The programme of the Interdisciplinary Conference "Researching the Deaf Сommunity" - 2024

Artem Bondarevsky — general Director, GES-2 House of Culture (Moscow, Russia)
Vlad Kolesnikov — curator of programmes for the d/Deaf community at GES-2 House of Culture and of the interdisciplinary project Researching the Deaf Community (Moscow, Russia)

Practising designers’ perspectives on inclusive design methodologies in the interior and architectural design process for the Deaf
Rachmita Maun Harahap, PhD — lecturer of University of Mercu Buana, Faculty of Design and Creative Art (Jakarta, Indonesia)

Updating the content of professional training of sign language teachers based on the latest research
Tatyana Solovieva, PhD — corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Education, director of the Institute for Correctional Pedagogy (Moscow, Russia)

Being a Deaf woman in Bedouin society
Nuzha Allassad Alhuzail, PhD — senior lecturer at School of Social Work, Sapir Academic College (Sderot, Israel)

The mutually facilitative relationship between sign language and the domains of acquisition of spoken language, reading and writing, word order, and spoken language grammar
Philip Thierfelder — assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
Emily Koenders, PhD — postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)

The influence of Amharic over Ethiopian Sign Language
Eyasu Hailu Tamene, PhD — assistant Professor at Addis Ababa University (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

Moderator: Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova, PhD — professor at the Department of Sociology, head of the International Laboratory Social Integration Research at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)

Angelina Vasilenkova, Mariia Vedeneeva, Pyotr Malyshev, Bronislav Skachkov — participants of the group Researching the Deaf Community (Moscow, Russia)
Moderator: Polina Zotova — curator of children’s and family programmes at GES-2 House of Culture (Moscow, Russia)

Nikita Bolshakov, PhD — аlmanac editor and compiler, associate professor, deputy head of the Department of Sociology, head scientific associate of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research at the Higher School of Economics, curator of accessibility and inclusive programmes at the Cryptography Museum (Moscow, Russia)
Vlad Kolesnikov — almanac editor and compiler, curator of programmes for the d/Deaf community at GES-2 House of Culture and of the interdisciplinary project Researching the Deaf Community" (Moscow, Russia)
Varvara Merenkova — almanac project manager and programme coordinator for the d/Deaf community at GES-2 House of Culture (Moscow, Russia)

Moderator: Tamara Shatula — almanac editor and proofreader, PhD in philosophy, V–A–С Press editor (Moscow, Russia)

Varvara Dzyuba, Ilya Zhadan, Anna Ivanova, Varvara Merenkova, Gleb Polev, Nadezhda Shchagina — participants of the group Researching the Deaf Community (Moscow, Russia)
Moderator: Yuliya Shamsutdinova, PhD — senior lecturer at the Department of New Media and Communication Theory, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)

Sign language and modern approaches to linguistic studies of the d/Deaf. Part one

Playhouse in the GES-2 House of Culture (Moscow, 15 Bolotnaya Embankment)

Researching Chinese Sign Language
Lyudmila Bankova, PhD — associate professor at the Chinese language department, Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow City University (Moscow, Russia)

Numeral systems in sign languages across the world
Keiko Sagara, PhD — project assistant professor, National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka, Japan)

Negation in Fijian Sign Language
Krishneer Sen, MA — senior Advisor on Sign Language, Interpretation and Deaf Leadership, Tetra Tech (Suva, Fiji)

Sign languages as a factor for developing dialogue-based thinking in society: from linguistic marginalisation to a positive linguistic model
Svetlana Mikhailova, PhD — assistant lecturer at the department of Romance languages and Linguistic Didactics, Moscow City University (Moscow, Russia)

Sign language research activities in Hong Kong: development of corpuses, language assessment tools and online resources
Felix Sze, PhD — associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages (Hong Kong, China)

Moderator: Ksenia Golubina, PhD — dean of the Faculty of English, Moscow State Linguistic University (Moscow, Russia)

Modern media in the land of the d/Deaf: film, music, visual art

3 floor Classrooms in the GES-2 House of Culture (Moscow, 15 Bolotnaya Embankment)

Visual representation of sign language in graphic design
Sofia Alexandrova — assistant at the centre for inclusive education, Moscow State Linguistic University, project manager at the training centre of the All-Russian Society of the Deaf (Moscow, Russia)

The portrayal of the deaf in the films Land of the Deaf and The Sound of Metal
Arseny Kalinovsky — fourth year student at the Directing Faculty, Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (Moscow, Russia)

Hearing with the eyes: the role of music in the d/Deaf community
Anna Samosudova — fourth year student at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)

The deaf actor in “hearing” cinema
Polina Sineva — screenplay writer, creative producer, teacher and psychologist of the deaf. Researcher of the representation of the deaf in mass culture, Lecturer at the Summer School of Inclusive Practice organised by the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, and other projects.

Moderator: Nadia Turina, PhD — associate professor at the Institute of Special Education and Psychology, Moscow City University (Moscow, Russia)

Sign language and modern approaches to linguistic studies of the d/Deaf. Part two

Playhouse in the GES-2 House of Culture (Moscow, 15 Bolotnaya Embankment)

Studying the linguistic experience of native signers
Valeria Vinogradova, PhD — scientific associate at the Centre for Language and Brain, Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)
Marina Goletskaya — third year student at the Faculty of Humanities, Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)

Language planning and Ethiopian Sign Language in educational settings
Abay Tesfaye Kassie — lecturer at Addis Ababa University, Department of Linguistics, Ethiopian Sign Language and Deaf Culture Program Unit (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

Calibration: how people adapt their signing to others
Annelies Kusters — professor of Sociolinguistics, Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK)

Linguistic borrowing in Libras: modalities and categorization
Rodrigo Nogueira Machado, PhD — lecturer at Federal University of Ceará (Fortaleza, Brazil)

Language specifics in the use of Ghanaian Sign Language lexicons
Marco Stanley Nyarko — lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Kumasi, Ghana)

Moderator: Ksenia Golubina, PhD — dean of the Faculty of English, Moscow State Linguistic University (Moscow, Russia)

d/Deaf and hard of hearing people as creators and consumers of modern media content

3 floor Classrooms in the GES-2 House of Culture (Moscow, 15 Bolotnaya Embankment)

The d/Deaf in Russian media: current problems and prospects
Ksenia Istomina, PhD — visiting lecturer at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)

The self-presentation of deaf and hard of hearing bloggers on Instagram* (a social network owned by Meta, a company designated as an extremist organisation in Russia. Its activity is prohibited)
Ekaterina Semenova — second year student at the St. Petersburg School of Social Sciences and the Sociology and Social Informatics programme, Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg, Russia)

The phenomenology of d/Deaf and hard of hearing people’s confidence in modern media: determining boundaries and identifying characteristics
Yuliya Shamsutdinova, PhD — senior lecturer at the Department of New Media and Communication Theory, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)

Moderator: Yuliya Shamsutdinova, PhD — senior lecturer at the Department of New Media and Communication Theory, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)

Timofei Belov, Anna Grigoryan, Arina Stanevskaya, Nika Chupiatova, Natalia Iaroslavkina — members of the group Researching the Deaf Community (Moscow, Russia)
Moderator: Nikita Bolshakov, PhD — associate professor, deputy head of the Department of Sociology, head scientific associate of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research at the Higher School of Economics, curator of accessibility and inclusive programmes at the Cryptography Museum (Moscow, Russia)

The d/Deaf Community Today: New Challenges and Opportunities

Playhouse in the GES-2 House of Culture (Moscow, 15 Bolotnaya Embankment)

The development of sign language in Azerbaijan
Kamran Abasov — chairman of the Deaf Support public association (Baku, Azerbaijan)

Features of perception and thinking of the vision low deaf and the deafblind . Problems of direct and back translation of Russian Sign Language
Nadezhda Golovan — president of the Elvira society for social support of the deafblind (Moscow, Russia)

Looking to the Future. The Deaf community in 30 years’ time
Maxim Larionov — head of proceedings at the All-Russian Society of the Deaf (Moscow, Russia)

A comparative study of the experience of integrating deaf and hard of hearing in an inclusive environment in Russia and the United Kingdom
Rowena-Margaret Melmore, MA — project development manager at the charitable foundations Illustrated Books for Young Blind Children and House of the Deaf and Blind (Moscow, Russia)

Disability statistics and the employment situation in Ethiopia
Alemayehu Teferi Gudina, MA — senior project advisor, Deaf Development and Information Association (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

Moderator: Viktor Palenny — PhD in pedagogical science, head of the Department for Publishing and Museum Activity at the All-Russian Society of the Deaf (Moscow, Russia)

Challenges and prospects in education for members of the d/Deaf community

3 floor Classrooms in the GES-2 House of Culture (Moscow, 15 Bolotnaya Embankment)

Problems and prospects in education for deaf and hard of hearing children in Russia
Elina Valeeva — biology teacher at school no. 10 (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Digital resources as a means of support for deaf and hard of hearing students in higher education
Vyacheslav Lipatov, PhD — associate professor at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia)

Work practice and developing social experience of hearing children of d/Deaf parents in the school environment: based on an example of participation in volunteer work
Erzhena Namzhilova — educator and psychologist at secondary school no. 7 in Mirny, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (Mirny, Russia)

Sign language in the secondary professional education system: approaches and problems
Natalia Otdelnova — scientific associate of the Institute of Correctional Pedagogy, Russian Education Association, special education teacher at Small Business College no. 4 (Moscow, Russia)

Concept of social integration and inclusion of the deaf and hard of hearing: comparative analysis and practical applicability
Polina Sdobnikova — fourth year student at the sociology faculty of Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)

Moderator: Tatyana Solovieva, PhD — corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Education, director of the Institute for Correctional Pedagogy (Moscow, Russia)

Working with sign language: education, study, creating dictionaries

Playhouse in the GES-2 House of Culture (Moscow, 15 Bolotnaya Embankment)

A dictionary of sign language: from and to
Vladimir Bazoev, PhD — lecturer at the Moscow State Linguistic University (Moscow, Russia)

Sign language recognition
Mammadzada Firuza Zeynaddin — academic advisor, ADA University (Baku, Azerbaijan)

Developing thematic dictionary of Belarusian Sign Language in professional training of educators of the d/Deaf
Irina Rusakovich, PhD — associate professor at the faculty of correctional development technologies, Institute of Inclusive Education, Belarussian State Pedagogical University (Minsk, Belarus)

Stereotypical ideas about sign languageе
Miroslav Yasin, PhD — associate professor at the department of the humanities and mass communications at Moscow International University (Moscow, Russia)
Darya Semenova — director of the Centre for sign language education and research (Moscow, Russia)

Moderator: Olga Varinova — head of the Russian Sign Language laboratory at the Institute of Social Technology, Novosibirsk State Technical University (Novosibirsk, Russia)

Sociocultural projects for the d/Deaf and hard of hearing

3 floor Classrooms in the GES-2 House of Culture (Moscow, 15 Bolotnaya Embankment)

The Verbal History project as a demo-version for researching the heritage of the d/Deaf community
Lyudmila Luchkova — head of the Department for Educational and Inclusive Projects at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia)
Alexei Prokofiev — MA student at the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) (Moscow, Russia)

The Culture of Russian Sign Language project: communication strategies of media support
Nadezhda Lyubchenko — PR specialist at the Lyudi IN centre of sociocultural programmes (Moscow, Russia)

The d/Deaf in the theatre. The practice of translating plays into Russian Sign Languag
Svetlana Murza — head of the international project Theatre without Boundaries, lecturer at the Faculty of Theatre Studies, Russian State Institute of Scenic Arts (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Rhythmical music lessons as a means for socialising deaf and hard of hearing children
Evgenia Chutchikova — president of the Voskhozhdenie (Ascent) Charitable Foundation For Targeted Assistance (Moscow, Russia)

Sociocultural projects as a source of identity for the Deaf community and representation in Russian society
Ivan Sharavin — director of the Siberia Development office for project initiatives and analysis" (Novosibirsk, Russia)

Moderator: Vlad Kolesnikov — curator of programmes for the d/Deaf community at GES-2 House of Culture and of the interdisciplinary project Researching the Deaf Community (Moscow, Russia)

Tatyana Losikhina, Makar Makarkin, Alexander Olifir, Patrisia Poleshchuk, Danila Chetverikov — members of the group Researching the Deaf Community (Moscow, Russia)
Moderator: Liudmila Zhadan — educator, philologist, teacher of Russian and Russians sign language, senior lecturer at theInstitute of Special Education and Psychology, Moscow City University (Moscow, Russia)

A d/Deaf person’s career. Roundtable

3 floor Classrooms in the GES-2 House of Culture (Moscow, 15 Bolotnaya Embankment)

Alexei Grachev — career consultant at the My Career specialised employment centre (Moscow, Russia)
Gulnara Gorishnyaya — project manager for inclusive employment at Yandex (Moscow, Russia)
Ekaterina Nedelcho — staff recruitment and selection manager at ASHAN (Moscow, Russia)
Viktoria Sapranova — staff manager at GES-2 House of Culture (Moscow, Russia)

Moderator: Dmitry Alexeevskikh, PhD —head of the Department for Education and Employment at the All-Russian Society of the Deaf (Moscow, Russia)

Cochlear implantation: between medicalisation and Deaf culture. Discussion

Central Platform in the GES-2 House of Culture (Moscow, 15 Bolotnaya Embankment)

Olga Zvonareva — clinical psychologist, CI user (Moscow, Russia)
Alla Mallabiu — mother of a deaf teenager with CI, cofounder of the Ya Tebya Slyshu [I Can Hear You] Foundation, member of the World Hearing Forum (Moscow, Russia)
Evangelina Livanova — third year student at the Faculty of Accounting, Analysis and Audit of Russian State Social University, CI user (Moscow, Russia)
Darya Shumilova — restoration architect, CI user (Moscow, Russia)

Moderator: Nikita Bolshakov, PhD — associate professor, deputy head of the Department of Sociology, head scientific associate of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research at the Higher School of Economics, curator of accessibility and inclusive programmes at the Cryptography Museum (Moscow, Russia)

Vlad Kolesnikov — curator of programmes for the d/Deaf community at GES-2 House of Culture and of the interdisciplinary project Researching the Deaf Community (Moscow, Russia)
Nikita Bolshakov, PhD — associate professor, deputy head of the Department of Sociology, head scientific associate of the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research at the Higher School of Economics, curator of accessibility and inclusivity programmes at the Cryptography Museum (Moscow, Russia)

MUMU is a documentary performance in which members of the d/Deaf community share their own stories and those of other participants in the theatre laboratory that has taken place at GES-2 since 2023. Presented as a work-in-progress, the play offers an insight into the laboratory’s ongoing artistic exploration. This year, participants have focused on themes of laughter and everyday life — they explore communication between deaf and hearing individuals, awkwardness and mistakes, mistrust and complete understanding. Through humour, the performance seeks to smooth over difficulties and shed light on ways of fostering stronger connections among diverse communities.

Performers: 
Sultan Abdurashitov, Angelina Gazina, Nadezhda Golovan, Valentina Ivanova, Viktoriia Kutepova, Viktoriia Kuzmina, Petia Malyshev, Natasha Nesterova, Zoia Pavlovskaia, Arina Stanevskaia, Alfiia Vysotskaia