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: Universities and the Climate Crisis
Seminar Room A
Welcome: David Mills
Roundtable with Tristan McCowan (University College London) Stephen Davison (University of Cambridge), Betzabe Torres (University of Leeds) and Olga Mun (University of Oxford).
11am – 11.30am
Tea/coffee break
11.30am – 1pm
Panel 1
Transnational education: Critical perspectives under the ‘new geopolitics’ paradigm
Seminar Room A
Convenor: Lee Rensimer (University College London)
Panellists: Lee Rensimer(University College London), Jingran Yu( Xiamen University), Miguel Lim (University of Manchester), Wanwei Nie (University College London)
Rewilding higher education – Ecological engagements in the contemporary university
Seminar Room D
Convenor: Tristan McCowan (University College London)
Panellists: Alexandra Allel Henríquez, Nicola Kemp, Alan Bainbridge, Betzabé Torres, Lucy Avraamidou, Tristan McCowan (University College London)
Rethinking knowledge(s): Epistemic diversity in higher education and research
Seminar Room E
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
Seminar Room G/H
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 Robertson (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)
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)
Seminar Room A
Convenors: Peidong Yang, Uma Pradhan
Discussants: Professor Johanna Waters (University College London), Professor Rachel Brooks (Oxford)
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), Zheong Zou (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
If We Must Die, Our Knowledge Must Live: Resistance and Decoloniality Labor in Palestine and Lebanon Academia
Seminar Room D
Convenor: Anoud Abusalim
Panellists: Anoud Abusalim, Maya Aghasi, Maher Hashweh, Lamma Mansour
The national/international interface in context of “polycrisis” and the prospect of post-neoliberal higher education
Seminar Room G/H
Convenors: Vincent Carpentier (University College London), 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
Policy roundtable: Shaping student funding worldwide: insights from research and policy
Hosted at Kellogg Hub, Kellogg College (kindly sponsored by Hang Seng University)
Panellists: Dr Ariane de Gayardon (University of Twente), Professor Thandi Lewin (University of Johannesburg), Professor Chris Millward (University of Birmingham),
Jo Johnson (Future Learn) ,
Victor Ollerana Calderon (Undersecretary of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Chile
Chair: Dr James Robson, University of Oxford
6pm – 7.30pm
Drinks reception: Kellogg Hub
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