We are getting started with our MEMS Colloquium Lecture. @JonathanHsy will be presenting on premodern manual languages. #humforum18 
We have an ASL interpreter present with us thanks to the @UMBC Office of Student Disability Services. Making sure our programs are accessible is important to us.
As this is a work that is still in very early stages, we won’t be able to provide any images. BUT we will tweet out the larger themes and you can always engage directly with @JonathanHsy’s previous works.
Hsy: focusing on three main issues: history/social construction of disability; language cognition and acquisition; and medieval literature and manuals. #humforum18
Hsy: Hearing culture makes deafness a disability. #humforum18
Hsy: There are various sign language families. American Sign Language is the most tested language and it is derived from French Sign Language when it arrived in the 18th century. #humforum18
Pedro Ponce de León is considered one of the first teachers of the deaf. #humforum18 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Pon…
Teresa de Cartagena wrote about her deafness and presented it as a blessing as she entered into the religious life. Silence is a gift and removes worldy distractions. It allows her to focus on intellectual pursuits. #humforum18 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_de…
Hsy: Deafness should be viewed as a gift, as it provides the diversity in social and intellectual culture. #humforum18
Hsy: Cartagena viewed her deafness as a sensory transformation that opened up new kinds of experiences. #humforum18
Hsy: Deafness is not utter loss. It can still be accompanied by sound. Sometimes it can be a distortion of sound. Tinnitus presents an interesting study of bodily sound vs. “ghostly” sounds. #humforum18
Hsy: My hope is that Deaf Studies and Sound Studies can work together in the study of sound. The medieval archive reveals many opportunities to look at disability otherwise. #humforum18
Join us next week for the Robert Webb Lecture with Simon P. Newman. dreshercenter.umbc.edu/humanities-for…
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