Re{verbe}: video documentary and talk with ASL interpretation
March 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
| Location: | Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper Street (entrance and paid parking off Lisgar Street) |
| Cost: | Free and open to all; CDCC is wheelchair accessible; this is a relaxed event |
| Audience: | Anyone |
Explore the sensory experience of communication between deaf and hearing people with sensory anthropologist Dr. Paula Bath.
In 2023, Paula Bath embarked on a research-creation project to explore the sensory experience of communication between deaf and hearing people.
Paula, along with a group of eleven (11) deaf and hearing participants re-told their experiences. Some of them were joyful and others, painful. Some shared an exact moment burned into their memory. Others shared a build-up of moments over a lifetime navigating communication barriers and oppression.
A reverberation is like a repercussion. It’s the continuing effect of an event, sound, or experience. Join us for an illuminating talk and video documentary about how we communicate across difference.
Dr. Paula Bath is a sensory anthropologist in the field of communication. She explores moments when ideas, structures, processes, and cultures are lived, negotiated, and experienced by Deaf and hearing people. Born into the dominant auditory/spoken language and cultural group, Paula later learned two sign languages: American Sign Language (ASL) and the Langue des signes québécoise (LSQ) from Deaf people. Married to a francophone deaf person and having hearing children, she lives and works within the interstitial spaces between deaf and hearing people. Starting out observing communication in-action as a sign language interpreter, Paula then moved into the field of federal communications regulatory policy making, video relay services, and research.
