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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 · 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

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 · 30/07/2025

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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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Join us for this fantastic workshop by Lily Robert-Foley on the 2nd of July! Online and free 📢✨ To register, follow the link on the website or use the QR code: wp.lancs.ac.uk/transcultura... @globalaffairslu.bsky.social #translation #creativecritical #languages #digitalhumanities

Bright coloured poster with details of workshop with workshop description: Experimental Translation: the work of translation in the age of Algorithmic Production posits that the threat of machine translation has given way to an alternative, experimental practice of translation that reflects upon and hijacks traditional paradigms. In much the same way that photography initiated a break in artistic practices with the threat of an absolute fidelity to the real, machine translation has paradoxically liberated human translators to err, to diverge, to tamper with the original, blurring creation and imitation with cyborg collage and appropriation. This shift has also inspired a shift in methodology, and the Experimental Translation monograph is accompanied by a handbook of experimental, creative-critical (to employ the term used in Delphine Grass’s 2023, Translation as Creative-Critical Practice) “translation procedures” to try at home or abroad, in the classroom, the laboratory, the garden, the dance hall, the city, the kitchen, the library, the shopping center, the supermarket, the train, the bus, the airplane, the post office, on the radio, on your phone, on your computer, and on the internet. In this talk and workshop, I would like to practice with participants a procedure that did not find its way into the handbook: globetranslation. Globetranslation consists in selecting a single word, translating that word into as many languages as possible, searching for those translated words in unilingual dictionaries in that word’s own language & then using machine translation to translate those definitions back into English. This procedure adopts the conceptual writing technique of appropriation (Acker, Place, Dworkin, Goldsmith) as a way of doing terminological research across languages. Time and desire permitting, this procedure may even take us further, to individual and collective poetic creation and discussions about the politics of appropriation and language learning.

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Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Congratulations to Prof Charlotte Baker (@cabaker.bsky.social) of @globalaffairslu.bsky.social and @lulawcrim.bsky.social PhD student Biobele Danagogo for their involvement in the report, which was launched on Monday (3/3) Read the report 👇

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International Network Against Witchcraft Accusations and Ritual Attacks

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

Wonderful to see the fantastic ongoing work by Professor Charlotte Baker @cabaker.bsky.social to protect victims accused of witchcraft. Read more about this vital work in The Times below.

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Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Congratulations to Prof Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA, who has been elected as Vice-President (Humanities) of @britishacademy.bsky.social 👏 Prof Ram-Prasad is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy in our new School of Global Affairs (@globalaffairslu.bsky.social)

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

Read more here about our interdisciplinary master's degrees and how they tackle global challenges: Global Medical and Health Humanities MA Sustainability and Global Environmental Futures MA Artificial Intelligence, Society and Global Challenges MA studyinternational.com/news/lancast...

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Lancaster University: Shaping leaders in global affairs

Tackle global challenges with Lancaster University’s interdisciplinary master’s degrees in AI, sustainability, and global health. Apply now for October 2025 entry.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

We're very proud to be participating in the Festival of Languages 2025 (16th June to the 4th July)! Please see the link below for further information on the diverse and exciting range of events to get involved in and how to register. www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affai...

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Wonderful to see the publication of the Special Issue: The Non-Human Irresistible: The Poetics of Portals, Ports and Shorelines, from Cork and Merseyside, edited by Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies Dr Cornelia Gräbner and Dr Eleanor Rees from Liverpool Hope University. liminalities.net/21-1/

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Liminalities 21.1 (2025)

a special issue on The Non-Human Irresistible: The Poetics of Portals, Ports and Shorelines, from Cork and Merseyside

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

We are so proud of Lancaster University's win in this year's Dragon Boat Race, led by colleagues in the Lancaster University Confucius Institute! Congratulations to all in the boat, and to everyone who came to Liverpool to support, on this wonderful success! www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...

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Lancaster University fire their way to success in dragon boat race - Lancaster University

It was another sporting first place for Lancaster University at the weekend when Team Dragon Boat paddled to success.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Fantastic to see this exciting initiative on neurology and narrative medicine! The project, led by Dr Claire Jeantils at the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University, brings together colleagues from Lancaster (Dr Benjamin Dalton), Durham University, and Peking University (Dr Rong Huang)

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Amazing keynote from my fantastic colleague @delphinegrass.bsky.social ! Can’t wait to hear more about this Delphine!

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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Delighted to be a keynote speaker at this year’s Spring School in #Translation Studies in Lisbon. I cannot wait to meet everyone & to hearing everyone’s papers! @globalaffairslu.bsky.social

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Wonderful to see our Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature Delphine Grass giving her exciting keynote lecture on translation, AI, ecosemiotics and biopolitics in Lisbon! Delphine's work explores how translation can help us explore our relationship to technology and to the environment.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Sign up for the annual Lancaster Environment Lecture, which takes place tomorrow (15th May) on Lancaster University campus. This year's lecture is given by the environmental campaigner Bella Lack, author of the groundbreaking book Children of the Anthropocene. www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass-pgr/new...

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University welcomes environmental campaigner Bella Lack - Lancaster University

Conservationist and environmental campaigner Bella Lack presents the 2025 Lancaster Environment Lecture, co-ordinated by the School of Global Affairs, on campus at Lancaster University this week.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Congratulations to our Lecturer in French Studies Dr Benjamin Dalton on completing his exciting new book: Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity (forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press). We look forward to seeing this published in January 2026!

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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Don’t forget to book your ticket for this wonderful event on 15 May at 7pm! 📣 This year’s Lancaster Environment Lecture will be given by Bella Lack, a fantastic environmental writer and activist ✨ To book your free ticket: dukeslancaster.org/whats-on/the... @globalaffairslu.bsky.social

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LITFEST: Bella Lack, The Lancaster Enviroment LEcture

In conversation with Matt Sowerby VENUE: Margaret Fell Lecture Theatre, Lancaster University *Booking essential

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We are delighted to see that our current Head of School, Dr Derek Hird, has been announced as Interim Director of Lancaster University's Confucius Institute. portal.lancaster.ac.uk/intranet/new...

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Home | Staff Intranet

The Staff Intranet is the home of news, notices, and events for all staff at Lancaster University. It also features useful digital services and tools.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

We are delighted to announce that Modern Languages at Lancaster University has moved up to joint 66th globally and is situated within the top ten for UK institutions in the latest QS World Rankings by Subject 2025! www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affai...

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Birgit Smith @birgit2014.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

@globalaffairslu.bsky.social come on German students, shout out for German! #shoutoutforgerman

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Ever wondered what skills might be needed to draft a statement responding to a cyber attack on the UN? And how arts, humanities and social science skills might be needed? Come to our taster webinar for the MA Global Affairs tomorrow to find out! events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f43dec...

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Not one but TWO wonderful talks by @delphinegrass.bsky.social on creative-critical translation coming up this week at @bristoluni.bsky.social!

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A wonderful event coming up on 11th March with @dhansen.bsky.social of @ulbruxelles.bsky.social, who will join us to talk about translation technology and creative translation. Hosted by @delphinegrass.bsky.social. Find out more and sign up: www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affai...

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

We are delighted to welcome Dr Diana Coromines i Calders to Lancaster University School of Global Affairs as our Translator in Residence for 2025. All are welcome to this public talk on 18th March. Details below. Please visit our event page to register: www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affai...

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Litfest, Lancaster @litfest.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

One month to go until Litfest comes back to Lancaster! You might have seen our programmes cropping up across the North West or popping through your letterbox if you're on our mailing list, but you can also browse the programme online and book your tickets here: geni.us/Litfest2025

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Want to find out more about our new suite of MA programmes? Sign up for a taster webinar! We will be running a series of four throughout February and March, starting with this session hosted by @benbgdalton.bsky.social and Prof Deborah Sutton on 28th Feb events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fbcca4...

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Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We are seeking a new Head of School for Lancaster University School of Global Affairs! Interested in finding about more about this exciting HE leadership opportunity? See the dedicated website for this recruitment process, below. www.lancaster.ac.uk/jobs/landing...

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FHASS Opportunities - Lancaster University

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Derek Hird @derekjhird.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Unique insights from Professor Shaun Breslin on UK-China relations in his talk today organised by Lancaster University Confucius Institute: 'From Golden Age to Derisking to What? Tracing the Evolution of UK’s China Policy'.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We are excited to announce we’re now taking applications for our suite of new MAs, designed for people who want to make a difference through ethical leadership and collaboration. Starting October 2025. Sign up for a PG Open Day to find out more: lancaster.ac.uk/study/open-d...

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Very exciting session yesterday trying out an innovative new AI-assisted VR language learning experience designed by SGA's Alícia Morena Gimenez in collaboration with Lancaster's ISS Innovation Hub. We can't wait to use this with students in a few weeks' time!

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We are so proud of @cabaker.bsky.social's involvement in the long-standing campaign to secure the rights of people with albinism around the world, which has secured a major victory in this landmark ruling from Tanzania ⏬ www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/new...

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Tanzania ordered to revise witchcraft laws to protect people with albinism

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights has directed Tanzania to revise its witchcraft laws to clearly distinguish between traditional healers and witch doctors.

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Derek Hird @derekjhird.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The Confucius Institute at Lancaster University now proudly possesses a dragon boat, kindly donated by the good people of 汨罗, the home of dragon boat racing in China! @globalaffairslu.bsky.social

A Chinese dragon boat placed outside the Lancaster University Confucius Institute.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Wishing you a happy lunar new year from all at Lancaster University's School of Global Affairs!

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Derek Hird @derekjhird.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Following the success of our two previous livestream webinars from the Terra-Cotta Museum in Xi'an, Chinese Studies @globalaffairslu.bsky.social is hosting a third webinar that will take the audience into the restoration site for cultural relics. Please register through the QR code on the poster.

The image shows a relic restoration expert carefully restoring an artefact in the Terra-cotta Army Museum, Xi'an, China, and includes a QR code to enable registration at a live webinar from the Museum on this topic on Thursday 13 March 2025, 09:00-09:45 UK time.

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Derek Hird @derekjhird.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The British Council has produced a handy Year of the Snake Primary Education Pack, as a resource for schools to celebrate Chinese New Year www.britishcouncil.org/school-resou...

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

What does it take to implement a UN Resolution? Professor Charlotte Baker @cabaker.bsky.social discusses how implementation of Resolution 47/8, on harmful practices related to accusations of witchcraft, is only just beginning, but it is already having an impact. www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affai...

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Promoting Implementation of UN Resolution 47/8 - Lancaster University

What does it take to implement a UN Resolution? Professor Charlotte Baker discusses how implementation of Resolution 47/8 on the Elimination of harmful practices related to accusations of witchcraft (...

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Hello! We are delighted to join the conversation here at Bluesky. Follow us for updates on departmental news, events, research, teaching and more!

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