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AFRICAN SIGN LANGUAGES WORKSHOP PROGRAM Includes Most of Europe, South Africa, Egypt, More Info: Malawi, Sudan, Rwanda, Zambia, Etc WORLD CONGRESS OF AFRICAN LINGUISTICS 10 (WOCAL10), LEIDEN UNIVERSITY Schedule is in timezone of conference site (Central European Time; GMT+2 in DST). This AFRICAN SIGN LANGUAGES WORKSHOP PROGRAM includes most of Europe, South Africa, Egypt, more info: http://sign.wocal.net Malawi, Sudan, Rwanda, Zambia, etc. For more timezones, see Page 2 RECEPTION: 6:00-7:30PM SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 2021 DAY 1 MONDAY, JUNE 7, 2021 DAY 2 TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2021 DAY 3 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 2021 DAY 4 THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2021 DAY 5 FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2021 START TIME EVENT START TIME EVENT START TIME EVENT START TIME EVENT START TIME EVENT WORKSHOP OPENING; Introductions 4:00PM Daily opening 4:00PM Daily opening 3:00PM Plenary: Woinshet Girma (moderator, interpreters, authors), Zoom WOCAL Committee on African Sign 4:00PM TBD Theme: Documentation and language comparisons Theme: Language origins and 3:40PM Break before sessions start protocols & instructions, announcements Languages meeting (all participants invited) language of expression 4:00PM Daily opening Theme: African sign languages in use: Annie Risler, Alain Gebert • The 4:00PM Daily opening Ingeborg Groen • Anger expression in Theme: African sign languages and across borders and in the home Dictionary for Seychellois Sign Language: 4:10 PM Theme: Lexical variation and new methods 4:10PM Ghanaian Sign Language (GSL) deaf students in the classroom Amandine le Maire • Mobilities / A tool forthe preservation, transmission Anne Baker, Andries van Niekerk, Kate Hope E. Morgan, Evans N. Burichani, Yede Adama Sanogo • Sign language 4:10PM Immobilities of deaf people in Kakuma and development of Seychelles' heritage Huddlestone • Studying lexicalvariation Jared O. Osome • Lexical intensifiers in and quality education for Deaf peoples in Refugee Camp 4:10PM 4:30PM 4:10PM in sign languages: The case of South Koumba Richie Tatiana • L’écologie des Kenyan Sign Language: Use, motivation,& relation with the Sustainable Development Kidane Admasu • Language Attitude and 4:30PM African Sign Language langues des signes à Libreville etymology Goal4 4:30PM Language Shift among Youngsters Deaf Susan Njeyiyana, Kate Huddlestone • Question & answer for previous two Question & answer for previous two Margaret Odhiambo • Sign language and Ethiopian immigrant in U.S. 4:50PM 4:50PM 4:20PM 4:30PM Lexical variation and change in a South presentations presentations deaf education Question & answer for previous two 4:50PM African Sign Language school-lect Timothy Mac Hadjah • The history of Mariana Martins, Amaré Soares, Marcos Adelsa Gomes Tavares • Portuguese presentations 5:00PM Ghanaian Sign Language: A linguistic de Barros • The incorporation of 4:30 PM Tanja Diederich • Variation of lexical signs 5:00PM language learning by deaf students Raika Wolff • ME FINISH BADO – perspective emblematic gestures in the emerging sign 4:50PM in sign languages of the Dogon area (Mali): Eyasu Tamene, Alemayehu Teferi • Language Usage and Communication language of Guinea-Bissau 5:00PM A corpus analysis Enrico Dolza, Andre Ebouaney, Felicité 4:40PM “Inclusive Education”ablessing or curse Experiences of Deaf Students of Fr. Question & answer for previous three Majeu Defo • Contrastive analysis Nargess Asghari • Iconicity in the forthe Education of the Deaf in Ethiopia? Ouderaa School in Nyang’oma, Kenya 5:10PM Semantic Domain of AnimalTerms in presentations; discussion about variation 5:20PM between the French Sign Language and 5:20PM Question & answer for allauthors + Marco Stanley Nyarko • Deaf parenting Berbey Sign Language (Mali) Manolis Fragkiadakis • Quantifying the Sign Language used in two 5:00PM Discussion on status of education for deaf in rural and urban communities in Ghana: A 5:20PM variation in movement and location: Francophone deaf schools in Cameroon Question & answer for previous two students across Africa case study of Adamorobe community and 5:30PM 5:40PM Comparing the lexicons of American and Question & answer for previous two presentations Theme: Sentential structure and processing Koforidua 5:40PM Ghanaian Sign Language presentations Marta Morgado • "Have you ever seen Angoua Tano • L’accord spatial des verbes Question & answer for previous two 5:40PM Abdelhadi Soudi, Kristof Van N'Jok Aloysius and Atangana Tsala a snake?": Personal experience narratives ou agreement verbs dans la Langue des presentations 5:50PM Laerhoven, Elmostafa Bou-Souf • Sign Marcellin • Working towards developing in village sign languages 5:20PM 5:50PM Signes de Bouakako: prospection et Bruno Dibi • Manifestation du 5:50PM language documentation in emergency and promoting a national sign language Stephen Parkhurst • The Use of esquisse de description 6:10 PM plurilinguisme et de la bimodalité chez les in a challenging environment Relational Space in Deaf Song 5:50PM situations and crisis zones : A Amy Palmer, Anne Baker, Kate Enfants Entendant de Parents Sourds: Cas crowdsourcing solution Meria Yassin, Nelson Sambanya, Levi Question & answer for previous two Huddlestone • Developing a sentence des familles à Bouakako et Abidjan 6:00 PM 6:30PM Question & answer for previous two Bingu • Status of sign language in Malawi presentations 5:40PM repetition test for the evaluation of deaf Yves Beosso • Socio-linguistic variations in 6:10PM 6:00PM presentations Fabian Bross • A brief sketch of the Free socializing in Zoom breakout rooms children’s use of South African Sign Chadian Sign Language 6:40PM Free socializing in Zoom breakout rooms 6:10PM sentence structure of Burkina Faso Sign until7pm (no interpreters) Language 6:20PM Chidi Olujie, Doreen Sandra Kauma • until7pm (no interpreters) Language (BFSL) 7:00PM End 6:00PM Question & answer for two presentations 7:00PM End Question & answer for three short 6:10PM Sign Language and Deaf Education in 6:20PM 6:10PM presentations Africa: A case Study of Nigeria and Uganda Free socializing in Zoom breakout rooms Free socializing in Zoom breakout rooms 6:20PM until7pm (no interpreters) Question & answer for three short 6:30PM 6:20PM until7pm (no interpreters) presentations 7:00PM End 7:00PM End Free socializing in Zoom breakout rooms 6:30PM until7pm (no interpreters) End 7:00PM SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 2021 • 3:00-5:00pm HANDS! Festival 2021 on African Sign Languages and Deaf Studies https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2021/06/hands-festival-2021-on-african-sign-languages-and-deaf-studies Current as of April 19, 2021 Page 1 WOCAL10 • SCHEDULE FOR DIFFERENT TIMEZONES CONFERENCE LOCAL TIME GMT -7 GMT -5 GMT -4 GMT -3 GMT 0 GMT +1 GMT +2 GMT +3 GMT +5.5 GMT +8 GMT +9 GMT +10 New York, Los Angeles, Senegal, United Kingdom, Leiden, Netherlands Ethiopia, Kenya, General Florida, San Francisco, Texas, Chicago, Brazil, Guinea, Côte Portugal, Morocco, Europe (most), South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Sydney, Conference Indiana, India China Japan Seattle Mexico Argentina D'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Malawi, Sudan, Somalia, Turkey, Melbourne Toronto, Schedule Vancouver Gabon Chad Rwanda, Zambia Israel, Saudi Arabia Quebec, Cuba Plenary 6:00 AM 8:00 AM 9:00 AM 10:00 AM 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 10:00 PM 11:00 PM Plenary, break 6:30 AM 8:30 AM 9:30 AM 10:30 AM 1:30 PM 2:30 PM 3:30 PM 4:30 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:30 PM 11:30 PM general session 1 7:00 AM 9:00 AM 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 7:30 PM 10:00 PM 11:00 PM 12:00 AM general session 2 7:30 AM 9:30 AM 10:30 AM 11:30 AM 2:30 PM 3:30 PM 4:30 PM 5:30 PM 8:00 PM 10:30 PM 11:30 PM 12:30 AM general session 3 8:00 AM 10:00 AM 11:00 AM 12:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 6:00 PM 8:30 PM 11:00 PM 12:00 AM 1:00 AM general session 4 8:30 AM 10:30 AM 11:30 AM 12:30 PM 3:30 PM 4:30 PM 5:30 PM 6:30 PM 9:00 PM 11:30 PM 12:30 AM 1:30 AM meal break 9:00 AM 11:00 AM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 9:30 PM 12:00 AM 1:00 AM 2:00 AM meal break 9:30 AM 11:30 AM 12:30 PM 1:30 PM 4:30 PM 5:30 PM 6:30 PM 7:30 PM 10:00 PM 12:30 AM 1:30 AM 2:30 AM general session 5 10:00 AM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 5:00 PM 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 8:00 PM 10:30 PM 1:00 AM 2:00 AM 3:00 AM general session 6 10:30 AM 12:30 PM 1:30 PM 2:30 PM 5:30 PM 6:30 PM 7:30 PM 8:30 PM 11:00 PM 1:30 AM 2:30 AM 3:30 AM general session 7 11:00 AM 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 8:00 PM 9:00 PM 11:30 PM 2:00 AM 3:00 AM 4:00 AM general session 8 11:30 AM 1:30 PM 2:30 PM 3:30 PM 6:30 PM 7:30 PM 8:30 PM 9:30 PM 12:00 AM 2:30 AM 3:30 AM 4:30 AM = African Sign Languages Workshop (4:00-7:00pm in Leiden) NB: June is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) during Daylight Savings Time (DST) Page 2.
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