[DSOSU] Jaipreet Virdi, historian of medicine, technology, and disability, visiting February 17th

[Price, Margaret]

Hello all—

Here’s news of an exciting upcoming talk from Jaipreet Virdi<https://www.history.udel.edu/people/faculty/jvirdi>, a historian of medicine, technology, and disability. Please see below, and/or the attached flyer, for details.


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Dr. Margaret Price (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor, Department of English
Director, Disability Studies Program
The Ohio State University
421 Denney Hall
164 Annie & John Glenn Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
price.1225 at osu.edu<mailto:price.1225 at osu.edu>
http://margaretprice.wordpress.com<http://margaretprice.wordpress.com/>

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From: Otter, Christopher <otter.4 at osu.edu>
Sent: 03 February 2020 10:41
To: Price, Margaret <price.1225 at osu.edu>; Guadron, Melissa <guadron.1 at buckeyemail.osu.edu>
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The History of the Mind Working Group presents

'A Different Communication': Dorothy Brett and her Ear Machines

Jaipreet Virdi



February 17, 2020. 168 Dulles Hall, 3.30-5.00.



Abstract



For nearly sixty years, painter Dorothy Eugiené Brett (1883-1977) made use of multiple hearing prostheses she collectively referred to as her “ear machines:” ear trumpets, auricles, carbon acoustic devices, and vacuum tube hearing aids. She relied on these machines as both technologies of assimilation into the hearing world and as objects of power to negotiate the often-contested boundaries between hearing and deafness. As deafness shaped Brett’s physical and social environments, it also influenced her artistic style: many of her paintings embody her acoustemology, shaped by what she describes as a “different communication,” containing elements of movement and rhythm aided by Brett’s ear machines and her interpretations of sounds around her. This paper positions the ear machines alongside Brett’s artistic representations of sound to examine how her performative enactments of deafness enabled her to affirm her identity as a deaf woman.


Christopher Otter
Associate Professor
Department of History
263 Dulles Hall
Ohio State University
Columbus OH 43210
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