💫 We’re thrilled to post the call for papers for the SIXTH Meeting of the Anne Lister Society, 2-3 April 2027! 🖤 We seek proposals from researchers and scholars on any topic from Anne’s life & times to her afterlives.🖤 Proposals DUE 1 NOV. For full details: english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-l...

News from The Anne Lister Society on the Finding Anne project ⤵️

The Anne Lister Society@annelistersociety.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🖤 The location of Anne Lister’s grave in Halifax Minster has been lost since 1879. On the 185th anniversary of her burial, our Finding Anne collaborative launched a new website showing the state of research — we now have good reason to 𝓞𝟧+𝟥 [hope] we have found her. 🖤 annelisterintheminster.com

🌈 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! ⤵️

IHR Women@ihrwomen.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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! 📖🪶

The Anne Lister Society@annelistersociety.bsky.social · 2y ago

⚡️🎩 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

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.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2y ago

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."

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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**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...

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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 ⤵️

Women's History Network@womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 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

Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Attention Is Now Our Most Valuable Resource

Every single aspect of human life is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention.

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Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2y ago

The first excerpt of my new book The Sirens' Call: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

💫 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)

🎉 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! 🎩🪶

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...

One week left to submit an abstract!

Stephen Turton@stephenturton.bsky.social · 3y ago

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/

🎩💫🪶 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...

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