Presenter: Flora Amann, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (FHIS)
Respondent: Joël Castonguay-Bélanger, Associate Professor of French (FHIS)
About the talk:
The Age of Enlightenment was a turning point in the history of the deaf. The late eighteenth century was marked by the work of Abbé de L’Épée and the invention of a method that made it possible for the first time to teach French to deaf people using their natural language: gesture. In this lecture, I will show that this new knowledge was built from the grammatical, rhetorical, and aesthetic reflections of the Enlightenment philosophy on the relationship between the French language and the image. Not only did the Age of Enlightenment witness the emergence of sign linguistics, but it also redefined deafness as a unique perspective on language and the world, as an aesthetic experience.
Registration:
About the FHIS Research Seminar: Hosted by the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies (FHIS), the Research Seminar is an opportunity to explore current research and ideas related to the languages, literatures and cultures of the Romance language-speaking world, with presentations from faculty members, graduate students, and/or guest speakers. All are welcome.
If you have questions, please contact Dr. Katharina Piechocki (katharina.piechocki@ubc.ca).
UBC Vancouver is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) People.
