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“Hearing Happiness”
History of Science Colloquium, University of Oklahoma
Friday October 22, 3:30pm EST (Virtual)

“High-Tech ‘Fixes’ and Disability,” with Alice Wong, Elizabeth Guffey, and Yomi Wrong, VT Choices & Challenges
November 11, 10:00-11:30am EST

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Lennard Davis reviews Hearing Happiness for Times Higher Education.

Watch my conversation with Liz Jackson on disability, design, and dongles!

I’m interviewed for Literary Hub on the new digital literary world of book events.

Listen to my CBC q segment on a closed captioning pioneer (transcripts provided).

I’m interviewed for a feature article on Future Human on gene therapy/editing.

Praise for HEARING HAPPINESS

“The most striking thing about Jaipreet Virdi’s book is how it confirms that hearing loss isn’t a minor annoyance that afflicts a few people. Rather, with tremendous archival work, she shows us that, over the past three centuries, Anglo-American culture has been virtually obsessed with trying to cure deafness. The deaf person becomes the icon of the diminished citizen. The sheer number of nostrums, remedies, devices and surgeries devoted to the remedying of hearing loss is staggering. Yet the economic investment and advertising outreach are also indications of a more general insistence that deafness is a misery, that cure is a necessity and that hearing provides “happiness”.” Lennard Davis, Times Higher Education

 

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