On behalf of the conference planning committee, we would like to welcome you to the blog. This year represents the sesquicentennial anniversary of the founding of Kendall School. Over the course of 150 years, the campus has transformed itself from the original Rose Cottage teaching a group of deaf orphans to a thriving campus. To help celebrate the 150th anniversary of this remarkable and storied campus, The Gallaudet University Press Institute is sponsoring a 3-day international conference called “150 Years on Kendall Green: Celebrating Deaf history and Gallaudet.”

This conference represents an attempt to understand the past: the people who studied and labored here, trends, themes, and groups to help shed light on the causes and changes of Gallaudet University and Deaf history. The field of Deaf history has only emerged over the past two decades and this conference will help propel Deaf history to the next generation and beyond. This scholarly conference features many fine contributors and scholars in the field of Deaf history. Many topics will be explored, studied, and debated. To this end, David Evans will write blog posts from the Gallaudet University Kellogg Conference Center and we hope that this will bring the conference and Deaf history closer to you. Once again, on behalf of the conference planning committee, we hope you find this blog a forum for scholarly debate.

Brian H. Greenwald
Conference Chair
150 Years on Kendall Green: Celebrating Deaf history and Gallaudet

Committee members:

David Armstrong
Senda Benaissa
William Ennis III
Gene Mirus
Joseph Murray
Nicole Sutliffe
John Vickrey VanCleve