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 “People with disabilities in the media” Featuring Marlee Matlin,  the first deaf actress to win an Oscar | The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare

 “People with disabilities in the media” Featuring Marlee Matlin,  the first deaf actress to win an Oscar

Date: 
Tue, 20/06/201709:15-09:40

9:15-9:45              Arrival and refreshments

9:45-9:55              Welcome

                                Prof. Mimi Ajzenstadt, Dean, The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University

                                Jay Ruderman, President, The Ruderman Family Foundation

                                Avital Sandler-Loeff, Director, JDC Israel Unlimited

9:55 – 10:05        Film clips of Marlee Matlin performances

10:05 – 10:20      Honorary guest, Marlee Matlin

10:20 – 10:30      Q&A

10:30 – 10:40      Ruti Kantor is a designer. Senior lecturer in the visual communication department at 'Bezalel',initiator and facilitator of courses that integrate media design into active social action.
How to design a symbol for "invisible disability" and other uses of visual communication for the purpose of changing consciousness.

10:40 – 10:55      Slava Greenberg, Ph.D. student, and lecturer at the Steve Tisch Film and Television School, The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University
Nothing About Us Without Us? People with Disability and the Film Industry

10:55 – 11:00      Q&A

Moderator: Dr. Shirli Werner, Head of the Center for Disability Studies

The event is accessible and will be accompanied with transcription and sign language translation

 

Tuesday, June 20, 2017
9:15-11:00AM
Maiersdorf House, 2nd floor
 The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem