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‘The Genesee Would Rebel’: the story of our attempts to tame a river and how it was saved.

Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus January 19, 2016 1070 Views No Comments

Dr Trevor Turpin ‘The Genesee would rebel’ was the prediction of Lyman P. Langworthy, the Rochester City Health Officer, in a note he placed in the cornerstone of the new Monroe County Court house in 1850.[1] Rochester lies at the mouth of the Genesee River as it enters Lake Ontario and had suffered serious floods since the 1780s. Finally, or so the citizens of the city thought, their improvements...

Concordia’s Kelly Thompson launches her work, Fluid Data on Media Wall at Bath Spa University

Stuart Moran November 30, 2015 887 Views No Comments

Associate Professor Kelly Thompson from Concordia University launched her work, Fluid Data, on the Media Wall of Bath Spa University. Invisible digital systems surround us, at sea and on land, in the tools we depend on and like to use. My recent artwork visually and materially explores the relationship between digital data, trustworthiness, tracking systems and notions of failure, through the medi...

A postcard from Beijing

Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus November 18, 2015 1082 Views No Comments

This month Dr. Sarah Flavel, Lecturer in Religions, Philosophies and Ethics, travelled to Beijing to visit colleagues at our GALA partner institution, Beijing Foreign Studies University, with support from Santander. The trip included a visit to Beijing’s Confucius Temple as well as meetings with staff at the Centre for East-West Relations and the International Office at BFSU to discuss futur...

GALA partners celebrate achievements of David Malouf

Gala Admin June 30, 2015 1210 Views No Comments

GALA partners from Australia, Italy and Stockholm celebrated the lifetime achievements of David Malouf at Bath Spa University in April 2015, at a concert in honour of his work and the conferment of an Honorary Doctorate. Nick Jose from Adelaide University, Antonella Riem from Udine University and Claudia Egerer from the University of Stockholm attended the programme which included the performance...

Illuminate 2015

Gala Admin June 18, 2015 733 Views No Comments

In January GALA partners at Bath Spa University and Concordia University contributed projections to Illuminate 2015 with eight nights of projection, performance, installation and illumination. Canadian video artist Leila Sujir (Concordia University) projected in stereographic 3D onto the entrance wall of the Roman Baths where visitors will be given 3D glasses to view her ethereal artwork Elastic C...

Global Citizenship Students at Bath Spa University studying with GALA partners

Gala Admin June 18, 2015 561 Views No Comments

Graduating Global Citizenship students at Bath Spa University were presented with their certificates on the Vice Chancellor’s terrace on a gloriously sunny day in June 2015. The Certificate requires students to complete an international placement of at least three weeks in duration that can include a semester or full-year of study abroad through the Erasmus programme or the University’s inte...

Reflections: Somerset Floods, One Year On

Gala Admin May 22, 2015 515 Views No Comments

Social Sciences at Bath Spa have worked on a creative collaboration with London photographer Matilda Temperley to explore, through documentary photography and social research, the impact of widespread flooding in Somerset in 2014 on families and everyday life. They shared their stories of the disaster and their road to recovery. The exhibition, which was displayed at Bath Royal Literary and Scient...

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