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Riyad Shahjahan, Kirsten T. Edwards & Annabelle L. Estera slides

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Riyad Shahjahan, Kirsten T. Edwards & Annabelle L. Estera slides

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Chrystal George and Mwangi Christina Yao slides

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Chrystal George and Mwangi Christina Yao slides

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On Decentralizing--epistemic authority beyond the centers of knowledge production

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Gerardo Blanco & Rebecca Schendel slides

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Gerardo Blanco & Rebecca Schendel slides

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Arathi Sriprakash slides: Thursday, 16 September webinar

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Arathi Sriprakash slides: Thursday, 16 September webinar

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Should our own practice during this webinar series not reflect the decolonial ideals we are discussing? for example, if someone from a Global South / Global Majority location is unable to switch on their camera or mic, should we not still allow their question / comment to be read (by the Chair) and them given the dignity of an answer, rather than it simply being dismissed and moving on to the next question / comment?

Should we not also allow participants from Global South / Global Majority locations equal "airtime" when it comes to dominating the discussion? Perhaps by encouraging white / male / Global North / other privileged speakers to take a back seat initially, and let the more marginal voices speak first, especially since time is so limited?

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We need the agenda of decolonialism and also the communication actions ,(such as this webinar series) and also commit to change and find our courage and commitment to act together

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We need the agenda of decolonialism and also the communication actions ,(such as this webinar series) and also commit to change and find our courage and commitment to act together

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Crain Soudien's slides, 9th September webinar, 'Affirmative action and transformation in higher education in South Africa: Reflections on the case of the university of Cape Town'

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Crain Soudien's slides, 9th September webinar, 'Affirmative action and transformation in higher education in South Africa: Reflections on the case of the university of Cape Town'

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CAS 2021 AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND TRANSFORMATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION 2

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We want to hear your thoughts on the future for global higher education studies...

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We want to hear your thoughts on the future for global higher education studies...

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How should the field of global higher education decentre its epistemic authority, acknowledge its privilege and open up to new voices, within and beyond the University?

How do we rethink our research tools to develop more collaborative (and less extractive) epistemologies and methodologies?

How do we rethink not just the curriculum, but also models of pedagogy and teacher-student relationships to be less hierarchical and more inclusive?

What forms of profound and transformational change would be needed to create racial equity in global higher education and research?

How are universities, faculties and students, addressing these colonial legacies? Can owning ‘whiteness’ and acknowledging white privilege – along with the JEDI agenda (justice, equality, diversity and inclusion) - help move these debates forward?

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A few of the big questions we hope the series will address...but feel free to add more..

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A few of the big questions we hope the series will address...but feel free to add more..

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Why are the legacies of colonialism often overlooked, or erased, in favour of a ‘colour blind’ analysis of global higher education’s hierarchies and inequalities?

Is the institutional racism of today’s universities a historical legacy or a resurgent cultural dynamic, intersected by the geopolitics of internationalisation.

How do new genres of racism (structural and epistemic) across global HE intersect, inflect, or mediate colonial legacies ?

Is the neocoloniality of many African universities and curriculums a legacy of colonial histories, or is this also the product of the globalisability of particular Euro-American models of the university?

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Why we are convening  this webinar series?

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Why we are convening  this webinar series?

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Researchers are ever more attentive to the way that the globalization of higher education (HE) creates and reproduces inequalities of wealth, opportunity, education, gender, race and identity. For Shahjahan and Edwards (2021), race is the ‘central organizing influence underlying this global phenomenon’, and they argue that ‘whiteness as futurity’ reinforces these asymmetries. This dedicated seven-part series of webinars takes up their challenge, exploring the intersections of racism and coloniality in contemporary global higher education.

Oxford University’s own institutional history is deeply entangled with British colonialism, and the legacies of the Victorian imperial imaginary are still visible in the Rhodes foundation and in many scholarly disciplines.

Our aim as convenors of this webinar series is to bring together higher education researchers working across a range of global academic spaces, sites and topics. All seven seminars address the impact of colonial legacies and contemporary racisms, in their different forms. We want to challenge the institutional colourblindness that has, until recently, characterised liberal universities, and allowed academic fields to imagine themselves as safe ‘post-racial’ spaces. Black Lives Matters has had a profound impact on universities, pedagogies and research agendas, surfacing submerged racisms, and forcing educational scholars to ‘see race again’ (Crenshaw et al 2021).

The series will show how HE researchers - who engage as scholars, activists and policymakers - are responding to these political and analytical challenges, making sense of coloniality’s shadows and the emergence of new racisms. Whether addressing the way whiteness is learned, the coloniality of quality assurance infrastructures in Africa, neo-racism in the US, or the decolonising of research methods, they show how research in global higher education can draw on the insights of postcolonial theory and critical race theory.

Everyone is encouraged to sign up for as many of the webinars as they are able to attend. Certificates of participation will be available for those who come to at least six of the sessions

David Mills, Solomon Aware Zewolde and Natasha Robinson

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Solomon Zewolde's slides, 7 September webinar, 'Racism and Coloniality in Global Higher

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Solomon Zewolde's slides, 7 September webinar, 'Racism and Coloniality in Global Higher

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Webinar series overview

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Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit

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Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit

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Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit