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30.08.2025 18:16 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Welcome to the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University!
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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.
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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.
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...
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A new report we've co-authored with The Australian National University reveals that important legislation designed to stamp out the barbaric practices related to accusations of witchcraft is rarely used (1/3)
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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 👇
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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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)
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
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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)
11.06.2025 12:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Amazing keynote from my fantastic colleague @delphinegrass.bsky.social ! Can’t wait to hear more about this Delphine!
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Learn more about Lancaster University School of Global Affairs's Dr Delphine Grass's fantastic recent keynote at the international Translation Studies Conference here:
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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!
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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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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.
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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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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...
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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.
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Find out more about our curriculum offer, including our Global Leadership Master's programmes, MA Translation, and BA programmes, on our website: www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affai...
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Welcome to the School of Global Affairs! Find out more about our School's aims and priorities:
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Danke, Birgit!
18.03.2025 22:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We 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...
18.03.2025 15:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1@globalaffairslu.bsky.social come on German students, shout out for German! #shoutoutforgerman
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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!
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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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