Join us for a multi-modal event that challenges the trope of ‘deafness as silence’. We consider the juxtaposition of ‘voice’ and ‘silence’ from a range of perspectives, including sociology, geography, linguistics, and creative arts practice. A common thread is that of ‘embodiment’: we explore the lived experience of being in a deaf body in a world where ‘hearing bodies’ are normative, and where deaf people’s experience is generally mapped against that norm. We consider what phonocentric approaches to the world mean for deaf sign language users, and how, from within deaf and deafblind communities, alternative ways of being in the world emerge that are visual, haptic, and kinaesthetic.