🌈 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’

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! ⤵️

They’re smarter than we are 🙃

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! 🎉

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Woo-hoo! Nice design!! 🤓

⚡️🎩 Gear up, Anne Lister fans! 📖🪶

In the Good Column ✅

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.

Why was DOGE even given access to *systems of payment* in the first place, when access to *budgets* should have been all they’d need to test for ideological compliance? Musk is his own crime wave, but hasn’t Bessent himself actionably breached his official duty to keep sensitive data secure?

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.

“Wait”? A team of arsonists is openly burning down our political infrastructure, to persecute its stakeholders and to steal the people’s assets for feral oligarchs. How does thinking through an imaginary couch potato help? Emergency Democratic reset, please.

📣 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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Gift link here:

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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!

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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! 🎩🪶

We will miss you!! Have a great MSA!

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.

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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…

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...