[Commpsych] Fw: Research Seminar: Tue 27/3 at Vic Uni - Liberatory Positionalities and Knowledge Practices: Connecting Global South Solidarities in Research and Resistance

[Heather Gridley]

Here's another great daytime seminar coming up at Vic Uni's Footscray Park campus on Tuesday week


Heather Gridley

Honorary Fellow

Victoria University

Melbourne, Australia

E: heather.gridley at vu.edu.au<mailto:heather.gridley at vu.edu.au>

Ph: +61 419113731


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From: Siewfang Law
Sent: Wednesday, 14 March 2018 10:05 AM
Subject: Research Seminar: Liberatory Positionalities and Knowledge Practices: Connecting Global South Solidarities in Research and Resistance


Dear colleagues,


Please join us at this upcoming research seminar by two of our esteemed visiting scholars from South Africa.


Details below:



The College of Arts and Education and the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network Research Seminar

Liberatory Positionalities and Knowledge Practices:

Connecting Global South Solidarities in Research and Resistance


Date: Tuesday 27 March 2018

Time: 12pm – 1:30pm

Venue: A219, Footscray Park

RSVP: 23 March (to Teah.Farrugia at vu.edu.au)


Presenters

 Profs. Mohamed Seedat & Shahnaaz Suffla

Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa

South African Medical Research Council- University of South Africa Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit


Chair - Dr Siew Fang Law



This talking space in Melbourne, more than 10 000 kilometers from South Africa, is a welcome pause and reflective moment for both of us. Together, we will converse about our respective positionalities and how these may have shaped the forms of community engaged research we have attempted to enact through the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa, home to a collective committed to critical compassionate community practices. We will invite the audience into the conversation as we elaborate on the Institute’s origins, underlying ethos and contributions to liberatory modes of knowledge practices in African countries, including South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Uganda and Egypt. Drawing on the lessons learnt from several participatory action research and community engagement projects, we will raise questions about the possibilities and challenges involved in participatory psychological research in contexts marked by severe material and structural inequalities, and insidious influences of the coloniality of knowledge and power.


Prof. Mohamed Seedat

Mohamed Seedat is the Head of the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa and Director of the Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, a national programme, co-hosted by the South African Medical Research Council and the University of South Africa. In his work, Mohamed has engaged multiple knowledge libraries and communities of practice as part of an ongoing project on epistemic voice and independence. He continues to wonder about and make sense of the messiness and complexities inherent to resisting exclusionary knowledge practices and finding happiness in transformative work.



Prof. Shahnaaz Suffla

Shahnaaz Suffla is a senior researcher at the South African Medical Research Council-University of South Africa Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, and Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa. Her research interests draw from the intersections of critical community and peace psychologies, and are located within liberatory philosophies and epistemologies. Her thinking and scholarship is influenced by the vision of research as a transforming, humanising and decolonising enterprise. Her research interests include a focus on safety and peace promotion interventions in contexts of structural violence; participatory engagement as a site of activism, resistance and social change; and Africa-centred approaches to knowledge generation. Shahnaaz’s academic contributions and imaginations are situated within and supported by the work of a collective of critical scholars within her unit.



Kind regards,

Siew Fang


Dr Siew-Fang Law
Academic Course Leader in International Community Development
College of Arts and Education
Victoria University.
Professor Extraordinarius
University of South Africa.



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