Education Studies News and Events
Research Seminars 2016
All seminars take place in C1.11 in the Social Sciences building from 1-2pm unless otherwise stated. All University students and staff welcome!
Forthcoming events:
Monday 6th June
12:30-1pm light lunch, 1-2:15pm seminar and discussion
Dr Z Nicolazzo (Northern Illinois University): Imagining a Trans* Epistemology: Unlearning Gender Binary Discourse in Education’
Postsecondary institutions of education, similar to the broader society in which they are embedded, are steeped in – and further – trans* oppression. Additionally, the knowledge produced at these institutions can be seen as inflected with trans* oppression, and as continuing to reify the notion that trans* lives and experiences are abject, abnormal, unintelligible, and otherwise impossible. In this presentation, Dr Nicolazzo builds from the work of Patton (2016), Brayboy (2005), Bernal (2002), Ferguson (2012), and Spade (2015) to propose an epistemology that seeks to “[re]distribute the possibilities, potentialities, and life chances” for trans* people. Dr Nicolazzo will also discuss how the imagining of such a trans* epistemological stance may help educators unlearn the gender binary illogic in which they collude, thereby (re)shaping education as liberatory.
21st June
Dr Talita Calitz (University of the Free State): The unfinished challenge of equality in South African higher education: an intersectional analysis from a capability perspective