Staff and students from Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and Bath Spa University (BSU) gathered at the Museum of Bath Architecture for a wine reception to celebrate the 2016 GALA CGU/BSU Cultural Heritage and Arts Management Postgraduate Student Exchange. Students from Bath Spa University on the exchange returned recently from Los Angeles, where they visited heritage sites in California with st...
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GALA partners from Stockholm University, the University of Adelaide, Bath Spa University and many other international artists and academics gathered at the Transnational Creatives Mini-Festival. The event was launched with a welcome by Professor Christina Slade, Vice-Chancellor and the Transnational Creatives team, building a Research Community Brain-storm and launching collaboration with Wales Ar...
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GALA partners from Queensland University of Technology (Australia), Parma University (Italy), Claremont Graduate University (USA), Tec de Monterrey (Mexico), Bath Spa University (UK), State University New York Geneseo (USA) and RANEPA (Russia) gathered in Mexico for the 2016 conference hosted by Alejandra María Vilalta Perdomo at Tec de Monterrey. The GALA opening event was held on 25 May on the t...
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Featured GALA partner: Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México The Mexico City Campus at Tecnológico de Monterrey hosts over 8,000 regular students within four schools offering 34 degrees in the Academic Offering. The campus is well serviced with sports, arts and cultural facilities. Students have access to research laboratories to support their topics as well as internship opportunities...
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GALA has been shortlisted for the UK’s Guardian University Awards under the “International Project” category. This is a real testament to the network’s vigour, ambition, and growing profile. The shortlist: http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2016/mar/01/the-judges-decision-shortlist-for-the-guardian-university-awards?CMP=share_btn_tw You can read more about ...
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A Liberal Arts roundtable discussion was hosted by Bath Spa University and moderated by Professor John Strachan to discuss the role of liberal arts in the modern university with distinguished guests from four perspectives relating the liberal arts to university education in the broadest sense (Professor Grayling), a specific liberal arts programme (Professor Zorin), interdisciplinarity between the...
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The Liberal Arts and the Modern University: The ‘liberal arts’ may not yet be a term as familiar in Britain as it is in the USA with its many liberal arts colleges but an increasing number of British universities are now offering liberal arts degrees. There is also growing interest in the liberal arts among universities and colleges elsewhere in the world especially in Europe and Asia. A liberal a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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