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Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at SUNY Geneseo, Stacey Robertson visits Bath Spa University

Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus October 5, 2017 383 Views No Comments

Above (from left to right): Lizzie Watts, Ian Gadd, Stacey Robertson, John Strachan, Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Newly appointed Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at SUNY Geneseo, Stacey Robertson, visited Bath Spa University to discuss ways of expanding our student exchange programme, teaching and research collaborations. Geneseo were a founding partner of GALA. The key contact then wa...

H2O: Life and Death

Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus September 25, 2017 264 Views No Comments

J.M.Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice The University of Adelaide, 14-16 September ‘Lost Waters’ was proposed as a key theme when GALA was established. Professor Claudia Egerer from the University of Stockholm was one of the key members of the early group. Her keynote at ‘H2O: Life and Death’ was entitled ‘Imaginings of Water – Lost Water and the Entanglement of the Living’. In a masterly analy...

A postcard from… Columbia College Chicago

Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus September 19, 2017 227 Views No Comments

Whenever you visit a new city it’s important to get to grips with a few basics before arrival. Chicago is pretty easy because there’s only two. 1) You’re not allowed to put ketchup on your hotdog (but mustard, sweet pickle relish, sports peppers, a dill pickle spear, chopped onions, tomato wedges, and celery salt are a must) and 2) it’s important to know your teams: the C...

Mix 2017

Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus July 20, 2017 395 Views No Comments

GALA partners from Italy (Udine University) and Australia (QUT) presented work at Bath Spa University’s Mix 2017 conference. After the success of the last three MIX conferences, MIX 2017 returns to Bath Spa University’s Newton Park Campus. Bath Spa University is the UK’s foremost provider of creative writing programmes at undergraduate, masters and PhD level and MIX is well-established as an...

Curating the Future: GALA Annual Meeting 2017

Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus July 3, 2017 537 Views No Comments

GALA partners form the Netherlands (Utrecht), Italy (Parma, Udine), Russia (RANEPA), China (CUC), USA (CGU), Canada (Concordia) and the UK (Bath Spa University) met at Parma University from 5-7 July for the 2017 annual meeting on the theme: Curating the Future. The conference took place at the Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione (CSAC), located in Parma’s former Cistercian Valserena Abbey,...

Claremont Graduate University and Bath Spa University exchange celebration

Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus July 3, 2017 450 Views No Comments

Staff and students from Bath Spa University (UK) and Claremont Graduate University (USA) met at the Holburne Museum in Bath to celebrate the BSU/CGU GALA Postgraduate Exchange 2017. At this event, students from both the MA in Arts Management and the MA in Heritage Management met with by senior heritage and arts sector colleagues, BSU senior staff and GALA staff colleagues, the Vice Chancellor and ...

Concordia’s Beatriz Bartolomé Herrera (Concordia University, Montreal) at the Journal of Media Practice and MeCCSA Practice Network Annual Symposium

Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus June 10, 2017 316 Views No Comments

Beatriz Bartolomé Herrera (Concordia University, Montreal) presented at the Media Convergence Research Centre at Bath Spa. The symposium theme is intended to provide the opportunity for MeCCSA to focus on questions of practice and/as media industry research and aims to showcase both scholarly and practice-based research that considers the complex relationships between the theoretical study of medi...

A postcard from… University of Udine

Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus June 10, 2017 332 Views No Comments

Thanks to support from GALA’s Outreach Fund, I was able to travel to the University of Udine to present a paper at the conference ‘Living Together on this Earth: Eco-sustainable Narratives and Environmental Concerns in English Literature/s’ (19th-21st April 2017). The paper, entitled ‘Cultures of Nature and Wellbeing: Narratives of Sustainability and Green Healthcare’, was connected to my current ...

Concordia expands relationship with GALA

Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus May 23, 2017 345 Views No Comments

Concordia University’s Dean of Arts and Sciences, André Roy and Senior Advisor to the Dean, Emilie Champagne, visited Bath Spa University to visit three campuses to identify existing collaborative links and projects – and to identify areas of common interest and potential collaboration with Bath Spa University and across the global network. André Roy was appointed as Dean in 2014; previously he’d ...

Dean of University College Utrecht visits Bath Spa University

Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus May 23, 2017 922 Views No Comments

Professor James Kennedy, Dean of University College, Utrecht, visited Bath Spa University to discuss liberal arts provision and to explore opportunities for collaboration in research and teaching across the GALA network. Photo above (left to right): Dr Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus, Professor Neil Sammels, Professor James Kennedy, Professor Ian Gadd, and Professor Charles Wiffen. https://www.uu.nl/staf...

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