The upcoming exhibits will be held this July at the RIT Museum on the 3rd floor, curated by John Monaco's Museum Studies class and NTID students in collaboration with Liz Call, RIT archivist, and Joan Naturale, NTID and Deaf Studies Archives Librarian Liaison. There will be additional mini-exhibits at the Dyer Arts Center and RADSCC.
The RIT Museum exhibit will open on Thursday, September 11, between 2 and 4 p.m. John Panara and Bernard Hurwitz will speak at the opening.
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Today, most of us know Rochester as being home to one of the largest deaf communities in the United States. But the city has been a home to deaf people for nearly two hundred years.
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Cover article in Oral History Review----“Documenting Deaf Lived Experiences: Sign Language and Oral History Methodology”
○ describes barriers and defines strategies for the inclusion of deaf people in oral history work
○ provides guidelines for signed narratives, including interview preparation, consent, cinematographic, and transcription concerns.
Request via Interlibrary Loan services. https://ill.rit.edu/
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Matt Malzkuhn and Ted Supalla have written a new book about Deaf home movies. We have the e-book for one user at a time. https://albert.rit.edu/record=b5211431~S3
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The new Deaf President Now! (DPN) documentary will premiere May 16 on AppleTV+. If you are interested in this topic, we have DPN resources at the library.
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For your information, this conference is from July 7 to 11 at UR and RIT, and it is free for RIT folks to attend the sessions. Please register and put in your requests for interpreters if you are interested in attending. For your information, on Thursday, July 10, from 1:30 to 3 p.m., Cindy Officer, Joan Naturale, and Stacy Lawrence will present on the following topics: Dandelion themes in the Deaf world, Silent Worker and Deaf Newspapers, and the ASL Poetry movement.
