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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Here's another great daytime seminar coming up at Vic Uni's Footscray Park campus on Tuesday week</p>
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<p><font face="Verdana"><strong>Heather Gridley</strong></font></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 14 March 2018 10:05 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Research Seminar: Liberatory Positionalities and Knowledge Practices: Connecting Global South Solidarities in Research and Resistance</font>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#0070C0">The College of Arts and Education and the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network<b>
</b>Research Seminar</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black">Liberatory Positionalities and Knowledge Practices: </span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black">Connecting Global South Solidarities in Research and Resistance</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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</span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman',serif; color:rgb(0,111,201)">Tuesday 27 March 2018</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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</span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman',serif; color:rgb(0,111,201)">12pm – 1:30pm</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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A219, Footscray Park</span></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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23 March</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:'Times New Roman',serif; color:rgb(0,111,201)"> (to Teah.Farrugia@vu.edu.au)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt"></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif; color:black; font-size:12pt"> Profs. Mohamed Seedat & Shahnaaz Suffla</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black">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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black">Mohamed Seedat is the Head of the
<i>Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa</i> and Director of the
<i>Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit</i>, a national programme, co-hosted by the
<i>South African Medical Research Council</i> 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.
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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:black">Shahnaaz Suffla is a senior researcher at the
<i>South African Medical Research Council-University of South Africa Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit</i>, 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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p>Kind regards,</p>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Dr Siew-Fang Law</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2"><b>Academic Course Leader in International Community Development</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">College of Arts and Education</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">Victoria University.</font></div>
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