Lynn Somers

Lynn Somers

@drlynnsomers.bsky.social

Art historian/modern & contemporary sculpture/psychoanalysis/object relations/aesthetics/yogi/autistic/she-her pronouns https://www.drlynnsomers.com/

537 Followers 1,284 Following 44 Posts Joined Nov 2024
7 months ago
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.

Call for Papers: Leeds IMC 2026
Neurodivergent and Neuroqueer Temporalities

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

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7 months ago

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

#CAA2026 #earlymodern #architecture

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

With the 30% off back-to-school sale, its a good time to order Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play: Louise Bourgeois’s Sculpture 👉🏻👉🏽👉🏾✍🏻🕷️💙🩵https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/academic/art-visual-culture/theory-of-art/

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7 months ago

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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7 months ago
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Adam Phillips · On Resistance Resistance is at once recognition and a fantasy of catastrophe; indeed, in resisting one has always leaped forward to...

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

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7 months ago
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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.”

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

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9 months ago
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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…

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

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

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

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10 months ago

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

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10 months ago

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

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10 months ago
Book Launch: Transformative Objects by Dr. Lynn Somers - POWERHOUSE Arena This book considers the sculpture of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in light of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott's (1896-1971) radical ideas regarding transitional objects, potential space, and play, offer...

For NYC fans of Louise Bourgeois, object relations, and "off-modern" sculpture, join me this Thursday for a Book Launch and conversation with #douglasmao
@phbookstores.bsky.social #louisebourgeois #psychoanalysis #play #louisebourgeois #modernsculpture
powerhousearena.com/events/book-...

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11 months ago

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

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11 months ago

Yup

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

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11 months ago
Sculpture Journal: Sculpture and the Non-Normative Body Sculpture Journal, University of York. Eingabeschluss : 01.06.2025

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

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11 months ago
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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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11 months ago

Thanks for the re-post!

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11 months ago

Thanks for the repost

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1 year ago

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

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1 year ago

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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1 year ago
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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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1 year ago
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📣 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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1 year ago

At what point is the rest of the country going to catch on to the fact that the executive branch *repeatedly* & *openly* defying Federal judges’ orders, without consequence, means the Constitution is no longer in effect?

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1 year ago

Had mine at 40 and 44 and my kids’ friends think I’m the “cool mom”

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1 year ago
book front cover book back cover book contents page

Flash sale @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social !

My book, Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity - very recently published - is 30% off hardback and 40% off ebook. The 84 ebook illus are all colour but then the hardback is lovely to hold.

Either way, a bargain! Just sayin.😊

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1 year ago
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The Routledge Companion to Marxisms in Art History This companion is an essential contribution to the study of historical materialism in general and the social history of art in particular. Each chapter in the collection focuses on a key figure, conce...

Available for pre-order, this tome includes my chapter essay "Affect, Attachment, and Loss: The Material Objects of Art History and Psychoanalysis." Congrats to the tenacious editors Tijen Tunali and @brianwink.bsky.social www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

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1 year ago

Read Freud; don’t read everybody else on Freud

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