The ACU is pleased to announce that Bath Spa University, UK, will host the 2017 ACU Commonwealth Summer School with the theme ‘Creating greener narratives through the environmental arts and humanities’.

We are looking forward to working with Bath Spa University on this event, which will bring together outstanding students from throughout the Commonwealth for a week of interactive workshops, keynote lectures, group project work, and field trips. The event will take a multi-disciplinary approach and will welcome participants from a wide variety of subject specialities, both inside and outside the humanities.

The environmental humanities are an innovative area of interdisciplinary research that examines the relationship between human culture and the physical environment. Participants of the Summer School will work on the creation and depiction of environmental narratives through history, art, music, heritage, literature, and tourism.

Professor Christina Slade, Vice-Chancellor of Bath Spa University, said: ‘We are delighted to be hosting the annual ACU Summer School in 2017. At Bath Spa University we put students at the heart of everything we do and are proud to offer a liberal arts curriculum offering the best in creativity, culture, and enterprise.

‘The relationship between the environment and the arts and humanities is a key theme of our research and teaching, so it is fitting that this will be examined by the Summer School participants. Our visitors will experience an engaging week of activities in beautiful surroundings and I look forward to welcoming them to our community.’

The Summer School will take place from 6-12 August 2017. The ACU will offer bursaries for postgraduate and final year undergraduate students from member universities.

Applications open in December 2016. For any enquiries please contact [email protected].

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