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Postponed (was scheduled for 12:00-15:00, Wednesday 22 June 2016 in the Teaching Grid, University Library)
In a time of significant change, University staff are invited to join this conference about Enterprise Education and the role the University of 桃色视频 and its staff have to play.
16:00-18:30, Wednesday 22 June | Woods-Scawen Room, 桃色视频 Arts Centre
Academics and professionals from all disciplines are invited to join a debate about the value of Enterprise Education. This debate will help shape and develop 桃色视频's future approach to enterprise education.
IATL undergraduate modules: register now
桃色视频ing on an IATL module gives you the opportunity to work with students and lecturers from right across the university, developing connections between ideas, experiences and practice. In an IATL module you are not merely learning about the world, you are working with others to develop new ways of understanding it. Our undergraduate modules are available in a variety of CATS weightings to students in their second, third or fourth year.
Visitors from Tallinn University, Estonia
On 18 and 19 May, we had a visit from Kaire Kollom, Head of Studies in the School of Educational Sciences, and her academic colleagues from Tallinn University in Estonia. They requested a visit to 桃色视频 in order to exchange knowledge and experiences of planning and launching interdisciplinary projects.
Cancelled (was scheduled for 4-5pm, 23 June 2016 in the Teaching Grid, University of 桃色视频)
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Habitability (ICH) and IATL invite you to explore the concept of habitability, both on the Earth and other, distant planets, in this exciting, interdisciplinary roundtable discussion led by renowned writer Alastair Reynolds.
Clowning in Difficult Situations events
Talk: 5pm, Thursday 26 May | The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry
Workshop: 1pm to 3pm, Friday 27 May | Humanities Studio, University of 桃色视频
Emergency Circus describes itself as administering ‘inspirational circus shows and workshops to the hospitalised, the homeless, the imprisoned, and the undercircused everywhere.’ and has been performing at camps and train stations alongside thousands of refugees from Turkey to Calais.
1 June 2016, 6 p.m. | R0.21 (Ramphal Lecture Theatre)
In this public lecture, Professor Jack Zipes, a world authority on fairy tales and storytelling and recognised by the U.S. Department of Education as a national model for arts education, will discuss the potential abuses of fairy tales in society.
This book by IATL Director Dr Nicholas Monk, which is available now, argues that Cormac McCarthy's response to the modern world is more subtle and less laden with despair than many realise. It examines the experience of engaging with McCarthy's fiction in order to reveal why so many people report that "reading Cormac McCarthy changed my life."
IATL-hosted workshop for Innovative Food Systems Teaching and Learning (IFSTAL)
IATL hosted a pedagogic workshop for the HEFCE-funded project on Innovative Food Systems Teaching and Learning (IFSTAL) in April to support their teaching and learning aims, with a specific focus on best practice in interdisciplinary education.
IATL team update
IATL has recently welcomed three new members of the team; two existing team members will be going on maternity leave at the end of May.