Thrilled to have @bkadams visit w/ us virtually tonite at EnglishUW for a 6 PM CT talk on Editing Shakespeare & Race. Kudos to EM Colloquium organizers, esp. Megan E. Fox, who helped to make this possible! If you want to join, DM me (even better: email or text me) for Zoom link

"...quitting your books and “going forth into the light of things” need not be two opposite actions. Rather, they are two interdependent modes of reading." HH Producer Thom Van Camp on How to Quit Your Books. Read now on the Bookish Blog. loom.ly/cvTxbAU

NYE must-read: a thoughtful reflection on books, bookshelves, & reading. Written by #ThomVanCamp, a writer, editor, & thinker who has challenged my thinking in many ways over the past half-decade UW–Madison #academictwitter #altac #phddone UW-Madison L&S Literary Hub Public Books

Thread: I want to raise a red flag about a hidden crisis #publicmedia. I've worked in public radio since the mid-1980s. I've captured tens of thousands of important meaningful vibrant voices, including many voices that certainly would never have been heard without pub radio. 1/

We're excited to be featured on the Humanities for All blog, a National Humanities Alliance project. Head over to learn more about HH and other amazing public humanities projects. Read now! loom.ly/FCFjPCw #publichumanities #papermaking #academictwitter

Thanks to Michelle May-Curry, @younger_oliver, and National Humanities Alliance for the opportunity to co-write this piece with my colleague Sarah Marty

What could ants possibly have to do with antibiotics? And how did a colony of leaf-cutter ants in the lobby of UW-Madison Department of Bacteriology help people get a grip on the gardens of fungi kept by ants in Central America? "Ants & ANTibiotics" 2/22 7p CT w/ Caitlin Calhoun Currie-Lab Ants Wisconsin Alumni

In lieu of a handout, images for my #RenSA23 roundtable talk on The Future of EM Marginalia Studies with #KathyAcheson, Micheline White, heather froehlich, Martine van Elk, the real Ros Smith Photos (and microbial expertise): Cait Carlson 🐜🐝🍄

Introducing "Shakespeare, Sort Of", a new series on the HH Bookish Blog. Our 9 writers were given a task: journey to UW's Special Collections and dig into the archives...

Need to do a thread abt #publichumanities mentoring that begins w/ an undergrad class in the archives, continues (after the semester) w/ paid PhD student editors, and ends w/ brilliant (&, again, paid) undergrad writing like this. For now, just enjoy LJ's writing! UW-Madison L&S

Last call to RSVP for tomorrow! Thanks to the amazing Tiffany Jo Werth and Heidi Brayman for hosting this book celebration and to Breanne Weber, Miles Grier, & Peter Remien, and for discussing! Oecologies

Just dropped: HH Podcast S2, E1 w/ brilliant guest Bruce Holsinger (author of The Displacements) talking about #climatefiction & archives (& so much more). Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 UW-Madison Nelson Institute Sarah Marty UW-Madison L&S UW–Madison #publichumanities @ASLE_US holdinghistory.org/post/how-can-t…

Out now! Season 2, Episode 1 of the Holding History Podcast. Our conversation with author Bruce Holsinger. We talk climate fiction, archives, and collecting during catastrophe. Listen now! loom.ly/nhZdRAY

HH Pod S02E01: our conversation with @jchiaverini is now live. TNT, women's soccer, and historical imagination. Listen now! loom.ly/IIiuHQg

We were recently joined by University of Hawai'i at Manoa Associate Professor Christina Gerhardt, who stopped by to discuss her latest project, a multimedia atlas titled Sea Change. Listen here: loom.ly/LOW4xJ0

1st installment of the "Real Commonplace Book" series I mentioned at the Thinking Spenser roundtable. Kudos to Liam Beran & Libby Markgraf! International Spenser Society Holding History #RenSA24 holdinghistory.org/post/real-comm…

Check out our new series on the Bookish Blog, "Reading in the Archives." Up first, we're highlighting Michelle Simdon's essay "The Prophet: An All-American Read." Funding for this series provided a grant from Friends of UW-Madison Library.

Sarah Jasim's essay, Al-Mutanabbi Street: Wartime Literature in the Archives, explores the emotional role that literature plays during war across the world. Funding for this series is provided by the Friends at UW-Madison. Read the essay here: loom.ly/Q9Bh5Ok

Every year, we at Holding History learn how to make paper from pulp, but where does *that* pulp come from? Join us for this hands on event to learn! September 24th | 5-7 | Science Hall Room 15

Big news! 🎉 Joshua Calhoun & Sarah Marty just published their first academic article on Holding History in Public Humanities. “How to Design Public Events” shares a decade of collaborative, inclusive public humanities work. holdinghistory.org/post/celebrati…