@delphinegrass.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature, Lancaster University. Creative-critical practice | Translation | Eco-translation | Comparative Literature | Languages | AI | Biosemiotics
On a pink background with a dark red slash on the cover, book shows title, ‘Annah, Infinite by Khairani Barokka’, and ‘Tilted Axis Press’.
The book of my life (so far), ANNAH, INFINITE is an escape story.
A translation of a painting, in speculative nonfic, poetry & art. Took 14 yrs, &I’m inviting you to love it as I do. Aug 19 UK, Nov 11 US.
For reviews/i’views/events: tramy@tiltedaxispress.com
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The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...
21.04.2025 20:07 — 👍 5845 🔁 652 💬 175 📌 46Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Max Chervin Bridge's "Still a Silent World: Fish Ears, Whale Politics, and the Science of Ocean Noise, 1941–1990" from the October 2025 issue. #envhist #envhum #oceanhistory #sensoryhistory #animalhistory
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Loving the sound of this sound/article!
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Displacement of Gaza residents in 2025. Copyright Jaber Jehad Badwan. Image is not linked to the letter but is taken from a post about the famine in Gaza by one of the letter's authors https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/health-humanitarian-crises-centre/news/465306/famine-and-genocide-gaza-personal-view
UK-based academics: sign & circulate this open letter pub'd by @bmj.com to Starmer & Lammy to act to stop genocide & famine in Gaza
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The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign
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"[UNSEASONABLE] is a necessary book for environmental and ecocritical humanists interested in expanding their sense of climate change literatures beyond those produced in the Global North."-Patrick Whitmarsh, ISLE. buff.ly/SfXzTKm
#Phenology #Envhum #ClimateChange #Environment #BookReview #ReadUP
🥳We have just published a new virtual exhibition!🥳
"Once Upon a Dune: Coastal (Hi)Stories" is now online on the Environment and Society Portal (link below).
Go over to the Portal to explore the coastal (hi)stories yourself!
#virtualexhibition #dunes #online #openaccess #envhist #envhum #coast
Weger, J. (2023). "Nothing for free": Intermediary actors and cross-scalar knowledge translation for climate adaptation in the Mekong Delta. Journal of Political Ecology 30(1), 1005-1035. doi.org/10.2458/jpe....
@pollenetwork.bsky.social
"If nothing else is left, one must scream.
Silence is the real crime against humanity."
Nadezhda Mandestam
#Gaza
I normally post on climate science, which is my expertise.
But this is too important to look away, so I want to share this from the Washington Post. Please read.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Don’t miss next week’s Montagskolloquium at the Deutsches Museum! 🌿🎧
In “Plants, Acoustics and Urban Space” Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sonja Dümpelmann of LMU Munich shares insights from her research into how plants and acoustic practices intersect in the design and experience of urban environments.
#envhum#rcc
In this article I list ten things western govts could do if they truly cared. Inaction is a choice, and currently a massive moral failure. Here’s the list in summary - all drawn from previous examples of humanitarian intervention: 🧵
05.07.2025 19:44 — 👍 85 🔁 44 💬 6 📌 2I really enjoyed reading this. Thank you for sharing!
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"Verde": 'The dream is this. A perfectly ordinary woman I work with tells me she is an alien. She puts a black rubber patch over the left side of my face that, she says, will retrain my brain, let me understand her language.' theamericanscholar.org/verde/
23.06.2025 04:45 — 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 2"Eighth thesis: The subjunctive is the grammatical mood of
precarity.
A good portion of the world's population has approached
what is yet to come only tentatively, wearing fog shoes. More a hesitation than a plan. More a desire, perceived by others as madness, than a want."
- Cristina Rivera Garza
A fantastic-looking event right here 👇 All booked and looking forward!
03.07.2025 15:36 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0"Ce qu’on est en train de vivre aujourd’hui, c’est les trajectoires qu’on avait imaginées il y a 20 ans. La communauté des climatologues n’est pas du tout surprise par la vague de chaleur qui arrive. Elle est effrayée." @cassouman40.bsky.social ce matin sur @franceinfo.fr #VagueDeChaleur #DontLookUp
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Our Spring 2025 Issue is OUT NOW! Featuring incredible works of eco-writing and translation by emerging and established writers. Read now at the link in our bio!
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Cover for Osiris n°40 (2025), titled "Animal Mobilities", featuring of painting of entangled sea creatures (crabs, starfishes, etc.).
#journalissue: "Animal Mobilities" (Osiris, Volume 40, ed. Tamar Novick, Lisa Onaga, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg)
Available here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/2...
#envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism #animalstudies #histstm #hstm
Book cover of Ghosts Behind Glass with colorful Carolina parakeet under bell jar
Preorder now!!
Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums
Coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social in October 2025.
Only $20 in paperback for a full color book with 80 pictures of dead things. It’s beautiful!
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Thanks Kasia, Brigitte and Alex are amazing :) Both as human beings and scholars!
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Spotted at the Reina Sofia Museum today. Anti-Hitler poster from 1933.
“Small man asks for big donations and claims ‘Millions stand with me’”
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...
@globalaffairslu.bsky.social
#translation #creativecritical #languages #digitalhumanities
It'll be two years, this Monday night. Time, at last, to write about Agnes.
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Manuscrits médiéval datant de 1386 montrant une volvelle
Savez-vous ce qu'est une "volvelle" ?
Si je vous dis que c'est un outil incroyablement beau, fascinant, la preuve que le Moyen Âge est aussi une époque de sciences et d'inventions, ça vous donne envie d'en savoir plus ?
Un fil ⬇️! #medievalists #medievalsky
Graphic for a Special Issue of the Journal of Romance Studies: Journal cover displayed to the left, the cover is a warm white with a decorative square tile in the centre, the journal's title is in a slim mid green font. Behind the cover sits a close up of the decorative tile from the journal's front cover, decorated in blue, green and yellow with a floral motif. On top sits text that reads 'ECOMODLANG: GREENING THE FIELD OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES Edited by Armelle Blin-Rolland, Margaret C. Flinn, and Martín Veiga'. A white Liverpool University Press logo and a white Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies, School of Advanced Study University of London logo sit at the top. Below sits a green button with white text that reads 'special issue'.
🌿 A new special issue of Journal of Romance Studies explores how language teaching & research can address ecological crises. Featuring global voices, eco-pedagogies & cultural insights.
Read more: bit.ly/ECOMODLANG
@ilcs.bsky.social @erieriverbirch.bsky.social @eedgington.bsky.social #envhum
"Knowledge serves society best when it stems from a genuine drive to understand, not from the expectation that scientists merely deliver answers on demand. Critical curiosity plays a key role here, as does long-term, independent research; even when it challenges norms, is complex, or requires time."
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It’s a wrap ✨
I have been so honoured to be one of the keynote speakers at the III Lisbon Spring School in translation studies, such a wonderful opportunity to meet and speak to so many great international researchers at all career stages! Obrigada a todas/os!
‘Plants and Animals in Latin American Cultural Production’ is now available for pre-order! This book has been years in the making and includes works by a wonderful and talented group of scholars. #AnimalStudies #PlantStudies #EnvHum #LatinAmericanStudies upf.com/book.asp?id=...
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