INSIGHT 2018: CALL FOR PAPERS NID is organising INSIGHT 2018: Design Research Symposium. The Symposium will be held at the Paldi campus, Ahmedabad on November 1 & 2, 2018 (Thursday and Friday). INSIGHT 2018 aims to bring together on a common platform, design educators, practitioners, design researchers and advocates of design to reflect upon, discuss and debate what constitutes design research...
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Stacey Robertson, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of History at SUNY Geneseo, Robert A. Bonfiglio, vice president for Student and Campus Life at SUNY Geneseo, Joe Cope, Professor of History and Director of Geneseo’s Center for Inquiry, Discovery, and Development, Sam Cardamone, Associate Director of the SUNY Geneseo Study Abroad Office, Beth McCoy, SUNY Distinguished ...
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CONCORDIA’S FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE – ENVISONING TOGETHER The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (also known as FAS) is the largest of the four faculties that constitute Concordia University. With 27 academic units, FAS is a powerhouse of interdicisplinarity that embraces bold thinking in research, teaching and learning. Bridging knowledge between the humanities, the social sciences, and the science...
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On the 23d and 24th of March, at the Liberal Arts College at RANEPA (Moscow) has been held an international workshop Mapping the Liberal Arts of GALA. The workshop gathered 13 participants from five member institutions of the Global Academy of Liberal Arts. For two days, faculty staff from the Liberal Arts College at RANEPA (Russia), Bath Spa University (UK), University of Udine (Italy), Universit...
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“Gangadhar has four daughters, but he won’t teach his trade to any of them. They will grow up, get married and leave home.” Science and Publishing Lab Manager Swagata Ghosh’s piece on travels through Andhra Pradesh, funded by GALA Network and the British Council has been published in the National Geographic on International Women’s Day. Read it here: http://www.natgeotraveller.in/on-a-craft-...
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Dr. Agata Vitale, Senior Lecturer in Abnormal Psychology at BSU, has been granted GALA funding to conduct a research on Assessing the effectiveness of the Tree of Life (ToL) intervention in promoting resilience and integration in refugee women with HIV; this study is done in collaboration with Professor Nigar Khawaja (Department of Psychology, Queensland Institute of Technology, Australia). http:/...
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Newton Fund You’ll have noticed the recent avalanche of calls – and snow for that matter- which is set to continue over the coming months as we enter Newton ‘peak time’ (just the Newton calls- not the snow I hope). As you’ll have seen from our Newton Funding bulletin this week, the Met Office has several calls open at the moment, as do the national academies and also we have calls from MRC, ...
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Evgeny Mironov (Vice-Director for School of Public Policy, RANEPA) and Alexander Mishin (Dean of the Liberal Arts College, RANEPA) visited Bath Spa University to discuss specific subject area matches between programmes, in particular, Creative Writing, Media Communications, Publishing/Journalism, and Sociology. Ways of developing RANEPA’s relationship with Bath Spa and GALA were also explored. &nb...
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Concordia’s PhD candidate Eric Powell delivered a fascinating talk at Bath Spa University hosted by James Saunders who leads Open Scores Lab and Kate Rigby who leads the Environmental Humanities Research Centre. The talk, titled Hearing motion in the moment: New forms of interactive sound based mapping explored themes of acoustic ecology, sound waves and field recording. Powell discussed the...
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Creativity and the Liberal Arts Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal Conference: 25-27 July 2018 The fifth annual GALA conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Concordia University, Montreal, in July 2018. It will begin with a late afternoon reception on 25 July, followed by two full days of lectures, presentations, and discussion. As in previous yea...
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