Benjamin Dalton

YouTube video by Christopher Watkin Crosscurrents Author Interview: Witnessing Plasticity with Benjamin Dalton

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.

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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

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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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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!)

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BOOK LAUNCH: Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film Join us to celebrate the publication of the new book by Benjamin Dalton: Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film

Please register for the launch on Eventbrite here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1978580283...

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.

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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!

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”

This talk explored representations of hospitals in contemporary documentary, asking how film might provide both a critical and creative space for rethinking clinical design.

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.
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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!)

It also draws on themes of neuroplastic narrativity in the work of Catherine Marabou which I develop in my forthcoming book (which I promise I'll stop talking about at some point!)

This was all about the role that storytelling plays in the patient experience of neurological care and surgery, and involved Tinder, a homophobe, the Lion King, and an Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy.

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!