26th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
20-23 AUGUST 2024

NAVIGATING INTERNATIONALISATION IN CHALLENGING TIMES

Speakers

Katleho Pakose

Katleho Pakose is currently employed at the Central University of Technology, where she serves as the Coordinator for Academic Staff and Student Mobility at the Centre for Global Engagement. In this role, she is responsible for coordinating incoming and outgoing staff and students, as well as organising international summer schools. Her efforts are instrumental in

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Seithati Ramonaheng

Seithati Ramonaheng is an enthusiastic problem solver with an MPhil in Africa Studies from the University of the Free State. Her research interests include culture, identity, sacred spaces, pilgrimages, and spirituality. Through exposure to different cultures, her passion for immigration and internationalization was ignited.

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Sven Botha

Sven Botha is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria. He has worked and published on gender, counter-terrorism, diplomacy, foreign policy, Africa-Nordic relations, and early-career development. Sven is also the Director of the Professors Without Borders Think Tank.

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Ziyanda Sam

Ms Ziyanda Sam joined the Division for Global Engagement in the Study Abroad and International Student Services section at the University of Johannesburg in January 2017 in the capacity of Secretary to the Director. 

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Jy Zhou

Dr. JY Zhou is the Executive Director of the Center for Global Engagement at James Madison University. She is responsible for developing campus-wide comprehensive internationalization and leading the CGE to be instrumental in preparing our students to be educated and responsible global citizens through being the agents of change and collaboration in both local and

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Sacha Joseph-Mathews

Dr. Sacha Joseph-Mathews is the Inaugural Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer of Stanislaus State where she serves as a member of the CSU’s cabinet, with strategic responsibility for promoting and enabling inclusive excellence for all students, faculty, and staff.

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Lebethe D. Malefo

Lebethe Malefo joined the University of Johannesburg (UJ) in 2012 in the capacity of Director: Study Abroad and International Student Services. He joined UJ from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits), where he had been Acting Head, Deputy Head and Manager of International Partnerships and Collaborations in the Wits International Office (WIO). He has

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