Book here This year’s Forest of Imagination will be co-designed by Berlin based artist and filmmaker Andrew Amondson and computational architect Sasha Mballa-Ekobena, alongside maths educator Professor…
The ‘Rethinking waste and the logics of disposability: Compound 13 Lab’ project (Principal investigator: Ben Parry and Co-Investigator: Penny Hay) has been profiled by the AHRC in a…
Sian Sullivan, Professor of Environment and Culture, has accepted an invitation to become a Research Associate for a Namibian research institute. Currently celebrating its 60th year, Gobabeb Namib Research Institute operates…
Phoebe Tickell is a renegade scientist, systems designer and social entrepreneur, passionate about creating opportunities for transformation of people – and through that, transformation of…
Professors Louis Patrick Leroux (English and Etudes françaises) and Silvy Panet-Raymond (Dance) will be team-teaching this innovative intensive seminar with Alexandra Regan Toland (Bauhas University,…
In January, Bath Spa University was delighted to host students from Columbia College Chicago for an immersive textiles technique class. Led by Justin LeBlanc from…
Sian Sullivan, Professor of Environment and Culture, at Bath Spa University has been able to take hard copies of Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis to…
The international ‘Body IQ Festival 2021 – Bodies of Cultures, Communities and Places’ in Berlin hosted around 130 presenters from around the globe. The three-day…
Bath Spa’s GALA Outreach Fund supported Professor Thomas Kampe, Co-director of CCRG at Bath Spa University and Co-curator of Body IQ Festival 2021 in Berlin:…
https://cms.mit.edu/event/eric-freedman-non-binary-binaries-and-unreal-metahumans/ Eric Freedman: Non-Binary Binaries and Unreal Metahumans (Thursday, February 10) Video game engines have promoted a new cultural economy for software production and have provided…
You will recall last year that we shared details of a national UK funding scheme, Newton Fellowships, aimed at supporting international postdoctoral researchers to research…
Seeking to highlight the fastest-growing geo-cultural region in the United States, Taylor Sheridan advances expansive views of the West that are deliberately complex, difficult, and…
We are a small team of disabled and non-disabled academics and activists, and are currently completing some research into how disabled university students and staff/students and…
Diverse Composers Project – BBC Radio 3 Concert 2nd February 2022, 2pm Listen here Following on from Ahmed Abdul Rahman’s (Bath Spa University PhD student)…
Our old GALA website was set up in 2015 and it’s been overdue an upgrade for a while. A team of academics from across the…
GALA has always held its annual conferences in person: 2014 in Bath, UK; 2015 in Beijing, China; 2016 in Mexico City, Mexico; 2017 in Parma,…
Sian Sullivan, Professor of Environment and Culture, has had a book chapter published co-authored with her longstanding Namibian research collaborator Welhemina Ganuses. “Densities of meaning…
We are pleased to announce that Issue of the International Journal of Creative Media Research is now published. This special issue, guest edited by Dafydd Sills-Jones…
Bath Spa University has recently been awarded an Erasmus+ funded grant, which we had applied for in the final round of 2020 calls for which the UK…
This talk examined how federal and local policies like redlining, racially restrictive covenants, and urban renewal segregated Rochester, built wealth for its white citizens and…
This 7th Annual Global Academy of Liberal Arts (GALA) conference will be held online from 20-22 September 2021. Dedicated to the theme of ‘Liberal Arts for…
Claremont Graduate University — 15 April 2021, 16.30-18.00 PST/West Coast US Time Future Museum/Museum Future: The Decolonized Museum: Discussion Does decolonizing the museum mean a…
Bath Spa University, UK — 12-23 April 2021, 14.00-15.00 EST/19.00-20.00 UK Time Advanced Fiction and Memoir Masterclass with Professor Aminatta Forna (Bath Spa University) — application deadline…
Dr Ann-Louise Davidson (Concordia University, Canada) and Andrew Grant (Grant Associates and Forest of Imagination, Bath, UK): Imagine if… universities were fertile grounds for innovation Dr…
Black History Month 2020 at Bath Spa is a celebration of the work that’s happening across the Black community (and all communities more widely) in…
Following discussions with Samuel Nyanchoga and his colleagues at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, we have decided to postpone the GALA conference to 2021…
Liberal Arts for Tomorrow 14-16 September 2020 Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya The Catholic University of Eastern Africa will host the 7th…
Liberal Arts for Tomorrow 14-16 September 2020 Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya The Catholic University of Eastern Africa will host the 7th Annual…
The Seventh Annual GALA conference will take place on 14-16 September 2020. Our host will be our Kenyan GALA partner, Catholic University of Eastern Africa.…
By Thorne Bailey The first day I woke up in Montreal was to the sound of drums celebrating Canada Day. Outside, there were carnivals and…
The GALA Outreach Fund is intended to support Bath Spa University staff and student engagement with GALA partners by providing support for international travel or…
GALA overview: by William Davis, Bath Spa University When my time at Bath Spa University began in 2017 I believed that I would be predominantly…
The Global Academy of Liberal Arts Sixth Annual Conference Claremont Graduate University (CGU) Los Angeles, USA Day 1 Partners met to discuss strategy in going…
