The University Maritime Platform (UMP) serves as a platform bringing experts from various backgrounds together to work on marine and maritime issues. This year, UMP is organising an international conference to foreground and discuss such concerns.
Digital archives safeguard our shared heritage, but in an era of cyber threats and fleeting information, who will protect these modern Libraries of Alexandria? THINK speaks to Dr Charlie Abela and Luke Brincat.
The Humanities, Medicine, and Science (HUMS) Symposia at the University of Malta offer a unique platform where experts from diverse fields come together to explore a single theme from multiple disciplinary perspectives. This academic year, the HUMS first event, entitled ‘The Sun’, provided an interdisciplinary deep dive into the scientific, cultural, and existential significance of our closest star.
In a time when academic life can feel overwhelmingly digital and impersonal, libraries are trying to step up to create something invaluable – a community. University libraries, which used to be primarily quiet spaces with towering bookshelves, are now reinventing themselves as inclusive ‘third places’. The University of Malta Library interns offer THINK an insight into how the Library is becoming a third place on Campus.
