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?”

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.

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

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...

Catherine Malabou and contemporary French literature and film: witnessing plasticity

Published in Modern & Contemporary France (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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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…

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.

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...

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.

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!

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!

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!!

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.

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.

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!

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)

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!

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’

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

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

Crosscurrents Author Interview: Witnessing Plasticity with Benjamin Dalton

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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...

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

📖 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

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...

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...

Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film

Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film

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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

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!!

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.

Benjamin Dalton@benbgdalton.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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.

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.

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...

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!