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    6th Alpavirama International Youth Film Festival scheduled from 7-12 November 2022.

    The National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad India is pleased to announce the entire opening for 6th Alpavirama International Youth Film Festival scheduled from 7-12 November 2022. Alpavirama( a…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK June 28, 2022
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    Bath Spa student visits Los Angeles

    Research Title: Community representation, social cohesion, and museums: audienceengagement in Bath, Bristol and L.A. This is a cross-comparative research project between the UK and U.S.…

    GALA Management Team GALA Management Team June 22, 2022
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    Bath Spa student visits University of Parma

    My name is Sarah Beeusaert and I am in my third year at Bath Spa University studying photography. Through GALA I was able to visit…

    GALA Management Team GALA Management Team June 22, 2022
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    BBC Interview with Bath Spa University’s Professor John Strachan

    Tune into BBC Radio Somerset to hear Luke Knight interview guest speaker Professor  John  Strachan on his role at Bath Spa University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK June 1, 2022

    Bath Spa MA in Creative Writing Showcase

    13th June 2022, 7pm What do writers do after completing an MA in Creative Writing? In this event six former MA students from Bath Spa’s MA Creative…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK June 1, 2022

    Calling Theatre Writers, Producers, Directors, Actors…

    Workshop At Oldfield Park Theatre Workshops, Westmoreland Station Road, Bath, BA2 3HQ 25th June 2022, 10am – 2pm Book here Bring your scripts, talent, skills, and expertise…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK June 1, 2022

    Forest of Imagination Living Tree Mirror Maze | Reflections in nature

    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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK May 23, 2022

    Rethinking waste and the Logics of Disposability: Compound 13 Lab research project profiled by the AHRC

    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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK April 7, 2022

    Professor Sian Sullivan becomes Research Associate of Namibian Institute

    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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK April 7, 2022

    Bath Spa University, UK — eARTh Spotlight Talk: Phoebe Tickell – Moral Imaginations, March 29 2022 1-2pm UK time

    Phoebe Tickell is a renegade scientist, systems designer and social entrepreneur, passionate about creating opportunities for transformation of people – and through that, transformation of…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK March 22, 2022

    Concordia University in Montréal is proud to announce its INDI MA-PhD Spring and Summer Seminar: Public Arts Garage: Collaborative Artistic Practice in the Public Space

    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,…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK March 22, 2022

    Postcard from Bath

    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…

    GALA Management Team GALA Management Team March 2, 2022
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    Bath Spa-supported Climate Change book received by chapter authors in Namibia

    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…

    GALA Management Team GALA Management Team March 2, 2022
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    GALA supports student attendance at Body IQ Festival 2021

    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…

    GALA Management Team GALA Management Team March 2, 2022
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    Postcard from Berlin

    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:…

    GALA Management Team GALA Management Team February 28, 2022
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    MIT Comparative Media Studies Colloquium Series

    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…

    Eric Freedman Columbia College Chicago, USA February 8, 2022

    Newton Fellowship opportunity

    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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK February 3, 2022

    SWPS, Poland — call for papers for Taylor Sheridan’s Wests

    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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK January 29, 2022

    Bath Spa University, UK — request for survey respondents

    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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK January 29, 2022

    Afternoon Concert

    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)…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK January 28, 2022

    Welcome to our new website!

    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 Management Team GALA Management Team December 23, 2021
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    GALA’s first online-only conference!

    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,…

    Professor Ian Gadd Bath Spa University, UK December 23, 2021
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    New book chapter by Professor Sian Sullivan published from UK-Namibia research collaboration

    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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK June 1, 2021

    International Journal of Creative Media Research (IJCMR) Publishes Issue 6

    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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK June 1, 2021

    Bath Spa University and SWPS awarded Erasmus+ grant for ACCELERATE project

    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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK May 24, 2021

    SUNY Geneseo explores Racist Policy and Resistance in Rochester

    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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK May 20, 2021

    Liberal Arts for Tomorrow

    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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK May 4, 2021

    Future Museum/Museum Future: The Decolonized Museum: Discussion

    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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK March 19, 2021

    Advanced Fiction and Memoir Masterclass with Professor Aminatta Forna (Bath Spa University)

    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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK March 19, 2021

    Forest of Imagination

    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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK March 4, 2021
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    Black History Month 2020

    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…

    Stu Moran October 12, 2020
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    GALA Conference postponed!

    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…

    Professor Ian Gadd Bath Spa University, UK March 30, 2020

    7th Annual Global Academy of Liberal Arts (GALA) conference: Liberal Arts for Tomorrow

      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…

    Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus Bath Spa University, UK March 9, 2020
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