Day 2 – Friday 4 April 2025

9am – 10.30am
Panel 3

3A: Geopolitics and higher education in East Asia – International student mobility, research collaboration and university governance (sponsored by APHERP)

Seminar Room A

Convenor: Ka Ho Mok

Panellists: Professor Simon Marginson (University of Oxford), Professor Ka Ho Mok (Hang Seng University of Hong Kong), Professor Wenqin Shen (Peking University, China), Professor Angela Hou (National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan), Professor Akiyoshi Yonezawa (Tohoku University, Japan), Professor Jung Cheol Shin (Soeul National University, Korea)

Moderator: Professor Simon Ho, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

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3D: International mobility and societal change – Rethinking higher education in a divided world

Seminar Room D

Convenor: Maia Chankseliani

Panellists: Ahmad Akkad, Gardiana Bandeira-Melo, Joonghyun Kwak and Maia Chankseliani, Natalya Hanley, Zhe Wang (all at the University of Oxford)

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3E: Reparative higher education – Global perspectives

Seminar Room E

Convenor: Olga Mun

Panellists: Olga Mun (Oxford), Ed Penn (Oxford), Yushan Xie (Oxford), Louise Nicholson (Oxford)

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3G: Knowledge production and scholarly publishing – Questions of integrity and representation

Seminar Room G

Convenors: Rita Hordosy, Martin Myers, Maria Antonieta Vega Castillo, Elizabeth Brown

Panellists: Melissa Bond, David Mills, Martin Myers, Elizabeth Brown, Maria Antonieta Vega Castillo, Rita Hordósy

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10.30am – 11am
Tea/coffee break – served in Cafe and Seminar B

11am – 12.30pm
Panel 4

4A: Continuities, changes and challenges for European higher education landscape – Five years of the European universities initiative

Seminar Room A

Convenor: Antonin Charret

Panellists: Agata A. Lambrechts (Swiss Observatory of Vocational Education and Training, Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training and Institute of Communication and Public Policy, Università della Svizzera italiana, CH), Alina J. Felder-Stindt (School of Economics and Political Science, Universität St. Gallen, CH), Antonin Charret (University of Oxford, UK), Daniela Craciun (University of Twente, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, NL), Nadia Manzoni (Central European University, Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations, AT)

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4D: Place-based PhDs: Influences of geo-historical location on PhD experience

Seminar Room D

Convenor: Lynn McAlpine (Oxford)

Presenters: Hatice Nuriler (Aarhus), Anding Shi (Oxford), Qiongli Zhu, (Toronto) Lynn McAlpine (Oxford)

Discussant: Kelsey Inouye (Oxford)

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4E: Facing the traps of decolonial critiques and opening up for other ways of existing inside/outside/beyond academia

Seminar Room E

Conveners: Roxana Chiappa, Jhuliane Evelyn da Silva, Juliana  Zeggio Martínez

Panellists: Francesca Helm (Universidad de Padova, Italy), Hiba Ibrahim (York University, Palestine/Jordania), Francesca DellOlio (University of London, Italy/Brasil)

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4G: Higher education and Sino-African cooperation

Seminar Room G

Convenor: Benjamin Mulvey

Panellists: Benjamin Mulvey (University of Glasgow, UK), Si-yuan Li (University of Leeds, UK), Kenneth King (University of Edinburgh), Bright Nkrumah (Baylor University, USA),  Vedika Kedia (University of Oxford, UK)

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12.30pm – 1.30pm
Buffet salad lunch: served in Cafe and Seminar B

1.30pm – 3pm

Closing roundtable: Universities, geopolitics and repair

Seminar Room A

Panellists: Simon Marginson, Wen Wen, Shibao Guo, Melanie Walker, Anoud Abusalim

Chair: Lee Rensimer

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3pm – 3.30pm

Tea and Coffee Break – Served in Seminar B and Cafe

4pm – 5.30pm

Afternoon tours of Oxford organised by Uncomfortable Oxford. Meet at Carfax Tower