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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

At the Society for French Studies 2026 Annual Conference, it was also a total honour to join wonderful colleagues Nina Parish from the University of Glasgow and Hannah Scott from the University of Newcastle for the panel “Research Beyond the Academy: Where to start with Public Engagement?”

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

At this year’s Society for French Studies conference, Dr Fanny Chabrol and I presented some of the work that we are doing as part of our collaborations on hospital futures.

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

As just like that, with another traditional ‘elegant lean’ group photo, the Society for French Studies 2026 conference draws to a close.

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The first review of my book — Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film — has been published in @francemodern.bsky.social ! Thanks to Tyler Williams, whose own work on Malabou I admire greatly, for this review, which I was honoured to read! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RQ2NB...

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Catherine Malabou and contemporary French literature and film: witnessing plasticity

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I loved today! This was the“Artistic Intelligences in Place” event organised by Nathan Jones, all about the power of art as a critical tool to imagine exciting futures for the region. My own participation explored how art can hep us imagine alternative hospital futures…

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We are holding a platform-building workshop on Monday 22nd June at Health Innovation Campus, Lancaster University, welcoming colleagues working on health/care environments across all disciplines and sectors to come together to build new ways of re-imagining hospital and beyond-hospital futures.

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Delighted to have recorded a podcast with Victoria-Oana Lupascu about my new book: Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film (@edinburghup.bsky.social, 2026). The podcast is available via the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Check it out here: newbooksnetwork.com/catherine-ma...

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Benjamin Dalton, "Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity" (Edinburgh UP, 2026) - New Books Network

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We are holding a Lancaster University School of Global Affairs FESTIVAL OF WICKED PROBLEMS. The Festival brings together staff and students in the School of Global Affairs to collaborate together on responses to some of the most complex and urgent challenges facing the world today.

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Back from a fantastic 3 days in Belfast!!! This was part of the AHRC Impact Accelerator Account innitiative “Coasts and Crossings: Innovation Springboard, supporting collaborations between Ulster, Teesside and Lancaster Unis!

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

And now we’re off to Belfast!! ✈️✈️✈️ We’re taking part in the research event “Coasts and Crossings: Innovation Springboard”, supported by the AHRC Impact Accelerator Account. We’ll be working with colleagues at Ulster and Teeside Unis exploring opportunities for collaboration across our institutions!

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Phase one of our Society for French Studies Visiting International Scholarship is now complete! Dr Fanny Chabrol has joined us at Lancaster for the last three weeks and we had the best time! Conferences, workshops, writing, Hyrox classes, we’ve done it all!!

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

More photos from DAY 2 of “Building Blocks for Critical Care: Designing ICU Spaces” by MADE for Health ! 🏥 This was a high energy day of workshop and Colin the Caterpillar cake, including a Q and A with some of the teams working on the designs for modular hospitals in the New Hospitals Programme.

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

And today we’re in London at the Fetal Medicine Research Institute for Made for Health ‘s “Building Blocks for Critical Care: Designing ICU Spaces”!! This is such an exciting event about designing the ICU environments of the future and placing clinicians and patients at the heart of the process.

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

It was SO MUCH FUN to present at the Health Innovation Campus, Lancaster University Collaboration Café this morning alongside my fantastic colleagues Fanny Chabrol and Michael Lambert. Thanks so much for having us Jez Bebbington Laura Kornas and HIC colleagues!

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Wonderful to receive the print copy of the Special Issue of L’Esprit Créateur I co-edited with Kaliane Ung and Benjamin Gagnon Chainey: “Future Worlds of Health: Speculative Methods, Medical Humanities and French and Francophone Cultures” (vol 65, no. 4, Winter 2025)

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Here's a new (open access!) paper I collaborated on about bricolage, speculative design and healthcare futures - talking about how we might find new creative ways to design future hospitals. muse.jhu.edu/article/985868 It was fab working with @benbgdalton.bsky.social and Madeleine Chalmers!

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Really excited to announce the publication of a Special Issue of L’Esprit Créateur which I co-edited with my fantastic colleagues Kaliane Ung (Pittsburgh) and Benjamin Gagnon-Chainey (Laval): ‘Future Worlds of Health: Speculative Methods, Medical Humanities, and French and Francophone Cultures’

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Will be speaking this week at “Intersecting Minds: A Neurohumanities & Consciousness Collective” at Emory University (online)!

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It was a huge pleasure to talk to @drchriswatkin.bsky.social yesterday about my new book which is out now Open Access with @edinburghup.bsky.social : Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity. youtu.be/1--37emAfUs

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Crosscurrents Author Interview: Witnessing Plasticity with Benjamin Dalton

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Some lovely endorsements for my book: Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity 📖 Out now Open Access with Edinburgh University Press @edinburgh edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-catheri...

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Come along this week on Wednesday 21st January and find out more about our interdisciplinary Global Leadership masters programmes in the Lancaster University School of Global Affairs: - MA in Global Medical and Health Humanities - MA in Sustainability and Global Environmental Futures

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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

📖 New on the blog Q&A with @benbgdalton.bsky.social about his new book, which journeys through philosophy, literature, film and (neuro)science to discover how our bodies and brains transform throughout life. edin.ac/3NypndA

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I loved speaking to Edinburgh University Press about my new book Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity (out now Open Access!) euppublishingblog.com/author/edinb...

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

My book Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity is now PUBLISHED Open Access with Edinburgh University Press: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-catheri...

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Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

My book is now available for pre-order at www.edinburghuniversitypress.com 30% DISCOUNT WITH CODE: NEW30 Out January 2026!! 🚀🪐✨ @edinburghup.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social @globalaffairslu.bsky.social

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I had a fantastic time this week at Queen’s University Belfast. Honoured to speak at the research seminar hosted by Modern Languages and the Global Cultures of Health and Illness network!!

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Steven Wilson @profstevenwilson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

A pleasure to welcome Ben to QUB yesterday and to hear his brilliant talk on ‘healing the hospital’ with contemporary French philosophy, literature and film.

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I’m in Belfast!! ✈️ So happy to be at Queen’s University Belfast today to deliver a talk at a research seminar hosted by Modern Languages and the Global Cultures of Health and Illness network at Queen’s University Belfast.

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Alex Wragge-Morley @wraggem.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Really pleased to see my latest article out with @medicalhistory.bsky.social - this article looks at the underappreciaed role habit in the medical thought of 18th century Britain. Drawing on a wide range of works, but focusing on William Cullen, this article 1/6 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Habit, medicine, and society in 18th-century Britain | Medical History | Cambridge Core

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Fantastic to be part of the Festival of Social Sciences this week alongside by wonderful colleagues Naomi Jacobs and Temidayo Eseonu. We were bringing our workshop “The Hospital in 2125: Inclusive Healthcare Futures” to the public!

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Really excited to be participating in the Festival of Social Sciences next week alongside my fantastic colleagues Dr Temidayo Eseonu and Dr Naomi Jacobs. We will be running a drop-in workshop titled “The Hospital in 2125: Imagining Healthcare Futures”

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Great to present my talk today at the Languages and Global Cultures Research Seminar at Lancaster: “Endoscopies of the Hospital: Screening and Treating the Healthcare Architecture in the Moving Image”

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

My book now has a cover!!! The artwork, which is by Stephen Magrath, is of a neural synapse firing in the brain 🧠 📖 Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity 📖 (forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press, January 2026!)

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Yesterday at the 2nd meeting of the International Narrative Neurology network, which I co-hosted with Dr Claire Jeantils and Dr Rong Huang, I gave my talk: "How to hear a brain speaking: a story about a bad date, a tectal plate glioma, and the (neuro-)plastic philosophy of Catherine Malabou"

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Really delighted to share some endorsements from the Edinburgh University Press website for my forthcoming book: Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity (forthcoming January 2026) Feeling very thankful - these are scholars I admire so much!

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Join us on the MA in Global Medical and Health Humanities, which explores cutting-edge approaches to well-being, illness, and healthcare.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Welcome to the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University!

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

What does the rapid escalation in AI capabilities and implementation mean to society? Lancaster University’s MA in Artificial Intelligence, Society and Global Challenges will equip you to engage with such questions and prepare you for a wide variety of roles in this rapidly expanding sector.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

What are the key causes of environmental change? What is stopping nations from shaping a more sustainable relationship between people and the environment? The MA in Sustainability and Global Environmental Futures at Lancaster offers fresh thinking to address the biggest challenges of our times.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Welcome to the School of Global Affairs! Find out more about our School's aims and priorities: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ0l...

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Proofs have landed for my book!! A surreal and joyful moment 🕺 📖Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity📖 FORTHCOMING JAN 2026 with Edinburgh University Press

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Dr John Gilmore @gilmorejnurse.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Listen to me and @benbgdalton.bsky.social discuss Queer Medical Humanities and different issues and approaches in queering health, healthcare and health futures open.spotify.com/episode/0v73...

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Episode 28 - Queer Medical Humanities /w Ben Dalton and John Gilmore

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Was wonderful to participate in a podcast episode on Queer Medical Humanities with Dr John Gilmore, hosted by Dieter Declercq and Ian Sabroe. This podcast is in the series Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health, hosted by the Medical Humanities Research Centre at the University of Glasgow.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Huge congratulations to Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA, a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy in Lancaster University's School of Global Affairs, who has been elected as Vice-President (Humanities) of the British Academy. www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/disting...

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Distinguished Professor elected Vice-President of the British Academy - Lancaster University

A Lancaster University Distinguished Professor has been elected to a highly prestigious role at the British Academy, the UK’s national academy for humanities and social sciences.

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Fantastic to have MADE For Health back on Lancaster University campus this week as part of the Social Enterprise in Residence scheme! MADE For Health are a company whose mission is to transform hospital architecture by putting patients and clinicians at the heart of the design process 🏥❤️

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Was an honour yesterday to take a tour of The Harbour psychiatric hospital in Blackpool. I met a very cute therapy dragon whilst exploring! 🦎

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Over the moon to share that Dr Fanny Chabrol and I have been awarded a Society for French Studies Visiting International Fellowship to enable Fanny to join us in Lancaster University School of Global Affairs for a period of collaborative research in 2026!

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Do you identify as queer? Have you had an experience of being in a hospital in the Northwest of England? We’re inviting members of the LGBTQIA+ community to share their experiences of hospitals. Contribute to this study via the link: lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Very excited to have contracted this fabulous new addition to @bloomsburylit.bsky.social flourishing med hums series. A brilliant editorial team and a first rate group of contributors involved!

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