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Latest Public Lecture

Language and landscape: using British Sign Language in Historic Storytelling
23 November 2022

Dr Ellen Adams (KCL)

This talk presents a project that explores how the visual/spatial language of BSL can effectively be deployed to present visual and material culture. Having introduced events conducted in the Parthenon Galleries of the British Museum, the talk will focus on a new online site with BSL stories about Holyrood Park (a collaboration with Historic Environment Scotland). The innovative feature of this material is that linguistic notes accompany the presentations, to help people understand how grammar can be spatial and visual, and therefore a powerful mode of communication about art and archaeology.

Dr Adams is a Reader in Classical Archaeology and Liberal Arts, and has published widely on aspects of disabilities in the ancient past and the present. See her profile here.

Presented by:
Manchester Classical Association
&
Cultures of Disabilities, Past and Present Network (ManMet History Research Centre)

BSL support is generously funded by the "Race, Gender, Sexuality and Identity" Research Group.

Athena’s Owls project

A group of dancing Cyclopes created by our Owls in October!

Athena's Owls spell tablets — Some of our Owls’ spell tablets from our Magic workshop in May

A wax tablet inscribed with the Greek name of its owner, Luku (Lucy)!

Part of the Athena's Owls fleet of rainbow triremes — Part of the Athena’s Owls fleet of rainbow triremes

A wax tablet inscribed with the Greek name of its owner, Ouerity (Verity)!

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