Lecture on deaf education at University College London
Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Reception at 6.45 pm until 7.45 pm (Cloisters)
lecture at 8.00 pm until 9.00 pm (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)
at University College London, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT

Registration prior to the event is essential.


Organised by the Embassy of Japan and the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre UCL, this event coincides with the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Choshu Five in the UK. These five young men were members of the Choshu clan in western Japan who secretly left the country during the turbulent times toward the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The purpose of their trip was to study at UCL and to attempt to gain better knowledge of western nations. One of the five, Yozo Yamao, who later came to be known as 'The Father of Japanese Engineering', is also credited with creating Japan's first schools for blind children and for deaf children. His interest in this field stems from his time in the UK, in particular his time in Glasgow where he met deaf people and saw workers signing at Napier's Shipyard.

This programme forms part of the XIth Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR) at the UCL.

Lecture programme adviser: Dr Norie Oka, Meisei Gakuen School for the Deaf.
Dr SUEMORI Akio is Chief Researcher (Molecular Evolution Engineering) at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. He is also an editor for the Kanto Group for Deaf History and President of the Japanese Association for Sign Language Studies. Dr Suemori's lecture will be on deaf education in Japan, which was first introduced by Yozo Yamao of the Choshu Five.
Mr Peter Jackson is a former college lecturer and curriculum manager and following his retirement in 2009, he now acts as part-time chief of the British Deaf History Society and the Institute of British Sign Language. He is an author of numerous books on British deaf history and also deaf crime. Mr Jackson's lecture will focus on deaf education in the UK at the time of the Choshu Five.

The lecture will be available in English, Japanese Sign Language, British Sign Language and International Sign.


Details:

Wednesday, 10 July 2013
reception at 6.45 pm until 7.45 pm (Cloisters)
lecture at 8.00 pm until 9.00 pm (Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre)

University College London, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT

Please reply to lecture@ld.mofa.go.jp

NOTE: Registration prior to the event is essential. You will be asked to present a print-out of your confirmation email together with photographic identification upon entry.

 

 

 

 

 
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