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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Delighted to see our guide to dementia and communication, Beyond Words, out in the world! Very proud of this little booklet, and had the best co-author—poet, scholar and carer Lesley Saunders. The website is still under construction but download the PDF at this link: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/eng...

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Dismayed to hear ableist coverage by #BBCRadio4Today this morning of child having sight loss cured. Great news story ofc but no one countered the idea that living with sight loss was terrible fate, not living a full life etc. If you felt the same, make a complaint: www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

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Complaints | Contact the BBC

These pages have information about how to complain to the BBC, with links to the BBC’s Complaints Framework, the BBC’s regulator Ofcom and regular reports about complaints. If you would like to unders...

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

So proud of my fantastic colleagues, @stevetpurcell.bsky.social and @dralicekelly.bsky.social, who won in the Impact and the Communications categories respectively at @warwickuni.bsky.social Research Celebration awards. (Steve for amazing work with @thepantaloons.bsky.social among other things.)

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

So sorry for your loss, Jami. X

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

11. Käthe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait (1921)

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Argh, life got too much. 10. Vermeer, Woman Writing a Letter, c. 1670.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I had cause to look up the wonderful (to my mind) talks from our Living a Good Life in Older Age conference (6+ years ago now 😮) today. Do check them out if you missed it and are interested. So many rich interdisciplinary perspectives. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-rwJ...

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Trailer - Living a Good Life in Older Age - 2018

YouTube video by Elizabeth Barry

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Has anyone (have any hundreds) talked about Trump tilting at windmills yet?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Oh no. Such an illuminating scholar and influence at least indirectly when I was more directly engaged in ‘language studies’ — but her work resonates in and under so much (in life and work). RIP.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

One of my most revered scholars of age and lit sent me a generous and perceptive email about my work and it has totally changed my relationship with and ability to progress on my book (though that wasn’t what she was talking about). Tell people what their work means to you. It is transformative.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Sooooo great to hear (though unsurprising!) on both counts. You (all) rock! Can’t wait to hear more (though no rush of course!).

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

9. Kajita Hanko, Grudge Borne on a Spring Evening (1902). [okay, mostly for the title!]

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Well that’s excellent. Except now I am too interested to go to sleep.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This has been my last year, “finishing” (i.e. seeming to start writing all over again) the putative book. Hope the former is now predominating.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

8. Kasimir Malevich, Taking in the Rye (1911).

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

7. Howard Hodgkin, Learning about Russian Music (1999).

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

So wish I could be there. Hope it’s ace! As it will be, with you all involved.

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

‪ Back en route to Regensburg, for "Samuel Beckett: The German Room", a one-day conference with some absolute mega legends in attendance: thee Megan Girdwood on Beckett & Dance, maestro Feargal Whelan on Beckett’s Landscapes, and Legend of all Legends Sarah Jane Scaife on Beckett, Women & Inis Oirr.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

6. Van Gogh, La Berceuse. Portrait of Madame Roulin.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

What is the word for having excessively modest expectations of something (e.g. a stage of life)? If there is one. 'Conservatism' doesn't quite work. What am I thinking of? (If anything.)

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This is such a great collection of Beckett’s art choices. Bringing a lot back to me!

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 5. Alison Wilding, Phaethon (2016) in collaboration with master printmaker Kit Gresham.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 4. Rembrandt, Self-Portrait as Zeuxis Laughing. C. 1662.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

#sickimagination2026 Shout out to my new Sick Imagination students and especially AC— have a look if you’re interested in this neglected topic as per our discussion.

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Staging Beckett @stagingbeckett.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

20 Paintings that have stayed with you Samuel #Beckett’s no 3: Avigdor Arikha, Coat 1973

Etching by Avigdor Arikha of an overcoat hanging on a wall

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Loving this series on behalf of SB! 🤩

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Anyone feel like doing it, I would love to see yours.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Yes, I *almost* like it for that reason. (Not really, obviously.) Always tempted to say 'yes, I am actually frothing at the mouth with anger. You should be too...'

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Thank you, this is timely and the Pocket Instructor fantastic. Which Collier? Probably being dim but found a couple of candidates.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Today’s reminder not to miss these glorious gorgeous people in Toronto tomorrow, representing the Samuel Beckett Society in style! #mla2026 #samuelbeckett

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Wish I could hear this (I work on time). If you want to meet the cool folk, and you have time before your paper, do check out our Beckett Society panel Rewriting The Modernist Wife Friday at 10.45 — fun, clever, righting wrongs…

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

@tedunderwood.com I thought of your article on literary time and how it’s action writing that slows things down, counter-intuitively…

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

@modernistudies.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social Modernists ahoy! A really special panel you will enjoy (I guarantee) at #mla2026 "Rewriting the Modernist Wife: Beckett, Stein, Dumesnil, Toklas". Friday 10.15 MTCC - 205D.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Sorry, I've been away from here for ages. I don't think I ever did, no -- can't recall reading anything by him or why I would have done. It's not impossible but doesn't ring a bell...

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Returning to URGE you if you're at MLA in Toronto to attend this superb panel from Samuel Beckett Society superstars @georginanugent.bsky.social, Julie Bates and Dunlaith Bird (Friday 9th Jan 10.15-11.30am): some of the best and most important work I've encountered in Beckett and modernist studies.

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Obviously since posting I've found one by the wonderful @rebeccaroache.bsky.social

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Does anyone have a good example, e.g. an academic account of, thinking through of, nice way of discussing (not in so many words -- or even in so many words) the concept of "passive aggressive"? (Yes, okay, I'm wondering about a better (?) way to say it in academic writing, but also interested.)

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Liz Barry @lizbaz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Not exactly in the same league but content which also offered a slight lift! @davidpattie.bsky.social

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