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The Annual ASL/Deaf Culture Lecture Series
at the University of Virginia

presents

JOHN LEE CLARK

"Writing from the Margins: Deaf-Blind People in North America, 1850 to the
Present"

Tuesday, February 21, 2012
7:00 p.m.
Nau Hall auditorium (room 101)
University of Virginia

In this groundbreaking lecture, John Lee Clark will call attention to an
overlooked group in North America: deaf-blind people.  Clark will show how a
few deaf-blind people in the mid-nineteenth century built a network of
correspondents, forming a "virtual" place of their own that remains today
the community's most vital space. Meanwhile, actual deaf-blind experience --
how and where deaf-blind people live, whom they marry, what they do for a
living -- has gone through big shifts in some locales while in others little
has changed. Clark will consider why this group has been largely overlooked
and what this neglect reveals about deaf-blind people's place in society.

A second-generation deaf-blind person, Clark is a writer and editor whose
work has appeared in diverse publications, including The Chronicle of Higher
Education, McSweeney's, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Poetry, and The Seneca
Review.  He has published a collection of poems called _Suddenly Slow_
(Handtype Press, 2008) and edited the anthology _Deaf American Poetry_
(Gallaudet University Press, 2009).  Among other projects, he is currently
working on an international collection of deaf-blind writing from 1780 to
the present. This lecture is believed to be the first presentation ever by a
deaf-blind person at U.Va., and will be one of the first times the story of
the deaf-blind community is told.

*Free and open to the public.
*Refreshments to follow.
*The lecture will be in ASL with English voice interpretation. Requests for
further accommodations should be sent to Kate O'Varanese at
<ko5h@virginia.edu>.  Deadline for requests: Feb. 7, 2012.

Please join us!

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DIRECTIONS TO LECTURE

>From the North:
Take US Route 29 South until you drive under the US 250 Bypass. Remain on 29
South Business (Emmet Street) and continue straight past the intersection
with US Route 250 Business (University Avenue/Ivy Road). Continue straight,
go under two bridges, and follow Emmet St. as it curves sharply to the left
and becomes Jefferson Park Avenue.  Continue straight at the first
stoplight.  At the second stoplight (Brandon Avenue), turn right.  See below
for directions on how to get to the parking lot and Nau Hall.

>From the East via I-64
Take I-64 West to Exit 118B, Proceed on US 29 North and then take the US 29
North Business exit.  Turn right onto Fontaine Avenue after coming off the
ramp. Follow the signs to the Medical Center/University Hospital.  Continue
on US 29 North Business to the traffic light. After the traffic light, you
will be on Jefferson Park Avenue. Continue straight.  At the next light turn
right.  The next intersection will be with Brandon Ave.; turn right onto
Brandon. See below for directions on how to get to the parking lot and Nau
Hall.

>From the South:
Take US Route 29 North to the US 29 North Business exit.  Turn right when
coming off the exit ramp onto Fontaine Avenue.  Follow the signs to the
Medical Center/University Hospital.  Continue on US 29 North Business to the
traffic light. After the traffic light, you will be on Jefferson Park
Avenue. Continue straight.  At the next light turn right.  The next
intersection will be with Brandon Ave.; turn right onto Brandon. See below
for directions on how to get to the parking lot and Nau Hall.

>From the West via I-64:
Take I-64 East to Exit 118.  Proceed on US 29 North and then take the US 29
North Business exit.  Turn right onto Fontaine Avenue after coming off the
ramp. Follow the signs to the Medical Center/University Hospital.  Continue
on US 29 North Business to the traffic light.  After the traffic light, you
will be on Jefferson Park Avenue.  Continue straight.  At the next light
turn right.  The next intersection will be with Brandon Ave.; turn right
onto Brandon. See below for directions on how to get to the parking lot and
Nau Hall.

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To K2 parking lot and Nau Hall

Once you are on Brandon Avenue, continue for one long block to the parking
lot on your right.  Park there in one of the reserved spaces marked
"American Sign Language."  The parking lot is behind Nau Hall.  It is a new
building; the auditorium is on the first floor, in room 101.

On this map

http://www.virginia.edu/webmap/BHealthSciences.html

Nau Hall is #43.

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Adrean Clark