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1 December 2021

Africanising/Decolonising Ourselves: The Implications for Advancing Critical University Studies – Africa (ACUSAfrica)

André Keet’s GDC webinar envisions a conversation between the notions of Africanising and decolonising the university; and how this may look like in the South African and African context.  It further locates these discussions within an African interpretation of Critical University Studies, understood as the study of universities through analyses of power, privilege and authority. Reflecting on different programmes and their associated practices that orbit the notions of Africanisation and decolonisation within universities, the talk also attempts at linking these praxes with the general decentring programme.

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7 April 2021

A lecture by Raewyn Connell

“Meeting at the Edge of Fear”: Decolonizing the university world.

The title comes from a poem by Saleha Obeid Ghabesh, about solidarity between women across time and space. Raewyn considers the nature of the dominant knowledge formation, several kinds of alternative knowledge formations, and issues in the process of decolonizing university work and establishing epistemic diversity. Raewyn Connell is Professor Emerita, University of Sydney, and Life Member of the National Tertiary Education Union.  She is a widely-cited sociological researcher, the author of Gender & Power, Masculinities, and Southern Theory. Her recent books include The Good University and Gênero em termos reais. Her work has been translated into twenty languages. Raewyn has been active in the labour movement, the peace movement, and work for gender equality. Details at www.raewynconnell.net and Twitter @raewynconnell.

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