Beyond the Apartheid University? Interrogating the transformation of the South African Higher Education landscape.
Sub-themes to be considered as focus of papers, but feel free to innovate:
1. Research and the production of knowledge for a post- Apartheid South Africa? Who is producing what and for whom?
2. The teaching and learning university vs. the research intensive university: The HDIs as rural based institutions and the “Ivy League”.
3. Curricula for millennium born free generations: Has any progress been made towards Africaness?
4. Universities and their roles in the promotion of citizenship and the public good: What does it mean when decency cannot feed an empty stomach?
5. Governance and the failing of collegiality in the face of corporatism.
6. The Science System and the perpetuation of privileged positions?
7. Intellectual activism and the re-imagining of Post-Apartheid scholarship.
8. Freedom of speech as a form of resistance to intellectualism?
9. The professor as public intellectual and the over-simplification of complexity: A marketing ploy?
10. Re-imagining the Humanities in Post-Apartheid / Post-Colonial Higher Education.
Application and process of acceptance:
1. An electronic abstract of not more than 150 words to be e-mailed by 31 May 2011 to [email protected] and the outcome of reviewed abstracts by 31 July 2011.
2. Full papers submitted, 6 500 to 7 000 words, by 30 September 2011.
The registration process, payment of fees, paper presentation format and conference venue will be announced in February 2011.
In the meantime send all queries to: William Awusi at [email protected]
ӢConference publication: A book to be published with peer reviewed papers, double blind.
ӢAccommodation and travel: This will be communicated in February 2011.
Conference registration fee: R2 500 per delegate, with an early bird rate of R2 000 payable before 31 August 2011.