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WATCH: In Conversation with Liz Jackson

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Jai Virdi

Missed the Politics & Prose book event for Hearing Happiness? Watch the recording!

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WATCH: Science Friday Interview

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Jai Virdi

Missed Jai's Science Friday interview? You can watch the recording!

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Science Friday

Posted on September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 by Jai Virdi

Tune in on Friday September 18, 2-4pm EST to hear me discuss Hearing Happiness with Ira Flatow on Science Friday! Here are the different ways you can listen and note that a transcript will be posted on the website along with the recorded podcast. Also! At 5pm, Science Friday is hosting a Facebook Live watch … Continue reading Science Friday

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EVENT: Author Conversation

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Jai Virdi

Join the virtual celebration for the launch of Hearing Happiness!

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EVENT: ADA 2020 Michigan

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Jai Virdi

EVENT: Join Jai as she discusses how the history of mechanical trumpets, electrical gizmos, and hearing aids have impacted deaf people.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

“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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