A Bee Song now has a music video!
The single A Bee Song by Somerset-based recording artist Banco de Gaia (Toby Marks) and Future Pasts led by Sian Sullivan, Professor of Environment and Culture, now has a music video. Made by…
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Wits-Bath Spa collaboration takes off
Three-year bursary scheme to support strategic collaboration between the two universities. Following a visit by Professor Sue Rigby, the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Bath Spa University…
Designing the Domestic Posthuman
Colbey Emmerson Reid, Professor and the Chairperson of the department of Fashion Studies at Columbia College Chicago, has published a new book titled Designing the…
A Bee Song: New Single by Banco de Gaia and Future Pasts
Through the AHRC research project Future Pasts, Sian Sullivan (Professor of Environment and Culture) has collaborated with Somerset-based composer and recording artist Toby Marks / Banco de…
Book launch Ecological Communication and Ecoliteracy – 11th June 2024 3-6 pm CET
By Maria Bortoluzzi and Elisabetta Zurru Udine University We are pleased to inform you that the open access volume Ecological Communication and Ecoliteracy (Maria Bortoluzzi and…
Lands That History Forgot – a film by Future Pasts
A new film titled Lands That History Forgot: Three Journeys With Nami-Daman Elders in North-west Namibia has been launched by Future Pasts and Etosha-Kunene Histories, funded by the UK’s…
Call for Papers: How can the liberal arts help a world in crisis? Global Academy of Liberal Arts 2024 Conference, 13-15 September
The Global Academy of Liberal Arts (GALA) is delighted to announce the call for papers for the 2024 annual conference. This conference coincides with the…
Utrecht University, the Netherlands — International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2024: Call for Contributions is now open
From 4 to 8 November 2024, the International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2024 (ITD24) will take place in Utrecht. If you would like to contribute to the…
Gala members weigh in on incremental Excellence Award
GALA members Dr Romanus Shivoro (University of Namibia) and Dr Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus (Associate Academic Director of GALA) served as jury members for the prestigious Incremental…
Forest of Imagination shortlisted for the Inspire Future Generations Awards
Forest of Imagination, led by Professor of Imagination and Reader in Creative Teaching and Learning Penny Hay at Bath Spa University, has been shortlisted for…
Centre for the Study of Romanticism
The Inter-University Centre for the Study of Romanticism (CISR) has launched a new website. Here is the new link: https://site.unibo.it/cisr/en You can hear about this Centre from the…
Shattered Reflection
by Tanja Sakota, University of the Witwatersrand Shattered Reflection is a short documentary that considers my familial and collective trauma of forced migration. How does…
Uncovering Memory: Filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina
New book by Tanja Sakota, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Through paired themes of memory and forgetting, segregation and migration, perpetrators and victims, Tanja…
Waste Work: the art of Survival in Dharavi
Waste Work: the art of Survival in Dharavi, co-edited by Ben Parry and Graham Jeffery and features contributions from a number of people who have been…
University of Namibia and Association of African Universities’ 22nd Conference of Rectors, Vice Chancellors and Presidents of African Universities (COREVIP)
The Association of African Universities (AAU) in collaboration with the Republic of Namibia and the University of Namibia (UNAM) hosted the 22nd edition of the AAU’s…
How do we use Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education for Good?
Wits workshop on Learning and Teaching debates responsibility, equity, and access of generative AI in Higher Education. The Wits Centre for Learning, Teaching, and Development…
GALA Information and Networking Sessions — 12 October 2023
We will be holding the next round of online GALA Information and Networking sessions on Thursday 12 October The 90-minute sessions will cover: Overview of the GALA network How you can…
Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), Brazil joins the Global Academy of Liberal Arts
The Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), a higher education institution recognized as a leading center of academic excellence in many areas of knowledge both in Brazil…
Professor Ian Gadd meets with the Duke of Edinburgh as he visits The Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI)
The Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution has hosted its first royal visit in 199 years. His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh, visited the…
Future Pasts film part of online event on ‘Kgala!Namib Sonic and Musical Epistemologies’
The film The Music Returns to Kai-as, made through the AHRC project Future Pasts, was shown and discussed as part of an open online event hosted by…
Visual Essay documents legacies of mining
Mike Hannis, Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Politics and Environment, and Sian Sullivan, Professor of Environment and Culture, from Bath Spa University have published a Visual Essay…
Creative Bath Awards
The Creative Bath Awards showcase Bath’s brilliant creative and tech businesses and individuals. The annual awards are run by Creative Bath – a network that aims to support…
From Fossils to Mind
GALA-supported article published in Communications Biology Back in 2021, GALA supported an online workshop, “From Fossils to Mind”, co-organised by Alexandra de Sousa (Bath Spa University), Tanya Calvey…
Wits CLT Call for Abstracts: Ensuring Responsibility, Equity and Access: Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education
University of Witwatersrand Conference on Learning and Teaching Online 5-7 September Call for Abstracts In late 2022, the South African higher education was preparing to…
Registration open for the AAU COREVIP Conference co-hosted by UNAM
About The Event The 2023 COREVIP will seek to focus specifically on excellence and successful initiatives, interventions and outcomes in African higher education by highlighting…
MIX 2023: Storytelling in Immersive Media
7th July 2023 At the British Library, London Book here Join us for MIX 2023; a biennial conference on where and how creative writing and…
Assemble in the Forest
14th June-14th July 2023 ‘Assemble in the Forest’ is an invitation to come together at a festival full of adventure, to enjoy culture, to celebrate beauty and…
GALA Network and UNESCO Chair in Teacher Education for Diversity and Development Conference
Feature photo (left to right): Douglas Andrews, Thobeka Nkomo, Damaris Ngoru, Ian Gadd, Mucha Musemwa, Ruksana Osman and Nicole De Wet-Billings A successful GALA Network…
Flourish Cafe thrives at Bath Spa University
Having moved a lot as a child and schooled between Bournemouth and London, Dr Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley had a tricky relationship with mainstream education. ‘Some schools…
GALA delegates visit Udine University
Udine University, one of the founding members of the Global Academy of Liberal Arts has welcomed a new rector, Professor Roberto Pinton. an academic leader…
University of Parma: Call for postdoctoral researchers interested in submitting proposals for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship
GALA partner University of Parma, Italy, is looking for twenty postdoctoral researchers from all over the world to benefit from a 3-day workshop with experts in project…
On the Verge: Call for Papers
By Shilpa Das, National Institute of Design On behalf of the Social Design Network I would like to share our Call for Papers with you…
