26th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
20-23 AUGUST 2024

NAVIGATING INTERNATIONALISATION IN CHALLENGING TIMES

Speakers

Savo Heleta

Dr Savo Heleta is a researcher and educator with more than ten years’ experience in higher education, academic research, curriculum development, teaching, research supervision and internationalisation in South Africa. His research interests include decolonisation of knowledge; higher education internationalisation; conflict analysis and conflict transformation; and social justice advocacy and activism.

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Samia Chasi

Dr Samia Chasi is a practitioner, scholar and facilitator in higher education internationalisation with 25 years of experience in this field. She is currently the Manager: Strategic Initiatives, Partnership Development and Research at the International Education Association of South Africa.

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Anisa Khan

Anisa Khan is the Director of Academic Services within the Division for Internationalisation at the University of Johannesburg. In this role, she supports international partnership development and the University’s global engagement strategy by supporting faculty across a wide range of internationalization activities, including special projects, Erasmus Staff Mobility, establishing multi-partner research and knowledge partnerships, and

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Dr Amir Khalil

Amir Khalil is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Law, Faculty of Law and Public Administration, Birzeit University. His current position is the Director of the External Academic Relations Office, Director of the Grants and Contracts Office at Birzeit University. He is also a a research fellowat the Centre of Private and Economic, Faculty

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Dineo Babili

Dineo Babili is a Junior Lecturer/Researcher and Academic Literacy Coordinator in the Academic Language and Literacy Development, Centre for Teaching and Learning, at the University of the Free State. Her research interests focus on the development of inclusive student engagement practices in higher education. Dineo also researches issues of inclusiveness for first year rural students,

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Serah Calitz

Serah Calitz is an educator and researcher with an interest in the cross- and transcultural frictions, collaborations, and negotiations that produce and circulate architectural knowledge.

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Dr Brian Sibanda

Dr Brian Sibanda is a Researcher/Lecturer at the Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of the Free State, Qwaqwa campus. Sibanda is a member of the English Academy of Southern Africa and the Africa Decolonial Research Network (ADERN), a free alliance of scholars that research and write on decoloniality.

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