CGHE Annual Conference 2025 – Global Rupture? Geopolitics, policy repair and the reimagining of Higher Education (Day 1)
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), Bola Ibrahim (UCL)
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
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)
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)
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
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
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)
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
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
6pm – 7.30pm
Drinks reception
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