McDaniel College’s Deaf awareness club Eye to Eye presents “Ethics, Ethnicity, and the Deaf-World.” Northeastern University Distinguished Professor Harlan Lane, specialist in the psychology of linguistics of the Deaf, will lecture at 7:30 p.m. April 25 in the Forum at Decker Student Center.

The event is free and open to the public. Interpreters will be available. There will be a book sale and signing after the event. For more information, call 410-857-2294.

As an ally with the Deaf community, Lane has raised controversy over his opposition to cochlear implants, the electronic device placed under the skin behind the ear that can help provide a sense of sound to a Deaf or hard-of-hearing person.

Lane is the author of 17 books and numerous articles about Deaf culture and sign language. He has been a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, a Book Award from the President’s Committee on the Handicapped, and Harvard University’s Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize, among others.

He has earned research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Lane lectured at Harvard Medical School from 1988-1993. He previously served as professor at the Universite de Paris – Sorbonne and the University of Michigan.

Since its inception in 1967 as a joint effort between McDaniel College and the Maryland School for the Deaf, McDaniel College's Master of Science program in Deaf Education has built on its mission to prepare outstanding teachers of deaf students. The College also offers an undergraduate minor in American Sign Language and Deaf Studies. Philosophically, the program views Deaf students from a bilingual and cultural perspective.