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Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching: Frameworks and Practice

University of Sheffield, 7 April 2016

IATL Teaching Fellow Elena Riva and Academic Manager Joanne Wale attended this conference; Elena gave a talk, 'New adventures in the interdisciplinary world', in which she spoke about her projects and modules that support students to tackle complex and global scientific topics and issues, creating connections between the scientific disciplines and the humanities.

Next Generation Learning Spaces

London, 21 March 2016

IATL's Director, Nicholas Monk, presented the paper, 'The Realities of the International Classroom: Culture, Technology, Space, and Pedagogy'. How to share undergraduate learning and teaching with a partner university 10,000 miles distant? This was the question he and his colleagues confronted as brand-new collaborators in the Monash-Warwick Alliance. How do we work simultaneously with students in Coventry and Melbourne? How do we make learning and teaching work without many costly and environmentally damaging flights from one end of the world to the other?

CounterPlay

Aarhus, Denmark, 14-16 April 2016

Four members of the IATL team attended this conference, which was a tribute to and an exploration of the many ways in which a more playful approach can help us live better lives. The IATL team will be looking to take elements of the conference, which will be encouraging 'an investigation of how play can be transformative, change our thinking, push our boundaries and lead us places we never imagined', and bring that back into their work and the work of IATL. Conference website: http://www.counterplay.org/.

European Association for American Studies

Constanta, Romania, 22-25 April 2016

IATL's Director, Nicholas Monk, presented the paper "Desert Gothic: Cormac McCarthy, Paul Bowles, Don Waters.".