CGHE Annual Conference

CGHE Annual Conference 2025 – Global Rupture? Geopolitics, policy repair and the reimagining of Higher Education (Day 1)

Date: Thursday, 3 April 2025 10:00 am - 7:30 pm

Location: Department of Education, Oxford and online

Day 1 – Thursday 3 April 2025

10am – 11am
Opening plenary

11am – 11.30am
Tea/coffee break

11.30am – 1pm
Panel 1

Transnational education: Critical perspectives under the ‘new geopolitics’ paradigm

Convenor: Lee Rensimer

Panellists: Lee Rensimer(UCL), Jingran Yu( Xiamen University), Miguel Lim (University of Manchester), Wanwei Nie (UCL)

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Rewilding higher education – Ecological engagements in the contemporary university

Convenor: Tristan McCowan

Panellists: Alexandra Allel Henríquez, Nicola Kemp, Alan Bainbridge, Betzabé Torres, Lucy Avraamidou, Tristan McCowan

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Rethinking knowledge(s): Epistemic diversity in higher education and research

Convenors: Alis Oancea (University of Oxford), Xin Xu (University of Oxford)

Panellists: Lingxuan Chen (University of Oxford), Zak Devey (University of Oxford), Vedika Kedia (University of Oxford)

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The ‘nation’ in global higher education

Panellists:Hannah Moscovitz and Katja Brogger (Danish School of Education, Aarhus University), Annette Bamberger (Faculty of Education, Bar-Ilan University and Hans Schildermans, Department of Education, University of Vienna), Susan Roberston (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge), Annette Bamberger (Faculty of Education, Bar-Ilan University)

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1pm – 2pm
Buffet lunch

2pm – 3.30pm
Panel 2

Reimagining International Student Mobility (ISM) Futures: ‘Wish lists’ from researchers, practitioners, and policymakers – What would you like to see (not) happen? (Roundtable)

Convenors: Peidong Yang, Uma Pradhan

Discussants: Professor Johanna Waters (UCL), Professor Rachel Brooks (Oxford)
Participants:

Panellists: Dr Ying Yang (Education University of Hong Kong), Dr Sazana Jayadeva (University of Surrey), Dr Cora Xu (Durham University), Prof Catherine Gomes (RMIT University, Australia), Dr Sylvie Lomer (Manchester University, UK), Dr Jing Yu (University of Wisconsin Madison, United States), Dr Diotima Chattoraj (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Dr Miguel Lim (Manchester University, UK)

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If We Must Die, Our Knowledge Must Live: Resistance and Decoloniality Labor in Palestine and Lebanon Academia

Convenor: Anoud Abusalim

Panellists: Anoud Abusalim, Maya Agasi, Maher Hashweh, Lamma Mansour

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Epistemic justice, agency and representation in international education conferences – Voices from the global south

Convenor: Luis Kauchi

Panellists: Lavern Samuels (Durban University of Technology (DUT), South Africa), Sandra Guarín Tarquino (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia), Melissa Torres (The Forum on Education Abroad)

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The national/international interface in context of “polycrisis” and the prospect of post-neoliberal higher education

Convenors: Vincent Carpentier (UCL IOE), Yann Lebeau (University of East Anglia)

Panellists: Vincent Carpentier, Mario Azevedo, Yann Lebeau, Abass Isiaka, Hanne Tange, Kirsten Jaeger

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3.30pm – 4pm
Tea/coffee break

4.30pm – 6pm
Plenary policy roundtable at Kellogg Hub (kindly sponsored by Hang Seng University)

Panellists: Professor Claire Callender (University College London), Dr Ariane de Gayardon (University of Twente), Professor Thandi Lewin (University of Johannesburg), Professor Chris Millward (University of Birmingham), others TBC

Chair: Dr James Robson, University of Oxford

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6pm – 7.30pm
Drinks reception