Organising committee

Vivienne Bozalek is professor and Director of Teaching and Learning at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. Prior to this she was Chairperson of the Department of Social Work, University of Western Cape. She holds a PhD from Utrecht University. Her latest edited book with Rosi Braidotti, Tamara Shefer and Michalinos Zembylas published by Bloomsbury Socially Just Pedagogies: Posthumanist, Feminist and Materialist Perspectives in Higher Education

Iris van der Tuin is professor of Theory of Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University (Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies). She is also director of education of the School of Liberal Arts. As the chair of COST Action IS1307 New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’ (2014-18) Van der Tuin has, together with co-chair Prof. Felicity Colman of the Unibversity of the Arts, London, developed a network of over 150 European scholars and colleagues from Australia and South Africa, all of them sharing an interest in bridging the humanities and the natural sciences for global challenges today. Her publications address new materialism and naturecultures, generational feminism and diffractive reading.

Siddique Motala is a senior lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering & Surveying at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). He teaches geomatics students who are studying towards qualifications in surveying or Geographic Information Systems (GIS). He holds a PhD in Education. For his PhD, he researched the use of storytelling in engineering education, mediated by a critical posthumanist stance. His research is focused on posthumanism, the scholarship of teaching & learning, historical mapping and digital storytelling. He is especially interested in decolonisation and socially just pedagogies in engineering education. He was a recipient of the 2017 HELTASA/CHE National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award.

Delphi Carstens is an extended curriculum programme (ECP) lecturer with an interest in applying new materialist cartographical methods to pedagogy. He holds a PhD in apocalypse culture, Deleuzoguattarian theory and uncanny science fictions from Stellenbosch University. Recent publications include chapters in edited volumes by Palgrave (Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts), Sternberg Press (Fiction as Method: Counterfactuals and Effective Virtualities) and Bloomsbury (Socially Just Pedagogies in Higher Education: Critical Posthumanist and New Feminist materialist perspectives). He is a member of the Reconceptualising Socially Just Pedagogies research group and the 0rphan Drift artistic collective.

Nike Romano is a visual artist and lecturer in the ECP (Extended Curriculum Programme) in the Faculty of Informatics and Design at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). Her PhD research focuses on reconfiguring a history of art and design curriculum through a feminist new materialist/critical posthumanist lens. She is a member of the Reconceptualising Socially Just Pedagogies research group.

Carol Taylor is Professor of Higher Education and Gender, and Director of Research (Department of Education) at the University of Bath. Carol is interested in the entangled relations of knowledge-power-gender-space-ethics, and her research utilizes feminist, new materialist, and posthumanist theories and methodologies to explore gendered inequalities, spatial practices, and staff and students’ participation in a range of higher educational sites. Her latest co-edited books are Taylor, C. A. and Bayley, A. (Eds.) (2019) Posthumanism and Higher Education: Reimagining Pedagogy, Practice and Research. London: Palgrave Macmillan, and Taylor, C. A., Abbas, A. and Amade-Escot, C. (Eds.) (2019) Gender in Learning and Teaching: Feminist Dialogues across International Boundaries. London: Routledge. Carol is co-editor of the journal Gender and Education, and serves on the Editorial Boards of Teaching in Higher Education and Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning.