Conferences & Invited Presentations

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Idahosa, G.E. 2019. Social Action and Agency: Institutional and contextual histories impact on the condition for change. Negotiating social injustice within the university: A dialogue. The Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Network and School of Social Science,

Idahosa, G., 2018. ‘The role of academics in the transformation/decolonization of universities’.Invited to speakat a colloquium held by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Social Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Higher Education: South African and United States Perspectives, in Durban, South Africa on 7-11th, October 2018.


CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

· Idahosa, G., 2019. ‘Interrogating the limits of identity and positionality in the decolonisation debate’. Critical academic perspectives on scholarship in the social sciences – How do we "know" the world? EADI Working Group on "Post and Decolonial Perspectives to Development, Bonn, Germany, 17thJanuary 2019.

· Idahosa, G.E and Vincent, L., 2017. ‘The scales were peeled from my eyes’: South African academics coming to consciousness to become agents of change – Paper presented at the 15th Development Dialogue Conference: Localizing the ‘Global’: Global Development and Social Justice in Practice, The Netherlands at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, Netherlands, 11-13th, October 2017.

· Idahosa, G.E and Vincent, L., 2017. ‘I now met a new version of me’: South African academics becoming agents of change – Paper presented at the 11thAnnual Higher Education Conference, University of Kwa Zulu Natal (UKZN),Durban. 27-29th, September 2017.

· Idahosa, G.E and Vincent, L., 2017. ‘The scales were peeled from my eyes’: South African academics coming to consciousness to become agents of change – The Dynamics of Changing Higher Education in the Global South. University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa, 16-17 August2017.

· Idahosa, G., 2013. ‘Joining the Academic Life: South African Students who succeeded at University despite not meeting the entry requirement’, paper presented at the Cross Currents: Current Research in the Humanities conference at the University of Cape Town, 23-24th, October, 2013.