SAHJE review session at UCT with Vivienne and Michalinos

A few months ago we circulated a call for papers for South African Journal of Higher Education (SAHJE) for papers to be included in a special edition dedicated to critical post-humanism, new materialisms, and the affective turn for social pedagogies in higher education. Several project members submitted papers and had opportunity to have these reviewed by Professor Vivienne Bozalek, University of the Western Cape and Professor Michalinos Zembylas from the Open University of Cyprus. This happened at a session at the University of  Cape Town at the Graduate School of Education. Currently, the review progress for the journal is ongoing, however authors will be informed shortly whether submissions have been accepted. This issued has been planned to be published during 2016. The original call can be downloaded here. Below a few photos from the review session at UCT

Michalinos, Karin and Veronica

Rouxnette, Tammy and Daniella

Michalinos, Karin and Veronica

Daniella

Tammy and Michalinos

Seminar: In conversation with Elspeth Probyn - UWC 12 October 2015

Women’s and Gender Studies

Faculty of Arts, University of the Western Cape

Invite you to the following seminar 

In conversation with Elspeth Probyn

Elspeth Probyn (Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia) is Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, as well as adjunct Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Western Australia, and adjunct Research Professor at the University of South Australia. She has taught media, cultural studies and sociology at universities in Canada and the USA, and has held several prestigious visiting appointments around the world. Her work has helped to establish several new areas of scholarship – from embodied research methods to cultural studies of food. Professor Probyn is the author of several groundbreaking monographs and over a hundred articles and chapters across the fields of gender, media, and cultural studies, philosophy, cultural geography, anthropology and critical psychology. Her research (funded by an ARC Discovery Project) analyses the role of place and community within the transglobal food system. She is particularly interested in the sustainability of the production and consumption of fish, or what she calls ‘more-than-human” sustainable fish communities, the results of which is published in a new book, Oceanic Entanglements (Duke University Press, 2014). In this seminar, she speaks to her scholarship on affect and shame as elaborated in her book Blush: Faces of Shame (University of Minnesota Press, 2005).

DATE: 12 October 2015

TIME: 12h00 – 14h00 (light lunch will be served)

VENUE: TBC

For RSVP and more details please download the poster here.

This seminar forms part of an NRF funded project on Critical Posthumanism, the Affective Turn and Socially Just Pedagogies and is convened by Viv Bozalek, Directorate of Teaching and Learning & Tamara Shefer, Women’s and Gender Studies at UWC, and Ronelle Carolissen at Stellenbosch University.