Susan Anderson
@susananderson.bsky.social
Early modern disability, civic pageantry and music. Also cats.
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Susan Anderson
@susananderson.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Thanks to living in a far-off land these days it took a *lot* longer for my contributor copy of Shakespeare/Play to arrive…! Worth the wait though - so chuffed to be in the company of these amazing co-contributors and editor!
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PLS REPOST: "The collection is a powerful rebuttal to the notion of the integral relationship of disability—medieval and otherwise—with sin, stigma, and shame. So doing, it recentres medieval disability history as a lived history that merits exploration and celebration."
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages
This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of disability and holi...
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April 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
PLS REPOST: "The collection is a powerful rebuttal to the notion of the integral relationship of disability—medieval and otherwise—with sin, stigma, and shame. So doing, it recentres medieval disability history as a lived history that merits exploration and celebration."
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Here are 10 ways to honor autistic people! While #AutismAwareness has a role, especially in spaces where autism info is bad/absent, autistic people deserve the love & respect that come with #AutismAcceptance — not merely acknowledgment that autism exists:
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Ten Ways to Honor Autistic People Via Autism Acceptance
Autism awareness is passive; autism acceptance is a choice. Here are 10 ways you can honor Autism Acceptance, & autistic people of all ages.
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April 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Here are 10 ways to honor autistic people! While #AutismAwareness has a role, especially in spaces where autism info is bad/absent, autistic people deserve the love & respect that come with #AutismAcceptance — not merely acknowledgment that autism exists:
thinkingautismguide.com/2023/10/ten-... 1/
thinkingautismguide.com/2023/10/ten-... 1/
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Our next English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare webinar is on 7 April at 6pm. This month we will be exploring The #Tempest with Dr Lauren Working
@laurenworking.bsky.social & Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social.
The webinars are free and open to all!
Book now >>
@laurenworking.bsky.social & Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social.
The webinars are free and open to all!
Book now >>
English Faculty/OWC Shakespeare Webinar: The Tempest
In this free webinar, Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of The Tempest from Oxford World's Classics.
shakespeare-webinar-the-tempest.eventbrite.co.uk
March 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Our next English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare webinar is on 7 April at 6pm. This month we will be exploring The #Tempest with Dr Lauren Working
@laurenworking.bsky.social & Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social.
The webinars are free and open to all!
Book now >>
@laurenworking.bsky.social & Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social.
The webinars are free and open to all!
Book now >>
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Good galloping Providence, the Atheist’s Tragedy was a perfect piece of theater, #Shax2025. Who knew predestination could be so hilarious? Bravi, MBU MFAs! Woot!
March 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Good galloping Providence, the Atheist’s Tragedy was a perfect piece of theater, #Shax2025. Who knew predestination could be so hilarious? Bravi, MBU MFAs! Woot!
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Actual libraries also have immense ethical value for making books / media / resources available for free while compensating the creators. We don't need a new system that cuts them out to give tech companies more profits.
March 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Actual libraries also have immense ethical value for making books / media / resources available for free while compensating the creators. We don't need a new system that cuts them out to give tech companies more profits.
Check out our cfp below for Shakespeare/Movement 👇🏻 Ellie and I will be at SAA/RSA next week for in-person chat or just lmk if you have any questions. Exciting!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Check out our cfp below for Shakespeare/Movement 👇🏻 Ellie and I will be at SAA/RSA next week for in-person chat or just lmk if you have any questions. Exciting!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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A week to go until #Shax2025 & #RSA2025 and I presume everyone has now completed their crucial research? By which I mean what are the best bookshops, diners, and places to see while Shakespearing in Boston? Recommendations welcome! @saaupdates.bsky.social #Shakespeare #earlymodern
March 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A week to go until #Shax2025 & #RSA2025 and I presume everyone has now completed their crucial research? By which I mean what are the best bookshops, diners, and places to see while Shakespearing in Boston? Recommendations welcome! @saaupdates.bsky.social #Shakespeare #earlymodern
Tonight! Lights on at the Blackfriars with me talking about Lear and madness!
Tickets: americanshakespearecenter.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/ins...
Tickets: americanshakespearecenter.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/ins...
March 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Tonight! Lights on at the Blackfriars with me talking about Lear and madness!
Tickets: americanshakespearecenter.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/ins...
Tickets: americanshakespearecenter.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/ins...
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There's still time to make a change 🗣️
Add your name to this author-organised letter and encourage the government to change its course on copyright exemption for generative AI use of creatives works
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#CreativeRights #ArtificalIntelligence #PayTheCreator
Add your name to this author-organised letter and encourage the government to change its course on copyright exemption for generative AI use of creatives works
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#CreativeRights #ArtificalIntelligence #PayTheCreator
Objection to the Government's Proposed Copyright Exemption for Generative AI Training
To add your name to this letter, please fill and submit the form at the bottom.
Wednesday 12th February 2025:
We are some among the 2.4 million working in the UK creative industries. We are staring i...
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February 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
There's still time to make a change 🗣️
Add your name to this author-organised letter and encourage the government to change its course on copyright exemption for generative AI use of creatives works
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#CreativeRights #ArtificalIntelligence #PayTheCreator
Add your name to this author-organised letter and encourage the government to change its course on copyright exemption for generative AI use of creatives works
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#CreativeRights #ArtificalIntelligence #PayTheCreator
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We need to act now if we are to save our Arts. Here’s my new blog on Brexit, the Arts Council and my personal experience of “levelling up” raenicholls.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/a...
A call to arms, a call for alms.
I made my big splash as a Wagnerian back in 2012 at the tender age of 37. An abrupt change of repertoire from Bach to Brünnhilde made me something of a novelty act at the time, and for the subseque…
raenicholls.wordpress.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
We need to act now if we are to save our Arts. Here’s my new blog on Brexit, the Arts Council and my personal experience of “levelling up” raenicholls.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/a...
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If you work in the creative industries, please give feedback on this government public consultation on AI and our copyright.
ALCS provides help here with answering the questions, and you don’t have to answer every question to submit it.
The consultation ends SOON, Feb 25th:
ALCS provides help here with answering the questions, and you don’t have to answer every question to submit it.
The consultation ends SOON, Feb 25th:
The Government is considering allowing AI companies to freely use your works, unless you opt-out. This is unfair and unworkable.
Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below.
www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...
Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below.
www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...
February 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If you work in the creative industries, please give feedback on this government public consultation on AI and our copyright.
ALCS provides help here with answering the questions, and you don’t have to answer every question to submit it.
The consultation ends SOON, Feb 25th:
ALCS provides help here with answering the questions, and you don’t have to answer every question to submit it.
The consultation ends SOON, Feb 25th:
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This also means that registration is open!
Early Bird fees until 31 March, don't miss out on those (we're a feathery society after all... 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥)
Registration details and form: www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-biennial...
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Early Bird fees until 31 March, don't miss out on those (we're a feathery society after all... 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥)
Registration details and form: www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-biennial...
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
February 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This also means that registration is open!
Early Bird fees until 31 March, don't miss out on those (we're a feathery society after all... 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥)
Registration details and form: www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-biennial...
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Early Bird fees until 31 March, don't miss out on those (we're a feathery society after all... 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥)
Registration details and form: www.rensoc.org.uk/srs-biennial...
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians
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The American Shakespeare Center’s new Little Women is a beautiful, moving production which has so much to offer the present moment in its exploration of the costs of doing the right thing, and the solidarity on which we depend. Here’s my review: cometothepedlar.home.blog/2025/02/08/t...
THEATRE: Little Women, adapted by Erin Riley (directed by Constance Swain for the American Shakespeare Center)
Who is Little Women for? In Constance Swain’s director’s note for the ASC’s new production, she is quite candid that this mainstay of American literature is not and was not for he…
cometothepedlar.home.blog
February 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The American Shakespeare Center’s new Little Women is a beautiful, moving production which has so much to offer the present moment in its exploration of the costs of doing the right thing, and the solidarity on which we depend. Here’s my review: cometothepedlar.home.blog/2025/02/08/t...
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Are you a #ShaxGrad attending #Shax2025 in Boston? Join the FREE symposium hosted by the SAA Graduate Committee:
How to Navigate SAA as a Grad Student: A Virtual Q&A
Friday, February 21 at 2pm EST / 11am PST on Zoom.
Register at https://buff.ly/3DWfv91
How to Navigate SAA as a Grad Student: A Virtual Q&A
Friday, February 21 at 2pm EST / 11am PST on Zoom.
Register at https://buff.ly/3DWfv91
January 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Are you a #ShaxGrad attending #Shax2025 in Boston? Join the FREE symposium hosted by the SAA Graduate Committee:
How to Navigate SAA as a Grad Student: A Virtual Q&A
Friday, February 21 at 2pm EST / 11am PST on Zoom.
Register at https://buff.ly/3DWfv91
How to Navigate SAA as a Grad Student: A Virtual Q&A
Friday, February 21 at 2pm EST / 11am PST on Zoom.
Register at https://buff.ly/3DWfv91
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The deadline to submit proposals to the #Shax2026 program committee for next year’s Denver conference is February 15!
Have questions? Contact the committee for more information or check out website: buff.ly/3F488Kr
Have questions? Contact the committee for more information or check out website: buff.ly/3F488Kr
January 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The deadline to submit proposals to the #Shax2026 program committee for next year’s Denver conference is February 15!
Have questions? Contact the committee for more information or check out website: buff.ly/3F488Kr
Have questions? Contact the committee for more information or check out website: buff.ly/3F488Kr
A bit thrown by seeing Britain/British used to discuss early modern (i.e. pre-1707) London - like, I guess it’s an ancient name and James VI/I was trying to make fetch happen and all, but most of the time they do seem to be actually just talking about England…
January 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A bit thrown by seeing Britain/British used to discuss early modern (i.e. pre-1707) London - like, I guess it’s an ancient name and James VI/I was trying to make fetch happen and all, but most of the time they do seem to be actually just talking about England…
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A new BlueSky presence for the AMS Music and Disability Study Group — and a very important survey to help us launch a Community of Practice beyond the Study Group itself. Please fill out and boost! #MusicAndDisability #Musicology #Accessibility #DisabilityStudies
We are in the process of launching a Music and Disability Studies Community of Practice, which will consist of a colloquium series as well as a community care circle. We invite you to fill out the following survey.
You can access the survey at: bit.ly/DisMusSurvey....
You can access the survey at: bit.ly/DisMusSurvey....
AMS Music and Disability Study Group Survey
The AMS Music and Disability Study Group (DisMus) is in the process of launching a Community of Practice that will host both a colloquium series and a community care circle.
Our primary goal in launc...
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January 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A new BlueSky presence for the AMS Music and Disability Study Group — and a very important survey to help us launch a Community of Practice beyond the Study Group itself. Please fill out and boost! #MusicAndDisability #Musicology #Accessibility #DisabilityStudies
Ooh this looks good! Echoes of Care by Jaipreet Virdi
January 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Ooh this looks good! Echoes of Care by Jaipreet Virdi
Exactly this. So frustrating.
that’s not even a romantic, ‘who can put a price on knowledge’ take it’s just a literal ‘who understands how universities actually bring in income and cover costs’ thing
January 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Exactly this. So frustrating.
I love everything about this
Folded & assembled proof sheets for @skeuomorphpress.org’s forthcoming letterpress edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology"—an LIS practicum student created the woodcut illustrations of tech mentioned in the text, which we carved on the laser—I set type for the book & fold-out poster
January 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I love everything about this
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And if you’ve never read Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About 'Technology,'" give yourself 10 minutes to do so—in many ways I feel my whole research & pedagogical philosophy are wrapped up in this short, brilliant text—it’s usually day 1 reading in my classes www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula on Writing: A Rant about "Techonolgy"
Ursula K. Le Guin on the presence of technology in her work
www.ursulakleguin.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
And if you’ve never read Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About 'Technology,'" give yourself 10 minutes to do so—in many ways I feel my whole research & pedagogical philosophy are wrapped up in this short, brilliant text—it’s usually day 1 reading in my classes www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
Yup me too - even though I’ve got all this stuff switched off they were still gonna charge me for it!
Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit.
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
Redirecting
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January 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Yup me too - even though I’ve got all this stuff switched off they were still gonna charge me for it!
Fellow SAA and RSA goers: Has anyone else had a registration reminder for RSA even tho they’ve already registered for SAA? There’s no reply function and no way of doing anything other than coughing up a second registration fee through the link… I don’t want to get kicked off my panel!!
January 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Fellow SAA and RSA goers: Has anyone else had a registration reminder for RSA even tho they’ve already registered for SAA? There’s no reply function and no way of doing anything other than coughing up a second registration fee through the link… I don’t want to get kicked off my panel!!
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Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?
January 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/?
Hmm. Didn’t really like Emilia Pérez tbh. It seemed to me to really make most sense seen as a sort of Umbrellas of Cherbourg thing, but applied to a totally inapt subject.
January 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Hmm. Didn’t really like Emilia Pérez tbh. It seemed to me to really make most sense seen as a sort of Umbrellas of Cherbourg thing, but applied to a totally inapt subject.