public presentation within the lecture series "Vom Ding zum Wissen: Aus der Werkstatt der Kleinen...
On November 18 and 19, 2019, Jeffrey S. Bravin, Director of the American Deaf School (ASD) in Hartford/Connecticut (U.S.A.), visited Hamburg and gave...
From 1989 to 1994, our lecturer Stefan Goldschmidt was a student at Gallaudet University and completed his studies there with a B.A. in sociology and...
Universität Hamburg, the Faculty of Humanities, Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf invites applications for a Research...
The November 2019 issue of the academic journal DAS ZEICHEN is out on 27. November 2019, with a host of interesting articles. Please click here for an...
Deutsche Gebärdensprache: Gebärdensprachen und Gebärdensprachdolmetschen – Ein kleines Fach wird sichtbar (German Sign Language: Sign Languages and...
On October 16 we were glad to welcome Prof. Dr. Lionel Antonio Tovar of the Universidad del Valle in Cali (School of Language Sciences) in Colombia at...
We welcome alle first-year students who have taken up their studies in the degree programs Sign Languages and Sign Language Interpreting.
In the week after TISLR13, the DGS-Korpus project (Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg) has run a summer school in cooperation with INEL...
On Sept 30 we were glad to welcome Ms Natsuko Shimotani and Ms Kazumi Maegawa from the Sign Language Research Center at Kwansei Gakuin University...
The workshop took place directly after TISLR 13 at the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf.
Workshop languages were English...
The 13th issue of the conference series "Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research“ (TISLR) with appr. 450 international participants was a lively...
We welcome Dr. Carl Börstell as new visiting professor at the Institute of German Sign Language and communication of the Deaf! We are very glad to...
This year’s orientation week starts on October, 7th at 10:00 a.m. and will be running until October 11th. We from the IDGS team wish everyone a...
On July 10th 2019 we had another prestigious visitor. Prof. Dr. Pamela Perniss from the University of Cologne (Department für Heilpädagogik und...
