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!

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”

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”

Listen to our new podcast: @benbgdalton.bsky.social and @drmariatomlinson.bsky.social discuss our special issue on the BUMIDOM with @awimbush.bsky.social and Jennifer Boum Make. @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social mcfrance.podbean.com

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!)

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"

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!

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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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

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...

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.

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...

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 🏥❤️

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

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!

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_...

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!

Another year another Society for French Studies Annual Conference! This year’s conference took place at the University of Bristol in the SWELTERING but ultimately gorgeous heat ☀️☀️☀️

Really excited to share that Áine Larkin and I have signed a book contract with Bloomsbury for an edited volume titled: The Hospital in Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures: Reimagining Healthcare Environments

This week in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University we are hosting the company MADE For Health, whose mission is to revolutionise hospital architecture in the UK by putting clinicians at the heart of the design process.

Last week I in Paris for the conference: Futures of the Hospital From the Global South (17-20 June), led by Fanny Chabrol at Université Paris Cité and with colleagues from HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa at Cape Town University.

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)

Had such an amazing time over the last couple of days at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University with Dr Claire Jeantils and Dr Rong Huang for the launch or the International Narrative Neurology Network 🧠🗯️ founded and led by Claire.

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

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.

BELLA LACK: THE LANCASTER ENVIRONMENT LECTURE (Thursday 15th May, 7-8:30pm) Excited for Bella Lack’s lecture on Thursday on Lancaster University campus! Congrats to my colleague @delphinegrass.bsky.social for bringing this all together! Please book to attend. www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass-pgr/new...

For those very few remaining people who are not yet sick of listening me to talk about my book, I’ve sent in the final revised manuscript!! 📖Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity📖 FORTHCOMING with Edinburgh University Press early 2026!

New podcast! Presenters @drmariatomlinson.bsky.social and @benbgdalton.bsky.social are joined by @dcarliniversini.bsky.social, guest-editor of our recent special issue on abortion and by discussant @dnduffy.bsky.social, author of Abortion Trail Activism www.podbean.com/eas/pb-23hin...

NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION: TONGUES: Medical Humanities across Linguistic and Cultural Frontiers. The Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research 2025 Congress | 21-23 May 2025 | Lancaster University, Hosted Online. For details, programme, and registration, click here: tinyurl.com/5n75xpaz

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...

Great report by MRes — now PhD! — student @emonroe02.bsky.social on ‘French Studies and the Medical Humanities’ @ilcs.bsky.social, featuring Anna Elsner and @benbgdalton.bsky.social among others. Emily’s participation was funded by the research initiation scheme we run in QUB Modern Languages.

A real joy to be working with Dr Andrew Ainscough from the Department of English Lit and Creative Writing-who also happens to be my wonderful partner❤️-on research on the reimagining of the NHS hospital in contemporary theatre. We are currently looking at Alan Bennet’s Allelujah (2018)

Interested in interdisciplinary approaches to health and healthcare across the arts, humanities and social sciences? Come along to this event to find out more about our MA in Global Medical and Health Humanities 🌎🩺 Sign up via the Eventbrite link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ma-in-glob...

A beaut Lancaster Chrismois 🎄💅✨

I’ve created a Starter Pack for anyone interested in the Queer Medical Humanities 🩺🏥🏳️‍🌈 - interdisciplinary approaches to queer and LGBTQIA+ healthcare across the humanities, arts, social sciences and medicine go.bsky.app/5LB1Drg

Fantastic to meet delegates last week from Zhejiang International Studies University 浙江外国语学院 to discuss our new MA in Global Medical and Health Humanities at Lancaster University and interdisciplinary heath/care research and teaching!

Beautiful, sleepy weekend in Lancaster 😴🐶🎄🏰

Come to the online launch of the Special Issue of Film-Philosophy, “Catherine Malabou, Plasticity, and Film” co-edited by Ben Tyrer & me! We are joined by the philosopher Catherine Malabou herself, as well as contributors to the Issue. Monday 25th November, 5-6pm GMT on Zoom.

Find out more about the new MA in Global Medical and Health Humanities in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University! www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Loved Light Up Lancaster last weekend!💡💡💡

Great to receive the Special Issue of Paragraph on “Post-Deconstructive Thought and Biological Theory” edited by Ian James. 🧫🔬🧬🧪 My article here is: “Gentle biologies: reconceptualising bodily metamorphosis and healthcare between Catherine Malabou and Anne Dufourmantelle”

Had a fantastic time at the Lancaster University School of Global Affairs’ Global Karaoke last week singing Edith Piaf’s Je ne regrette rien! Brilliant to see such a good turnout and hear colleagues and students perform a range of music from around the world 🌍🌎🌏🎶🎼🎵🎤

My first BlueSky “tweet”? What do we call them? The walk to work this morning 😍 and a new plant from my colleague 🌱