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Lecturer in French Studies @LancasterUni Medical Humanities, hospital architecture, French philosophy, & LGBTQIA+ health/care. Network lead: @QueerMedHums 🏳️‍🌈

Lancaster, England

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Benjamin Dalton

10 days

Excited to see @chaseledin and my article on Queer Medical Humanities published in The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory! We have collect & explore here key emerging research at the intersections of the Medical and Heath Humanities and Queer Studies 🏳️‍🌈🩺 @QueerMedHums

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

why does academia have to be architecturally organised into closed, lonely individual offices? can we not redesign academia and all be in shared open plan spaces? I visited an open plan office today and it was so nice?!? who would prefer that? surely better for collabs and MH?

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4 years

OMAGARRRDDDD passed my PhD Viva !!!!! sun is shinin, the chocolate fingers have been opened #Plasticity

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Benjamin Dalton

6 years

Does everyone else have one of those Microsoft Word documents that you dump copy and pasted deleted material from your actual draft into? What do you saved that document as? Just curious. Mine is called 'Scrapheap Challenge' #phdlife #phdchat #canyoubelieve

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

Over the moon to say that I will be joining Lancaster University @DeLCLancaster as Lecturer in French Studies from January! So excited to work in such an amazing department and can’t wait to get started! All my love and thanks to everyone who has supported me along the way ❤️❤️❤️

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

Joining the Leverhulme rejection club - feeling really sad to be honest. Lots of love everyone, let’s all just gorgeously quit and do something utterly, wonderfully different xxx

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

Just passed a man in the street who shouted « c’est quelle équipe ça? » HaPPY PaRIS PRIDE ANGELS 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

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Benjamin Dalton

4 years

ANNNND I’VE SUBMITTED MY PHD THESIS!!!!!: “Plasticity in Contemporary French Thought, Literature and Film: Witnessing Transformations with Catherine Malabou”

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

Going to be joining the University of Birmingham as a Teaching Fellow in French, Sexuality and Gender for the coming year! I cannot wait to work in a faculty I admire so much and in a city I love! Here are some artist impressions of my academic year to come @unibirmingham

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

Thank you so much @french_studies ! I am so grateful and happy for this Fellowship to continue my research at @unibirmingham @LCAHM_UoB , completing my monograph on Malabou and plasticity, & continuing my postdoc project on the hospital in French philosophy! Can’t wait to begin! ❤️

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2 years

Congratulations to the winner of the 2022 Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship scheme: @BenBGDalton ( @UniBirmingham )☀️, for a project on Catherine Malabou, the relation of her theorizing of plasticity to contemporary literature and film, and an emerging related project on the hospital.

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Excited to have signed the contract with @EdinburghUP for my book “Catherine Malabou and contemporary French literature and film: witnessing plasticity”! My book maps Malabou’s explorations of (neuro)plasticity and change alongside depictions of transformation in lit and film📖

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

Gave my first Lancaster lecture today ! This one was on modernism and postmodernism in architecture and urban planning, moving between Le Corbusier and Guy Debord. And snowing outside!! ❄️☃️❄️☃️❄️

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

Thanks so much to @french_studies for awarding my article on plasticity in Marie Darrieussecq and Catherine Malabou runner-up in the Malcolm Bowie Prize for best article published in 2020 - I’m really over the moon and touched and grateful for this! ❤️❤️❤️

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Congratulations also to the runner-up: @BenBGDalton (Paris Nanterre) for his article ‘Forms of Freedoms: Marie Darrieussecq, Catherine Malabou, and the Plasticity of Science’, Dalhousie French Studies, 115 (2020).

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2 years

Final day on @unibirmingham campus before starting my new job at Lancaster in Jan! I’ve had such an amazing time here in Modern Languages @LCAHM_UoB . Thanks so much to everyone who made my time here so wonderful and for being so welcoming and supportive and exciting!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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3 years

I’M 30 TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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4 years

walked in to teach my first class this morning with my serious coat on and my serious hair and serious photocopies only for my laptop to start blaring out « Jaja Ding Dong » from the Eurovision movie as soon as I opened it

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2 years

How it started: how it’s going:

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

has anyone in the history of academia ever been able to connect, harmoniously and unproblematically, to Eduroam? I’m actually curious. is anyone the eduroam whisperer?

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

It’s me outside the Ashley building at @unibirmingham !! Had a genuinely gorgeous first couple of weeks here and really excited for term to start next week 🕺🚀🪐

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Benjamin Dalton

5 years

My book chapter on Alain Guiraudie, Catherine Malabou, plasticity and queerness has been published in the books Beasts of the Forest (ed. Séan Harrington and Jon Hackett) My chapter is called: “Cruising the Queer Forest with Alain Guiraudie: Woods, Plastics, Plasticities”

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

Finally got round to graduating my phd! cue insufferable graduation photodump baybeeeee

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

🚨Some exciting personal news!! (lol) 🚨I stopped drinking alcohol 50 days ago!!! NEXT STOP 100 days BÉBÉS then FOREVA!!! I know it’s only the start but I wanna celebrate this because this journey has made me so happy and I feel like I’ve literally found myself again a bit

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

Hi all! With this tweet I think I just wanted to express enthusiasm about having more communal spaces in academia-I've just started my career, excited to make new friends & colleagues, & loved the shared space I had during my PhD. Totally understand this wouldn't work for others

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

My @unibirmingham staff profile is now up with details of my current and past research, and teaching - I’ll be based in the Ashley building on @unibirmingham campus so get in touch or come say hi! Really excited to meet and work with my new colleagues!

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

6 months together, matching puffas and both called Ben ❤️❤️❤️ #boyfriendtwins #insufferable #canyoubelieve

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

Just sent off my Leverhulme application with full use of my manifestation crystals and YouTube manifestation tutorial so I’m feeling hopeful ✨🪐☄️☀️🌓🪨🐚

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Benjamin Dalton

5 years

Just finishing off the proofs for my article “Forms of Freedoms: Marie Darrieussecq, Catherine Malabou, and the pasticity of science” which will of course, like everything I ever write, be so proudly dedicated to my unstoppable mom, Rosie Dalton ❤️❤️❤️

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3 years

Happy Birmingham pridee @BirminghamPride 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍🌈 - I’m marching today with my fellow LGBTQIA+ staff and students from @unibirmingham @RainbowUoB @wlv_uni @AstonUniversity @NewmanU @UCBofficial

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

I'm sorry to have upset anyone. This was absolutely never my intention. I'm going to mute and lock this tweet now. Have a great rest of day everyone!

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

Absolute new favourite writing spot at @unibirmingham @UoBLibServices

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Benjamin Dalton

6 months

I’m 33 today! I’ve had a really lovely day, teaching things I absolutely love @DeLCLancaster @LancasterUni

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

realise how gross it is to talk about work on weekend, but just trying to dust off a few things before strikezz tomorrow and wanted to mark the occasion: sent off my book proposal! Please goddesses of publishing shine down this day 😬😬😬 #Malabou #plasiticty #bookproposal

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

omg thrilled to announce that I just won a barbecue in a competition I entered on the back of a packet of tender stem broccoli?!?! Is this the American dream? I'm actually crying

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

in my isolat-hun covid xmas this year, I am channeling the words of our lordess and saviour Carrie Bradshaw when she teaches us: “The most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself.” Merry holidays angels ❤️❤️❤️ ad astra 🚀🌟🪐

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2 years

baby’s first graduation as staff rather than student!! Loved being there to see everyone graduate yesterday from @LCAHM_UoB and seeing the indomitable Modern Languages graduates celebrate their fantastic achievements!! 🥲soooooooo many congratulations everyone!!! ☀️✨🚀🪐

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

Really over the moon (& ofc a bit terrified as always!) that my @FranceModern article is out now: "Queer, plastic residues: biological mutability and queer resistance in Robin Campillo's 120 BPM (2017) and the work of Catherine Malabou". Out OA here:

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3 years

moving day!!!! Birmingham baby!!! 🏡

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

finished off final bits of undergrad teaching today at @unibirmingham - absolutely exhausted and covered head to toe in beard dandruff but this term has been another total adventure and so fantastic to work with such indomitable students who brought it to every seminarrr

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

First xmas living just me!!!! 🎄🌟🎁🕺forgive me this “at home with Nigella” insufferable self-timer moment

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

leaving Paris tomorrow morning after two beautiful, intense, transformative years in this flat and I am leaving the window wide open to welcome in the winds of change 🌬🌬🌬 and also snot crying everywhere

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

About to give my first ever keynote at @worcester_uni conference “Political Bodies: The Silent and the Voicelessness”! thanks so much for having me!

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3 years

My article “The Plastic Hospital: Catherine Malabou’s Architectural Therapeutics” is now published in a special issue of Essays in French Literature and Culture on “The Critical Medical Humanities” - so excited to be part of this! #CatherineMalabou #MedicalHumanities #plasticity

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3 years

Just came home and there was a small boy sat on the steps to our building and I said « bonjour » and he stood up and literally screamed « BONJOUR MONSIEUR!! BON ANNIVERSAIRE, JOYEUX NOEL, JOYEUSES PAQUES ET BONNES VACANCES!!!!!» and it was the most energising greeting of my life

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Benjamin Dalton

4 years

My Grandma—Margaret Werry—at the age of 87 journeyed on today into worlds beyond our own, and I just wanted to shout here into the ether what a powerhouse and a force this woman was, and how full to bursting I am with pride and love and awe and wonder for her and always will be

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2 years

omg crossing the finish line yesterday at the Birmingham Half Marathon!

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4 years

la rentrée for second year as lecteur at Paris Nanterre university! and omg what is my hair ahhaha

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4 years

today I finally went with my heart and invested in my dream monoprix matt-finish shopping cady and I feel it already, it is the beginning of a new era 🛒🗼

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7 months

My new article is out in @nfs_journal : "Jean-Luc Nancy and the Hospital: Imagining Clinical Environments of Strangeness and Multiplicity". This explores how Nancy's philosophical account of his heart transplant allows us to re-imagine clinical space.

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5 years

Got my hands on a copy of the latest edition of the critical theory journal #Paragraph with my interview with the philosopher Catherine Malabou ! So unbelievably grateful to have had the opportunity to do this ! #plasticity #Malabou #philosophy #neuroscience #medhums #interview

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5 years

today I booked my #Eurostar to Paris, then watched the Friends episode where Rachel embalks on a new life in Paris, and cried in pride and ignored that she just turns around to stay with ross, and now I’m ready to move to the big city to be a star aka lecteur at @UParisNanterre

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5 years

I’ve just moved out of my London room to move to Paris in search Fame and Fortune as a lecteur. thought this would be just another move, but in fact I have wept loud wale tears realizing that these 5 years in London have probably been the most intensely transformative of my life

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3 years

liberté, égalité, vacciné 💉

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4 years

not sure this is worthy of a tweet but I just thought it couldn’t go uncelebrated just how much this ginger looks like a lobster? 🦞 Hope everyone’s ok!! ❤️

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9 months

Proofs are here for my new article “Jean-Luc Nancy and the Hospital: Imagining Clinical Environments of Strangeness and Multiplicity”, coming out in Nottingham French Studies later this year! 🏥🩺🩻Thanks so much to the editors of this Special Issue @DrHannahScott @jrillingworth !

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2 years

Proofs are in for my new article “Plasticity and Formlessness between Malabou and Bataille” - forthcoming in MLN issue 137 soon! This is a special issue called “L’art de Malabou” on the question of art in Malabou’s work #plasticity #CatherineMalabou #GeorgesBataille #formless

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

Back to teaching on the MRes in Sexuality and Gender Studies at @unibirmingham today! I tried out my new seminar for the Sexuality, Gender and Representation module on "Queer Medicine" - discussions from Foucault's clinic to Paul B. Preciado's pharmacopornographic healthcare 🏥

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3 years

new Birmingham me just dropped

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baby’s first day at school! @UParisNanterre 💃🚀

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2 years

and after literally hours of painstaking kitchen choreo learning: Merry Christmas angels !! 🚀✨🎄🎄🎄🎄

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10 months

Gave the first lecture today for my new @DeLCLancaster @LancasterUni module “Thinking Queerness: LGBTQIA+ lives, identities and politics in contemporary thought and cultural production”!

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Just had the good news that my article "Queer, Plastic Residues: Biological Mutability and Queer Resistance in Robin Campillo's 120 BPM (2017) and the Work of Catherine Malabou" is now forthcoming in the Special Issue of @FranceModern ed by @alpember and me on Campillo's 120 BPM

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2 years

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5 years

My interview with Catherine Malabou is now out in Paragraph! Was such an honour and a joy to get the chance to do this! The discussion centres around the question: 'What Should We Do With Plasticity?' #Plasticity #CatherineMalabou #Philosophy

What Should We Do with Plasticity? An Interview with Catherine Malabou | Paragraph

This interview with the contemporary French philosopher Catherine Malabou explores Malabou's central concept of ‘plasticity’ across the interdisciplinary contexts through which it is elaborated,...

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2 years

Fantastic to see the latest Special Issue of @FranceModern out in print, co-edited by @alpember and me! It's on "Robin Campillo's 120 Battements par minute (2017): Screening AIDS, Activism and Queer Identity in Contemporary France"! ☀️🏳️‍🌈 #120BPM #queeractivism #queercinema

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

and just like that… self-isolating since positive LF a few days ago & PCR has now confirmed that it’s gunna be just me this Christmas! Very lucky to say that symptoms are mild. Plz send recommendations for Netflix, essential oils, and any Henry Cavill imagery. stay safe all ❤️❤️

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Benjamin Dalton

1 year

I was honoured today to give the keynote for the @french_studies PG conference “Surroundings”! Had an amazing day learning about so many fantastic research projects. Huge congratulations to the indomitable organisers @ellywltrs & David Ewing on such a great conference! #SFSPG2023

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It is such a delight, honour, and privilege to hear now from @BenBGDalton @DeLCLancaster , our illustrious keynote speaker, whose lecture is titled ‘Rebuilding the Hospital with Jean-Luc Nancy: Approaches to Clinical Environments through Contemporary French Philosophy’

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This year— in my research on philosophy, the hospital, and healthcare design— I’ve been writing about illness, healthcare and hospital environments in the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. I’m now turning to the work of Paul B. Preciado, asking: what would the queer hospital look like?

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Benjamin Dalton

1 year

Really excited to be speaking at this fantastic event organised by @LancasterFASS FASS Health Research Hub. I'll be talking about the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, his experience of heart transplant, & what this means for hospital architecture. Sign up here:

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

two conference papers done today and I am exhausted and here’s a pic of me decompressing with the buttes chaumont bins!!!! 🚮✨

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

Remembering mom today - Rosie Dalton: the cosmic energy who would ring up a restaurant to book a table and get the giggles so much for no reason noone could understand her on the other end & who made me a cow from a box with a washing up glove udder that you could actually milk

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

just submitted my final proofs corrections for my article « The Plastic Hospital: Catherine Malabou’s Architectural Therapeutics » - looking forward to seeing this published in a French Studies Med Hums special issue of Essays in French Literature and Culture later this year!

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Back to research and writing today! writing a new article on Malabou, plasticity and the illness narrative… Bringing Malabou into dialogue with Arthur Frank, Sinéad Gleeson, Anne Boyer, and others #MedHums #CatherineMalabou #illnessnarratives

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2 years

Baby’s first keynote! Excited to deliver my keynote: “Listening to the neuro-plastic body in the work of Catherine Malabou: Witnessing bodily transformation” at the Politic Bodies conference @HumanitiesUw in on 4th May #Malabou #plasticity #neuroplasticity

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2 years

Political Bodies: the Silent & Voiceless is delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Dr Benjamin Dalton from University of Birmingham. We look forward to welcoming @BenBGDalton on 4th May in Worcester. #AcademicTwitter #MedHums #EnviroHums

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Benjamin Dalton

10 months

This afternoon I was at Lancaster Castle for @LancasterUni ’s Bright Club workshop: teaching academics how to communicate their research via stand-up comedy. I went to try this out as doing stand up is pretty much all my worst nightmares rolled into one 😬😬😬

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

Having so much fun in Bristol at @hospital_senses conference! Bristol is GORGEOUS, and the conf has been so full of exciting workshops (did a dance one yesterday!) and papers. Just presented my paper "Sensing 'the great outdoors' through hospital architecture"! #healthcaresenses

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

Really excited to be speaking on a panel alongside Catherine Malabou and Ben Tyrer on the subject of "Film, Plasticity, Epigenesis" at Film-Philosophy 2021!

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5 years

this morning I’m on my way to the BnF to read some dusteh old books and I’m munchin a chausson aux pommes and an accordion is blaring in my ear as the light from the Seine sparkles in my eyes and I feel like I’m inside Lillian’s bridal shower from Bridesmaids

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4 years

This thesis is dedicated with all my heart and my soul to my mom Rosie Dalton, who was embarking at the time on what she described as a profound metamorphosis. She taught me never to be scared of transformation, and every word is inspired and energised by her love and her wonder

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

it’s me!! so happy to be part of the team at @FranceModern 🚀🪐✨

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Modern & Contemporary France

2 years

It's that time again! Today we are introducing another member of our Editorial Board @BenBGDalton Ben is a research fellow in French at Birmingham and his research interests include contemporary French thought, literature & film and medical humanities. @asmcf @Rout_PoliticsIR

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

Malabou panel unite!!!!! so much fun this morning presenting on approaches to Malabou and plasticity through architecture, Hegel and Marxism with the indomitable @MancheSolange and @_rob_scott 🚀🪐✨⚡️ #SFSBelfast2022 @french_studies @ModLangs_QUB

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

Happy pride angels!!!! Love from your friendly brazen neighbourhood queers 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 #gayparis #lgbtqia #Pride2021

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Benjamin Dalton

6 years

currently in the process of applying for Junior Research Fellowships and I haven't been this same mixture of morbidly hopeful and totally despairing since I sent my photos and letter off to Newsround in the hope of playing Ron in the Harry Potter movies when I was 9 #phdchat

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

My lecture for “Contemporary Representations of the Body” today was on philosophical and artistic approaches to animal bodies, plant bodies, and bodies within environments and ecosystems more broadly. Thought about queer ecologies, becoming-animals, & lots of slow clips of goats

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Benjamin Dalton

6 years

Today, in pure thesis panic, I drove myself to the nearest Spar and purchased two family sized bars of Dairy Milk and a copy of Men’s Health magazine as if these items would directly cancel each other out #phdlife #chocsicmasculinity

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

I went on a date to Paris zoo a couple of weeks ago, and the main attraction was a slime mould called “le blob” that lived in an enclosure called “le blobzone” - how lovely is that?

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Benjamin Dalton

10 months

Welcome Week has begun at @LancasterUni and there’s a great atmosphere on campus. Welcome to all new and returning students! One week to go before teaching starts in @DeLCLancaster for 2023/24 - I’m feeling excited to get started 🚀🪐🌒✨

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Benjamin Dalton

4 years

In Paris, everyone’s cheering from their balconies, banging pots and pans together in support of the doctors !!! I’m not crying you’re crying😍😭😍😭😍😭😍 #COVID19 #francelockdown

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

we did the Birmingham half marathon! 🚀🪐👟👟 @great_run

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

and now for my final insufferable selfie of #SFSBelfast2022 - I had so much fun, thank you @french_studies and @ModLangs_QUB ! ❤️ the couple behind me on this plane got engaged somewhere in thick cloud above Birmingham with a ring hidden in an earplug case ✈️💍

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Benjamin Dalton

4 years

Happy Biden Harris day!!! 🚀💫🚀💫🚀💫🚀💫🚀 we are celebrating in our PJs and heels

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Benjamin Dalton

4 years

Excited to have my article « Animating Plastic in the Toy Story Films » out on @fananimresearch ! This looks at how plasticity and synthetic plastics are animated in the Toy Story films, bringing together Malabou and Pixar #plasticity #CatherineMalabou

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

Lectured on (neuro)plasticity, Catherine Malabou and performance/ body art today @unibirmingham @LCAHM_UoB - loved exploring the ideas of @KatieSchaag on how we can explore/express biological processes in performance, « autobiology », and listening to our (neuroplastic) guts!

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Benjamin Dalton

5 years

Yesterday was my first day teaching English to the mechanical and aeronautical engineering masters students at Nanterre, and when I arrived at the faculty where was a group of engineers stood around a piano playing “My Favourite Things” from Sound of Music - how gorgeous is that?

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

moving to Birmingham, King’s Heath over the next two weeks - I’m so excited!!! Already joined @KingsHeathRC snd sorted my landline (?!?) out (I’m an 0121 angel now) - let me know your tips for King’s Heath area and if you live around here let’s be friends!!

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Benjamin Dalton

4 years

Extremely excited to be organising the PGR/ECR online seminar series "Contemporary Women's Writing and the Medical Humanities" with @rhrosenberg at @IMLR_News as part of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing- Here's our Call For Papers!

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

We saw you from across the bar, and we just really liked your vibe #twolookingforathird #SFSBelfast2022

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

Just received the latest issue of MLN on “L’art de Malabou”, ed. by Hannes Opelz, bringing together work on Malabou and art, including writing by Malabou and Jean-Luc Nancy. Honoured to be part of this with my article: “Plasticity and Formlessness between Malabou and Bataille”

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Benjamin Dalton

3 years

My final lecture for Contemporary Representations of the Body today was on “Caring for the Body: Re-imagining hospitals, clinical spaces and modes of care” - including some active research I’m putting together on how French philosophy can transform or redesign clinical spaces

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Benjamin Dalton

2 years

Fantastic to see @alpember and my Special Issue of @FranceModern out in full online! "Robin Campillo's 120 Battements par minute (2017): Screening AIDS, Activism and Queer Identity in Contemporary France"- thanks so much to all our amazing contributors #120BPM #HIVAIDS #activism

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2 years

check out our great new special issue on Robin Campillo's 120 BPM, guest-edited by @BenBGDalton and @alpember , now published online:

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Benjamin Dalton

5 years

to the indomitable and eternal universe-force that is @alpember and whose idea it was to do #120bpmsymposium @120BPMSymposium : this has been so unforgettable working with you and I cannot wait for a life of future adventures together 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️

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Benjamin Dalton

4 years

Building on our #Womenmedhums2020 seminar series, @rhrosenberg and I are organising a 3-day online international conference in July 2020: "Contemporary Womxn's Writing and the Medical Humanities: 2021 Conference". Here's the CfP! #cfp #medhums @IMLR_News

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