26th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
20-23 AUGUST 2024
Thuto Chonco (He/Him) is a Projects Assistant for the International Education and Partnerships Directorate, at the Durban University Technology. He obtained his Diploma in Business Administration and BTech in Management from DUT, and currently pursuing Honours in Business Analysis at Rhodes University.
A qualified Language Practitioner and Master of Arts candidate in African Languages and Culture. My research is on the promotion of isiZulu as the local indigenous Language of two Selected Universities in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa at the University of Zululand.
Susan Buck Sutton brings 40 years as faculty member and administrator to her work on global learning and engagement in higher education. Recently retired as Senior Advisor for International Initiatives at Bryn Mawr College, Sutton is also Emerita Associate Vice President of International Affairs and Emerita Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. She is
Mats’olo Seloanyane is an ambitious Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. candidate from the University of the Witwatersrand in her second year of study. From a very young age, she has always devoted herself to her studies, making sure she excelled in her academic work. Mats’olo holds a Masters’ degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in Chemical Engineering, specializing
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Melissa Steynhas been developing Diversity Studies as a field in Higher Education since starting Intercultural and Diversity Studies at UCT in 2001. She is the founding director of the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WiCDS) in 2013. Since 2014 she has held the South African National Chair (SARChI) Chair in Critical Diversity Studies. She is
Morgan Ndlovu is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Zululand. He is a decolonial scholar and the author of Performing Indigeneity: Spectacles of Culture and Identity, (Pluto, 2019)
Dr William Mpofu is a researcher at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg. His research interests are in Decoloniality, especially the province of the Philosophy of Liberation and methodology of undisciplinarity. William Mpofu’s latest book is : Robert Mugabe and the Will to Power in an African Postcolony (2021),
Mahlubi Chief Mabizela is a Chief Director responsible for the Chief Directorate: Higher Education Policy and Research Support in the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), South Africa. The Chief Directorate’s (CD) main responsibilities are the development and implementation of higher education policies; measurement and analyses of research and creative outputs from universities; research
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Maria Leonor Alves Maia, architect full professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, is the immediate past-president of the Brazilian Association for International Education – FAUBAI [2018- 2021].Since 2012 she has been active in the field of internationalization of Higher Education. From 2012-2020 she served as Dean
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Buntu Mnyaka recently graduated with his Masters in Conflict Management and Transformation at the Nelson Mandela University focusing on the influence of social conflict on social cohesion. he has served in various positions of the United Nations Association of South Africa Student Chapter. He received experimental training from the Department of International Relations and Cooperation