Programme
Sessions
Plenary
Break-away session
Breaks and events
Wednesday
06/10
Conference opening and welcome // 09:00
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Professor Melissa Steyn, Director of WiCDS
Official University Welcome // 09:15
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Schools creative competition award ceremony // 09:30
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Chair: Gillian Jena
Presentations of awards
Tea break and transition into parallel sessions // 10:00
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PARALLEL SESSION 1: Social justice, diversity, and difference // 10:15
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Chair: Dr Sayan Dey
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PARALLEL SESSION 2: Wokeness, media and sleepwalking in the global south // 10:15
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Chair: Kudzaiishe Vanyoro
PARALLEL SESSION 3: Discourse, practice and social justice in the 21st century // 10:15
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Chair: Dr Cuthbeth Tagwirei
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PARALLEL SESSION 4: (De)coloniality, knowledge and higher education // 10:15
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Chair: Dr William Mpofu
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Lunch Break // 13:00
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Reflective discussion session // 14:00
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Chair: Dr Haley McEwen
Key panel // 14:30
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Chair: Professor Melissa Steyn

Speakers:
1. Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir: ‘Zombies’
2. Barış Ünlü : ‘Cultural Revolution and the Global Right: Perspectives from Academia in Turkey’
3. Professor Celine-Marie Pascale: ‘The Heresy of Commonsense in an Age of Chaos’
4. Liv Sovik: ‘The Insider Within: Gaslighting Black activism in a Brazilian university’
Vote of thanks and close of conference // 16:00
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Professor Melissa Steyn