Laurie Shannon
@shannonical.bsky.social
natural history 🦔 enviro-lit 🌊 history of ideas 💫 Shakespeare 🎭 Anne Lister Society convener 🎩
🎓 Franklyn Bliss Snyder Prof of Literature, Northwestern
🎓 Franklyn Bliss Snyder Prof of Literature, Northwestern
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🌈 On this ver. fine day in 1817 Anne Lister wrote: ‘A fine day the pleasantest we have had this year — & the 1st I have thrown aside my winter things having changed my black cloth spencer & black straw hat for a black silk spencer & common straw hat — I have almost made up mind always to wear black’
June 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🌈 On this ver. fine day in 1817 Anne Lister wrote: ‘A fine day the pleasantest we have had this year — & the 1st I have thrown aside my winter things having changed my black cloth spencer & black straw hat for a black silk spencer & common straw hat — I have almost made up mind always to wear black’
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Hello, Listerverse! 💫 An online talk about Anne Lister ahead, June 13th, by ALS-presenter Prof Anna Clark! On our Yorkshire polymath, quack doctors, and French academic medicine — details and registration below! ⤵️
Join us live at the IHR or online.
Register: tinyurl.com/289qz4sz
@ihr.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @annelistersociety.bsky.social
Register: tinyurl.com/289qz4sz
@ihr.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @annelistersociety.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Hello, Listerverse! 💫 An online talk about Anne Lister ahead, June 13th, by ALS-presenter Prof Anna Clark! On our Yorkshire polymath, quack doctors, and French academic medicine — details and registration below! ⤵️
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With heartfelt thanks to our ver. fine speakers, keynoters, session chairs, our partners in Calderdale & ALBW, & of course our ver. fine audience, the 4th Mtg of the #AnneLister Soc’y is a wrap! 🙏 Here’s to the #Listerverse of people working to generate new knowledge about our Yorkshire polymath! 🎉
April 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
With heartfelt thanks to our ver. fine speakers, keynoters, session chairs, our partners in Calderdale & ALBW, & of course our ver. fine audience, the 4th Mtg of the #AnneLister Soc’y is a wrap! 🙏 Here’s to the #Listerverse of people working to generate new knowledge about our Yorkshire polymath! 🎉
⚡️🎩 Gear up, Anne Lister fans! 📖🪶
⚡️🎩 We’ve got SWAG! Thanks to our amazing friends at ALBW & to mark the 4th Anne Lister Soc’y mtg in Halifax UK in April, we’re thrilled to offer ALS gear on the ALBW merch site below. A new design this year for Anne’s birthday and to celebrate her ver. “proud spirit”! 🎉 Order ahead! ⤵️
shopalbw.com
shopalbw.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
⚡️🎩 Gear up, Anne Lister fans! 📖🪶
The fact Musk got access to operational systems & underlying data — instead of inert budget documents — shows this was never a “review” of federal spending. Musk is his own crime wave. But if *agency secretaries* comply, they’re co-conspirators in this breach of data security & systems integrity.
Four government IT employees tell Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel that Elon Musk's incursion into the U.S. government may be worse than anyone realizes: “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history."
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
www.theatlantic.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The fact Musk got access to operational systems & underlying data — instead of inert budget documents — shows this was never a “review” of federal spending. Musk is his own crime wave. But if *agency secretaries* comply, they’re co-conspirators in this breach of data security & systems integrity.
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TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.
We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn
**Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...
www.mobilize.us
February 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.
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📣 CFP for online conference of interest to the Listerverse, given the *absolute centrality* of the archive in preserving Anne Lister’s legacy. "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections”! Women’s History Network! Deadline 29 March; further details here ⤵️
📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."
More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory #GLAM
More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory #GLAM
WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers
First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…
womenshistorynetwork.org
January 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
📣 CFP for online conference of interest to the Listerverse, given the *absolute centrality* of the archive in preserving Anne Lister’s legacy. "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections”! Women’s History Network! Deadline 29 March; further details here ⤵️
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January 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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💫 SHE’S HERE! The Anne Lister Soc’y April program(me)!
NEW WORK on AL &: medicine, self-fashioning, travel, writerly craft, & other characters; keynotes on new film project & Anne’s music.
Details at link; registration info soon!
english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-l...
(📸BBC/HBO/LookoutPt)
NEW WORK on AL &: medicine, self-fashioning, travel, writerly craft, & other characters; keynotes on new film project & Anne’s music.
Details at link; registration info soon!
english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-l...
(📸BBC/HBO/LookoutPt)
January 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
💫 SHE’S HERE! The Anne Lister Soc’y April program(me)!
NEW WORK on AL &: medicine, self-fashioning, travel, writerly craft, & other characters; keynotes on new film project & Anne’s music.
Details at link; registration info soon!
english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-l...
(📸BBC/HBO/LookoutPt)
NEW WORK on AL &: medicine, self-fashioning, travel, writerly craft, & other characters; keynotes on new film project & Anne’s music.
Details at link; registration info soon!
english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-l...
(📸BBC/HBO/LookoutPt)
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🎉 A Ver. Happy New Year from the Anne Lister Soc’y! 🎉 *Quite* soon we’ll post the slate of speakers & info for our 4th mtg (watch this space!). This New Year’s Day, we look back and thank all our ver. fine presenters, each of whom added new knowledge to the Listerverse at the splendid 2024 mtg! 🎩🪶
January 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
🎉 A Ver. Happy New Year from the Anne Lister Soc’y! 🎉 *Quite* soon we’ll post the slate of speakers & info for our 4th mtg (watch this space!). This New Year’s Day, we look back and thank all our ver. fine presenters, each of whom added new knowledge to the Listerverse at the splendid 2024 mtg! 🎩🪶
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There’s also one week left to submit an abstract for ‘Talking Back to the Dictionary’! A special issue on use, readers, and reception for Dictionaries: The Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America.
dictionarysociety.com/call-for-pap...
dictionarysociety.com/call-for-pap...
CFP: Special Issue of Dictionaries on "Talking Back to the Dictionary" | Dictionary Society of North...
Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America invites submissions for a special issue on the reception of dictionaries by their users. It ...
dictionarysociety.com
October 25, 2023 at 9:55 AM
There’s also one week left to submit an abstract for ‘Talking Back to the Dictionary’! A special issue on use, readers, and reception for Dictionaries: The Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America.
dictionarysociety.com/call-for-pap...
dictionarysociety.com/call-for-pap...
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One week left to submit an abstract!
Four weeks left to submit an abstract to QUEER & TRANS PHILOLOGIES! A hybrid conference on the ties between language, sexuality, and embodiment across time (Cambridge, March 2024). Research on languages beyond English and/or periods before 1900 is especially welcome.
crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/39800/
crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/39800/
October 24, 2023 at 6:32 AM
One week left to submit an abstract!
🎩💫🪶 the CfP deadline for the Third Mtg of the ANNE LISTER SOCIETY approaches: 25 Oct! We seek a broad range of perspectives on the rangy life & writings of this Yorkshire polymath. {LGBTQ, diary writing, land-owning, travel, c19, history & lit} The details 👉 english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-lis…
October 19, 2023 at 5:53 PM
🎩💫🪶 the CfP deadline for the Third Mtg of the ANNE LISTER SOCIETY approaches: 25 Oct! We seek a broad range of perspectives on the rangy life & writings of this Yorkshire polymath. {LGBTQ, diary writing, land-owning, travel, c19, history & lit} The details 👉 english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-lis…
A major conference ahead on the legacies of #LaurenBerlant: BERLANT’S AMERICA at Northwestern U., 26-27 October. @dukepress.bsky.social Details & registration ➡️ cgcc.soc.northwestern.edu/berlants-ame...
Berlant's America - Center for Global Culture and Communication
Center of Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication) Department of English & Center for Transcultural Studies jointly pre...
cgcc.soc.northwestern.edu
October 14, 2023 at 12:07 PM
A major conference ahead on the legacies of #LaurenBerlant: BERLANT’S AMERICA at Northwestern U., 26-27 October. @dukepress.bsky.social Details & registration ➡️ cgcc.soc.northwestern.edu/berlants-ame...