Kolb will be in conversation with Noah Buchholz, Senior Lecturer in the Program in Linguistics and the Director of the ASL Program at Princeton. In this conversation, they will discuss what it means to have a voice, how language expresses our humanity, and how to communicate across difference—questions critical to our moment. There will be American Sign Language interpreters, and Labyrinth Books will be on-site to sell copies of the book.

Rachel Kolb is a writer whose work explores communication, language, and disability as central components of human experience. A graduate of Stanford University, she was the first signing deaf Rhodes scholar at Oxford before receiving her Ph.D. in English literature from Emory University and then completing a junior fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Her work has been published in The New York Times and The Atlantic, among other venues.

Noah Buchholz is Senior Lecturer and Director of the American Sign Language (ASL) Program within the Program in Linguistics at Princeton University. Buchholz is a Certified Deaf Interpreter, an ASL-English translator, and an ASL performing artist, as well as a PhD candidate in Religion and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he is pursuing research at the intersections of political theology, disability and Deaf studies, and postcolonial/decolonial studies.

This event is organized by Timothy Loh, Cotsen Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Anthropology at Princeton University.  Event co-sponsors are Princeton's Program in Linguistics, Council of the Humanities, and American Sign Language Program, and Labyrinth Books.

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