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

24 March 2023|IDGS

DAAD scholarship for a research stay in Bergen, Norway

Photo: Sarah Schwarzenberg

Sarah Schwarzenberg traveled to Bergen, Norway, at the end of February for a one-month research stay with the DAAD scholarship for doctoral...

24 February 2023|IDGS

IDGS outreach in focus: Greetings from Amsterdam

Bushuis (Universitätsgebäude) in Amsterda

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On Monday 13 February 2023, Calvin Khan and Annika Herrmann gave a presentation at SignLab Amsterdam on "Outreach in sign language research. Targeting...

21 February 2023|IDGS

International Mother Language day

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Today is the International Mother Language Day. It was first proclaimed by UNESCO in 2000 as a commemorative day for the "promotion of linguistic and...

6 February 2023|IDGS

The IDGS at "Ask a Prof: We want to know!" 2023

Simone Scholl, Patricia Barbeito Rey-Geißler und Sarah Schwarzenberg halten einen Vortrag über Simultandolmetschen vor einer Schulklasse.

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From January 30th to February 3rd, 2023, scientists from the University of Hamburg, and other scientific institutions presented their research at the...

3 February 2023|IDGS

New DFG project on processing DGS and reading approved

Screenshot vom Video, eine Frau gebärdet

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The project "Coactivating the difference in the verbal domain of German Sign Language: A developmental perspective at signers processing signing and...

18 January 2023|IDGS

International guest lecture by Silvia D ́Ortenzio

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On Wednesday, January 18th, the first international guest lecture of the new year took
place. Our guest presenter was Silvia D Ortenzio from Ca'...

13 January 2023|IDGS

DGS corpus data: Presentation at NELS53 in Göttingen

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In their presentation "Searching for negative polarity items in DGS" on Jan. 13th, Cornelia Loos and Marc Schulder showed how they use the recordings...

12 January 2023|IDGS

Welcome to IDGS, Prof. Dr. Berenice Santos Gonçalves!

Photo: Berenice Santos Goncalves

Dr. Goncalves is currently working with us as a visiting scholar in the framework of the internationalisation programme CAPES PRINT UFSC - BRAZIL in...

16 December 2022|IDGS

Christmas greeting 2022

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We at IDGS brought the year 2022 to a close with a beautiful St. Nicholas event. Despite the bitter cold, we staff and students had some nice...

6 December 2022|IDGS

ViCom's Kick-Off Meeting in Bad Homburg

from left to right: Sarah Schwarzenberg, Annika Herrmann, Cornelia Loos, Marc Schulder and Sabrina Wähl standing on a pair of stairs ViCom Kick-Off

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The DFG priority programme "ViCom" (2329) investigates specific properties of visual communication and their linguistic relevance. In this...

1 December 2022|IDGS

SEED funding enables exchange with Japan: Sign language research in Osaka

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The 14th conference of Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR) took place from 26.September to 01.October in Osaka, Japan.

TISLR is the...

25 November 2022|IDGS

Announcement for symposium about ableism and audism on the 3th of December

Ausschnitt vom Flyer für Fachtagung über Ableismus

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On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a symposium on Ableism and Audism will be held on Saturday, 03.12.2022. The...

15 November 2022|IDGS

Reading with Anna Folchi and Sara Trovato on 8 November 2022

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On the occasion of the recently published book "The Social Condition Of Deaf People. The Story Of A Woman And A Hearing Society" by Anna Folchi and...

11 November 2022|IDGS

Lab-Party of the Experimental Sign Language Laboratory

Gäste der Laborvorstellung stehen vor dem EGS-Labor und tauschen sich aus.

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On November 9th, 2022 the EGS Lab Party took place at IDGS. The goal of this event was to open the doors of the Experimental Sign Language Lab at the...

7 October 2022|IDGS

IDGS at the Youth Festival 5 of the DGJ

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On 01 and 02 October 2022, the 5th Youth Festival of the German Deaf Youth e.V. took place at the CCH Hamburg. In addition to a wide range of lectures...

6 October 2022|IDGS

Orientation week for first semester students

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Dear First Semester Students,

during the week of 10/10/2022 to 10/14/2022, Orientation Week (OE) for Sign Language (B.A./M.A.) and Sign Language...

2 October 2022|IDGS

2nd place for our PhD Candidate Sarah Schwarzenberg at SIGNopsis at TISLR14

Sarah Schwarzenberg sucht aus einer Kiste mit der Aufschrift DGS-Korpus verschiedene Bausteine

Photo: Sarah Schwarzenberg

From Sept. 27th to 30th, 2022, the conference TISLR14 (Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research) was held in Osaka, Japan in a hybrid format.

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30 September 2022|IDGS

Coffee-Bike visits IDGS

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On Thursday, 29 September, a Coffee-Bike with a professional barista visited us in the courtyard of our building at Gorch-Fock-Wall from 8 to 12 a.m...

30 September 2022|IDGS

The IDGS at TISLR14 in Osaka, Japan

Photo: TISLR14, Osaka, Japan

The IDGS was represented in many ways at this year's TISLR14 conference in Osaka, Japan. A delegation was on site at the National Museum of...

23 September 2022|IDGS

September 23: International Day of Sign Languages

internationaler Tag der Gebaerdensprache/internat. day of sign languages

Photo: WFD-World-Federation-of-the-Deaf

Today is the International Day of Sign Languages. It was launched in 2017 by the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD). This day is about recognizing the...

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