Susan Anderson

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...

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."
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What a cool question! Gloucester’s “I shall not need spectacles” in King Lear isn’t firm evidence but does potentially suggest prop glasses to read the letter Edmund gives him?

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.

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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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.

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!

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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!

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!

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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

Screenshot of the schedule of talks at the Blackfriars theatre in Staunton. March 7 is Meaning and Madness in King Lear with Dr. Susan Anderson

Tonight! Lights on at the Blackfriars with me talking about Lear and madness!
Tickets: americanshakespearecenter.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/ins...

Maybe a bit young but Philippa Pearce’s A Dog So Small for the way animals are an acceptable outlet for otherwise taboo care/softness/emotion generally in post-war boyhood.

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...

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
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#CreativeRights #ArtificalIntelligence #PayTheCreator

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…

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...

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:

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

Brilliant news! Your work is so important - congratulations Tracey!!

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…

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...

Image of a smart phone screen with a text conversation visible. The first text asks about making the most of the 2025 Annual Meeting, while the responding texts share information about the S A A Graduate Committee’s upcoming symposium on February 21, 2025. Those interested in attending should sign up on the S A A website.

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

Amazing - what excellent news!

Image of bold text reading “hashtag shax 2026” and information on program proposals. The deadline is February 15, 2025, which appears above a colorful quill pen at the bottom of the image.

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

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…

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

Exactly this. So frustrating.

I love everything about this

Ursula K. Le Guin — Ursula on Writing: A Rant about "Techonolgy" Ursula K. Le Guin on the presence of technology in her work

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...

Oh good - thanks Cameron, that’s reassuring!

Ah ok - will have to just wait and see i suppose. I am a member of both so am hoping it’s just a lag between registering and them communicating 🤷🏻‍♀️

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!!

Photograph of a building in Florence. A tall thin stone section rises up, from street level several stories. About the level of the second story, a yellow section sticks out from the outside of it, awkwardly wrapping around the outside of the stone part, supported by elegant sticky-outy triangular struts. The yellow section has several small circular windows, much too small for a human to climb through, barely large enough for a chubby cat.

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/?