SDG Session: Re-thinking everyday academia in dialogue with decolonial, feminist and queer critique

Re-thinking everyday academia in dialogue with decolonial, feminist and queer critique by Prof. Tamara Shefer

11/03/2019 / 14-16h / UFO-building / Room 1.1 Henri Pirenne / Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 33-35

T. Shefer is Prof. of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Western Cape. She has foregrounded youth, gender and sexualities in her scholarship, including a focus on HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence, masculinities, memory and post-apartheid, gender and care, and social justice and critical, feminist pedagogies in higher education.

Most recent books include the edited volumes Engaging Youth in Activist Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race (2018, with J. Hearn, K. Ratele & F. Boonzaier) and Socially Just Pedagogies in Higher Education: Critical posthumanist and new feminist materialist perspectives (2018, Bloomsbury, with V. Bozalek, R. Braidotti & M. Zembylas). 

Registration: https://www.ugent.be/en/research/devcooperation/sdgsessions.htm