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Posted on January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 by Jai Virdi

An update on Jai's recent talks, book reviews, and news.

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Book Update

Posted on March 20, 2020July 27, 2020 by Jai Virdi

A stuffed doll dressed as a ballerina and wearing a hearing aid is placed next to a yellow book with the title Hearing Happiness. On the doll's lap is a golden 1950s hearing aid.

An update on the publication date for Hearing Happiness.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Keynote: Educational Audiology Association Conference
July 12, 2021

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Read my essay on closed captioning and deaf protests.

Watch my conversation with Katie Booth, author of The Invention of Miracles.

Read my essay on hearing aids and design in Psyche.

Read my co-authored essay with Liz Jackson for Slate on accessible design.

New Publication: “Material Traces of Disability: Andrew Gawley’s Steel Hands”

Praise for HEARING HAPPINESS

“Through its rich account of man-machine interaction leading to the generation of a complex order of identities, Hearing Happiness becomes a fruitful addition to the research narratives on entangled subjectivities and medical prosthetics.”- Manali Karmakar, Medical Humanities

“Methodologically, Hearing Happiness is path-breaking.” -Susan Burch, Social History of Medicine

“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.” Lennard Davis, Times Higher Education

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