The Auslan Translations Sponsor for #ANC2021 is Sweeney Interpreting - thank you!

Tonight's #ANC2021 Welcome Reception is sponsored by Access Plus WA Deaf! See you all in a couple of seconds!

David McQuiggin welcomes delegates to #ANC2021. Very exciting that it's the first time ASLIA National Conference has gone virtual.

Acknowledgement & Welcome to Country by Aunty Donna. Thank you to JB for sponsoring. Deaf Indigenous Dance Group from Far North Queensland also doing a Welcome to Country performance. #ANC2021

ASLIA AGM for 2020/21 begins in a few seconds! #ANC2021

Really looking forward to #anc2021 this year. Grateful for the volunteers who make up our national association and allow these events to happen.

Wow, what a year ASLIA has had! A huge thank you to the current Board and outgoing Board members for their hard work to keep ASLIA going! #ANC2021

Next up for #ANC2021 - JW Flynn Oration. Dr Meredith Bartlett will be giving this year's Oration.

Looking forward to Dr Meredith Bartlett’s JW Flynn Oration at this years #anc2021 I am very lucky to have had her as a teacher at the beginning of my career.

Dr Bartlett was born in Adelaide, moved to Melbourne at the age of 16 with family. Studied to become a primary school teacher then eventually teacher of the deaf. #ANC2021

Dr Bartlett shares how she became involved in the Deaf community through friends, and how she learnt Auslan. #ANC2021

Victoria was the only state in all of Australia to have a sign for LIBRARY not related to books - Bartlett #ANC2021

Bartlett shares that the interpreting profession was very different back then. 3 hours interpreting at a time! #ANC2021

What an incredible journey Dr Meredith Bartlett has had as an interpreter and a pioneer to the Auslan interpreting profession! #ANC2021

Day One of #ANC2021 has begun! Keynote today is Professor Alys Young from the UK. Sponsored by Deaf: CanDo

Professor Young talks about 'Gaze' - specifically the hearing gaze in the deaf community and culture. Particular gazes have power and becomes the context in which another person is expected to understand & know themselves. #ANC2021

'Translating the deaf self' - started with gaze: hearing attention to interpreters; academic attention to interpreting research; discomfort amongst interpreters and signing hearing colleagues - Prof. Young #ANC2021

Prof. Young mentions intra/inter/non-lingual processes & effects for deaf signers of regular, multiple & lifelong experiences of being encountered by others, and also of being inter-subjectively known in translated form - eg through SL interpreters #ANC2021 #1ntsl

Prof. Young talks about translating the Deaf Self and its agency through two points: 'grassroots' Deaf community & 'Deaf Professional class' #ANC2021 #1ntsl