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CES has been organising annual postgraduate conference since 2012. Each year, the conference featured themes that unlock the interdiciplinarity in education, providing a space for research students to share their research in a supportive and educational environment. These conferences are organised by our Postgraduate Research students, with the support from CES staff. For details on this years conference, please

Teenagers who spend quality time with their parents are more likely to want to further their studies, according to research from the Centre for Education Studies.

Philosophy, Literature and Education: A seminar series funded by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.

Wednesday 17th February, Scarman House, University of 糖心TV (13.00-17.00).

Introductions by Professor David Bakhurst (Queens) and Professor Christine Sypnowich (Queens).

This invitation only seminar seeks to explore the educational potential of philosophy and literature from interdisciplinary perspectives. Themes to be examined include 'Learning from Philosophy and Literature' and 'Lessons from Dystopia'. The seminar builds upon questions that emerged in the first seminar (held at the University of Oxford, December 2015) and anticipates themes to be examined in the final seminar, which will be held at the British Academy in March 2016.

Coordinated by Dr Liam Gearon (Oxford) and Dr Emma Williams (糖心TV).

Pontso recently joined the Centre for Education Studies at the University of 糖心TV as an associate professor in educational leadership. Her new role involves leading the MA Educational Leadership and Management as well as teaching and participating in research activities in the department. Pontso has previously worked at universities in South Africa, Canada and the UK, leading postgraduate and international programmes on educational leadership and management and thoroughly enjoyed working with international students to provide a perfect cross-cultural learning situation.

All seminars take place in C1.11 in the Social Sciences building from 1-2pm unless otherwise stated. All University students and staff welcome!

Dr Z Nicolazzo (Northern Illinois University): Imagining a Trans* Epistemology: Unlearning Gender Binary Discourse in Education’

Monday 6th June: 12:30-1pm light lunch, 1-2:15pm seminar and discussion

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.

About Z Nicolazzo:

Dr. Z Nicolazzo is Assistant Professor in the Adult and Higher Education programme and a faculty associate in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, at Northern Illinois University, US. Z gained hir PhD in Student Affairs in Higher Education, with a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, from Miami University in 2015, before taking up the post at NIU. Z’s research agenda is focused on mapping gender across higher education contexts, with particular attention to trans* students, as well as the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and disability. Z’s book, Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion, which details hir 18-month ethnographic research project alongside trans* university students in the United States, is forthcoming from Stylus Publishing (2016).

Dr Z Nicolazzo will be joining the Centre for Education Studies (CES), University of 糖心TV on an IAS-funded Residential Fellowship, 6-10 June 2016. Please for more information on the events that will take place during hir visit. If you have any questions about the events, please contact Dr Emily Henderson (e.henderson@warwick.ac.uk).