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Claire Jeantils is the Yves Hervouet Research Fellow in French and Francophone Studies in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University. Please join us for her research talk "Reading chronicity, translating temporalities" on Wednesday 9th October 4-5 pm.

"Reading chronicity, translating temporalities"

With the burgeoning prominence of Medical and Health Humanities (MHH) in contemporary scholarship, multilingual approaches are gaining traction (Wilson, 2023). Yet the lack of translations of widespread concepts is an obstacle to non-anglophone MHH autonomy in research.

A good example is Sara Wasson's paper on 'episodic reading and representations of chronic pain' (2018), a significant milestone in the convergence of literary studies and MHH. Her paper advocates for innovative reading tools that can engage with chronicity on its own temporal terms. Such tools could benefit French literary studies once translated and applied to French and francophone literatures.

In this talk, Claire Jeantils will explain why translating this paper from English to French holds political, pedagogical, and academic value. She will also address the literary and linguistic challenges of this project. This presentation will give an overall idea of this paper's translation journey.

Claire Jeantils holds a PhD in French and comparative literature from Sorbonne Nouvelle University. Her research focuses on epilepsies and critical approaches to narrative medicine. Claire Jeantils is the Yves Hervouet Research Fellow in French and Francophone Studies at Lancaster University. She is also on the editorial board of Soin, Sens et Santé, an international journal of the Health Humanities, and the host of the French podcast "Raconter l’épilepsie."

The event will be taking place in person in County Main SR1 or you can join online via Teams at 4pm on Wednesday, October 9th.