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In the Spotlight: Dr. Joseph Hill

Dr. Hill will be joining us at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting for the Plenary Address! Dr. Hill is Professor of Deaf Studies and Linguistics and Director of the Center for Black Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. Don’t miss this session! cvent.me/9Mdr3G

This does look intriguing - I can't wait to read it!

Get the most up-to-date list of BEI trilingual certificate holders.

LINK: bit.ly/3VkL6q6

NOTE: The trilingual certification BEI offers is unparalleled, as it validates interpreters’ abilities in Spanish, ASL, and English - something no other professional organization does.

a cartoon of mickey mouse standing next to a trunk Alt: a cartoon of mickey mouse throwing many clothing items from a dresser drawer into a trunk

Can we just acknowledge that the fall semester started, and we survived it? Hooray for us! Because the stress I put on myself to answer emails, attend meetings, create syllabi, develop the courses on Canvas, AND get all my clothes washed or in the cleaners was overwhelming.

SLCVC2025 Conference - Registration Registration The 'Sign Language Contact, Variation, and Change' Conference is free to attend, but we would like everyone who is coming to register please. We would like EVERYONE to register - both pr...

If you'd like to attend the Sign Language Contact Variation and Change conference on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 August (this week!) make sure you have registered here!
The Zoom link (including interpretation into English) will be sent to those who have registered.
sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...

Registered!

YouTube video by Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc. RID VIEWS 2025 - "Technology X Interpreting –To be or not to be dependent on interpreters?"

ASL here: youtu.be/SHyiyfwtlNQ?...

VIEWS Spring 25 - Technology x Interpreting Volume 42 | Issue 2 | Spring 2025

English here: issuu.com/ridviews/doc...

Sharing my article regarding my use of AI: "To be or NOT to be dependent on interpreters?" - available in ASL & written English. Inspired by my experience at TISLR15, surrounded by the scholars I respect so much - had to tag @linasigns.bsky.social @jaceyhill.bsky.social and @d7play.bsky.social

Oh gosh lol. "I deaf if" should be "I read it". 😖 Silly keyboard!

I really do appreciate your team sharing your statement. I deaf if and immediately shared with a few members of our team at University of Tennessee - Deaf Studies. I found it to be & I especially appreciated the framing of it - not punitive or oppressive in tone. THANK YOU ALL for this.

I've used VideoAsk. Worked great!

Wait. Are you watching me? How did you know?🤦🏾Lol!

A new book has been released. Book cover with my painting “Like a River.” More info at: brill.com and books.google.com/books?id=gKF... #nancyrourke

Oh, you scared me for a bit! Lol! No worries. February and March took a toll on all of us. But we are surviving!

So... is the conference canceled?

International Summer School of Sign Language Studies
21-25. July 2025 - Berlin

📌 Topics
📝 Program
👤 Presenters
📥 Call of Papers
👩‍💻 Registration

Everything here!
www.tlu.ee/en/summer-sc...

Feel free to share and comeeeeee! 🏃‍♂️ 💨

S. Hill signing the concept "CLEAR" (I think!).

THE Ms. Evon asking a question. S. Hill looking on with a joyful face.

It's me and my Adam!

Thanks TISLR15 for sending us pictures today! Downloaded a few that I didn't have. Gotta love these facial expressions!

Center of graphic is cover of Sign Language Studies. The text at the top reads Volume 25, Number 2, Winter 2025. Below the journal name is the SLS logo, and under that the text reads Gallaudet University Press. Overlaid on the journal cover is the word NEW, and under that is the text: Winter 2025 Issue. In the bottom right corner is the GUP logo.

The winter 2025 issue of Sign Language Studies is now available! The table of contents is below. Check it out on @projectmuse.bsky.social or subscribe here: gupress.gallaudet.edu/Journals/Sig...

My first US dissertation defense as a committee member is today. Oh my! I remember how much my US Southern culture impacted my own viva. I was just the most respectful little thing. Had no idea until the END that they wanted me to stand in what I believe. Little did they know, ha!

SLCVC2025 Conference

Deadlines for abstracts for the first ever Sign Language Contact, Variation and Change conference at @unibirmingham.bsky.social is 30 March!

sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...

This is exciting, for sure!

Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguistic study of natural sign languages. Focusing on American Sign Language (ASL), this book offers a co...

Pleased to share that the 2nd, revised edition of Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts will be available April 30, 2025! Lovely working with @jaceyhill.bsky.social and Sandra Wood on the revised version. www.routledge.com/Sign-Languag...

Wait, this conference is in Nashville? 😁 I'm in Knoxville...hmmm.

At literally the exact same moment we were typing a reply. Nice stance.

Hi Arjun!!! Hey Adam!

If I might add to this statement, the concept of "speaking English" is not an option for deaf Americans. Including signed languages as part of the multilingualism of the country and the world should be part of the conversation also.

If you are working in Deaf Studies and want a fully funded paid year as a researcher at Gallaudet University, this Deaf Studies incubator fellowship is open for applications deafincubator.com/apply/?fbcli...

I reference this in my dissertation. From 1918. Ain't nothing new under the sun.

New publication with @robertskinner.bsky.social from previous Justisigns project on investigative interviews with deaf suspects - analysing a case study with authentic data trans-int.org/index.php/tr...