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Ash Paley @ashpaley.bsky.social · Jul 17

Call for Papers: Leeds IMC 2026
Neurodivergent and Neuroqueer Temporalities

Deadline: Monday 15th September 9am
#CFP #IMC2026 #Medievalsky #Neurodiversity #Neuroqueer

Call for papaers poster. Medieval image of Hildegard of Bingen as header. Neurodivergent infinity loop behind text.

Text reads: Call for Papers: International Medieval Congress 2026
Neurodivergent and Neuroqueer Temporalities

Over the past decade, critical neurodiversity studies and neuroqueer theory have come to prominence. These new paradigms seek to explore differences in mind through an understanding that there are naturally diverse ways of being rather than through pathologisation. While the paradigms are beginning to be used in other academic disciplines, they are yet to be implemented in a significant way in medieval studies. This panel seeks to change this by encouraging medievalists to see the potentials in neuroqueer and neurodivergent scholarship and prompting discussion in these areas.
This panel is requesting proposals for papers which examine aspects of medieval temporalities through a neurodivergent or neuroqueer lens. This includes, but is not limited to:
• Application of contemporary neuroqueer or neurodivergent theory to medieval temporal concerns.
• Examination of non-normative experiences of time, e.g. in mystical ecstasy.
• Exploration of neuroqueer attitudes to normative lifecycles.
• Examination of the effects of time and age on the mind in medieval texts.
• Neurodivergent readings of medieval material relating to temporalities.

Paper proposals should be under 200 words and accompanied by a short bio. Proposals should be sent to A.T.Paley1@leeds.ac.uk for the attention of Ash Paley and Daniel Coultas by 9am on Monday 15th September 2025.

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Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · Jul 18

Not only does this sound interesting, but full points for a very appealing social media rollout of the #CFP.

#CAA2026 #earlymodern #architecture

Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · Jul 18

🌍✨ Call for Papers! ✨🌍
SIGA is excited to sponsor a panel at CAA 2026 that explores the ambitious, adaptive, and at times unstable histories of early modern architecture in the Iberian world.
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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Aug 18

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ACADEMIC: Art & Visual Culture: Theory of Art: Books: Bloomsbury Publishing (US) - Bloomsbury

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Aug 11

The show is a gift for my autistic kid. But I was also hit with the painful awareness that only good enough parenting can foster resilience. Kids who grew up with emotional abuse cannot even conceive of resilience. We are constantly fortifying our armor, waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Aug 11

On Resistance www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Adam Phillips · On Resistance

Resistance is at once recognition and a fantasy of catastrophe; indeed, in resisting one has always leaped forward to...

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Aug 6

Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity www.themarginalian.org/2024/05/31/p...

Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity

“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.”

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · May 17

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social is having a 30% off newly released academics, ending tomorrow, May 18! Includes my Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play 🔥🩵📖👍
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Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play

This book considers the sculpture of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in light of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott's (1896-1971) radical ideas regarding transitional o…

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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · May 5

A bunny is surrounded by numerous gold chocolate bunny figures wrapped in foil with red bows.

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Apr 18

Honestly folks don’t willfully surrender to anxiety. That’s a tad ableist. Their Amygdala takes over their brain function.

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Apr 18

Is it okay to say that lovely family lobotomized the wrong kid?

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Apr 17

Yes! I deal with Bollas and the transformational object and the unthought known in chapter 5 of my book.

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Apr 15

For NYC fans of Louise Bourgeois, object relations, and "off-modern" sculpture, join me this Thursday for a Book Launch and conversation with #douglasmao
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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Apr 7

My hEDS (and my AuDHD kid, also with hEDS) is leading me to think I’m #actuallyautistic

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Apr 7

Yup

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Mar 28

As an independent scholar of art history, I’m excited to share my new website: www.drlynnsomers.com

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Mar 27

Sculpture Journal: Sculpture and the Non-Normative Body arthist.net/archive/44896

Sculpture Journal: Sculpture and the Non-Normative Body

Sculpture Journal, University of York. Eingabeschluss : 01.06.2025

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Mar 26

Just two weeks to go till @forarthistory.org.uk #AnnualConference2025 at the University of York, UK. If you are attending and work on sculpture, please do join us!

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Mar 20

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Mar 12

Less than 4 weeks till @forarthistory.org.uk Annual Conference @uniofyork
Join me and scholars Victoria MacBeath, Laura Lake Smith, Ivan Knapp, Tess McCoy, Susan Richmond, and Tobias Teutenberg for the panel "The Work of Sculpture: Object encounters within art history and everyday life"

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Mar 19

Just 3 weeks to go! Limited tix still available @forarthistory.org.uk #ForArtHistory #AnnualConference2025 #modernsculpture #materialculture #visualculture

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · Mar 12

Less than 4 weeks till @forarthistory.org.uk Annual Conference @uniofyork
Join me and scholars Victoria MacBeath, Laura Lake Smith, Ivan Knapp, Tess McCoy, Susan Richmond, and Tobias Teutenberg for the panel "The Work of Sculpture: Object encounters within art history and everyday life"

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Mar 12

Less than a month until our Annual Conference ✨

We’re counting down the days to our three day event at University of York, bringing together international research and critical debate about art history and visual culture. ⬇️

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Mar 3

📣 DEADLINE: 28th March 2025 📣

We are looking to appoint new members to our Board of Trustees, who will join other board members, staff and stakeholders to fulfil our mission to advance the study and practice of art history.

Full details on our website: forarthistory.org.uk/latest_news/...

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