SIGN10 conference
9-12 December 2024
SIGN10 Conference at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad & Tobago
3-7 December 2024
Training for deaf people from across the Caribbean
SIGN10 announcement
Join SIGN10 in Trinidad!
The 10th edition of the SIGN conference series will be held at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad & Tobago, from Monday 9 until Thursday 12 December 2024, with pre-conference sessions on the morning of Monday 9 December when people can brush up on their International Sign and learn some local signs. You can find more information about timings here.
The call for abstracts for SIGN10 has now ended. Abstracts are now undergoing a review process, and we plan to inform people about which abstracts have been accepted by mid-April. Registration for SIGN10 will open on 1 May 2024.
From Tuesday 3 to Saturday 7 December 2024 there will be training for deaf people in the Caribbean on topics such as research skills, sign language teaching, curriculum design and policy/advocacy. More information about this, including how to apply, is coming soon here.
We have translated some of the information on this website into French (français) and Spanish (español).
Keynote Presenters
Claudia L. Gordon is the first deaf Black female attorney in the US, and works as Senior Accessibility Strategy Partner at T-Mobile's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team. She was a member of Barack Obama's administration, serving as associate director at the White House Office of Public Engagement.
Marianne is Associate Professor and researcher in linguistics at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) Brazil. For 20 years, she has worked in deaf education, trained Brazilian SL (Libras) teachers and interpreters, and developed the Libras curriculum from early childhood to Higher Education.
Lina is Assistant Professor in the linguistics department at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research encompasses describing sign languages in the US and Mexico, language socialisation, ideologies of signing communities, and social justice and inclusion in sign language linguistics.
Scientific Committee
Robert Adam, Kristian Ali, Ben Braithwaite, Ian Dhanoolal, Hasan Dikyuva, Julie Hochgesang, Gabrielle Hodge, Okan Kubus, Annelies Kusters, Luigi Lerose, Hannah Lutzenberger, Marta Morgado, Susan Njeyiyana, Marco Stanley Nyarko, Rehana Omardeen, Liona Paulus, Nick Palfreyman, Sibaji Panda, Yarett Pineiro Rodriguez, Christian Rathmann, Keiko Sagara, Daz Saunders, Kristin Snoddon, Laura Lesmana Wijaya, Andre Witter, Junhui Yang, Ulrike Zeshan
Organising Committee
Ben Braithwaite
Nick Palfreyman
Ian Dhanoolal
Yarett Pineiro Rodriguez
Andre Witter
Lucy Wox
Nicha Selvon-Ramkisson
Paola Palma
Rehana Omardeen
Hannah Lutzenberger
Maleni Chaitoo