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!
The Special Issue is available Open Access via JStore
I had so much fun working on this with Kaliane & Benjamin, and our wonderful contributors Madeleine Chalmers, Naomi Jacobs, Jennifer Boum Make, Hyunjin Kim, Maïté Marciano, Cristina Robu, Jordan McCullough, Vincent Mousseau, Tobias Barnet & Jennifer Bélanger -can’t wait for future collaborations!
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’
My talk relates to my current research project on representations of brain tumours in philosophy, literature and film:
“The Life of the Brain in French Philosophy and Literature: From Catherine Malabou’s (Destructive) Plasticity to Tales from the Neurology Ward”
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
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.
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Find out more about the wierd and wonderful journey I went on writing the book on the @edinburghup.bsky.social blog website!
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...
Join me to celebrate the launch of my book on 19th February 5-6:30 at Lancaster University Library - there will be a panel discussion and Q&A, as well as a drinks reception and, excitingly, a THEMED CAKE courtesy of culinary genius Alexander Wragge-Morley! There will also be options to join online.
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...
My book is now available for pre-order at www.edinburghuniversitypress.com
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Out January 2026!! 🚀🪐✨ @edinburghup.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social @globalaffairslu.bsky.social
My talk was titled: ‘“The hospital requires treatment in order to treat” (Jean Oury): healing the hospital with contemporary French philosophy, literature and film’ 🏥
Wonderful to see Steven Wilson, Maeve McCusker, Sarah Bowskill, and Emma Humphries! Thanks for such a warm welcome!!
My talk was titled: ‘“The hospital requires treatment in order to treat” (Jean Oury): healing the hospital with contemporary French philosophy, literature and film’ 🏥
Wonderful to see Steven Wilson, Maeve McCusker, Sarah Bowskill, and Emma Humphries! Thanks for such a warm welcome!!
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!!
I had an AMAZING time Steven!! thanks so much for having me — from the warm welcome and fantastic questions and feedback from QUB colleagues to the famous Tara Lodge sausages, I felt very honored to be there!
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.
My talk is titled:
‘“The hospital requires treatment in order to treat” (Jean Oury): healing the hospital with contemporary French philosophy, literature and film’ 🏥
Thanks so much to wonderful colleagues at QUB for having me!
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...
This workshop invited visitors to use speculative design and design fiction methodologies to imagine clinical spaces and architectures that are more inclusive to everyone.
Thanks to everyone who dropped by!
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!
This will take place in Lancaster Central Library on 4th November between 9:30-11:30.
Come to our drop-in, take part in the simulation of a future hospital waiting room, and use speculative design methods to design your own hospital waiting room of the future in response!
