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...
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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,...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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By Laura Denning, Bath Spa University It was a great honour to be invited to take part in the Anda VI international conference at University of Udine,19-21 april 2017: Living together on this earth – eco-sustainable narratives and environmental concerns in english literature/s. As a PhD student in Environmental Humanities at Bath Spa University, in my first year of study, it wa...
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Our annual meeting and conference in Parma is coming up in July, and our host in Parma, Francesca Zanella, has been working tirelessly to get everything organised. Overview The conference will begin with a welcome cocktail in central Parma in the late afternoon/ early evening on Wednesday 5 July ( precise time to be confirmed ). The conference will take place on 6 and 7 July a...
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‘Culture, heritage and the arts: interpretation, practice and policy in an international context’ is a Global Academy of Liberal Arts (GALA) postgraduate student exchange project between GALA partner institutions Bath Spa University (BSU) and Claremont Graduate University (CGU). Created in 2014, the exchange offers students and staff the opportunity to gain an international perspective of current ...
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I am happy to announce the beginning of the application process for the Russian International Summer School 2017 that takes place at the RANEPA’s campus in Moscow from 14th of June till 9th of August. The summer school is a great opportunity for all students interested in Russian language to start or to continue to learn it. Besides that student will have many opportunities to learn a...
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H2O Life and Death 15 & 16 September, 2017 (Australia) Call for Submissions Waters are contested entities that are currently at the centre of most scientific discussions about sustainability. Discourse around water management underlines both the serious absence and devastating overabundance of water: rising sea levels compete against desertification; hurricanes and floods follow periods of pro...
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Anselm Min (Claremont Graduate University, USA) explored the challenges of globalization and theological responses at the 3rd Annual Bath Spa Colloquium for Global Philosophy and Religion at the Centre for Transnational Creativity and Education in association with the Global Academy for Liberal Arts sponsored by the GALA Outreach Fund. Professor Min described the seven dimensions of globalization,...
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