#SHEAR2020

For anyone interested, this is *the* THREAD on that now infamous plenary talk from #SHEAR2020. Pull up a chair and listen!https://twitter.com/historianess/status/1284459556068876289 It was a bad talk in so many ways.
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The recent calls to action re: #SHEAR2020 are useful, and I'm hopeful they will bring meaningful change to the structure and spirit of the organization - and perhaps to others
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I wish that the #SHEAR2020 plenary better represented the array of exciting work that is happening in #VastEarlyAmerica. But, on the other hand, we all know that the kind of
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The #SHEAR2020 plenary debacle yesterday raised an issue I've been thinking abt a lot lately: shouldn't our professional presence as scholars be guided by an ethos of kindness? / Academics
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I am still thinking about the #SHEAR2020 plenary and want to comment on the framing of the panel. These views have come out of many, many conversations (see citations at
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1/ Zoom academia may have intriguing possibilities I hadn't thought about. I tuned into #SHEAR2020 out of pure curiosity. I would never have entered that conference IRL. I am sure
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A thread on the #SHEAR2020 plenary session yesterday: Documentary editors find, transcribe, annotate, and publish sources for other scholars. Very loosely speaking, documentary history is a project centered around a
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Finally watched entire #SHEAR2020 plenary. I won't focus on Feller's presentation; others have already begun the necessary if tedious task of eviscerating it. Instead I'll offer a thread on how
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As promised, my thread regarding Daniel Feller's plenary at yesterday's #SHEAR2020 virtual conference. I preface this by saying I am not a member of SHEAR and though several friends have
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