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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Aug 30

What are the key causes of environmental change? What is stopping nations from shaping a more sustainable relationship between people and the environment?

The MA in Sustainability and Global Environmental Futures at Lancaster offers fresh thinking to address the biggest challenges of our times.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Aug 30

What does the rapid escalation in AI capabilities and implementation mean to society?

Lancaster University’s MA in Artificial Intelligence, Society and Global Challenges will equip you to engage with such questions and prepare you for a wide variety of roles in this rapidly expanding sector.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Aug 30

Join us on the MA in Global Medical and Health Humanities, which explores cutting-edge approaches to well-being, illness, and healthcare.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Aug 30

Welcome to the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University!

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Jul 30

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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Distinguished Professor elected Vice-President of the British Academy - Lancaster University

A Lancaster University Distinguished Professor has been elected to a highly prestigious role at the British Academy, the UK’s national academy for humanities and social sciences.

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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · Jun 18

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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#translation #creativecritical #languages #digitalhumanities

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.

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Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social · Jul 2

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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Legislation not the ‘silver bullet’ in fight against barbaric practices - Lancaster University

Every year thousands of people globally are wrongly accused of witchcraft, often with fatal consequences yet, says new research by Lancaster University, legislation designed to stamp out the barbaric ...

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Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social · Jul 2

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 👇

International Network Against Witchcraft Accusations and Ritual Attacks

www.theinternationalnetwork.org

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Jul 30

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.

Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social · Jul 3

It's great to see the report co-authored by our researchers on the prosecution of harmful practices related to accusations of witchcraft featured in The Times this morning! 👇

@cabaker.bsky.social | @thetimes.com | @globalaffairslu.bsky.social | @lulawcrim.bsky.social

Calls for law to protect victims accused of witchcraft

A barrister urges that ritual beliefs be considered an aggravating factor in abuse cases

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Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social · Jul 24

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)

Distinguished Professor elected Vice-President of the British Academy - Lancaster University

A Lancaster University Distinguished Professor has been elected to a highly prestigious role at the British Academy, the UK’s national academy for humanities and social sciences.

www.lancaster.ac.uk

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Jul 30

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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Lancaster University: Shaping leaders in global affairs

Tackle global challenges with Lancaster University’s interdisciplinary master’s degrees in AI, sustainability, and global health. Apply now for October 2025 entry.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Jun 18

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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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Jun 18

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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Liminalities 21.1 (2025)

a special issue on The Non-Human Irresistible: The Poetics of Portals, Ports and Shorelines, from Cork and Merseyside

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Jun 11

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!

www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/lancast...

Lancaster University fire their way to success in dragon boat race - Lancaster University

It was another sporting first place for Lancaster University at the weekend when Team Dragon Boat paddled to success.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Jun 11

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)

Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · Jun 10

Had such an amazing time over the last couple of days at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University with Dr Claire Jeantils and Dr Rong Huang for the launch or the International Narrative Neurology Network 🧠🗯️ founded and led by Claire.

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Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · Jun 9

Amazing keynote from my fantastic colleague @delphinegrass.bsky.social ! Can’t wait to hear more about this Delphine!

School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Jun 9

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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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Jun 11

Learn more about Lancaster University School of Global Affairs's Dr Delphine Grass's fantastic recent keynote at the international Translation Studies Conference here:

www.lancaster.ac.uk/global-affai...

Lancaster researcher to keynote international Translation Studies Conference - Lancaster University

A Lancaster University School of Global Affairs researcher is all set to give the keynote paper at an international conference exploring the way in which imagination weaves itself into interpretation ...

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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · May 23

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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Anthony Pym @anthonypym.bsky.social · Feb 19

The 3rd edition of the Spring School in Translation Studies is taking place in Lisbon from 2-7 June 2025, and will be devoted to "Translation & Imagination".
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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Jun 9

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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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · May 14

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.

www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass-pgr/new...

University welcomes environmental campaigner Bella Lack - Lancaster University

Conservationist and environmental campaigner Bella Lack presents the 2025 Lancaster Environment Lecture, co-ordinated by the School of Global Affairs, on campus at Lancaster University this week.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · May 14

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!

Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social · May 7

For those very few remaining people who are not yet sick of listening me to talk about my book, I’ve sent in the final revised manuscript!!

📖Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity📖

FORTHCOMING with Edinburgh University Press early 2026!

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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · May 7

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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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Apr 16

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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Home | Staff Intranet

The Staff Intranet is the home of news, notices, and events for all staff at Lancaster University. It also features useful digital services and tools.

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Mar 28

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...

School of Global Affairs - Lancaster University

The Lancaster School of Global Affairs

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School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social · Mar 28

Welcome to the School of Global Affairs! Find out more about our School's aims and priorities:
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Welcome to the School of Global Affairs!

YouTube video by Global Affairs at Lancaster University

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