CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
(DAC Conference schedule from June 4-8, 2025)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2025
REGISTRATION BOOTH
TIME: 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
LOCATION: HILTON HOTEL LOBBY
OPENING CEREMONY
Wine & Cheese
TIME: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
LOCATION: STUDENT CONFERENCE CENTER
MULTIPURPOSE EAST & WEST
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2025
DAC PRESENTATION
TIME: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
LOCATION: HILTON HOTEL 2ND FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM
(Coffee, Tea & Water, and Pastries will be Served)
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
SCREEN # 1 - Opening Remarks from the Chair & Committee
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
SCREEN # 1 - OSKAR WISNIEWSKI - " Lecture Topic: Suicide Among Deaf People in Poland"
SCREEN # 2 - LYDIA FENKHART AND EGE KARAR - " DeafDidaktik - An Innovative Perspective in Deaf Education"
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
SCREEN # 1 - KAROLINA DOS SANTOS - "Sex Education for Deaf Students: Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) as a language of instruction and comfort for dialogue"
SCREEN # 2 - NEIL FOX - " Seeing signs of morphology: How iconic are grammatical form-meaning relations in BSL for non-signers?"
LUNCH- 12:00 - 2:00 PM (On your own)
2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
SCREEN # 1 - ZOH QURESHI - " Teaching Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Sign Languages"
SCREEN # 2 - LISALEE EGBERT - " The “Wicked” World of Audism and a Glance at Deaf Gain: Parallels of Deaf Oppression and the Story of Oz"
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
SCREEN # 1 - S. OJHA, S. GAUTAM, B.BHITRAKOTI - "Deaf Education in Nepal – Status, Challenges, and Way Forward."
SCREEN # 2 - ABRAHAM GLASSER - " Deaf-Safe AI: A Report by the Coalition on Sign Language Equity in Technology (Co-SET)"
Dinner - On your own
Evening Schedule- Free time
FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2025
DAC PRESENTATION
TIME: 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
LOCATION: STUDENT CONFERENCE CENTER - LINK
(Coffee, Tea & Water and Pastries will be Served)
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
SPACE CITY - STEPHANIE PROCTOR - "Deaf Faculty Members Experience in Higher Education Institutions"
BAYOU - MANAE MAKINO - "A Systematic Review of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Researchers’ Difficulties in Higher Education in Japan"
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
SPACE CITY - NAIARA LARRAKOETXEA - "If I can not sign, it is not my revolution: mapping deaf feminism in Spain"
BAYOU - HASAN DIKUYA - "Multimodal Negation in Turkish Sign Language (TİD): Manual and Non-Manual Marker Analysis"
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
SPACE CITY - LYDIA FENKART - “It’s like a wall of letters …” – current research about Reading Literacy of deaf students in Austria"
BAYOU- SEAN HAUSCHILDT and TEAM - "Is ASL Fingerspelling Up to Code?"
LUNCH - 12:30PM - 2:00 PM (BEST STREET TACOS- Pick up tacos near Starbucks on lower floor at Student Conference Center)
2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
SPACE CITY- HEIDI MACGAUGHLIN & BUCHANAN - "Balancing Multiple Roles: The Experiences of Deaf Female Doctoral Students"
BAYOU - WANDA RIDDLE - "American Sign Language Teachers' Perspectives on ASL Instruction in Deaf Education"
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
SPACE CITY - SHAZIA SIDDIQI - "Building Bridges for Global Deaf Empowerment: Inclusive Partnerships Advancing Equity and Community Collaboration"
BAYOU - JANAEE COBBS - "Navigating Intersectionality: Bilingual Education for Deaf Students in Diverse Classrooms"
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
BALLROOM - Five DAC Poster Exhibitions & Presentations
Dinner - On your own
Evening Schedule- Free time
SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2025
DAC PRESENTATION
TIME: 9:00 am - 9:00 pm
LOCATION: STUDENT CONFERENCE CENTER
(Coffee, Tea & Water and Pastries will be Served)
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
MPR - GUEST PRESENTERS- BROADWAY & VOIGHT- CAMPBELL - " Co-Creating Change: Protactile and DeafBlind Leadership in Research"
10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
MPR - WORKSHOP # 1 - POORNA KUSHALNAGAR - "Research Career: What Type of Grant to Submit"
DOWNTOWN- WORKSHOP # 2 - OSKAR WISINEWSKI - "Does International Sign significantly impact other sign languages"
LUNCH - 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (On your own)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
MPR - PANEL - DAC 2002
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
MPR - DAC 2027 - Announcement
3:45 PM
MPR- BID for DAC 2029
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
MPR - CLOSING CEREMONY WITH DINNER- LOTZ OF BBQ
SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2025
Conference ends
Departure Day
Have a Safe Trip Home!
See you in 2027 at Vilnius, Lithuania!
